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Christie, Hazel; Tett, Lyn; Cree, Viviene E.; McCune, Velda – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
This paper explores the transitions that a group of students, admitted from further education colleges as part of broader widening access initiative at a Scottish research-intensive university, made across the lifetime of their degrees. It investigates how they negotiate their learning careers beyond the first year, and how they (re)define their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Longitudinal Studies, Academic Achievement

Kennett, Deborah J. – Studies in Higher Education, 1994
A study investigated how persistence in an academic self-management course related to self-control. Results indicate that the students dropping out had a limited repertoire of general learned resourcefulness skills. However, both high- and low-resourceful students who completed the course used the skills they learned and achieved comparable final…
Descriptors: College Students, Developmental Studies Programs, High Risk Students, Higher Education