Concepedia

Building a successful foundation?: The role of Foundation Year courses in preparing students for their degree

Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning · 2013 · 10 citations · 17 references

Concepts

EducationHigher EducationTeachingCurriculum DevelopmentInstruction In Higher EducationPedagogyContinuing Professional DevelopmentHigher Education CurriculumStudent SuccessAcademic PreparationCollege Readiness In StemFoundation

Abstract

[© Sanders and Daly, 2012-13]. The article has been published in an open access journal. The definitive, peer reviewed and edited version of this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.5456/WPLL.14.S.42

References

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Students’ engagement in first‐year university

Kerri‐Lee Krause, Hamish Coates · Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education · 2008 · 1.1K citations

Education, Educational Measurement, Higher Education +15

Student retention in higher education: the role of institutional habitus

Liz Thomas · Journal of Education Policy · 2002 · 1K citations

Education, Education Policy, Higher Education +12

‘It was nothing to do with the university, it was just the people’: the role of social support in the first‐year experience of higher education

Paula Wilcox, Sandra Winn, Marylynn Fyvie‐Gauld · Studies in Higher Education · 2005 · 1K citations

Education, Higher Education, Sociology +16

Student engagement literature review

Vicki Trowler · 2010 · 926 citations

Education, Higher Education, Pedagogy +10

Mind the Gap: Are students prepared for higher education?

Houston Lowe, Anthony L. Cook · Journal of Further and Higher Education · 2003 · 578 citations

Education, Higher Education, Science Education +11