An international investigation into student concerns regarding transition into higher education.

Zarb, Mark; Abandoh-Sam, Joseph A.; Alshaigy, Bedour; Bouvier, Dennis; Glassey, Richard; Hughes, Janet; Riedesel, Charles

Abstract

The experience of transitioning into and starting higher education is a very individual one, with some applicants viewing the prospect of higher education as an unknown entity; for those who are first in their family or community to consider higher education, this can seem an 'alien environment'. These are just some of the issues that lead to applicants experiencing levels of concern when considering a transition into higher education. This international working group proposes to consider concerns across a wide range of participants: namely students who are in the process of transitioning into a higher education environment, and students who have recently completed this transition.

Citation

ZARB, M., ABANDOH-SAM, J.A., ALSHAIGY, B., BOUVIER, D., GLASSEY, R., HUGHES, J. and RIEDESEL, C. 2018. An international investigation into student concerns regarding transition into higher education. In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) conference on innovation and technology in computer science education (ITiCSE 2018), 2-4 July 2018, Larnaca, Cyprus. New York: ACM [online], pages 344-345. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3197091.3205842

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: 23rd Annual Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) conference on innovation and technology in computer science education (ITiCSE 2018)
• Start Date: Jul 2, 2018
• End Date: Jul 4, 2018
• Acceptance Date: Mar 7, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Jul 2, 2018
• Publication Date: Jul 4, 2018
• Deposit Date: Aug 2, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 2, 2018
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 344-345
• ISBN: 9781450357074
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3197091.3205842
• Keywords: Concerns; Transition; CS1; Applicants; Higher education
• Public URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10059/3040
• Contract Date: Aug 2, 2018