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'It's Been a Challenge Finding New Ways to Learn': First-Year Students' Perceptions of Adapting to Learning in a University Environment
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Cameron, Rose B.; Rideout, Candice A. – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
The first year of university is a challenging period of academic and personal development for students. Through phenomenographic analysis of 27 interviews with students who had just completed their first year at university, this study provides valuable insight into students' perceptions of adapting to learning in a university environment. Four…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Attitudes, Student Adjustment, Learning Strategies
The Psychosocial Process of College Dropout: The CEGEP Experience.
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Riviere, Bernard – Canadian Journal of Counselling, 1999
Presents a psychosocial process of dropping out at the college level. This process is analyzed through three periods comprising eight regressive steps induced by mutual maladaptation between the students and the CEGEP. However, post-dropout period is a moratorium during which integration and self-reactualization take place. (Author/MKA)
Descriptors: College Environment, College Students, Dropouts, Higher Education
At a Foreign University: An International Study of Adaptation and Coping.
Klineberg, Otto; Hull, Frank W., IV – 1979
An international study of adaptation and coping of students, faculty, and administrators involved with foreign student exchange is examined using data obtained in 11 countries--Brazil, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Japan, Kenya, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The following are included:…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Administration, College Environment, College Faculty
Bridging Troubled Waters: Helping Students Make the Transition from High School to University
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Pancer, S. Mark; Pratt, Michael; Hunsberger, Bruce; Alisat, Susan – Guidance & Counselling, 2004
This article discusses recent programs and procedures based at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, designed to help students' transition from high school to university. Students are poorly prepared for university, and the meagre assistance they get from pre-university orientations, or even from longer-term programs such as University…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Attrition, Expectation, Intervention
Retaining Women Students in Science Involves More Than Course Selection.
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Donaldson, E. L.; Dixon, E. A. – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 1995
A study of first-year chemistry students (n=962) in one Canadian university investigated factors that may contribute to retention or withdrawal of women in science study. Results show transition patterns into and during the first year of university that suggest that career paths and lifestyles begin to differentiate between genders in ways much…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Chemistry, College Environment, College Freshmen
Easing the Transition from Secondary School to College.
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