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Krsmanovic, Masha – Journal of Global Education and Research, 2022
This study explored how international undergraduate students perceive their academic transition into American higher education. Schlossberg's (1984) 4S Transition Theory served as the framework for exploring what academic challenges, if any, international students experience during their first year of undergraduate studies in a new cultural and…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Foreign Students, Student Adjustment, Student Attitudes
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Krsmanovic, Masha – Journal of Service-Learning in Higher Education, 2022
This research presents a model for implementing and assessing a service-learning first-year seminar course and living community. The study investigated students' attitudes and perceived benefits of the three aspects of their first-year program experience - community service participation, servant-leadership development, and living community…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Leadership Training, First Year Seminars, Student Attitudes
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Krsmanovic, Masha – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2021
This research examined the role of a first-year seminar course in promoting international student learning and academic transition. Through interviews with international students representing different countries and majors, the author investigated how the course can best be designed and taught to overcome the common learning barriers encountered…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, College Freshmen, Foreign Students, Student Attitudes
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Krsmanovic, Masha; Cox, Thomas D.; Johnson, Jamil D. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2020
Utilizing a pretest-posttest quasi-experimental research design, this study investigated the impacts of the participation in a First-Year Seminar (FYS) course on student learning attitudes and behaviors. Using the sample of 1,231 freshmen students in a large, public, research university in the Southeast, the study examined if FYS participation…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Educational Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Student Behavior