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Pradorn Sureephong; Suepphong Chernbumroong; Pakinee Ariya; Kannikar Intawong; Kitti Puritat – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
This study examines the effectiveness of a new approach for a university transition program that uses a location-based game to familiarize first-year students with the university environment during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study involved 775 university students from 15 faculties, 9 from Human and Social Sciences and 6 from Technology and…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Transitional Programs, Student Motivation, Intellectual Disciplines
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Bas T. Agricola; Fiona Veraa; Mieke van Diepen; Louise Elffers – Journal of Postsecondary Student Success, 2024
The transition from secondary education to the first year of higher education is a phase in which students are faced with many challenges. First-year students may lack the academic capital that is needed to understand explicit and implicit rules of higher education. We investigated students' participation in a preacademic program and the…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Student Adjustment, College Freshmen, Student Experience
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Minnie, Carolyn; Lassig, Carly; Tangen, Donna; Beutel, Denise – Australasian Journal of Gifted Education, 2022
This study explored teacher collaboration to support a particular cohort of students with twice-exceptionality (2E), specifically students with the concomitant of autism with intellectual giftedness (IG), to transition from primary to secondary school. Findings indicated a general lack of teacher collaboration regarding the sharing of student…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Gifted Disabled, Student Needs, Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Schütze, Heike; Bartyn, Jenna; Tapsell, Amy – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2021
The first-year university experience is inherently linked to student satisfaction, retention and academic success. A sense of academic preparedness can enhance the first-year transition experience. Subjects designed to assist students to transition to university can improve the transition experience; however, there is very limited evidence of…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Adjustment, Self Efficacy, Late Adolescents
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Nasser, Naoual; El Khouzai, El Mostapha; Zahidi, Abdallah – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2021
To remedy the difficulties encountered by Moroccan students in geometrical optics during the transition from secondary to higher education and for an efficient education system, we propose this study to investigate the causes of these difficulties as well as their impact on the quality of the secondary/university transition, and come up with a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Teachers, College Faculty, College Freshmen
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Smith, Jolan M.; Kataoka, Sheryl H.; Segovi, Francisco R.; Osuna, Anthony; Arriaga, Ivette; Garcia, Consuelo D.; Lee, Hyon Soo; Chiappe, Jenny C.; Juarez, Joseph L.; Kasari, Connie; Hassrick, Elizabeth McGhee; Jones, Felica; Mandell, David S.; Stahmer, Aubyn C.; Mundy, Peter C.; Smith, Tristram; Linares, Deborah E. – Multiple Voices: Disability, Race, and Language Intersections in Special Education, 2021
Few studies use a strengths-based perspective to identify strategies that support K-12 school transitions for historically minoritized families of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In the present study, university researchers partnered with community stakeholders (e.g., disability advocates, community health organizations, etc.) in…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Minority Group Students, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Maravillas, Maria Conti – ProQuest LLC, 2019
In examining twenty-two summer bridge program websites across the country, this study focused on a particular type of student support at one of the most historically-contentious positions in a college student's trajectory--the point of access. Diverse student populations bring specific strengths, resources, skills, and knowledge, or "funds of…
Descriptors: Family Characteristics, Cultural Background, Cultural Capital, Student Diversity
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Nuske, Heather Joy; McGhee Hassrick, Elizabeth; Bronstein, Briana; Hauptman, Lindsay; Aponte, Courtney; Levato, Lynne; Stahmer, Aubyn; Mandell, David S.; Mundy, Peter; Kasari, Connie; Smith, Tristram – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
Transitioning to a new school is often challenging for students with autism spectrum disorder. Few studies have examined the transition needs of students with autism spectrum disorder or the benefits of specific supports. This review synthesizes research findings on the "difficulties" that school transitions pose for students with autism…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Student Adjustment, Transitional Programs