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Kyle M. Brasil – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Attending and graduating from college or university has profound influences on financial earnings and career opportunities. Beyond these financial and career benefits, attending higher education also offers social and emotional benefits. While there are many potential benefits to going on in one's education, there are known disparities in who goes…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Educational Attainment, Success, College Students
Nancy E. Thacker; Melinda M. Gibbons; Marjorie Perkins; Emily Keller; Pamela Rosecrance; Marlon Johnson; Erin E. Hardin; Leia Cain – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2024
College adjustment is particularly challenging for students from rural Appalachia, causing rural students to be more likely than their suburban and urban peers to withdraw from college. However, little is known about rural Appalachian college students' adjustment. We explored 18 rural Appalachian students' college adjustment experiences and…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, College Freshmen, Rural Schools, Cultural Influences
Christina Cooper – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Strands in the extant literature show many students graduate from high school illprepared to be successful in the postsecondary environment. The purpose of this study is to better understand best practices for achieving first-year student success within the realm of higher education. First-year college students may experience challenges in…
Descriptors: College Readiness, College Freshmen, Best Practices, Success
Karien van Korlaar; Koen Voorend – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
This paper challenges the general claim that teachers are always central in the school success of refugee students (Engels et al., 2021; Ghasemi, 2021; Wubbels et al., 2006). A typological analysis based on the self-determination theory of Ryan and Deci (2017) was used to study how teacher-student interaction interplays with the sense of belonging…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Student School Relationship, Barriers
Diego González-Rodríguez; Cintia Pereira Marqués; Jorge Carlos Lafuente – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2025
The transition from high school to university is usually complex for every student, but especially for minority groups. This is mainly due to the need to create more inclusive universities. The objective of this study was to determine the variables that influence the transition from post-compulsory education to university for students identifying…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, Students with Disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorders, High School Students
Rebecca Turner; Debby Cotton; David Morrison; Pauline Kneale – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
Engaging with interdisciplinary learning during higher education (HE) study can provide students with skills and modes of thinking informed by multiple worldviews. Opportunities for interdisciplinary learning in the English HE system are limited; associated primarily with postgraduate study or later undergraduate stages. This paper reports on an…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, College Freshmen, Instructional Innovation, Curriculum Development
Katie Ellis; Claire Johnston – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
Over 80,000 children in England were being looked after in Local Authority care in 2020 and a further 40,000 people were defined as 'care leavers'. Although a significant body of research highlights the prevalence of educational low achievement in the care experienced population, official government figures show that around 13% of care experienced…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Foster Care, Resilience (Psychology)
Seda Saraç; Hülya Gülay Ogelman; Özge Yildirim – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2024
This study aimed to uncover teachers' experiences and practices in addressing preschool adjustment following the lockdowns and home confinement. Twenty-seven preschool teachers participated in this qualitative descriptive study. Eighteen teachers were interviewed individually, and a focus group interview was held with nine teachers. The thematic…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Teaching Experience
Exploring Who First Generation International Students Are and Their Experiences: A Qualitative Study
Kristi Bright – ProQuest LLC, 2024
International students' adjustment has been studied for many years. However, "first-generation" international students have not been adequately explored. International students and first-generation students both have many obstacles they must navigate and adapt to quickly to succeed in school. This study aimed to better understand who…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Foreign Students, Student Characteristics, Student Experience
Andrea Flores – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Latinas continue to be underrepresented in doctoral studies, and there are many barriers that they encounter while pursuing a doctoral degree. This qualitative phenomenological study documents the experiences, challenges, and life events that Latina doctoral students face while pursuing a doctoral degree. The primary research question guiding the…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Hispanic American Students, Females, Student Experience
Outlaw, Sheila – ProQuest LLC, 2022
A large percentage of women veteran students at a local 4-year university are transitioning from active duty to the role of adult learner on a college campus, and some have overcome barriers, such as inadequate childcare, lack of transportation, and financial aid issues and completed their educational goals. Unfortunately, some women veterans are…
Descriptors: Females, Veterans, Adult Students, Student Adjustment
Jing Sun; Laura M. Justice; Hui Jiang; Kelly M. Purtell; Tzu-Jung Lin; Arya Ansari – Grantee Submission, 2024
Considerable interest is directed to promoting children's success as they transition to kindergarten. It is generally proposed that children who experience lower levels of transition difficulties at kindergarten entry achieve higher academic and social-emotional gains, although this premise has seldom been explicitly evaluated in tandem with…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Student Adjustment, Achievement Gains, Social Development
Xuan Zhao; Alina Schartner – European Journal of Higher Education, 2024
This mixed-methods longitudinal study investigated the academic, sociocultural, and psychological adjustment trajectories of international students undertaking one-year postgraduate degrees in the humanities and social sciences at a single British university. It also sought to re-examine the applicability of 'U-curve' hypothesis. Three waves of…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Adjustment, Sociocultural Patterns, Emotional Adjustment
Khojanashvili, Lasha; Tsereteli, Mzia; Bakashvili, Mariam; Aslan, Mehmet – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2023
This paper explores and compares the challenges faced by those who study away from home during their transition to higher education with those who study closer to home. This qualitative, exploratory study was conducted with 14 students, using semi-structured interviews. Data were processed using the "Big Q approach" to thematic analysis.…
Descriptors: College Students, Barriers, Out of State Students, Place of Residence
Sönmez, Neslihan; Güven, Bülent – International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, 2023
Researchers from many countries have pointed out the difficulty of transitioning from high school to university settings, especially within the context of mathematics courses. With its abstract content, deductive thinking structure, and unique language, university mathematics is quite different from high school mathematics for students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Adjustment, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes