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Direct linkPokorny, Helen; Holley, Debbie; Kane, Suzanne – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
In this study, our cross-case analysis of students' lives challenges the conventional home-university model of transition and highlights the importance of acknowledging the influence of this complex symbiotic relationship for students who attend university and live at home. We argue that as with stay-at-home holidays, or "staycations",…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Freshmen, Commuting Students, Higher Education
Download full textNational Survey of Student Engagement, 2016
The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) and its companion projects serve colleges and universities committed to monitoring and improving the quality of the undergraduate experience. While participating institutions receive detailed customized reports, the "Annual Results" series presents noteworthy aggregate findings from the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, National Surveys, Educational Quality, Student Characteristics
National Survey of Student Engagement, 2015
In 2015, the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) collected responses from more than 315,000 first-year and senior students attending 585 bachelor's degree-granting colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. This report presents selected NSSE results from students at 541 U.S. institutions or subsets of that group where…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, National Surveys, Educational Quality, Student Characteristics
Buote, Vanessa M.; Pancer, S. Mark; Pratt, Michael W.; Adams, Gerald; Birnie-Lefcovitch, Shelly; Polivy, Janet; Wintre, Maxine Gallander – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2007
In a study of new friendships and adjustment among 1st-year university students, students at six Canadian universities completed questionnaires that assessed the quality of new friendships and adjustment during their first academic year. In-depth, face-to-face interviews about students' new friendships were conducted with a subsample of these…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Adjustment, Friendship, Student Attitudes
McClain, Ruth S.; Sartwell, David – 1983
Reasons for the withdrawal of 159 first-semester freshmen from Salem State College, Massachusetts, during the fall 1981 or 1982 semesters were studied. Questionnaire results supported the following assumptions: community problems contribute to student withdrawal, not getting into the dorm contributes to attrition for some students, financial…
Descriptors: College Attendance, College Choice, College Freshmen, College Transfer Students
Davidson, Judy – 1976
This report presents and analyzes data gathered as one part of a multi-phase, multi-method, comprehensive study of several aspects of the House Plan as it exists at Cypress College. All day (458) and evening (128) students, entering February 1976 and registered for six units or more, were surveyed. The survey instrument tested students' general…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Freshmen, Community Colleges, Commuter Colleges
Fidler, Paul P.; Schnackenberg, Lucretia – 1978
During the 1977 fall orientation a questionnaire prepared by the American Council on Education (ACE) was administered to about 75 percent of the entering freshman class at the University of South Carolina. The study was part of ACE's ongoing national study, part of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program. An analysis of the results is made,…
Descriptors: Age, Cohort Analysis, College Choice, College Freshmen
