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dc.contributor.authorMcMillan, Wendy
dc.date.accessioned2009-11-18T09:02:56Z
dc.date.available2009-11-18T09:02:56Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.identifier.citationMcMillan, W. (2005) "We are not in the least bit used to these ways of studying": Developng academic competence in all students. Journal of Dental Education, 69(10): 1123 - 1132en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/57
dc.description.abstractThis 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 to university. A qualitative approach was employed to elicit student and lecturer perceptions. Drawing on empirical evidence from a case study of a cohort of first-year oral hygiene students at a dental faculty in South Africa, the article contributes to an understanding of how first-year university students might be better prepared for the challenges of reading and writing in higher education. The voices of lecturers and students are used to highlight the nature of the difficulties that students experience in the transition from high school to university. The suggestions that students made regarding how the transition might be eased are also examined. The final section draws on these suggestions and presents a working model for an academic development module for first-year oral health students.en_US
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dc.publisherAmerican Association of Dental Schoolsen_US
dc.rightsCopyright American Dental Education Association, http://www.jdentaled.org. Permission was granted for inclusion of this file in the Repository.
dc.subjectOral health science educationen_US
dc.subjectTransition to universityen_US
dc.subjectAcademic developmenten_US
dc.subjectFirst year students
dc.subjectAcademic literacies
dc.title"We are not in the least bit used to these ways of studying": Developing academic competence in all studentsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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