Predictors of Academic Stress Among College Students     

Mehmet A. Karaman  Eunice Lerma  Javier Cavazos Vela  Joshua C. Watson 《Journal of College Counseling》2019,22(1):41-55

The purpose of this study was to examine factors predictive of college students' academic stress. Three hundred seven undergraduate students (179 men, 128 women) participated in the study. Results indicated that female college students had higher academic stress than did male college students. Bivariate correlations and multiple regression analyses revealed that life satisfaction, locus of control, and gender were significant predictors of academic stress. Directions for future research and implications for counselors are discussed.  相似文献   

Why are some universities better? An evaluation in terms of organizational culture and academic performance*     

Mehmet Fatih Köse  Mehmet Korkmaz 《高等教育研究与发展》2019,38(6):1213-1226

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships between organizational culture and academic performance among higher education institutions. The sample was composed of 647 faculty members working in the colleges of education, health, engineering, law, economics, and administrative sciences in four central research universities in Turkey. The Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI) was used to describe organizational culture, whereas University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) data were used to investigate academic performance. A multilevel analysis in which one unit of analysis (i.e., faculty member) was nested within another (i.e., college) was performed. The original contribution made to the literature by this research is its examination of the relationships between organizational culture and tangible performance indicators (e.g., the number of academic publications and citations). Results show that three different culture types were observed in the universities: Innovative team culture, competitive culture, and hierarchic culture. Although significant relationships were found between academic performance and both competitive culture and innovative team culture, the sole significant predictor of academic performance was competitive culture. One particularly interesting finding was that whereas competitive culture was effective on quantitative indicators (i.e., number of publications and number of citations), only innovative team culture affected the indicators related to effectiveness (i.e., article impact level and citation impact level).  相似文献   

Multivariate Assessment of Middle School Students’ Interest in STEM Career: a Profile from Turkey     

Koyunlu Ünlü  Zeynep  Dökme  İlbilge 《Research in Science Education》2020,50(3):1217-1231

Research in Science Education - According to a report by the Turkish Industry and Business Association, Turkey will need approximately 1 million individuals to be employed in Science Technology...  相似文献   

Stickers to Facts,Imposers, Democracy Advocators,and Committed Impartialists: Preservice Science Teachers’ Beliefs About Teacher’s Roles in Socioscientific Discourses     

Ahmet Kilinc  Thomas Kelly  Baris Eroglu  Umit Demiral  Tezcan Kartal  Arzu Sonmez  Mehmet Demirbag 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2017,15(2):195-213

For science teachers using the discourse of socioscientific issues (SSI), it is important to make a decision as to whether when and how to disclose their own positions. The existing limited literature shows that science teachers prefer one of four roles during SSI discourse: sticker to facts, imposer, democracy advocator, and committed impartialist. The purpose of the present research is to understand the nature of preservice science teachers’ (PST) beliefs underlying such selection. Based on existing literature, we developed a teacher’s belief questionnaire including vignettes representing four teacher’s roles in discussion of genetically modified (GM) foods. Three hundred twenty-four (324) PSTs from a Turkish context experiencing SSI-based reforms completed these questionnaires, selected one of the teacher’s roles, and justified their selection by writing reasons. Content analysis procedures were used in data analysis of this qualitative study. The results show that most PSTs selected dialogical roles (democracy advocators and committed impartialists). Looking at their beliefs, epistemologies and teaching goals work together in PSTs’ selection of their preferred role. In addition, we argue that there is no desired alignment between teachers’ existing beliefs and expectations of SSI reforms. We conclude by indicating certain implications that may enhance such alignment.  相似文献   

The Introduction of the ‘Corso di Diploma Universitario’—A Retrospective     

P. E. NÜESCH 《European Journal of Engineering Education》1998,23(4):431-434

In this retrospective we place the introduction of the ‘Corso di Diploma Universi-tario‘ (CDU) in the context of the engineering education in Europe at the beginning of the 1990s. The idea to harmonize the formation of engineers among the countries adhering to the European Union (EU) was still valid. By 1 January 1993 the ‘four freedoms’, free movement of goods, capital, services and people within the EU was to be introduced. In order for an engineer to work in another EU country his formation should be of the same quality as that given to his peers in the host country. In particular, ‘Brussels’ hoped for two types of formation in all EU countries, a practical one dispensed by institutions like Fachhochschulen and a more scientific one given by Technical Universities. (This dichotomy is alternatively known as short-and long-term formation).

Italy decided to form both types of engineers in the same institutions. We look at the Italian project and the first years after its inception from outside the country and attempt a conclusion after a period of five years.  相似文献   

Public employees' use of social media: Its impact on need satisfaction and intrinsic work motivation     

Mehmet Akif Demircioglu  Chung-An Chen 《Government Information Quarterly》2019,36(1):51-60

Although increasing numbers of employees working in public organizations are using social media for work purposes and numerous studies exist on how social media affect organizational outcomes, we have very limited knowledge of how using social media for work purposes affects employees' work motivation. This paper fills this important gap by using self-determination theory (SDT) to analyze how the use of social media for work purposes is associated with government employees' need satisfaction and intrinsic work motivation. According to regression results, employees' use of social media is positively related to employees' need satisfaction (autonomy, relatedness, and competence) and, accordingly, intrinsic work motivation. However, further analysis shows that too much use of social media has an averse effect. Theoretically, this study is one of the pioneer attempts to integrate e-governance with SDT. Practically, we encourage managers to use caution in promoting the use of social media for work purposes. Using social media two to three days a week may be the ideal range.  相似文献   

New Explorations With Waste Materials in Early Childhood Education     

Ozgun Uyalk  Gozde Inal  Fatma Callsandemir Mehmet Akif Ersoy  Munevver Can-Yasar  Adalet Kandlr 《美中教育评论》2011,(1):111-118

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Kinematic Control of Wheeled Snake—Like Mobile Robot     

LUOJun LUTian－sheng 《上海大学学报(英文版)》2001,5(4):312-316

From a bionics viewpoint,this paper proposes a mechanical model of a wheeled snake-like mobile mechanism.On the hypothesis of the existing non-holonomic constraints on the robot kinematics,we set up the relationship among the kinetic control parameters in the snake-like movement using Lie group and Lie algebra of the principle fiber bundle and provide some theoretical control methods to realize the snake-like locomotion.  相似文献   

Running a TEMPUS Project: First Experiences     

KAI JAKOBS  CLAUDIA POPIEN  ULRICH QUERNHEIM  RÜDIGER VERMÖHLEN 《European Journal of Engineering Education》1993,18(2):129-136

This paper describes the experiences gathered at Aachen University's computer science department while running one of the first TEMPUS projects. An outline of the historical background is followed by a brief introduction to the TEMPUS programme as such. The aims and goals of our project, BASCULE, are then described in more detail. Finally, we discuss the lessons we have learned.  相似文献   

Editorial Stochastics in Engineering Education     

PETER NÜESCH 《European Journal of Engineering Education》1990,15(3)

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