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Table 1.1 (continued) Overview of the chapters: Research questions, sample descriptions, methods, independent factors, and dependent factors
Chapter number and title
Research questions
Sample description
Method
Independent factors
Dependent factors
6. Secondary school teachers’ beliefs and practices regarding university preparation
1. What are teachers’ beliefs about aspects of university readiness?
50 teachers teaching the upper grades
of secondary education
Framework analysis
NA
NA
7. Academic adjustment as a pivotal process in the transition from secondary education to university
1. Which motivational and behavioural variables measured in the rst year of university a ect students’ academic adjustment and success?
243 rst-year university students from several degree programmes and universities
Structural equation modelling: path analysis
- Secondary school GPA
- First-year university GPA
2. How do teachers contribute to their students’ university readiness?
3. What are teachers’ beliefs about their role in the process of preparing students for university?
4. Do teachers experience barriers that hinder them from attending to university preparation, and if so, what are these barriers, and how might they be overcome?
2. Do they a ect student success directly or through academic adjustment?
- Academic self- e cacy
- Number of attained credits
3. What is the magnitude of the in uence of academic adjustment on academic success?
- Academic motivation
- Intention to persist to the second year
- Self-regulated learning
- Degree programme satisfaction
- Academic adjustment