The first year in higher education: critical requirements from the student perspective
While study success and completion rates are important issues in educational policy, research highlights the particular relevance of the first year in higher education (HE) for students' future academic performance and achievement. In Germany, the recent reform of degree programmes appears to have created new challenges related to students' transition to HE, yet little is known about the specific requirements students perceive as critical for their first-year experience. The present study, therefore, seeks to explore the first-year challenges in German HE from the student perspective focusing ... Show more
Authors: Trautwein, Caroline; Bosse, Elke
Published: Dordrecht, Netherlands, Springer Science+Business Media, 2017
Resource type: Article
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