How First Year University Students See Themselves: Self-Percepts and Role Conflict of First Year University Students

Bochner, Stephen

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“…The attrition rates at Australian higher education providers between 2012 and 2014 were reported to worsen slightly, with a large proportion of providers being in the high or moderate attrition categories (Martin, 2017). It is worth noting that universities are cognizant of the difficulties facing first-year students and offer counselling services and academic support in order to assist alleviating the challenges faced by their freshmen (Bochner, 1971). DeBerard et al (2004), however argues that attrition rates have not changed appreciably over the last few decades and are commonly as high as 20% to 30%.…”

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Factors Affecting Academic Performance of First-Year University Students: A Case of a Vietnamese University

Nguyen

et al. 2020

International Journal of Education and Practice

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Article History KeywordsFactors Academic performance First-year university students Vietnam Higher education Students' motivation Lecturers' pedagogical knowledge Skills.Having research-informed and evidence-based information into factors that impact students' academic performance is crucial for institutions to be able to identify gaps in the provision of training and support for students. This study is motivated by the need to determine and analyse such factors at a university that has been experiencing high academic failure and dropout rates. The study employed quantitative research methods with the leading research instrument being a survey administered to 397 first-year students from 13 disciplines and 7 faculties. Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and multiple linear regression were used to identify the underlying relationships between variables. According to the research findings, there are five key factors that contribute to academic performance and success of first-year university students, namely, students' motivation, lecturers' pedagogical knowledge and skills, lecturers' professional knowledge and credential, learning resources and conditions and course structure. . These factors have been ranked from the one with the most substantial effect to the one that confers least impact. The findings can have important implications for proposing measures to improve academic performance for the university as well as other institutions in the higher education sector.

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Section: First-year Students and The Transitioning To University Learmentioning

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Factors Affecting Academic Performance of First-Year University Students: A Case of a Vietnamese University

Nguyen

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International Journal of Education and Practice

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“…2033, Australia. tralian or Overseas), Academic Status (Undergraduate or Graduate), and Sex (Male or Female). The special significance of the Undergraduate vs. Graduate dichotomy is that it constitutes a natural manipulation of social status, since there is direct evidence (Bochner 1971) that in Australian universities graduate students are highstatus individuals relative to undergraduate students, with a status barrier separating the two groups. Finally, although reference and membership affiliation need not necessarily coincide, in the present instance a close correspondence can be assumed, since the three categories represent fundamental structures in a social system that the subjects entered of their own free will, and which they can leave on demand.…”

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Race and Academic Status as Determinants of Friendship Formation: A Field Study

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1979

Int J Psychol

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Milgram's “small world” method was modified to trace interpersonal bonds among members of a university International House containing 154 male and female, graduate and undergraduate, and Australian and Overseas students. Sixteen residents, balanced for race, academic status and sex, served as starters for chain booklets circulating through the House from friend to friend. Social networks were inferred from the circulation pattern of the booklets. It was predicted that both race similarity and academic status congruence would contribute to affiliation, but that academic status would be a more salient determinant in the undergraduate condition, whereas race would be more salient in the graduate group. Fifteen chains progressed beyond their respective starters, and 111 transactions generated by 77 different individuals (or 50% of all the residents) were recorded. The data were in accord with all theoretical expectations.

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How First Year University Students See Themselves: Self-Percepts and Role Conflict of First Year University Students

Abstract: of A student in the first year of his university course faces a variety of potentidy stressful d, personal and academic situations (Brown, 1967). Universities

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Factors Affecting Academic Performance of First-Year University Students: A Case of a Vietnamese University

Factors Affecting Academic Performance of First-Year University Students: A Case of a Vietnamese University

Race and Academic Status as Determinants of Friendship Formation: A Field Study

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