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Direct linkGrebennikov, Leonid; Shah, Mahsood – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2012
Purpose: This paper aims to focus on the experience of monitoring of first year student attrition in a large metropolitan multi-campus university during 2004-2010. The paper seeks to discuss the trends in student attrition which have been found and identify key issues which have been and need to be addressed by the university in order to increase…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Marketing, Foreign Countries
Marks, Gary – Australian Journal of Education, 2010
Many studies of immigrant students in education focus on a single point in time. As a result, explanations of the performance of immigrant and minority students tend to be static, emphasising enduring socioeconomic, school or cultural factors. This article examines the dynamics of the differences in educational outcomes between immigrant and…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Outcomes of Education, Foreign Countries, Immigrants
Peer reviewedLe Claire, Kenneth A. – Higher Education, 1988
A study examined social and personal factors affecting the decision process of Australian secondary school students choosing university study and the effects of student background factors in higher education participation generally. The complex patterns of factors operating differentially in the high school years are interpreted through…
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Attendance, College Bound Students, College Choice
Peer reviewedHayden, Martin; Carpenter, Peter – Higher Education, 1990
A person-situation interactionist theory to explain Australian student decisions to pursue higher education is advanced and a model is tested using data from Victoria and Queensland. Results of statistical analyses are generally consistent with expectations. Certain interactive effects of variables in the model are examined. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Bound Students, Decision Making, Foreign Countries
Download full textHemmings, Brian; Kay, Russell; Hill, Doug – 1997
A two-phase study assessed the extent to which a set of variables predicted rural secondary students' likelihood of continuing to college and sought to determine predictors of rural students' academic success at the completion of first-year university study. Participants were drawn from seven state coeducational secondary schools in the Riverina…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Academic Persistence, College Bound Students
Peer reviewedCarpenter, P. G.; Western, J. S. – Australian Journal of Education, 1984
In an investigation of Australia's declining rate of college bound students, a social psychological model of academic attainment (linking students' social origins to school experiences, perceptions of others' support, self-assessment, and high schools seniors' aspirations and grades) is applied to the processes used by students in adjusting to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, College Bound Students, College Choice
