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Hailikari, Telle; Sund, Reijo; Haarala-Muhonen, Anne; Lindblom-Ylänne, Sari – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Despite vast research on transitioning to higher education and student diversity, little longitudinal evidence exists of how individual differences of first-year students predict their graduation times. The present study explored the relation between first-year students' study profiles and graduation times in two different disciplines, by…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Intellectual Disciplines, Legal Education (Professions), Humanities
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Wijnia, Lisette; Loyens, Sofie M. M.; Derous, Eva; Koendjie, Nitaasha S.; Schmidt, Henk G. – Studies in Higher Education, 2014
This study examines whether tutors (N?=?15) in a problem-based learning curriculum were able to predict students' success in their first year and their entire bachelor programme. Tutors were asked to rate each student in their tutorial group in terms of the chance that this student would successfully finish their first year and the entire…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Prediction, Academic Achievement, Student Attrition
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de Koning, Björn B.; Loyens, Sofie M. M.; Rikers, Remy M. J. P.; Smeets, Guus; van der Molen, Henk T. – Studies in Higher Education, 2014
In the Netherlands, university programs increasingly use the binding study advice (BSA) to select students after the first year. Students with insufficient progress after the first year and who therefore do not conform to pre-defined BSA norms have to quit their program. This study investigated whether the introduction of the BSA is associated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Helping Relationship, Admission Criteria, Psychology