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Reality versus Expectations: Do the Expectations of New Students Correspond with Their Actual Experience. AIR 1990 Annual Forum Paper.

Murray, Judith A.; And Others – 1990

Five hundred incoming students attending Mount Saint Vincent University (Nova Scotia) were selected to participate in a study designed to compare the expectations and experiences of traditional students (who entered immediately after high school or transferred from another university or college) and nontraditional students (who entered part-time…

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