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Direct linkTawash, E.; Anand, E.; Holden, C. E.; Hughes, J.; Maddison, W. – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
This paper focuses on the challenges of transition experienced by local high school graduates of the Arabic school system in the Kingdom of Bahrain, in the Middle East, as they are shaped into the person of a professional nurse through a Western model of nursing education. It investigates the elements that comprise a Bahraini student's first-year…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Foreign Countries, Arabs, Nursing Education
Gutzweiler, Raphael; Pfeiffer, Simone; In-Albon, Tina – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
Engaging in service learning has been linked to multiple positive outcomes in students, such as an increase in self-efficacy. Effects have been found on both general and domain-specific self-efficacy. Research on service learning has indicated that feedback and gender had an impact on the increase in self-efficacy, though findings are mixed. The…
Descriptors: College Students, Service Learning, Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools
Carreira, Pedro; Lopes, Ana Sofia – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
Dropout rates in higher education (HE) are particularly high for non-traditional students which may be due to unadjusted educational policies. Considering as non-traditional the students who are employed at the enrolment moment and using a longitudinal database containing information on 5351 students from a Portuguese HE institution, an event…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Dropout Rate, Nontraditional Students, College Students
Karunarathne, Wasana; Calma, Angelito – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
The importance of creativity for survival in modern society is well recognised. However, the development of creative thinking skills through formal education still needs more attention, and the assessment of creative thinking skills using valid models in higher education is under-researched. Our paper presents the deficits and improvements in…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Undergraduate Students, Business Education, Economics Education
van Herpen, Sanne G. A.; Meeuwisse, Marieke; Hofman, W. H. Adriaan; Severiens, Sabine E. – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Given the challenging transition from secondary school into higher education, this quasi-experimental study measured the effects of a pre-academic programme (i.e. before starting at university) on student-faculty interactions, student-peer interactions, sense of belonging, and first-year academic performance. Fifty-eight first-year students…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Sense of Community, Academic Achievement, Transitional Programs
