This study examined students’ grade expectations over the course of a semester. Students provided their expectations at 3 times: within the first week of the semester, midway through the semester, and within the week just prior to the final exam. Results demonstrate that expected grades decreased over the semester and that the rate of change interacted with students’ cumulative grade point aver...

Success in college is not simply a matter of students demonstrating academic ability. In addition, students must master the ‘‘college student’’ role in order to understand instructors’ expectations and apply their academic skills effectively to those expectations. This article uses data from focus groups to examine the fit between university faculty members’ expectations and students’ understan...

the main goal of this study is the effectiveness evaluation of socio-demographic variables on increasing marriage age of working female students in university of tehran. using statistical method and questionnaire technique, 387 married female students have been participated in this study by cluster-sampling method. the explanatory variables of female students increase marriage age are: educatio...

BACKGROUND Over past few decades, the expectations of medical students about their academics, extracurricular support from college and about their social life at campus have all been changed greatly. The relative scarcity of data about the expectations of Pakistani medical students has merited this study. METHOD A cross-sectional survey was undertaken at Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad at th...

The purpose of this paper was to investigate expectations of students' perceptions of service quality and students' satisfaction, using both qualitative and quantitative research methods. The service quality model (SERVQUAL) was used in a higher education setting in XYZ University by determining the difference in opinion existed in students' expectations versus their actual exper...

Introduction In the past few years the comprehensive biographical questionnaire completed by all students newly admitted to M EDUNSA at the beginning of the academic year, provided valuable information regarding students of the Department of Nursing Science. The main purpose of this study is to obtain a profile of nursing students, enrolling at Medunsa for the first time, regarding — their demo...

The present study focuses on the perspectives of teachers and students in Singapore schools after an autonomy-supportive classroom intervention. Nurturing of students to become motivated and self-regulated learners can be achieved by promoting an autonomy-supportive learning climate. This study examines the perspectives of teachers and students in an in-depth and meaningful manner after the cla...