Recently, there has been an increased interest in the well-being of students in higher education. Despite the widespread consensus on the importance of student well-being, a clear definition continues to be lacking. This study qualitatively examined the student perspective on the topic through semi-structured …

Academic Confidence is the self-perception of students towards their own capabilities, skills and competences regarding all aspects of academic life (Tasneem and Panwar, 2019). It positively impacts study success and potentially mental well being of students.

There’s a lot to deal with when students start a new degree programme; for instance, familiarising with a new place and meeting lots of new people. The way students learn in higher education might also be different than what they are used to. Research group Study Success created tips for a great start …

The current intensification of the agricultural production system continues to cause public concern about its sustainability owing to the increasingly negative effects of its operations on the environment, the economy, and society's well-being. The key public concerns about impacts include the escalating …

Introduction Student success is positively linked to engagement, but negatively linked to emotional exhaustion. Though both constructs have been conceptualized as opposites previously, we hypothesize that students can demonstrate high or low engagement and emotional exhaustion simultaneously. We used …

Within this thesis you will read about the phenomenon of test flaking and about the tool that has been made to capture this. In short, a test can be marked as flaking when a test can both fail or succeed without relevant changes in the code. Velory had a lot of flaking tests that disrupted the workflow. …

Academic thriving stands for a combination of academic outcomes as well as success in other relevant domains, such as well-being or finding the right job. What causes students to thrive academically? The studies in this dissertation contributed to this question with the use of experimental, interdisciplinary …

Research conducted by the Research Group Study Success indicates that many students experience performance pressure. In addition, we’ve noticed an increase in performance pressure in recent years. A little bit of performance pressure can be a good thing: it can facilitate concentration or hitting your deadlines. …

Teacher professional identity is conceptualized in this chapter as a complex configuration of personal and contextual factors. Professional identity is also seen as dynamic and subject to change. This coloring of the concept leads here to a specific elaboration of research with regard to (student) teachers’ …

In the context of rapidly growing numbers of university students reporting that they have experienced mental health problems, this paper argues that doing research as an undergraduate can contribute to student well-being. Although the benefits of undergraduate research are well documented, underlying …