This paper examines the role of student personality traits on student perceptions of an instructor's and community partner's leader behaviours in a service-learning context. Extant literature does not examine the role of an educator's leadership in service-learning projects in conjunction with that of a community partner and does not consider the…

Despite years of debate over the usefulness of tacit knowledge, limited empirical research has quantitatively studied the contribution that tacit knowledge makes to university students' performance. The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which tacit knowledge correlates with other predictors and indicators of academic performance.…

The financial situation of undergraduate students remains a high-profile issue within the UK higher education sector, not least due to its perceived relationship with retention, well-being and success. This article probes this question from a new direction, using concepts and approaches from the field of applied psychology to examine how students…