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The First Year Experience Project: A model for university-wide change

Pages 185-198 | Published online: 14 Jul 2010

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Manuel Rodríguez, Jaime Carabali, Alex Pérez & Luis Meneses. (2023) Migration and academic performance in higher education: evidence for Colombia. Spatial Economic Analysis 0:0, pages 1-19.
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Ryan Naylor, Chi Baik & Sophia Arkoudis. (2018) Identifying attrition risk based on the first year experience. Higher Education Research & Development 37:2, pages 328-342.
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Carlos Vieira, Isabel Vieira & Luis Raposo. (2018) Distance and academic performance in higher education. Spatial Economic Analysis 13:1, pages 60-79.
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Thanita Lerdpornkulrat, Ravinder Koul & Chanut Poondej. (2018) Relationship between perceptions of classroom climate and institutional goal structures and student motivation, engagement and intention to persist in college. Journal of Further and Higher Education 42:1, pages 102-115.
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Keithia L. Wilson, Karen A. Murphy, Andrew G. Pearson, Barbara M. Wallace, Vanessa G.S. Reher & Nicholas Buys. (2016) Understanding the early transition needs of diverse commencing university students in a health faculty: informing effective intervention practices. Studies in Higher Education 41:6, pages 1023-1040.
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Gerard Stoyles, Angela Chadwick & Peter Caputi. (2015) Purpose in Life and Well-Being: The Relationship Between Purpose in Life, Hope, Coping, and Inward Sensitivity Among First-Year University Students. Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health 17:2, pages 119-134.
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Julie Ballantyne. (2012) Valuing students’ voices: Experiences of first year students at a new campus. International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning 7:1, pages 41-50.
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David J. Drum & Adryon Burton Denmark. (2012) Campus Suicide Prevention: Bridging Paradigms and Forging Partnerships. Harvard Review of Psychiatry 20:4, pages 209-221.
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Vera Sheridan & Siobhán Dunne. (2012) The bigger picture: undergraduate voices reflecting on academic transition in an Irish university. Innovations in Education and Teaching International 49:3, pages 237-247.
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Leonid Grebennikov & Mahsood Shah. (2012) Commencing student experience: new insights and implications for action. European Journal of Higher Education 2:2-3, pages 267-289.
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Lisa Ruhanen & Char-Lee McLennan. (2012) The Learning Experiences and Preferences of Tourism Postgraduate Students. Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism 12:2, pages 146-164.
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A.R.J. Briggs, J. Clark & I. Hall. (2012) Building bridges: understanding student transition to university. Quality in Higher Education 18:1, pages 3-21.
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Marjolein Torenbeek, Ellen Jansen & Adriaan Hofman. (2011) The relationship between first‐year achievement and the pedagogical‐didactical fit between secondary school and university. Educational Studies 37:5, pages 557-568.
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Henry Greene. (2011) Freshmen Marketing: A First-Year Experience with Experiential Learning. Marketing Education Review 21:1, pages 79-88.
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Catherine Bovill, CathyJ. Bulley & Kate Morss. (2011) Engaging and empowering first-year students through curriculum design: perspectives from the literature. Teaching in Higher Education 16:2, pages 197-209.
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Brenda Leibowitz, Francois Cilliers, Jacob du Plessis, Zuhayr Kafaar, Antoinette van der Merwe, Shaun Viljoen & Gert Young. (2011) Orientations to academic development: lessons from a collaborative study at a research‐led university. International Journal for Academic Development 16:1, pages 19-32.
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Trevor Hussey & Patrick Smith. (2010) Transitions in higher education. Innovations in Education and Teaching International 47:2, pages 155-164.
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Sue Walker, Joanne Brownlee, Sandra Lennox, Beryl Exley, Kerry Howells & Fiona Cocker. (2009) Understanding first year university students: personal epistemology and learning. Teaching Education 20:3, pages 243-256.
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Beverley Jackling & Tracey McDowall. (2008) Peer Mentoring in an Accounting Setting: A Case Study of Mentor Skill Development1 . Accounting Education 17:4, pages 447-462.
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Cassandra Star & Jacquelin McDonald. (2007) Embedding Successful Pedagogical Practices: Assessment Strategies for a Large, Diverse, First Year Student Cohort. International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning 3:2, pages 18-30.
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ToniA. Campbell & DavidE. Campbell. (2007) Outcomes of mentoring at‐risk college students: gender and ethnic matching effects. Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning 15:2, pages 135-148.
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Cynthia White. (2005) Contribution of Distance Education to the Development of Individual Learners. Distance Education 26:2, pages 165-181.
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