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dc.contributor.authorLarkin, Kevin
dc.contributor.authorRowan, Leonie
dc.contributor.authorGarrick, Barbara
dc.contributor.authorBeavis, Catherine
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-04T00:19:05Z
dc.date.available2018-01-04T00:19:05Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.issn1449-9789
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/173115
dc.description.abstractUniversities throughout Australia are increasingly investing significant amounts of time and money in efforts to improve the quality of first year students’ experiences and, by extension, increase retention, performance and student satisfaction. This paper reports upon a pilot research project conducted at a Queensland university that investigates student understandings of, and reactions to, a range of initiatives put in place to enhance their “first year experience”. The research showed that students had mixed reactions to the initiatives put in place to support them and that staff played a vital role in terms of how students responded to various forms of institutional support. In analysing the results the paper demonstrates the need for ongoing research into how a diverse cohort of students make sense of the first year experience they are offered.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherUniversity of Wollongong
dc.publisher.urihttp://ro.uow.edu.au/jutlp/vol13/iss1/7
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom7-1
dc.relation.ispartofpageto7-14
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of University Teaching and Learning Practice
dc.relation.ispartofvolume13
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEducation systems
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEducation systems not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCurriculum and pedagogy
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3903
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode390399
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3901
dc.titleStudent perspectives on first year experience initiatives designed for pre-service teachers in their first weeks of university study
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dc.description.versionVersion of Record (VoR)
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Education and Professional Studies
gro.rights.copyright© 2016 University of Wollongong. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
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gro.griffith.authorLarkin, Kevin M.
gro.griffith.authorRowan, Leonie


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