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Fiona Cownie 《Journal of Further & Higher Education》2019,43(5):674-691
How can universities build ongoing, committed relationships with students, able to withstand the financial and emotional challenges of studying in higher education? The research proposes that students’ ongoing attachment to their university, based on positive feelings towards the university, is an important aspect of the student experience. This ongoing attachment is conceptualised here as students’ affective commitment towards their institution. Using an online survey-method and a research sample comprising undergraduate students studying in the UK, this research identifies three factors which drive students’ affective commitment towards their institution. These factors include students’ affective commitment towards academics and students’ calculative commitment towards the institution; factors which draw from the relational literature. A third factor, commitment balance, was developed within this research. Commitment balance occurs when a student’s commitment to their university is perceived to be reciprocated by the university’s commitment to the student. The study found that commitment balance was the most important driver of students’ ongoing attachment to their institution. The paper proposes that commitment balance is a key idea to consider within relational studies generally, but has a particular relevance in the higher education context for understanding the student experience. Commitment balance reflects the pulse of reciprocity which energises relational exchanges between students and institution. The findings of this research reinforce how critically important it is for universities and academics to build relationships with students. The desired outcome is to enhance the student experience, create positive attachment between students and university and ultimately improve student retention. 相似文献
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Involvement in research has become a fixture in undergraduate science education across the United States. Graduate and postdoctoral
students are often called upon to mentor undergraduates at research universities, yet mentoring relationships in undergraduate—graduate/postdoctoral
student dyads and undergraduate—graduate/postdoctoral student—faculty triads have been largely unexamined. Here, we present
findings of an exploratory case study framed by relational theory that identifies the motives, gains, and challenges reported
by graduate/postdoctoral students who mentored undergraduates in research. Graduate/postdoctoral mentors experienced a wide
range of gains, including improved qualifications and career preparation, cognitive and socioemotional growth, improved teaching
and communication skills, and greater enjoyment of their own apprenticeship experience. Notably, graduate/postdoctoral mentors
reported twice as many gains as challenges, neither of which were limited by their motives for mentoring. Indeed, their motives
were fairly narrow and immediate, focusing on how mentoring would serve as a means to an end, while the gains and challenges
they reported indicated a longer-term vision of how mentoring influenced their personal, cognitive, and professional growth.
We propose that understanding the impact of mentoring undergraduates on the education and training of graduate/postdoctoral
students may uncover new ideas about the benefits reaped through undergraduate research experiences. 相似文献
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This paper is positioned to make a sound contribution to knowledge of higher education (HE) quality through its study of student engagement in a large university in Ethiopia. We establish that the assessment of student engagement is a valid facet in determining HE quality, contributing holistically alongside quality assurance and university rankings. The authors present an example of this through reporting on a statistical analysis of an adjustment of the Australasian Survey of Student Engagement survey and its administration in the Ethiopian university. The results of factor analysis illustrate empirical support for the nine-factor engagement scale and a number of associated factors related to student demographics and university experience. The results of the multi-validation approach provide specific guidelines to universities using this approach to evaluate the validity and reliability of this construct. The paper provides a supporting tool that can be used by other universities to assist in the evaluation of students’ engagement with their undergraduate programmes. 相似文献
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ABSTRACT Despite striking increases in female enrolments in many undergraduate science programmes, women continue to be dramatically underrepresented in graduate training and careers in science. Although there is substantial evidence of differences in male and female students' experiences in university science courses, we know little about how young women interpret and respond to these differences. This article explores the accounts that female science students construct of their aspirations, educational experiences, achievements, and opportunities as they move through their undergraduate education at a large, urban university in Canada. Based on in-depth, longitudinal interviews ( n = 91), the focus is on the processes through which they make sense of their educational and career options and choices. The findings point to the importance of understanding how meanings and subjectivities are produced, understood, and acted upon. What is evident from this study is that women in science confront a complex web of competing and contradictory realities and discourses as they negotiate their career identities. Thus, to stem the progressive and cumulative loss of female students as they move up through the levels of higher education, universities must address the problems they confront in their pursuit of science training before, during, and after their undergraduate education. 相似文献
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高等教育正面临着"学习危机",大量的教育投入并没有带来相应的教育质量提升,学业指导作为大学教育质量的保证理应受到重视。斯坦福大学作为世界一流大学的典型,在大学生学业指导体系和制度上积累了丰富的经验。对斯坦福大学工程学院的学业指导模式进行研究,发现其学业指导体系立足大学新生,以学生手册为平台,以课程指导为核心,以个性化、多元化为特征,贯穿本科教育。研究斯坦福大学学业指导模式为其本科教育质量提供了有力的保障,可从不同角度为我国高校学业指导的改革与发展提供理念启迪和经验借鉴。 相似文献
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高校辅导员是大学精神的重要营造者和传播者,其职业倦怠状况直接影响大学生的思想政治教育质量。基于积极心理学视角,对广东省8所高校专职辅导员职业倦怠状况的调查研究表明,提升辅导员积极体验能力、发掘辅导员积极人格特质、营造辅导员积极心理契约环境,是高校辅导员职业倦怠的有效干预对策和途径。 相似文献
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Annabel T. Yale 《Journal of Further & Higher Education》2019,43(4):533-544
The personal tutor plays a key role in the student experience at university, and personal tutoring embodies the student relationship with the university, suggesting that it has the potential to provide insights beyond that specific relationship to the institution and higher education context. A focus session with first year undergraduate students explored expectations and experiences of personal tutoring from the student perspective. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used to explore students’ lived experiences, and identified superordinate themes of expectations, experiences and relationships, with cluster themes including independence and authenticity. Developing a positive and genuine relationship with the personal tutor was found to ‘buffer’ against some of the first year challenges and contribute towards a sense of belonging. Importantly, this study provides evidence that experiencing poor personal tutoring is worse than not having a personal tutor at all, as this can lead to students experiencing strong negative emotions and re-evaluating their decision to go to university. Implications of these findings in the current higher education context of fee-paying students and competing institutional demands are discussed. 相似文献
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新升本科高校学风建设需要特别关注。影响新升本科高校学风状况的因素主要有社会因素、学校因素和学生因素。进一步加强新升本科高校学风建设,要坚持以学生为中心,积极推动约束性教育向自我教育转变;要充分发挥高校教师和学生党员、学生干部的作用;要加强思想政治、社会实践和就业教育;要推进基层党组织、规章制度、教学改革和特色校园文化建设。 相似文献
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ZHOU Jian 《无锡教育学院学报》2007,(3)
分析了教授参与本科教学的巨大优越性,提出了确保教授在本科教学中发挥其应有作用的具体建议。教授是大学的最佳人才资源,如何充分发挥好教授在大学中的作用,尤其是在本科教学中的作用,是每一个大学都面临的问题。另外,探讨了将勤工助学工作引向良好健康发展轨道的几项措施。勤工助学活动作为缓解学生经济困难的重要途径之一,已成为新时期高校学生工作的重点,大学生参加勤工助学活动是成才的有效手段,应基于这一认识规范高校勤工助学工作。 相似文献
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Naomi Rosh White 《Higher Education》2007,54(4):593-604
Changed funding arrangements and views of education have resulted in a re-prioritization of activities and practices in Australian
universities. While considerable research attention has been given to the consequences of these changes for university policies
and the activities of academic staff, less attention has been given to how students perceive these changes. In this paper,
undergraduate students’ experience of the commodification of higher education sector are explored. The evidence suggests that
the changed context is beginning to affect how students perceive university priorities and their effects on teaching and learning. 相似文献
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胡剑锋 《湖北广播电视大学学报》2010,30(5):38-39
随着高校教育改革的不断深入,高校中弱势群体得到了社会的广泛关注。虽然近年来国家加大了对贫困生的扶持力度,贫困大学生的经济状况有了很大的改善。但经调查发现,贫困大学生存在的心理问题要远远高于其他普通大学生。所以,如何在精神方面援助贫困生,培养其自身健全的人格和健康的心理,使之重塑自信,成为当前高校学生教育的重要课题。 相似文献
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Undergraduate research experiences support science career decisions and active learning 总被引：2，自引：1，他引：1
Lopatto D 《CBE life sciences education》2007,6(4):297-306
The present study examined the reliability of student evaluations of summer undergraduate research experiences using the SURE (Survey of Undergraduate Research Experiences) and a follow-up survey disseminated 9 mo later. The survey further examines the hypothesis that undergraduate research enhances the educational experience of science undergraduates, attracts and retains talented students to careers in science, and acts as a pathway for minority students into science careers. Undergraduates participated in an online survey on the benefits of undergraduate research experiences. Participants indicated gains on 20 potential benefits and reported on career plans. Most of the participants began or continued to plan for postgraduate education in the sciences. A small group of students who discontinued their plans for postgraduate science education reported significantly lower gains than continuing students. Women and men reported similar levels of benefits and similar patterns of career plans. Undergraduate researchers from underrepresented groups reported higher learning gains than comparison students. The results replicated previously reported data from this survey. The follow-up survey indicated that students reported gains in independence, intrinsic motivation to learn, and active participation in courses taken after the summer undergraduate research experience. 相似文献
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在心理健康教育过程中,教育者与学生之间本质上是在建构一种心理契约。这种心理契约的建构,无论就其文化基础、情感基础,还是操作过程等诸多方面,都与心理健康教育过程中使用的原则和方法存在很强的一致性。了解和把握心理契约的这些特性,可以为心理契约理论在心理健康教育中的应用和发展提供新的思考空间,同时也为心理健康教育理论的泛化使用提供新的经验。 相似文献
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Eman M. Almarghani 《Teaching in Higher Education》2017,22(8):940-956
The passive role of students in their learning and education and the absence of student engagement in higher education institutions (HEIs) are quite common in many higher education institutions in developing countries. The main objective of the research presented in this paper is to explore the influential factors on student engagement in HEIs in the situational frame where student engagement and active learning and teaching do not have a long tradition. To answer our research questions, we conducted a survey with 279 undergraduate students from four universities in Libya. Our findings show that the availability and active usage of the university’s ICTs resources, the university’s reputation and teachers’ activating influence on students most efficiently predict student engagement in HEIs. The role of teachers and their competencies to use active learning techniques are perceived to be very influential in promoting student engagement. 相似文献
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This study investigates university students’ perceptions of classroom experience in foreign-faculty and local-faculty classes and their relations to the type of institution in which they studied. The sample included 714 undergraduate students from 14 universities in Taiwan. The instrument consisted of seven dimensions: peer supportiveness, peer pressure, teacher supportiveness, teacher approachability, study preparedness, class participation, and learning comprehensiveness. The results indicate that students in both types of universities are reluctant to participate, feel pressure, and experience difficulty comprehending course content in the foreign teacher’s class. However, they feel that foreign teachers are more supportive and approachable than local teachers, especially in private universities. Compared with local-faculty classes, private university students prepare more and obtain more peer support in foreign-faculty classes. They also participate more and feel more peer support; however, they comprehend less course content than their public university counterparts in foreign-faculty classes. Detailed discussions regarding the university classroom experience of Taiwanese students in local-faculty classes and foreign-faculty classes are provided. 相似文献
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《Ethnography and Education》2013,8(1):67-86
Here I am Now! is the title a multi-ethnic group of immigrant and refugee undergraduate students and neighboring urban Vietnamese and Cambodian refugee youth gave to their participatory photography installation. The exhibit was the culmination of undergraduate students’ participation in a series of Community Service-Learning (CSL) courses offered through CIRCLE (Center for Immigrant and Refugee Community Leadership and Empowerment) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. While CSL has become an established educational practice at most US universities campuses, little research has been conducted viewing the educational impact of this pedagogy on diverse student populations. The majority of the scholarship focuses on the experiences of white middle-class students engaged with communities from unfamiliar and different socio-cultural, racial, ethic and economic backgrounds. This paper examines how immigrant and refugee undergraduate students understood their participation in a creative community service-learning experience where they mentored youth from familiar and similar ethno-cultural contexts. To understand this meaning-making process I employed critical ethnographic approaches and analyzed student narratives and interviews. Through the prisms of critical pedagogy, situated learning theory, and funds of knowledge concept, I viewed the higher education context, analyzed the situation under study and developed an emerging framework for CSL pedagogy with diverse communities. These theories inform the view that culturally relevant pedagogy emphasizing peer-learning, critical thinking, artistic potential and community resources offers diverse undergraduate students alternative and creative spaces of critique and possibility in their higher education and community service-learning experiences. 相似文献
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Rob Jones 《Journal of Further & Higher Education》2018,42(8):1040-1054
While the term ‘student experience’ is used widely in universities, it is remarkably under-developed as a construct in the academic literature. This paper addresses this gap by proposing a conceptual framework for the student experience of undergraduate students. The approach taken is to identify the key influences that shape the student experience from the perspective of students. It does this by addressing two questions: firstly, what are the key influences that shape the student experience? Secondly, how do these influences shape the student experience? To do this the paper draws from a wide range of studies that provide substantial theoretical and empirical evidence as to how students experience university. Drawing from Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological model of human development, it identifies seven key sets of influences or microsystems that shape the undergraduate student experience. Then the paper considers how these influences shape students’ experiences drawing from the concepts of engagement and alienation. The paper concludes by proposing a broadly defined model for the student experience where learning and development take place as a result of meaningful interactions between the student and the key microsystems. The implications of this model for universities and for further study are also discussed. 相似文献
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Anna-Maria Meuleman Alison Wrench Sharron King 《International Journal of Inclusive Education》2013,17(5):503-517
The expansion of neo-liberal policies' framing higher education has contributed to an increase in participation rates of students from non-traditional backgrounds. While an increase of a wider range of students might be seen as contributing to a more just and equitable higher education system, research has shown that broadening entry points does not necessarily ensure inclusion or positive experience for these students. This research investigated the experiences of first in family, rural and international students as they transitioned into their first year of university. Focus group interviews and surveys were used to collect data. Using Bourdieu's theory of field, habitus and capital as well as Weiss's dimensions of loneliness findings illuminate a number of poignant experiences for non-traditional students. We suggest that facilitating the transition for non-traditional students might require a cultural change by universities and a move away from the notion that the students need to ‘adapt’ to university. Rather, the evolving university might provide for increasingly diverse student cohorts by embracing their habitus and unique features. 相似文献
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王颖 《南阳师范学院学报》2006,5(5):118-120
认真对待并切实解决大学生心理行为障碍,是高校德育工作的应有之义。只有把心理健康教育纳入高校课程建设体系,建立一支专兼职结合的工作队伍,把课堂教学与学生社团活动、心理咨询、校园文化建设、网络心理健康教育和传统的德育方法相结合,才能真正走上高校大学生素质教育的通途。 相似文献