Another Look at the Role of Age, Gender and Subject as Predictors of Academic Attainment in Higher Education

By J. Richardson, A. Woodley. 2003

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Students' Persistence and Academic Success in a First-Year Professional Bachelor Program: The Influence of Students' Learning Strategies and Academic Motivation (2012, unknown): “, [7, 9, 27, 45, 46]).”
Exploring individual differences as determining factors in student academic achievement in higher education (2012, unknown): “Such contradictory findings have been related to the discipline of study, with younger students performing better than mature students in science and engineering/technology-related subject areas (Bourner and Hamed 1987 ), and the pattern of age-related variation in performance differing across subj”
The influence of personal networks and social support on study attainment of students in university education (2008, background): “In general, women are more successful than men; they attain higher grades, finish their study faster and show less retention than men (Bruinsma 2003; Jansen 2004; Richardson and Woodley 2003; Smith and Naylor 2001).”
Explaining Achievement in Higher Education (2005, background): “Shah and Burke (1999), Need and De Jong (1998), Smith and Naylor, (2001), Van den Berg (2002), Richardson and Woodley (2003), and Simonite (2003), for example, showed that women and students with higher ability achieved higher results.”
The under-attainment of ethnic minority students in UK higher education: what we know and what we don’t know (2015, background): “Indeed, Richardson and Woodley (2003) found that students who had taken intercalated or intermediate degrees in medicine, dentistry or veterinary science were more likely to obtain first-class honours and more likely to obtain good degrees than were students in any other subjects.”
The impact of engagement with extracurricular activities on the student experience and graduate outcomes for widening participation populations (2011, background): “During this time, the direction of gender differences in degree attainment has been reversed, with women now more likely than men to obtain a good degree (HESA, 2007; Richardson and Woodley, 2003; Rudd, 1984; Smith and Naylor, 2001).”