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College student development programs --- Study skills --- Remedial teaching --- College student development programs. --- Remedial teaching. --- Study skills. --- Innovation --- Pädagogik --- Zeitschrift --- Innovation. --- Pädagogik. --- Zeitschrift.

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A l'heure actuelle, les étudiants qui fréquentent l'université ont des origines et des antécédents très divers. Ils sont tantôt citoyens, tantôt consommateurs ou clients, et doivent trouver une place pour leurs études dans une vie sans cesse plus remplie où figure souvent l'emploi rémunéré. Dans bien des pays, ils doivent payer davantage pour faire des études et attendent de l'université des normes et des services de haut niveau. Les universités ont de multiples rôles à jouer et doivent trouver le juste équilibre entre les besoins et les attentes de leurs étudiants et les demandes qui leur sont adressées par les pouvoirs publics, les entreprises et la collectivité dans son ensemble, tout en supportant les pressions croissantes qui pèsent sur les budgets universitaires. Pour bien répondre aux attentes des étudiants, la direction des universités est donc appelée à relever de grands défis. Ce volume est issu de deux séminaires, tenus respectivement à Brisbane et à Paris, pour examiner quelques-unes des principales questions auxquelles sont confrontées les universités. On y trouvera des points de vue et des expériences très divers (Australie, Europe, Canada), ainsi que les opinions de représentants d'organisations étudiantes.

Education --- Higher education and state --- College student development programs --- Enseignement supérieur --- Etudiants --- Politique gouvernementale --- Programmes de développement

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Federal aid to higher education --- College student development programs --- Minorities --- Educational counseling --- College preparation programs --- Educational equalization --- Education (Higher) --- Finance. --- College students --- Education, higher --- Education --- Social science

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College preparation programs. --- College student orientation. --- Motivation in education. --- College student development programs. --- Soutien scolaire. --- Dispositifs pédagogiques. --- Orientation des étudiants. --- Étudiants --- Motivation en éducation. --- Psychological aspects --- Programmes de développement.

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This book explores the extent and causes of attrition and retention in university Language & Culture (L&C) programs through a detailed analysis of an institutional case study at The Australian National University (ANU). Using extensive data collected through student surveys, coupled with data mining of university-wide enrollment data, the authors explore the enrollment and progress of students in all ANU L&C programs. Through their detailed statistical analysis of attrition and retention outcomes, the authors reveal serious inadequacies in the traditional, and common, methodology for determining the extent of student attrition and retention in tertiary L&C programs. Readers are shown why a year-to-year comparison of students who continue or discontinue language studies using traditional statistical methodology cannot provide data that is sufficiently meaningful to allow for sound policy- and decision-making. The authors instead suggest a more valid, replicable methodology that provides a new approach potentially applicable to all disciplines and all student retention measures. The authors also demonstrate that the empirical data supports a new hypothesis for the reasons for attrition, based on students’ relative belief or doubt in their capacity to complete their studies successfully. By highlighting the importance of language capital as a factor in students’ concerns about their capacity for success, and hence in their decisions to stay in, or leave, a university language program, the authors show the importance of the ‘doubters’ dilemma’. By taking a rigorous approach to hypothesis building and testing around enrollment and attrition data, the authors provide valuable insights into attrition issues, and potential retention strategies, in L&C programs, which will be relevant to institutions, policy-makers and teaching academics.

Educational evaluation --- College student development programs. --- Development programs, College student --- Programs, College student development --- Student development programs, College --- Educational assessment --- Educational program evaluation --- Evaluation research in education --- Instructional systems analysis --- Program evaluation in education --- Self-evaluation in education --- Counseling in higher education --- Student activities --- Evaluation