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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Transition to Higher Education"”.
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Student service member and veteran transition to higher education: A scoping review
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-12-01
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Designing, developing and evaluating mathematics supports for students at the transition to higher education
… support interventions for students at the transition to Higher Education (HE). The research comprises two interrelated components. The first focuses on the development and implementation of a self-paced, online mathematics support course aimed at improving incoming students’ mathematical …
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Latino Academic Achievement: Impact of Individual, Family, School, Community and Immigration Factors
… family, school, community, and immigration factors on the academic achievement of Latino students through a secondary data analysis of the ELS: 2002 dataset utilizing hierarchical linear modeling. Academic achievement is measured with a dichotomous variable: high achieving and low achieving. …
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Examining the Perspectives of Students with Learning Disabilities through their Lived Experiences
The purpose of this study was to examine the perspectives of college students with learning disabilities through their lived experiences. Specifically, as they related to their high school learning experiences, their transition to higher education, and their continued academic and social support in …
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Identifying item and attribute associations with course outcomes in gateway mathematics courses
This study seeks to understand how students transition to higher education mathematics courses, gain access to gateway mathematics courses, expectations of mathematical preparation, and success rates in such courses. The crux revolves around placement policies, placement mechanisms, and corequisite …
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Undocumented Hispanic students and the postsecondary transition: a narrative perspective
<p>Undocumented students transition to college in extremely low numbers due to a high degree of marginalization, inequity in access to higher education, and constitutional confusion regarding federal and state issues of supremacy and inferiority in immigration, tuition, and financial aid policies. …
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First-Year Students’ Experiences of Peer Groups and Peer Pressure in the Residences of a South African University
In general, peers have a tendency to influence others positively and negatively. In the main, transition from school to higher education causes some students to experience stress; to respond negatively to new conditions; and to engage in risk behaviour, which hinders epistemological access, …
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Improving the achievements of non-traditional students on computing courses at one wide access university
This longitudinal study set out to improve the retention and achievements of diverse students on computing courses in one wide access university, firstly by early identification of students at risk of poor performance and secondly by developing and implementing an intervention programme. …
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Korean diaspora in the age of globalization: early study abroad (ESA) college students in the Midwest
… the US during their formative secondary school education and the influence of the experiences into their college lives in the mega campus. Two overarching research questions are: 1) how do international Korean college students retrospect their ESA experiences? And 2) how do their ESA experiences …
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Cisgender Women Student Veterans' Lived Experiences Inside the College Classroom
… have explored women student veterans' transition to higher education from the military, challenges relating to their peers, and mental health and service-related disabilities, there is virtually no literature on their lived experiences in the college classroom (Atkinson et al., 2018). …