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Tawash, 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
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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
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Torenbeek, Marjolein; Jansen, Ellen; Hofman, Adriaan – Studies in Higher Education, 2010
Central in this study is the role of student variables and the fit between secondary education and university education in the explanation of first-year student achievement. The fit between two levels of education can be defined in different ways. In this study the focus is on four fit-aspects: appropriateness of expectations, and the degree to…
Descriptors: Productivity, Student Employment, Social Integration, Structural Equation Models