First-year Experience as Terrain of Failure or Platform for Development?

Experience as Terrain of Failure or Platform for Development? Critical Choices for Higher Education IAN SCOTT Small Steps to a Big Idea: Personalising the Postsecondary Experience PETER DIETSCHE Making Sense of First-Year Student Life: Transition as Ethnographic Process PAUL GREEN, ANNETTE CASHMORE, JON SCOTT, GEETHA NARAYANAN Weaving the Invisible Tapestry: Managing Diversity Through Orientation Innovation FRANCOIS STRYDOM, MELODY MENTZ Assessment of Students’ Strengths: The First Step to Student Success LAURIE SCHREINER, EILEEN HULME • INSTITUTIONAL APPROACHES • Building a Case for Integrative First-Year Experiences at he University of Cincinnati PAMELA PERSON, GISELA ESCOE, MARIANNE LEWIS The First-Year Student Experience at the University of Botswana MICHAEL GREGORY Bringing the University to the User: Student and Staff Portals as Support Channels for the First-Year Academy ANTOINETTE VAN DER MERWE, RALPH PINA Access with Success: A 3-Tier Model for Supporting Reading-to-Learn CARISMA NEL, CHARL NEL • CASE STUDIES • Student Perceptions of the Factors Influencing their Success in First-Year Accounting LEN STEENKAMP, ROELOF BAARD, LIEZEL FRICK Introducing Law to Commerce Students: A Case Study AVINASH GOVINDJEE Student Assessment: Factors influencing the learning process in First-Year Chemistry HANELIE ADENDORFF, MARIETJIE LUTZ Research and the First-Year Student: Opportunities for Learning STELLA GRANVILLE, LAURA DISON Infusing Adjustment Issues into the Curriculum in a Science Foundation Programme BETTE DAVIDOWITZ Lecturers’ and Students’ Reflections on a Bilingual Programme SANDISO NGCOBO ‘Tutoring is Fun’: A Study Investigating Tutor Motivation MÉGAN BURGOYNE, ADA JANSEN and CARINA SMIT Teaching Explicitly that which is Tacit – The Challenge of Disciplinary Discourses CECILIA JACOBS • CLOSING PERSPECTIVE • What Makes a ‘Good’ FirstYear Lecturer? BRENDA LEIBOWITZ, SUSAN VAN SCHALKWYK, ANTOINETTE VAN DER MERWE, NICOLINE HERMAN, GERT YOUNG ��������� The importance of the first-year experience is now well recognised. This

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