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Personality, Perception, Perseverence And Peers - Managing The Transition From Year 10 General Education To A Residential Agricultural Course In The Upper Secondary Years, Francis W. Donohoe
Personality, Perception, Perseverence And Peers - Managing The Transition From Year 10 General Education To A Residential Agricultural Course In The Upper Secondary Years, Francis W. Donohoe
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This intensive single-site case study has taken the entering cohort of Year 11 students in the year 2000 and has used: Point-of-entry and post-experience interviews of students admitted to the course, Parallel entry and on-course surveys, On-course administration of the well-credentialed Adolescent Coping Scale (Frydenberg and Lewis, 1993), and Staff interviews to identify and describe the environmental, personal and contextual factors that are associated with a student’s completion/non-completion of the two year Course and thereby help the College Administration address the on-going unacceptably high numbers of students not completing the Course. By making extensive use of the Adolescent Coping Scale …