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Students' Perceptions of Their First-Year University Experience: What Universities Need to Know
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Soiferman, L. Karen – Online Submission, 2017
The purpose of this study was to discover some of the difficulties that first-year students have when they begin university. It was important to get the students to articulate those difficulties, in their own words, so that a better understanding could be attained. As expected, most of the difficulties centred on the institution itself. Students…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Experience, Student Attitudes, Student College Relationship
Navigating Multiple Worlds in the Twenty-First Century: Authoring and Editing the Story of One Japanese Kid
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Damrow, Amy L. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Since the middle of the twentieth century waves of immigration have increased heterogeneity in American classrooms and contributed to new challenges and problems for both teachers and learners. These trends in the United States are, in fact, part of a global phenomenon of large-scale movement of people (Garcia Coll & Marks, 2009;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Context, Communities of Practice
Talented Pupil's Transition from Primary to Secondary Schooling. Unit for Child Studies Selected Papers Number 11.
Boyd, R. M. – 1981
Results from an ongoing study investigating talented pupils' adjustment to high school and their attitudes and expectations about high school are reported. In 1979, 57 pupils, identified by their teachers and testing procedures as academically talented, were asked to complete a questionnaire which sought information on how easily they had adjusted…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Expectation, Foreign Countries
Problems and Expectations of University Students Attending Higher Education in Turkey: Orientation Services
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Kutlu, Mustafa – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2005
The objective of this research is to find out the problems and expectations of the students in Inonu University (in Malatya, a city in east Turkey) concerning the orientation services. An additional objective is to ascertain whether students' expectations with regard to orientation services differ according to their sex, their place of origin, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Personnel Services, Student Problems, Expectation
Studying and Working: A National Study of Student Finances and Student Engagement
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Devlin, Marcia; James, Richard; Grigg, Gabrielle – Tertiary Education and Management, 2008
A key determinant of the new relationship between students and universities in Australia is the changing nature of higher education funding arrangements and the shift towards "user-pays". In 2007, the Centre for the Study of Higher Education (CSHE) completed a commissioned national study, "Australian University Student Finances…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Learner Engagement
Minding the Gap: Why Integrating High School with College Makes Sense and How to Do It
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Hoffman, Nancy, Ed.; Vargas, Joel, Ed.; Venezia, Andrea, Ed.; Miller, Marc S., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2007
"Minding the Gap" argues that in today's highly competitive, global economy, all young people need a postsecondary education. Yet only one in ten students from the lowest economic quintile in the United States currently earns a postsecondary credential. This timely and instructive book from Jobs for the Future explores policies and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, First Generation College Students, Postsecondary Education, High Schools