Background: Attendance of university students at their timetabled teaching sessions is
usually associated with higher levels of educational attainment. Attendance is usually …

The number of people engaging in higher education (HE) has increased considerably over
the past decade. However, there is a need to achieve a balance between increasing access …

Whilst new friendships and an active social life are commonly discussed features of 'being a
student', there is limited empirical research that has quantitatively studied the contribution …

The freedom of students to learn at university is being eroded by a performative culture that
fails to respect their rights to engage and develop as autonomous adults. Instead, students …

The paper sets out a conceptual analysis of student performativity in higher education as a
mirror image of teacher performativity. The latter is well known and refers to targets …

The literature available on the relationship between student attendance and attainment is
inconsistent. Nevertheless, there is some empirical evidence to suggest that attendance is a …

The aim of the study was to investigate the extent of student absenteeism in selected
universities in South Africa, explore the reasons why student absent themselves from …

The literature on first-year study success has identified a host of factors that may affect a
student's chances of succeeding, ranging from personal circumstances to educational …

This project was funded by the Australian Teaching and Learning Council Ltd and, latterly,
the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching, to investigate the nature and …

The present study developed a web-based argumentation program (WAP) to support the
science concept and argumentation learning of low achievers (LAs) in socio-scientific issue …