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    Transition to HE: the impact of perceptions of students and staff

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    Authors
    Davies, Jenny
    Bentley, Hilary
    Holland, Lynda
    Issue Date
    2004
    
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    The aim of the project was to gain a fuller understanding of the perceptions of students entering undergraduate programmes in the School of Comnputing and Information Technology (SCIT) in order to improve the students' achievements on their course of study. The results have frd into an ongoing SCIT research programme, begun in 2002, that seeks to relate entrance qualification, feeder institution, learning style and a student's success in their first year in HE.
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    CELT Learning and Teaching Projects 2003/04
    Publisher
    University of Wolverhampton
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    http://hdl.handle.net/2436/3641
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    http://www.wlv.ac.uk/celt
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    en
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    Report of CELT learning and teaching projects in 2003/2004 on supporting students through innovation and research
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    0954211642
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