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Vera Sheridan 《Higher Education》2011,62(2):129-140
This qualitative study examines the interplay between academic staff and international students with regard to developing
academic literacies at university. Higher education has traditionally responded to increasing student diversity with the expectation
that students will conform to institutional norms or habitus. In this context international students arrive with cultural
capital which may not fit such norms, and would benefit from developing their academic literacy, as indeed would home students
given an increasingly diverse student body in Irish higher education. Findings reveal a gap between academics expectations
and international students’ capabilities. Academic staff remained within the remit of the research in contrast to the 22 international
students who were interviewed. They did not separate the totality of their campus experience from academic literacy practices.
These ranged from uncertainty around writing in another language to a mismatch between diversity management in class and students’
own expectations. International students found difficulty to making friends on campus which could benefit their integration
into the academic literacy practices of their respective disciplines. Findings point towards a whole institution response
to student diversity which transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries. 相似文献
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This qualitative study investigates the career placement concerns of international graduate students returning to their home countries, heading to other countries, or remaining in the United States after their education. Using a phenomenological framework, structured interviews were conducted with 24 participants (i.e., 18 international students, 1 naturalized status student, 3 faculty members, and 2 career counselors). Assertions that emerged suggested that the students possess diverse career plans influenced by numerous unique factors. Major, gender, and geography were not salient factors affecting the students' career placement needs. Students used contacts in their academic fields far more than they used campus career services, due to negative perceptions of or limited services that the center could provide. Based on these findings, more outreach to the international student community and collaboration between the career counseling and placement center and other campus departments are recommended. 相似文献
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Tomoyo Okuda 《高等教育研究与发展》2020,39(4):778-791
ABSTRACTOne of the institutional challenges of taking in large numbers of international graduate students is supporting their academic literacy skills. To accommodate a large population of international students, Japanese universities offer various services to support their academic studies and life-related issues, such as hiring international student advisors, offering Japanese language courses, and implementing peer-support programs. As a type of academic support for writing for international students, writing centers have caught the attention of universities in the last decade. To examine the institutional role of the writing center at a Japanese university, this study employs a language management lens to compare the beliefs and interests among administrators, tutors, and international students in improving international students’ Japanese writing. Interviews with the three groups of participants displayed incongruences between the administrators’ interests aligned with institutional goals, the educational philosophy of the writing center, and international students’ language learning needs. The findings point to the tutors' crucial role as language specialists who inform organized language management, and the necessity for collaboration between academic support units and faculty members in providing sufficient academic socialization environments for international students. 相似文献
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Kris Kimbark Michelle L. Peters Tim Richardson 《Community College Journal of Research & Practice》2013,37(2):124-138
ABSTRACTDespite a great increase in the numbers of students enrolling in higher education, specifically at community colleges, the successful completion rates for these students has remained static since the 1970s. When reviewing strategies to increase student retention and successful completion, the Student Success Course (SSC) has emerged as a promising and prominent strategy for community colleges. Given that, the purpose of this sequential mixed methods study was to determine if participation in a SSC influences persistence, retention, academic achievement, and student engagement on a community college campus. Data were collected from a purposeful sample of 197 SSC participants at a middle sized community college in southeast Texas and compared to a matched sample of 235 non-SSC participants. Twelve former SSC participants were also interviewed in an attempt to build a more empirical understanding of the impact of the SSC on student engagement and, thus, the students’ decisions to remain in college. Results of this study indicate that a relationship exists between participation in the SSC and persistence, retention, academic achievement in English and mathematics, and student engagement. Additionally, participants claim that taking the SSC not only altered their perceptions of the importance of the course, but their social and study skills as well. 相似文献
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Curil Quinlan 《Research in Science Education》1981,11(1):78-86
Conclusions Of all the aspects of classroom environment studied in this research, attention to the social relevance of physics had one
of the strongest associations, in a positive sense, with each of the student outcomes.
The research showed that positive student outcomes tended to be closely associated with low levels of frustration.
Integration of experimental and theoretical aspects of physics tended to be accompanied by positive student outcomes. The
integration could well go beyond using experiments merely to illustrate and/or verify principles and theories previously taught.
At least in some topics, student understanding of physics could well follow upon and be the outcome of experiences gained
during practical work, and some problem-solving by experiments could be given.
Despite some inveitable tensions, teachers who favoured student autonomy were generally satisfied with their physics teaching.
Moreover, their students reported more growth in personal development areas such as a sense of responsibility than did students
who did not experience much autonomy. The multi-media characteristics of Project Physics makes it a particularly suitable
approach for including student autonomy.
The results indicated that academic achievement is not likely to suffer when attention is given to encouraging student initiative,
sense of responsibility, improved study methods and persistence at a task. Such goals are long-term goals and working towards
them tends to be accompanied by greater interest in and enjoyment of physics. 相似文献
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ABSTRACT The role of academic advisors in work-integrated learning courses is crucial to student success, yet poorly understood. This research aimed to understand the role and support needs of academic advisors by conducting interviews, a survey, and a focus group within a service learning program in Queensland, Australia. Participants identified rewards in observing student transformation and supporting students to contribute to social justice causes. However, the role had high demands in terms of pastoral support. Although academic advisors reported strong support mechanisms, they identified gaps in supporting them to meet the needs of international students and students with mental health issues. Academic advisors need strong mentoring or supervisory support to deal with diverse student issues, clear processes for tracking and managing students, training and resources to deal with special needs students, and opportunities for team building and bonding. Supporting academic advisors could help to better support students to successfully complete internships. 相似文献
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Nabil Abu-Ghazaleh 《Community College Journal of Research & Practice》2016,40(8):656-667
Drawing upon a sample of 13,025 students who attended the nine majority minority colleges of the Los Angeles Community College District, this study examined the interaction effects of the racial composition of the colleges on student persistence. Special attention was given to variables that paired students’ race to the racial demography of the campus (Majority African American, Majority Latino, or No Racial Majority). Multivariate regression analyses included a range of demographic, environmental, engagement, and satisfaction variables, and a measure of student persistence. Findings revealed multiple significant and varied results according to the pairing of student race to institutional composition. The effect sizes for these variables were small but consistent with those for academic preparation as reflected in the lowest level of math, English, and English as a Second Language (ESL) courses taken, and stronger than the effects for the engagement and satisfaction scales that we utilized. Implications for policy and practice are introduced and discussed. 相似文献
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Mentors have the potential to influence important academic and career outcomes. I examine the impact of one type of mentor – academic advisors – on student outcomes at the United States Air Force Academy. Exploiting the random assignment of advisors to first-year students, I find that these mentors influence students in different ways. Male and nonwhite students earn higher grades in courses in their advisors’ academic department, providing evidence that they are more likely to study and/or seek extra help because of their advisor. Advisor’s department is not associated with improved grades for female students; however, they are more likely to declare a major in their advisor’s department. I believe this provides unique evidence on the influence of academic advisors at academic institutions. 相似文献
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AN INVESTIGATION OF CRITICAL MASS: The Role of Latino Representation in the Success of Urban Community College Students 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
Linda Serra Hagedorn Winny Chi Rita M. Cepeda Melissa McLain 《Research in higher education》2007,48(1):73-91
The community college has historically functioned as a primary access point to postsecondary education for Latino students.
This study, an investigation conducted through an analysis of the Transfer and Retention of Urban Community College Students
(TRUCCS) project, focuses on Latino students enrolled in urban “minority-majority” community colleges, where Latino students
have a high representation. The specific interest of this research is the role and effect of the level of representation of
Latino community college students on their academic outcomes. The relationship between the level of representation of Latinos,
and the levels of academic success are analyzed in concert with other variables, such as, the level of representation of Latino
faculty on campus, student age, attitude, academic integration, English ability and aspiration. Findings indicate a relationship
between academic success of Latino community college students and the proportion of Latino students and faculty on campus.
The findings thus suggest that a critical mass of Latinos may be a positive influence encouraging “minority” students to higher
academic performance. 相似文献
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Shwu-yong Liou Huang 《Learning Environments Research》2012,15(3):363-378
This study investigated university students?? perceptions of their institutions?? learning environments, and related those perceptions to students?? academic aspirations and satisfaction with their universities. A sample of 12,423 juniors at 42 universities in Taiwan was used to confirm the validity and reliability of the instrument: CUEI-S. The study revealed diversity of students?? perceptions among specific aspects of the learning environment. Students responded more positively for student cohesion, library resources and administrative support, but less positively for student-faculty relations, student services, enhancement of their language abilities and emotional development. The majority of students had low academic aspirations but felt satisfied with their universities. The learning environment on campus was shown to play an important role both in students?? academic aspirations and in their general satisfaction, whether the individual student or the university was used as the unit of analysis. The relationship between faculty and students is the aspect that was most strongly associated with students?? academic aspirations. On the other hand, both adequate library resources and university support for student services were the key correlates of students?? general satisfaction at the individual student level. By identifying important relationships among variables, this study suggests initiatives for improving the learning environment at higher education institutions. 相似文献
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Career decision-making self-efficacy and institutional integration of underprepared college students
Shari L. Peterson 《Research in higher education》1993,34(6):659-685
This investigation applied, as the theoretical base, a model of student persistence and departure (Tinto, 1987) to explore the nature of the relationship between career decision-making self-efficacy and integration. Career decision-making self-efficacy identifies students' perceived confidence (self-efficacy) in their ability to plan and execute vocationally relevant tasks in the educational environment. The sample comprised 418 underprepared students. Data were analyzed using correlation, analysis of variance, and multiple regression. There is an interrelationship between perceived career decision-making self-efficacy and integration (overall, social, and academic) for underprepared college students. The variance in students' integration can be explained by their career decision-making self-efficacy and by their initial goals and commitments. Career decision-making self-efficacy surpassed all other variables in explaining the variance in overall and academic integration. Based on these research results, career decision-making self-efficacy should be considered as a variable in future studies of integration, a longitudinal study should be conducted to determine the direct relationship of career decision-making self-efficacy to persistence and attrition, and if a relationship to persistence is found, then the rationale exists for the design and experimental testing of interventions aimed at increasing career decision-making self-efficacy. 相似文献
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Gender,student perceptions,institutional commitments and academic dishonesty: who reports in academic dishonesty cases? 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Christopher A. Simon Jim R. Carr Sesi M. Mccullough Sally J. Morgan Ted Oleson Maggie Ressel 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2004,29(1):75-90
The academic dishonesty literature generally focuses on the causes of academic dishonesty, and outlines deterrence strategies, as well as the punishment methods used in formal sanction. Student self-monitoring techniques are becoming a more visible alternative that places greater emphasis on proactive prevention methods as opposed to reactive punishment policies. Increasing the formal level of student responsibility in deterring academic dishonesty assumes that students will actively monitor the behavior of their classmates. Our findings indicate that student perceptions of campus climate and gender differences are important factors when explaining student reporting of suspected academic dishonesty and may illustrate important prerequisite conditions that must exist prior to the establish of a successful student self-monitoring programme. 相似文献
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Susan P. Ackermann 《Community College Journal of Research & Practice》2013,37(2):211-224
University summer bridge programs or transitional programs for low‐income and minority transfer students are becoming an established part of the effort to recruit, retain, and graduate a population of students underrepresented in higher education. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of a summer bridge program on the academic, personal, and social development of underrepresented and low‐income transfer students during their first year at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The 1988 entering cohort of Transfer Summer Program (TSP) students was tracked through their first two quarters at UCLA, collecting both attitudinal and academic data. The results of the study clearly suggest that summer bridge programs for underrepresented and low‐income students can help facilitate their transition and adjustment to university life and improve their academic performance and persistence rates. This is accomplished by increasing transfer students' control over their academic future by preparing them to effectively participate in a classroom, to assess their academic abilities, and by introducing them to campus services and encouraging the utilization of these services. 相似文献
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While outcomes assessment has become a focus for institutions of higher education, assessment in academic support units remain sparse. Traditionally, assessment has been comprised of one-time student satisfaction surveys and/or supervisor evaluations tied specifically to job criteria. Although informative, these methods fail to account for or measure specific student learning outcomes completed by students via their interaction with faculty and staff. This article presents the development and implementation of a program of outcomes assessment at a 4-year public university in the northeast. Results indicate that students come to college with varying expectations of the role of academic advisors and range on a continuum of academic and social preparation to meet the demands of higher education. A majority of students are meeting the stated learning outcomes. Feedback from this assessment model is being used to improve the quality of services provided to successive cohorts of students at this institution. 相似文献
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学校对中小学生校园伤害的责任探析 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
罗了一 《陕西理工学院学报(社会科学版)》2001,19(1):86-89
中小学和学生的关系是一种由教育法规定的教育管理关系 ,学校对学生的教育管理责任是学校对校园发生的学生人身伤害案件承担法律责任的法律依据。学校不是也不能成为学生的监护人 ,对学生没有监护责任。学校在履行教育管理职责中的过失使在校学生遭到人身伤害 ,学校应当承担责任。反之 ,在学生及其监护人有过错的情况下 ,应当减轻或免除学校的责任 相似文献
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Five groups of undergraduate students, Dropouts (academic dismissals), Low Stopouts (voluntary leavers with low GPA), Low Persisters (continuing students with low GPA), High Stopouts (voluntary leavers with high GPA), High Persisters (continuing students with high GPA), were compared in terms of their use of various campus facilities and their responses to a checklist of personal problems. The High Stopouts and High Persisters did not differ in use of facilities. However, among the low academic performance students, the Low Persisters made significantly greater use of facilities than the Low Stopouts, who, in turn, made significantly greater use of facilities than Dropouts. These findings, for the most part, did not appear to be related to the self-reported importance of personal problems. It was concluded that among low performance students, the broad use of campus services and facilities can be taken as a measure of student integration in the college community. 相似文献
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An Exploration of the Readiness,Challenges and Expected Support for Their Overseas Study of Chinese Business and Management Programme Students 
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下载免费PDF全文 Chengbo Wang Xiaomei Li Xuan Ou James O'Kane Zhaofang Mao Wenquan Zhang 《Higher Education Quarterly》2015,69(4):314-341
Chinese students are the largest international student cohort in the higher education institutions of English‐speaking developed countries. The paper explores strategies to enhance the Chinese students' learning efficacy in overseas institutions. This research differs from other research focusing on international students already in English‐speaking institutions; it explores the readiness of potential Chinese international students before departure from China, their anticipated challenges for study abroad and expected support from host institutions and staff. Besides the insights of anticipated challenges and expected support, the key findings include: the majority of the sample students are financially ready for overseas study, however they are not fully ready on English language; students from the public institute in the study have a higher level of readiness for subject knowledge than their private institute's peers. The findings offer a guide, to both the English‐speaking institutions and their Chinese partners, on facilitating, teaching and preparing the Chinese students for a fruitful learning experience abroad and enhanced academic performance. 相似文献
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Fumei Weng France Cheong Christopher Cheong 《Education and Information Technologies》2010,15(4):333-353
The purpose of this study is to examine the combined effect of self-efficacy and academic integration on higher education
students studying IT (Information Technology) majors in Taiwan. We introduced self-efficacy, which is a psychological factor
that affects students’ academic outcomes, as a new factor in Tinto’ theory, a well-known framework in student retention research.
Academic integration is the main proposition of Tinto’s theory affecting students’ decision to dropout. Students from different
populations have various reasons from dropping out of their studies. An examination of the relationship between self-efficacy
and academic integration is useful to understand the effect of self-efficacy on academic outcomes on the IT student population
in Taiwan. Data from a Taiwanese national survey database conducted in 2005 was used to achieve the research objective. A
total of 2,895 records were extracted from 75,084 students in public and private institutions studying in two IT-related Majors,
namely Information Management (IM) and Computer Science (CS). MANOVA was used to analyze the interaction effects between academic
integration and self-efficacy. The independent variables were institution types and students’ majors. The results showed that
students from public institutions have higher levels of self-efficacy than students from private ones. Another finding is
that IM students seem to have better study strategies and habits than CS students. However, CS students were found to have
better collaboration and satisfaction with their institutions than IM students. Team projects, counselling services, and flexible
teaching and learning strategy are suggested to enhance students’ academic integration and self-efficacy. 相似文献