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Sargent, Carol Springer – Higher Education Research and Development, 2015
This study investigated how individual and course-level variables across the curriculum at a four-year college (college here refers to a higher education institution that offers undergraduate education but not graduate degrees) in the southeastern US impacted student reflective thinking as measured by Kember and colleagues' [2000. Development of a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Reflection, Critical Thinking, Transformative Learning
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Mestan, Kemran – Higher Education Research and Development, 2016
Attrition, which courses in the humanities and social sciences particularly suffer from, is a major problem for universities and students. This paper investigates the reasons students give for prematurely discontinuing studying the Bachelor of Arts. This is a qualitative study that thematically analyses semi-structured interviews. The sample…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Bachelors Degrees, Dropouts, Student Attrition