Browsing Scholarship of Teaching and Learning by Author "McMillan, Wendy"
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"They have different information about what is going on": Emotion in the transition to university
McMillan, Wendy (Routledge, 2014)Most new students experience school to university transition as challenging. Students from backgrounds with little or no experience of higher education are most vulnerable in this transition, and most at risk of academic ... -
Transition to university: the role played by emotion
McMillan, Wendy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)Students experience transition to university as challenging. Recent studies implicate emotion in university success. This paper reports on a pilot study to examine the extent to which school to university transition is ... -
Understanding diversity as a framework for improving student throughput
McMillan, Wendy (Maastricht University, 2007)INTRODUCTION: Literature suggests that a diverse body of healthcare graduates could extend health service delivery. However, the literature also indicates that the throughput of minority, working class, and historically ... -
Understanding what it means to be a health practitioner: biographies of care and concern
McMillan, Wendy (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2011)INTRODUCTION: I am not a health practitioner, although I work in a Health Sciences Faculty. As the faculty’s ‘Education Advisor’, I am intimately involved in the education of health practitioners. I mentor students to learn ... -
"We are not in the least bit used to these ways of studying": Developing academic competence in all students
McMillan, Wendy (American Association of Dental Schools, 2005)This article is located in the field of academic development in oral health science education. Specifically, it examines the academic difficulties experienced by oral hygiene students in their transition from high school ... -
Who teaches the teachers? Identity, discourse and policy in teacher education
Robinson, Maureen; McMillan, Wendy (Elsevier, 2006)In this article we argue that understanding the identities that teacher educators construct for themselves is central to effecting innovation within a changing policy environment. The article begins with a theoretical ... -
‘Your thrust is to understand’ - how academically successful students learn
McMillan, Wendy (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2010)The article sets out to understand how academically successful students learn. Self-regulated learning theory is used as a lens to explicate the learning strategies adopted by a cohort of academically successful dentistry ...