Research Articles

• Editorial: Preface by the guest editor

  Annsilla Nyar

  v-vi

  DOI: 10.14426/jsaa.v4i1.139

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• Editorial: The first-year experience, student transitions and institutional transformation

  Birgit Schreiber, Thierry M Luescher, Teboho Moja

  vii-x

  DOI: 10.14426/jsaa.v4i1.140

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• The case for an integrated approach to transition programmes at South Africa’s higher education institutions

  Dallin George Young

  17-32

  DOI: 10.14426/jsaa.v4i1.142

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• Peer leadership as an emerging high-impact practice: An exploratory study of the American experience

  Jennifer R Keup

  33-52

  DOI: 10.14426/jsaa.v4i1.143

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• Do tutors matter? Assessing the impact of tutors on firstyear academic performance at a South African university

  Tracey Morton McKay

  53-64

  DOI: 10.14426/jsaa.v4i1.144

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• Understanding gaps between student and staff perceptions of university study in South Africa: A case study

  Faeeqa Jaffer, James Garraway

  65-76

  DOI: 10.14426/jsaa.v4i1.145

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• First-year seminar intervention: Enhancing firstyear mathematics performance at the University of Johannesburg

  Melanie Jacobs, Estherna Pretorius

  77-86

  DOI: 10.14426/jsaa.v4i1.146

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• Teaching and learning and the first-year experience: Interviews with Brenda Leibowitz and John Gardner

  Gugu Wendy Khanye

  87–97

  DOI: 10.14426/jsaa.v4i1.147

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• Book Review

  A Funston, M Gil, G Gilmore

  98–100

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• Book Review

  Annsilla Nyar

  101–103

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