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Vo Ngoc Hoi – Educational Review, 2024
The first year at university is critical to students' later academic development. The first year, however, is also the time when students are most vulnerable to disengagement and dropout. Therefore, identifying students most at risk of disengagement as well as the classroom environment factors that drive or undermine student classroom engagement…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, School Orientation, Classroom Techniques, Transitional Programs
Kelvin Herrera-Hassan – Online Submission, 2024
This study investigates the impact of summer bridge programs on the transition, engagement, and retention of Black male students at predominantly White institutions (PWIs). Black males continue to face significant challenges in higher education, including low retention rates and limited feelings of belonging. The purpose of this mixed-methods…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Transitional Programs, African American Students, Males
Crowe, Mary L., Ed.; Guerrant, Bessie, Ed. – Grantee Submission, 2018
"Mentoring through the Transitions: Voices on the Verge" highlights the individuals, programs, and institutions succeeding in assisting STEM students through critical junctures such as high school to college, community college to four-year institution, and four-year institution to graduate school and beyond. It features the authentic…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Transitional Programs, Mentors, High School Students
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Lawson, Katie; Parker, Richard – Educational & Child Psychology, 2020
The Department for Education (DfE) has suggested that the key to attainment is a good transition. Within the context of low post-16 participation rates and inadequate transition procedures, and arising from the position that relationships are vitally important to wellbeing, this empirical research aimed to explore the lived experiences of young…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Student Adjustment, Foreign Countries, Well Being
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Balikçi, Abdullah; Cansoy, Ramazan; Parlar, Hanifi – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2018
The recent increase in the number of universities in Turkey has sped up the transition of teachers who receive graduate education to the academia. However, this rapid transition brought a variety of problems. The present study focused on the academics' experiences regarding the transition from teaching to the academia from a holistic perspective.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Phenomenology, Graduate Study, Teaching (Occupation)
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Pinto, Daniela; Lopes, Amélia; Mouraz, Ana – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2019
This article aims to map the research trends on the processes of students' transition to higher education in the European context. For this, a review of literature was carried out, aiming to understand how the processes of transition to higher education in Europe are being studied. The qualitative analysis of these references allowed us to…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Higher Education, Student Adjustment, Context Effect
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Karmelita, Courtney E. – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2018
Transition programs have emerged as a support for adult learners seeking college education. Adult learners' perspectives are missing in the literature on transition programs. To better support adult learners in transition programs, it is essential to understand their experiences and perspectives. Using Schlossberg's Transition Theory (Anderson,…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Adult Learning, Student Experience, Transitional Programs
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Pardellas Santiago, Miguel; Meira Cartea, Pablo; Iglesias da Cunha, Lucía – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2017
Purpose: This paper deals with the experiences of three European universities that have implemented transition initiatives, using the Transition Network's methodology to promote their sustainability plans. The Transition Communities' model for change is presented from a socio-educational perspective as an effective methodology for encouraging…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Sustainability, Educational Environment
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Giles, Wenona – Journal on Education in Emergencies, 2018
This article examines some of the challenges experienced by students living in and near the Dadaab refugee camps in northeastern Kenya who were making the transition from secondary school to university programs. The students were enrolled in courses offered by two Kenyan and two Canadian universities that were partners in the Borderless Higher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Barriers, Refugees, Secondary Education
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Liu, Dongfang; Vogel, Linda R. – Higher Education Studies, 2016
The number of Chinese international students enrolled in U.S. higher education has significantly grown over the past two decades. In 2015, Chinese international students accounted for the largest group of international students from any one single country. Previous research acknowledges Chinese students encountering significant difficulties in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Students, Foreign Students
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Young, Dallin George – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2016
This paper advocates an integrated approach to transition programmes at South Africa's higher education institutions through drawing on the US literature on the first-year student experience and specific reference to behavioural interaction theory. The case for developing intentional and vertically integrated transition programmes is tied to: the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Transitional Programs, Integrated Activities
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Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed.; Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed. – Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age, 2022
This volume focuses on the implications of digital technologies for educators and educational decision makers that are not widely represented in the literature. The chapters contained in the volume are based on the presentations at the 2020 edition of the CELDA conference and cover multiple developments in the field such as deploying learning…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Electronic Learning, Technology Integration, Teaching Methods
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Wilkinson, Jane; Langat, Kiprono; Naidoo, Loshini; Adoniou, Misty; Cunneen, Rachel – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
The School to University Pathways for Refugee Students (SUPRS) project was a two-year case study conducted with seven schools and three universities across urban and regional Australia that investigated the enablers and constraints faced by refugee background students transitioning from high school to university. Focus groups and interviews with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, At Risk Students, High School Students
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Soria, Krista M. – National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2015
"Welcoming Blue-Collar Scholars Into the Ivory Tower" is the first volume in a new book series designed to explore how institutional policies, practices, and cultures shape learning, development, and success for students who have been historically underserved or given limited consideration in the design of higher education contexts.…
Descriptors: Blue Collar Occupations, Social Class, Working Class, Social Theories
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Anderson, Deborah; Wason, Hilary; Southall, Jane – Teaching in Higher Education, 2016
This paper discusses a student-centred learning and teaching approach, "Marketing Downloads", designed to support students in transition into Higher Education. The move from secondary to tertiary education can be stressful for students and it impacts on their academic performance, their social life and general sense of well-being.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Business Administration Education, Transitional Programs, Student Centered Learning
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