The First Year Experience
Responding To The Concerns Of Student-Athletes Enrolled In A First-Year Experience Course
... a first-year experience course using a standard text (Gardner, Jewler, & Barefoot, 2008) that addresses a broad range of topics from time management, learning styles, study strategies, career ...
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Student engagement: A complex business supporting the first year experience in tertiary education
... Student success in much of the neo-liberal western world tends to be defined by narrow indicators like retention and completion. Success is frequently connected to statistical measures such as the NSSE and AUSSE which ...
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Quality enhancement themes: the first year experience : sector-wide discusstion : the nature and purposes of the first year
... z The Scottish Funding Council (SFC) might usefully dedicate a stream of ongoing funding to the First Year Experience Enhancement Theme, perhaps for an additional period of two to three years. ...
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Beyond Attrition and Retention: Working With Students to Enhance the First Year Experience
... the first year student experience by helping students transition into their course, and university life more ...the first year experience is at the centre of our ontological ...
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Quality enhancement themes : the first year experience : student expectations, experiences and reflections on the first year
... The work of the First Year Experience Enhancement Theme should be examined against the backdrop of a challenging period for UK HEIs. Key challenges are the targets set by the Lisbon Strategy and the ...
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Quality enhancement themes : the first year experience : the nature and purposes of the first year : sharing and reflecting on international experiences and initiatives
... the first year; Student expectations and adjustments to university study; Engaging with learners and learning at university; Managing commitments in the first year; Perceptions of teaching and ...
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Undergraduate nursing studies: the first-year experience
... their first year of study at a regional university in ...the first year of study, services or support mechanisms accessed to assist in transition to the role of university student, and ...
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Rebuilding the first year experience, one block at a time: A Practice Report
... VU First Year Model appears to have had a positive impact on student engagement, learning and outcomes as evidenced by the 2018 semester one results and student progress into the second ...connected ...
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Enhancing the first year experience: ten ways to involve library services
... of first-year students before and after undergoing orientation ...‘first-year experience’ librarian “to help students overcome their anxiety and develop their proficiency at using the ...
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Enhancing Student Engagement In A Multidisciplinary, First-Year Experience Course
... A second theoretical paradigm that guides the first-year experience is experiential learning theory and practice. Experiential learning theory is based on the premise that students learn best by ...
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Quality enhancement themes : the first year experience : curriculum design for the first year
... This lack of research is likely to have several causes. McInnes stated that there are 'very few scholars specialising in the study of higher education', resulting in a fragmented knowledge base and lack of synthesis ...
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MAPs to Success: Improving the First Year Experience of alternative entry mature age students
... the first year experience (Krause, Hartley, James, & McInnis, 2005) clearly document a significant rise in the number of undergraduate students of any age who are—through necessity—employed for ...
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Quality enhancement themes : the first year experience : transforming assessment and feedback : enhancing integration and empowerment in the first year
... the first year, especially if they carry many ...students experience this kind of regime as highly stressful and as providing limited opportunities to experiment and find out what is required (Yorke, ...
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Education students' first year experience on a regional university campus
... academic year to enhance the student’s self- efficacy, as well as providing early student feedback on how they were progressing ...the first year assessments so that the students are taught how to ...
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Quality enhancement themes : the first year experience : introducing scholarship skills : academic writing
... week, first-year students on the undergraduate Sports and Exercise Science degree programme are asked to fill in a short questionnaire on their hopes and fears regarding their university experience, ...
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Embedding a selection of feedback mechanisms into innovative curriculum to enhance the first year experience
... their first summative assessment within three days, and incorporate it into the preparation of their second assessment, based on paper prototypes (Figure ...
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An evaluation of the first year experience from the mature students’ perspective: a multiinstitutional comparison
... student experience, to reduce the number of withdrawals and encourage re-entry into the HE system. Mature students are a potentially large market, yet many mature students have differing priorities to the ...
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The first year experience: Transition and integration into teacher education
... Students also commented on the staged assessment model, in that this approach had scaffolded their learning about academic writing and expectations: “I wouldn’t have been able to write an essay properly without their ...
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Quality enhancement themes: the first year experience : transition to and during the first year
... In terms of social transition, research undertaken by student evaluation projects (for example, by the Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning [CRLL]) has indicated that working-class, first-generation and mature ...
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Quality enhancement themes : the first year experience : personal development planning in the first year
... A plethora of terms, strategies, processes and products are used to describe these PDP activities, resulting in no uniform understanding of what PDP is beyond the commonly used definition from the Guidelines for HE ...
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