Common student problems with assessment during the transition to university: support staff perspectives, insights, and recommendations
The transition from secondary school to university is a challenging phase in a student's life. This change is often characterised by major shifts in how the learning environment and academic tasks are structured, the nature of information that students are expected to master, and how this knowledge is to be assessed. For success with university-level assessments, the first-year student must make use of available resources; however, a significant percentage of students struggle in identifying and utilising these resources. This is a vulnerability which could lead to short- and long-term problem ... Show more
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Published: Wellington, New Zealand, Ako Aotearoa (National Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence), 2016
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Physical description: 24 p.
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