... Sociomateriality First-year experience Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space 16NISTA16 A Funding: This work was supported by Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (award number: 16NISTA16A). Distance education (DE) has become a central and rapidly expanding...

... Licensed re-use rights only Science teaching Interdisciplinary First-year experience Student belongingness As a leader in interdisciplinary science, the Faculty of Science (FoS) at a Canadian university developed a full-year course bundling foundational statistics and chemistry courses...

... Student engagement Student attitudes First-year experience First-year seminars Due to the changes in university admissions policy, there has been a considerable increase in student numbers from different public and international high schools. Previously, the administration and faculty had faced...

... Expectations Support First-year experience Academic competencies Academic staff perspectives Academic unpreparedness is one factor that discourages students from continuing higher education (Yorke and Longden, 2008 ; Thomas, 2002). The first year of higher education is considered particularly...

...Bryant L. Hutson This study describes the evaluation of a first‐year experience course which emphasised the “appreciative advising” theoretical model – a strength‐based, relational approach to student development that aims to enhance students’ self‐efficacy and academic self‐perception. In order...