Browsing by Subject "First-year students"

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Adjustment experiences and coping strategies of first-year students at the University of Limpopo (Turfloop Campus)

Tom, Reyagalaletsa Felicity (University of Limpopo, 2015)

First year at university is challenging. For most students adjustment to social and academic life entails a degree of stress and emotional difficulties. These difficulties can result in a greater risk of first year attrition. ...
Connecting expressions and verb phrases in the essay writing of first-year students : pedagogical implications for course design

Coetzer, Amanda (2019)

The aims of the study were to compare connector use and verb phrase use between two achievement groups. The achievement groups comprised the Highs, students whose essays were highly rated (124 essays; word length 59702), ...
First-year Student Experience of Orientation Week at a University in South Africa

Nkomo, Trust; Machingambi, Severino; Gwandure, Calvin (African Perspectives of Research in Teaching & Learning, 2021)

The aim of this cross-sectional quantitative study was to assess the orientation experience of first year students at a university campus in Mpumalanga. The study is informed by Tinto’s (1997) student integration model ...

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