Browsing Teaching and Learning by Subject "Retention and completion in education"
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Culturally relevant peer support for indigenous student engagement, retention and success.
(2008)The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand uses a range of strategies to support the diverse needs of its indigenous students; one is highlighted. This paper describes a project which aimed to enhance first year student engagement, ... -
Engaging distance students in learning: What matters to students, what motivates them and how can engagement in learning be fostered?
(2010)The engagement, retention and success of tertiary students in New Zealand is of strategic importance, and improving student success remains a focus of government and tertiary education organisation policy and practice. ... -
Student attrition in higher education: 'What was that you said?': Ambiguities arising from varied contexts and definitions in distance and open learning.
(2003)Attrition rates in the higher education and distance/open learning modes have come under growing scrutiny over the last two decades. One of the drivers has been political, with the widespread adoption of New Managerialist ... -
Student perceptions of support services and the influence of targeted interventions on retention in distance education.
(2010)To improve student retention in distance education, Simpson suggested in 2003 that institutions analyse their own retention characteristics and 'spot the leaks.' In 2008 the Centre for Distance Learning at Laidlaw College, ... -
Student retention and support in open and distance learning.
(2000)Tertiary education institutions take the issue of student retention and successful completion of courses and programmes by students very seriously. The substantial literature on this topic suggests that withdrawal and ... -
The learning styles of first year distance education students.
(1998)The purpose of this paper is to report on the results of research in progress on the learning styles of first year students studying with The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand. The paper reviews background literature on ...