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Factors influencing dropout and academic performance: an Australian higher education equity perspective
Ian Li,David Carroll +1 more
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There has been increasing access to higher education enrolment for disadvantaged individuals following the Bradley Review of Australian higher education as mentioned in this paper. But progress has been made, while progress was made, stude...Abstract:
There has been increasing access to higher education enrolment for disadvantaged individuals following the Bradley Review of Australian higher education. While progress has been made, stude...read more
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Rurality and Dropout in Virtual Higher Education Programmes in Colombia
TL;DR: In this article, an exploratory, quantitative and cross-sectional study was proposed, with a sample of 291 students to whom a student characterisation instrument and a classroom evaluation instrument were applied.
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The changing nature of graduate roles and the value of the degree
TL;DR: The authors explored industry perspectives on the changing nature of graduate roles and the importance of the undergraduate degree, and any impact these have on traditional non-graduate roles in contrast to traditional graduate roles.
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Moving beyond ‘acts of faith’: effective scholarships for equity students
Nadine Zacharias,Juliana Ryan +1 more
TL;DR: For decades Australian universities have used equity scholarships as a tool to widen participation in higher education despite limited empirical evidence about how such scholarships influence stude... as discussed by the authors, and they have been widely used as an incentive for students to attend Australian universities.
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Tertiary Anatomy and Physiology, A Barrier for Student Success
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss why this obstacle exists, and the factors that contribute to success and failure in undergraduate anatomy and physiology courses, and discuss the early determinants for student success in these courses.
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Sense of belonging in second-year undergraduate students: the value of extracurricular activities
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present empirical evidence on how second-year students' sense of belonging and overall experience can be improved through a carefully designed extracurricular activity as an effective...
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Dropout from Higher Education: A Theoretical Synthesis of Recent Research
TL;DR: The failure of past research to delineate more clearly the multiple characteristics of dropout can be traced to two major shortcomings as mentioned in this paper, namely, inadequate attention given to questions of definition and to the development of theoretical models that seek to explain, not simply to describe, the processes that bring individuals to leave institutions of higher education.
Review of Australian Higher Education: final report
TL;DR: The authors of as mentioned in this paper report that Australia is falling behind other countries in performance and investment in higher education, and Australia is now 9th out of 30 in the proportion of its population aged 25 to 34 years with such qualifications, down from 7th a decade ago.
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Dropouts and turnover: The synthesis and test of a causal model of student attrition
TL;DR: In this paper, a causal model was developed which synthesized research findings on turnover in work organizations and on student attrition in institutions of higher education and found that three surrogate measures for pay were significantly related to intent to leave for both sexes and that theories and determinants developed in research on turnover are useful in studies of student attrition.
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Investigating “Sense of Belonging” in First-Year College Students
TL;DR: In this paper, an empirical measure of "sense of belonging" was developed to evaluate the effectiveness of retention programs on their campuses, design more effective intervention strategies, and identify students at risk for departure.
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Untangling the satisfaction-performance relationship for college students.
John P. Bean,Russell K. Bradley +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the Satisfaction-Performance Relationship for College Students was investigated. But the authors focused on the satisfaction-performance relationship for college students and did not consider the performance of college students.