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Introducing The Navigator, The Juggler, And The Analyst: A Q Profile Of Undergraduate Psychology Students Within An Australian University, Dawn Darlaston-Jones
Introducing The Navigator, The Juggler, And The Analyst: A Q Profile Of Undergraduate Psychology Students Within An Australian University, Dawn Darlaston-Jones
Dawn Darlaston-Jones
Much of the existing literature investigating non-completion in the university sector focuses on the demographic characteristics of the students while failing to adequately apply the same degree of scrutiny to the institution itself. In this paper we present the findings from the final stage of a three phase investigation into retention in a Western Australian university that utilises Q Method to understand the subjective interpretation and meaning of the student experience and how this relates to retention. The sample of 45 undergraduates was drawn from each of the four years of the psychology programme at Edith Cowan University and so …