Freshers'Achievement : Prediction Methods and Influent Factors
(2005) Higher Education, Multijuridictionality and Globalisation Conference — Location: Mons, Belgique
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Meskens, Nadine 
- Abstract
- Academic failure among first-year university students has long fuelled a large number of debates. Many educational psychologists have tried to understand and then explain it. Many statisticians have tried to foresee it. When we analyze the results of first year students in the Belgian French speaking universities we note that about 60% of first generation students fail or drop out. Droesbeke et al. (2001) observe that success, repeat and drop-out rates have remained stable for over ten years. They show that the success rate of secondary school-leaving first generation students is close to 41%, whereas their repeat rate is approx. 26% and their drop out rate is 33%. These figures must be carefully analyzed and action must be taken to reduce the worrying economic, social and human cost brought about by such a high level of failure in the first year at university. So, for a number of years, most Belgian universities have added supplementary activities to the normal first year prog
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Louvain School of Management Accounting & Finance
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Vandamme, J.-P., Superby Aguirre, J. F., & Meskens, N. (2005). Freshers’Achievement : Prediction Methods and Influent Factors. Higher Education, Multijuridictionality and Globalisation Conference, Mons, Belgique. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/128831