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Download full textMarie Thériault – Commission for International Adult Education, 2023
This article examines the transition of adult learners from adult general education to a college program. The ethnographic inquiry methodology used for this research relies on Long's theoretical model which postulates three different levels of dimensions in adult education (1989) and on Bélanger's lifelong learning model (2011). On this…
Descriptors: General Education, Adult Education, College Programs, Adults
Wasylkiw, Louise – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
The transition from high school to post-secondary education is often difficult for students. The literature examining factors that foster a successful transition generally focuses on previous academic achievement and/or individual differences that enable students to navigate the culture of university. Through interviews with first year university…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, College Readiness, Transitional Programs
Direct linkTight, Malcolm, Ed.; Mok, Ka Ho, Ed.; Huisman, Jeroen, Ed.; Morphew, Christopher, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2009
This volume is a detailed and up-to-date reference work providing an authoritative overview of the main issues in higher education around the world today. Consisting of newly commissioned chapters and impressive journal articles, it surveys the state of the discipline and includes the examination and discussion of emerging, controversial and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Progress, Higher Education, Political Science
Johnson, Genevieve M.; Buck, George H. – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 1995
A survey of 498 undergraduate students withdrawing from a Canadian university was used to develop a model of student attrition. Students frequently attributed withdrawal to personal characteristics, institutional factors, and societal variables. Student academic performance was a causal factor for university-initiated withdrawal, and student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Environment, College Students, Decision Making
Grayson, J. Paul – 1997
In the fifth and sixth weeks of a faculty strike at York University (Ontario), a survey was undertaken to assess student perceptions of the strike, its benefits, and its costs. Respondents were 502 randomly selected full-time undergraduate students in several disciplines. Survey questions were developed in student focus groups. The report…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Activism, Anxiety, College Environment
Cornell, L.; And Others – 1990
In an inter-institutional action research project, seven teachers from three high schools and two colleges in Canada interviewed 88 students as they looked forward to college, experienced the first semester, and looked back after the second semester. The purpose was to discover what student perceptions and what institutional policies and practices…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Bound Students, College Environment, College Freshmen
