- Title
- Individual differences among enabling students: a comparison across three enabling programmes
- Creator
- Cantwell, Robert H.; Grayson, Rosalie
- Relation
- Journal of Further and Higher Education Vol. 26, Issue 4, p. 293-306
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0309877022000021702
- Publisher
- Carfax - Taylor & Francis
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2002
- Description
- Two hundred and seven students undertaking enabling programmes at three different sites were administered measures of self-efficacy, self-concept, approaches to learning, causal attributions and self-regulatory control at the beginning and end of their first semester of study. Students were enrolled in either a mature aged (21 years + ) enabling course at the University of Newcastle (Open Foundation Course), an age-restricted enabling course (17-21) at the University of Newcastle (Newstep) or an unrestricted age entry Tertiary Preparation Certificate at the NSW TAFE. Analyses of variance indicated group differences across measures of approaches to learning, attributions and self-regulatory control, but no differences across measures of self-efficacy nor self-concept. Results are discussed in terms of the impact of age and institutional factors on students' adjustment to enabling programmes.
- Subject
- enabling programmes; approaches to learning; self-efficacy; self-regulatory control; self-concept; University of Newcastle, (NSW); Newstep; Open Foundation; Tertiary Preparation Certificate
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/27088
- Identifier
- uon:1359
- Identifier
- ISSN:0309-877X
- Language
- eng
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