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Creed Dunn; Judy Frank; Allyson Morgan – State Education Standard, 2025
As students enter the middle grades, many lose academic momentum and thus reach ninth grade unprepared. This lack of preparedness snowballs: It leads students to disengage from their studies, causing them to miss opportunities to get back on track in high school and thrive in the years beyond. Sixth grade is a particularly critical juncture.…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Academic Achievement, Best Practices, Transitional Programs
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Anita Maclaurin; Rebekah Sturniolo-Baker; Sue Shaw; Deb Monteith – Student Success, 2025
University enabling programs provide historically underrepresented students with aspirational gateways and the academic skills and knowledges essential for success at university. Measurement of the efficacy of such programs has been typically neoliberal and quantitative in nature. This article argues for a nuanced measurement of success, exploring…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, School Transition, Transitional Programs
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Seyda Uysal; Kathleen Michelle Clark – Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications, 2024
We present the findings from our inquiry conducted between spring 2019 and spring 2020. It focused on women and students from underrepresented or marginalized populations as they navigated moments in their transition from school to university mathematics, or the secondary-tertiary transition (STT) in mathematics. We draw on Di Martino & Zan's…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Minority Group Students, Disproportionate Representation, Females
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Alison White – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2024
Postgraduate Taught study (PGT) students are often assumed to be confident and independent learners, and many possess a strong sense of professional identity and thus are perceived as not requiring support. This paper aims to address these perceptions. This paper presents a qualitative study of the experiences of PGT students at an Australian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Transitional Programs, Employment Potential
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Mehak Stokoe; David Nordstokke; Gabrielle Wilcox – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2024
As students transition from high school to university, they must navigate new academic learning environments, develop new social networks, manage multiple new responsibilities, explore and regulate independence, and deal with the stressors that they will encounter. Successful transitioning to university often involves sources of support as well as…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Adjustment, Social Support Groups, Resources
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Myfanwy Tilley – Australian Educational Researcher, 2025
A persistent challenge for Australian higher education policymakers and researchers has been to understand why policies and practices have met with limited success in widening the participation and attainment of non-traditional students. This paper explores theorising Narrative Identity as a constructive methodological framework for understanding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Nontraditional Students, Student Experience
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Ian Biazzo; Kenneth M. Fedorka; Kimberly R. Schneider; Ken Teter – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2024
Many initiatives attempt to smooth transitions between 2-year colleges and 4-year universities, but retention and graduation rates for transfer-students are still low, especially in STEM. The Transfer-student Research and Integration Program (TRIP) at the University of Central Florida was developed to meet the needs of a diverse transfer…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, College Transfer Students, School Holding Power, Outcomes of Education
Robert Samuel Kimmel – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Adults with disabilities are more likely than their non-disabled peers to struggle with self-advocacy after graduating from school, as they are less likely to have the skills or knowledge necessary to communicate their needs, access services, or exercise their rights in communities and workplaces. Special Education transition programs are…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Students with Disabilities, Student Attitudes, Self Advocacy
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Jacob Pleasants; Richard Velasco; Claudia Colonnello; Shansley Glenn; Samuel Crapitto; Kate Raymond; Brandon Abbott – Journal of Engineering Education, 2025
Background: To address complex challenges of modern society, engineering education needs to help students develop sociotechnical perspectives of engineering. Research has documented efforts to incorporate sociotechnical thinking into undergraduate engineering education, but those perspectives must often compete with more dominant technocentric…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Engineering Education, College Bound Students, Higher Education
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Jiseul Sophia Ahn; Catherine F. Ratelle; Stéphane Duchesne; André Plamondon – Journal of Career Development, 2025
A sense of agency is crucial for self-directed career development, particularly during the postsecondary transition, a period shaping career trajectories. This study examined autonomy and self-efficacy as pillars of agency, using longitudinal data from a sample of 637 French-Canadian adolescents (54% girls, M[subscript age] = 16) before and after…
Descriptors: Career Development, Transitional Programs, Postsecondary Education, Personal Autonomy
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Nikola Grafnetterova; Kellie Jarvis; Rita Sperry; Chelsie Hawkinson – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2024
Higher education has seen an increase in first-year students who arrive with significant early college credit. There is a gap in research about how first-year seminars meet the transition needs of students with college-level experience obtained during high school. This qualitative study, guided by Schlossberg's (1989) transition theory, explored…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, First Year Seminars, College Credits, Transitional Programs
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Michael Grüttner; Stefanie Schröder; Jana Berg – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2024
Preparation for university studies is key to enabling adult refugees and asylum seekers to reestablish their educational and professional careers in the host country. While refugees' transition to higher education (HE) is embedded in multiple transitions regarding social position, educational career, and migration, related identities may compete.…
Descriptors: Refugees, College Preparation, Self Concept, Competition
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C. A. Simpkins; D. Pendergast; B. Hopwood; R. Rossiter – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2025
Transitioning across different schooling sectors presents various challenges for young people. This is evident in the transition from primary to secondary schooling, when factors such as student belonging and positive connections are vital. Students with learning support needs or living in isolated localities may experience additional challenges.…
Descriptors: School Transition, Secondary Schools, Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes
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Franz Carrillo-Higueras; T. R. Walton – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2024
Homesick disposition, an individual's expectation about becoming homesick in the future, has been identified as an important predictor of homesickness. Homesick disposition can be detected and measured even before the separation from home has taken place, making it particularly relevant to understanding feelings and perceptions of rural school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Student Adjustment, Psychological Patterns
Albert G. Hernandez Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The outcomes of special education learning and transition services for K-12 public school special education graduated students is less often investigated in the field of education. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study is to understand the perspectives of post-high school K-12 graduated students concerning their perceptions of the…
Descriptors: Student Experience, High School Graduates, Elementary Secondary Education, Special Education
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