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Coelho, Vítor Alexandre; Sousa, Vanda; Marchante, Marta – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2018
Transition to middle school in Portugal is associated with increased levels of stress for students, as well as an increase in grade retention. This study investigated the impact of a school adjustment program designed to support students during this transition, and its differential results by gender and fourth-grade class size. Multilevel linear…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Student Adjustment, Foreign Countries
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Cook, A.; Maree, J. G. – South African Journal of Education, 2016
This article explores the extent to which an intervention programme helped learners from two contrasting educational settings manage career-related transitions. Forty-two learners from two schools were selected, using convenience and purposive sampling, to take part in an intervention programme. Two comparison groups comprised of 45 learners from…
Descriptors: Career Change, Intervention, Comparative Analysis, Career Counseling
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Leidenfrost, Birgit; Strassnig, Barbara; Schütz, Marlene; Carbon, Claus-Christian; Schabmann, Alfred – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2014
Universities frequently offer support programs to assist first-year students with the transition from school to the university. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of different mentoring styles on mentee academic performance after 1 year and 2 years of study. Participants consisted of 417 psychology students who started their…
Descriptors: Mentors, Peer Counseling, Academic Achievement, Transitional Programs