Editorial: Academic Advising and Tutoring for Student Success in Higher Education: International Approaches

Insights for Student Success in Higher Education

Motivation is a subject that has long interested researchers and practitioners seeking to understand human behavior and performance. Over the course of the 20th century and into the new millennium, scholars have developed sweeping theories and have amassed large bodies of applied research investigating motivation across a variety of settings. Motivation has been studied in schools, the workplac...

Academic success and failure : Student characteristics and broader implications for research in higher education

The paper reports on the findings of a funded research project which investigated factors related to academic success and failure in a Faculty of Arts. The project initially aimed to explore failure which resulted when students remained enrolled but submitted no items for assessment. The initial aim was to investigate whether the problem resided essentially in characteristics of non-completing ...

National strategy for access and student success in higher education

Enabling Student Success through Embedded Advising

This paper briefly outlines a proposal for increasing the capacity of schools and programs to better support the success and retention of Griffith students. This proposal should be understood within the context of the wider Griffith Retention Strategy (2012‐2014) which incorporates both curricular and co‐curricular strategies. The paper proposes the creation of a new role (Student Success Advis...

New Approaches to Planning and Academic Identity Schisms in Higher Education

The purpose of the research was to gain the lived experience of the faculty from the status of academic identities; and how new approaches to planning based on managerialism create the schism of academic identities. The research method was grounded theory. Data were collected through in-depth qualitative interviews with 16 faculty members based on theoretical and purposeful sampling, at Mazanda...