Juggling competing activities: academic staff as doctoral candidates     

Jan Smith  Jennie Billot  Lynn Clouder  Virginia King 《高等教育研究与发展》2020,39(3):591-605

ABSTRACT

This article explores the experiences of a group of established academic staff in New Zealand and the UK, as they undertake a doctorate in their home institutions. Our interest is in how individuals negotiate this dual status from a cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) stance that explores how rules, tools, community and divisions of labour, and interacting activity systems, shape doctoral experiences. The focus in this article, having analysed their detailed narrative accounts, is on how academics experience three interdependent activity systems: those surrounding the thesis, the institutional context, and the home-life spheres. Issues related to time, workload and supervision issues, variability in collegial support and impact on personal priorities and time emerged. There is a range of particularities – from easy access to resources/supervisors to inflexible institutional regulations – applicable to this group of doctoral candidates. Negotiating life as an academic with concurrent doctoral candidature provides positive outcomes in terms of teaching, research confidence and general personal and professional development. However, a range of difficulties can also be encountered, particularly in relation to personal and professional relationships, and workload management.  相似文献   

Graduate teaching assistants: motives,difficulties and professional interactions and their relationship to perceived benefits     

Fadia Nasser-Abu Alhija  Barbara Fresko 《高等教育研究与发展》2020,39(3):546-560

ABSTRACT

Graduate students play a major role in teaching in higher education, particularly in undergraduate programs. The purpose of the present study was two-fold: first, to identify graduate students’ motives for working as graduate teaching assistants (GTAs), describe some aspects of their work, and ascertain their perceived benefits; second, to predict GTAs’ benefits as a function of their individual background characteristics, motives, job difficulties, and richness of professional interactions with the course instructor. Data were collected from 189 GTAs who led discussion groups at a large research university in Israel by means of an internet questionnaire. Findings revealed that graduate students accepted the position of GTA mainly for extrinsic reasons, such as salary and convenience. They claimed to have faced few difficulties and that their professional interactions with the course instructors focused more on job responsibilities and less on pedagogical issues. They reported having gained a greater understanding of course content and improved teaching skills due to their experience as GTAs. Richness of contact with the course instructor, motives, difficulties, and faculty match significantly contributed to predicting perceived benefits. The implications of the results are discussed.  相似文献   

Social media and students’ behavioral intentions to enroll in postgraduate studies in Kenya: a moderated mediation model of brand personality and attitude     

Gabriel Simiyu  Ronald Bonuke  Joyce Komen 《Journal of Marketing for HIGHER EDUCATION》2020,30(1):66-86

ABSTRACT

Using cross-sectional data from 504 students from four Kenyan universities, this study evaluates the indirect effect of brand personality on the relationship between social media and students’ behavioral intentions to enroll in postgraduate studies. Additionally, the study examines the moderating effect of attitude on the relationship between social media and brand personality, social media and students’ behavioral intentions, brand personality and students’ behavioral intentions. Finally, it investigates the moderating effect of attitude on the indirect process of brand personality on the relationship between social media and students’ behavioral intentions. The study is guided by the Theory of Planned Behavior, Technology Acceptance Model and Self Congruity Theory. Process Macro is used to analyze data. Results indicate that social media significantly predicts students’ behavioral intentions and this relationship is partially mediated by brand personality. Besides, attitude moderates the relationship between social media and students’ behavioral intentions and also the relationship between brand personality and students’ behavioral intentions. Finally, attitude has a conditional effect on the indirect relationship between social media and student’s behavioral intentions via brand personality and this effect is much stronger with a higher level of attitude. These findings contribute new knowledge to literature and theory.  相似文献   

构建实验教学新体系培养创新人才   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

曾怡  徐少文  胡日新 《中国科技信息》2006,(16):247-247,249

本文从计算机学科自身的快速发展和社会，经济发展对高层次专业人才的需求的角度，分析了实行开放式实验教学在高校实验教学改革中的地位，并结合我院专业实验教学改革的初步实践，对着眼于素质和创新精神培养建设实验教学新体系进行了论述。  相似文献   

组织环境对女性职业生涯发展的影响:基于保险业的实证研究   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

何建华 《软科学》2007,21(5):116-119

基于保险业的问卷调查,对影响女性职业生涯发展的组织环境因素进行实证分析。研究表明性别平等的组织文化、组织的人力资源政策、组织内的人际关系对女性的职业生涯发展产生显著影响,针对这一研究结论对组织职业生涯开发活动提出相关建议。  相似文献   

政府直接补贴风投机构政策的效果分析及改进建议     

陈宗义  卞晨 《研究与发展管理》2020,32(6):78-90

政府直接补贴风投机构政策的合理性取决于其有效性。本文首次将三方演化博弈方法引入相关研究，构建包含政府、创业企业和风投机构的非合作演化博弈模型，并求解演化稳定均衡及其条件。两个基本结论为：政府直接补贴政策在长期中无效；演化稳定均衡点的形成主要基于“金融市场的平均利率”与“风投机构的资源整合能力”的协同影响。本文认为缺乏政策粘性是导致结论1“政府直接补贴政策在长期中无效”的内在机理，并采用数值模拟及现实证据进一步夯实了结论1。最后，基于上述结论2，提出促进风投市场发展的政策建议：促进增值服务中介发展，借鉴YOZMA模式提高风投机构的准入门槛，引导资本脱虚向实和完善地区金融市场。  相似文献   

基于职业生命周期的信息化人才使用与培养对策研究   总被引：16，自引：2，他引：16  

魏津瑜  刘曰波  杨翠梅  罗永泰 《情报科学》2007,25(2):295-297,320

本文使用生命周期对于信息化人才的职业发展进行了系统的分析,对信息化人才生命周期的不同阶段特点进行了全面的研究,并且就以上特点给出了信息化人才使用的相应对策。  相似文献   

编辑素质对科技期刊质量的影响   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

许建礼 《技术与创新管理》2007,28(2):47-48,51

通过对编辑的职业道德,业务能力,学术修养,创新精神和计算机网络技术等方面素质的阐述,说明编辑素质对期刊质量及期刊的发展有着重要的作用。  相似文献   

企业R&D预算分配的“研发树”模型     

梁莱歆  王嘉 《软科学》2008,22(7)

为解决企业对R&D资金在不同项目之间的分配问题,在研究和借鉴以往决策方法的基础上,构建了适用于大型高科技企业R&D资金分配的"研发树"模型。该方法使R&D预算系统既实现了宏观上的指导功能,又具有微观上的资金控制和配置功能。  相似文献   

从图书馆员职业道德修养看馆员素质建设     

崔舒燕  张洁 《黑龙江科技信息》2007,(8X):132-132,190

简要论述了高校图书馆加强职业道德必要性、高校图书馆馆员职业道德的基本内容及素质建设。  相似文献