scholarly journals Determinants of Cumulative GPA of First Year Widyatama University Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.34) ◽  
pp. 267
Author(s):  
Farida Nursjanti ◽  
Indra Taruna ◽  
Shinta .
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Stepwise Multiple Regression ◽  
First Year ◽  
Exam Score ◽  
Prospective Students ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Entrance Exam ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Students First ◽  
The University

As a private college-oriented quality, Widyatama University has some quality commitments including receiving potential prospective students and giving priority to customer satisfaction. However, the university only uses entrance exam score, does not use previous academic performance such as national exam score to select potential prospective students. The aims of this research were to examine and to evaluate the factors which affect students’ First Year Cumulative GPA (FYCGPA) in Widyatama University. This research also investigated the determinants of students’ FYCGPA by the factors to explain variances in FYCGPA. This research used gender, major in high school, national exam score and entrance exam score as independent variables. Stepwise multiple regression analysis was carried out in this study. The result indicated that gender, entrance exam score, and major in high school have significant effect to FYCGPA. The model used in this study showed that 24.6% of the variances in FYCGPA can be explained by gender, entrance exam score, and major in high school. This results show that Widyatama University should consider more factors in selecting potential prospective students and providing services to first year students.  

Geometry is more than proof

1981 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Hoffer
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

Each year we ask many of our first-year students at the University of Oregon to list the mathematical subjects or topics that they liked best and topics they liked least in their precollege classes. Although several subjects were “favorites,” the subject that was almost universalJy disliked was geome- try in high school.

Motivational Priorities Analysis of Consumers

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-66
Author(s):  
Булгакова ◽  
V. Bulgakova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
High School ◽  
Academic Progress ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Technological Institute ◽  
Profile Changes ◽  
Motivational Profile ◽  
The University ◽  
Graduating Students

The article discloses logic and accumulates key findings of the research of motivational priorities of first-year students of Biysk technological Institute (branch) and potential applicants (graduating students of high school of Biysk town). The research was conducted in the autumn 2014. This research shows how much seriously respondents take higher education and choice of the University and what an important thing of their future university is. Also the research let us determine if respondents’ motivational profile changes because of parametric characterization such as sex, academic progress, specialisation, etc, and if there are some differences in motives of getting higher education and choice of the university of potential and real applicants.

Trauma and Coping among University Students

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-35
Author(s):  
Asanka Bulathwatta
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Traumatic Events ◽  
University Education ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Students First ◽  
And Coping ◽  
The University

University education is an important stage of students’ academic life. Therefore, all students need to develop their competencies to attain the goal of passing examinations and also to developing their wisdom related to scientific knowledge they gathered through their academic life. Life in universities is a critical period for individuals as it is a foot step to acquiring the emotional and social qualities in their social life. There are many adolescents who have been affected by traumatic events during their life span but have not been identified or treated. More specifically, there are numerous burning issues within first year university students, namely, ragging done by seniors to juniors, bullying, invalidation and issues related to attitudes changes and orientation. Those factors can be traumatic for both their academic and day to day life style. Identifying the students who are with emotional damages and their resiliency afterwards the traumas and effective rehabilitation from the traumatic events is immensely needed in order to facilitate university students for their academic achievements and social life within the University education. This study tries to figure out the role of Emotional Intelligence for developing coping strategies among adolescents who face traumatic events. Late adolescence students recently enrolled at University (Bachelor students/ first year students) will be selected as sample. The study is to be conducted in a cross cultural manner comparing 100 students each from Germany and Sri Lanka.

scholarly journals The Importance of First Semester Seminars for At-Risk First-Year Students: Analysis of Student Skills and Time Spent on Class Preparation

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 510
Author(s):  
David E. Reed ◽  
Guinevere Z. Jones
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
At Risk ◽  
First Year ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Student Survey ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
First Semester ◽  
High School To College ◽  
Transition From High School ◽  
The University

The high-school-to-college transition can be difficult as students are adapting to a multitude of academic and social changes simultaneously. The University of Wyoming has created a first-semester program targeted at development of student skills for at-risk students using paired first-year seminar classes. Using student survey data from both pre- and post-course series, students were asked how important they thought academic and non-academic skills were as well as how much preparation time they were spending outside of class. Results from this work show large changes in the importance of skills and time spent studying during the transition from high school to college. This highlights the need to focus specifically on teaching skills to help students through the transition and suggests that not all skills are equal and data shows that students take longer than one semester to match their expected and actual amounts of time they spend outside of class studying.

scholarly journals Social Intelligence and Valuable Orientations of First-Year Students of the University

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1880-1883
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Social Intelligence ◽  
Psychological Adaptation ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
First Year ◽  
School Students ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Professional Self ◽  
The University

The authors turn to the consideration of the issue of social intelligence and value orientations of high school students. Speaking about the relevance of the study, the authors indicate that social intelligence and the value orientations provide students with psychological adaptation to new socio-economic conditions and education systems, and participate in the formation of professional self-determination. Considering social intelligence, the authors turn to the interpretation of this concept by researchers E.L. Thorndike, F. Moss and T. Hunt, G. Olport. When considering the concept of “value orientations”, the authors turn to history and give its definition, based on the study of psychological and pedagogical literature. In order to study the social intelligence and value orientations of high school students, the authors conducted an experiment, which is based on a test for the study of social intelligence by J. Guildford and M. O’Sullivan. The students' value orientations were evaluated according to three universal factors: grades (values), strengths (potency) and activity, developed by C. Osgood.

scholarly journals Reading competency of first-year undergraduate students at University of Botswana: A case study

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Beauty B. Ntereke ◽  
Boitumelo T. Ramoroka
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Academic Literacy ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Reading Levels ◽  
First Semester ◽  
University Of Botswana ◽  
Students First ◽  
Literacy Course ◽  
The University

The ability to read and interpret textbooks and other assigned material is a critical component of success at university level. Therefore, the aims of this study are twofold: to evaluate the reading levels of first-year students when they first enter the university to determine how adequately prepared they are for university reading. It is also to find out if there will be any significant improvement after going through the academic literacy course offered to first-year students. The participants were 51 first-year undergraduate humanities students enrolled in the Communication and Academic Literacy course at the University of Botswana. The data were collected through a reading test adopted from Zulu which was administered at the beginning of the first semester. The same test was administered at the end of the semester after the students had gone through the academic literacy course to see if there was any difference in performance. The findings of this study indicate that there is a mixed and wide variation of students reading competency levels when students first enter the university and that a significant number of first-year entrants are inadequately prepared for university reading.

scholarly journals From Tinkering to Meddling: Notes on engaging first year art theory students

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-34
Author(s):  
Kit Messham-Muir ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Dropping Out ◽  
First Year ◽  
Art Theory ◽  
Art Students ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Present Information ◽  
Students First ◽  
The University

This paper considers the two-year-long process of redesigning Art Theory: Modernism, the initial core art theory course at The University of Newcastle in Australia, with the aim of increasing the academic engagement of first year fine art students. First year students are particularly vulnerable to dropping out if they feel disengaged from the University. This paper does not present any grand solutions for teaching today’s first year students. It does, however, consider ways of designing authentic assessment items that acknowledge the new conditions of pedagogy today. This paper offers ideas for engaging first year students, by creating multidimensional resources that include online material that supports yet provokes students; by challenging them with assessments that demand students produce knowledge and not simply retrieve information and; by reconsidering how faculty present information in lectures. The redesigning of the Art Theory: Modernism course was informed by current and ongoing research in teaching and learning and guided by student feedback administered by the Planning, Quality and Reporting unit at the University of Newcastle.

scholarly journals First Year at University: Perceptions and Experiences of Students

1987 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-63
Author(s):  
Edward A. Holdaway ◽  
Karen R. Kelloway
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
First Year ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
University Experiences ◽  
Transition From High School ◽  
Library Skills ◽  
University Experience ◽  
The University

This study was initiated by concerns in the literature over freshman students and by the need to know more about students' perceptions of their university experience. In 1984, all 937 first-year students in the Faculties of Arts, Business, Education, Engineering, and Science who had come directly to the University of Alberta from high school were asked about their university experiences and the transition from high school. Family members, the University's reputation, and the University's proximity exerted the greatest influence upon the decision to attend. Preparation for an interesting career, obtaining a well-paying job, and learning about topics of special interest were the most important goals associated with their programs. Students considered that they were best prepared in reading skills, listening skills, and taking notes, and least well prepared in budgeting time, library skills, and study skills. Most assessed that they were working considerably harder than at high school, and many said that high school had not adequately prepared them for university. The greatest need to adjust occurred in amount of work, stress, difficulty of work, and methods of instruction. Students varied considerably in the extent to which their expectations were met and the time taken to feel "at ease."

scholarly journals PERCEPCIÓN Y CREENCIAS DEL ALUMNADO DE PRIMERO DE LOS TÍTULOS DE GRADO DE EDUCACIÓN INFANTIL Y PRIMARIA, EN JAÉN Y OVIEDO, ACERCA DE LA COMPETENCIA ‘TRABAJO EN EQUIPO’

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Pérez-Ferra ◽  
Beatriz Sierra-Arizmendiarreta ◽  
Rocío Quijano-López
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Education ◽  
Shared Leadership ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Systematic Sampling ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Communicative Ability ◽  
Trabajo En Equipo ◽  
The University

Resumen:Se aborda la percepción de los estudiantes de primer año de los estudios de grado de Educación Infantil y Primaria, aludiendo al tratamiento de la información, a su capacidad comunicativa y a la percepción sobre liderazgo compartido. La investigación se ha llevado a cabo con una escala Likert, aplicada a estudiantes de primero del Grado de Infantil y Primaria, de las Universidades de Jaén y Oviedo, acerca de la competencia genérica ´trabajo en equipo´. Los objetivos analizan la percepción de los estudiantes acerca de esta competencia, atendiendo al tratamiento de la información, competencia comunicativa y liderazgo compartido, comparando la percepción de los estudiantes de ambas universidades en función de las variables de segmentación: sexo, grado que cursan y universidad de pertenencia. Se parte de una población de 740 estudiantes de los dos grados de maestro, seleccionado una muestra de 296 estudiantes mediante muestreo sistemático simple sin afijación.Los análisis evidencian que los estudiantes no ejercitan tareas y capacidades relacionadas con el tratamiento de la información recibida y generada en el grupo y con el liderazgo compartido, aunque sí sobre las capacidades y tareas integradas en el factor capacidad comunicativa, lo que plantea serias dificultades para ejercitar el trabajo en equipo.Abstract:It addresses the perception of the first year students of the undergraduate and elementary education studies, alluding to the treatment of information, their communicative ability and the perception of shared leadership. This research was developed on a Likert-type scale and was applied to students of the first year of Childhood and Primary Education about the generic competence “work in groups” at the University of Jaen and Oviedo. The objectives are to analyse the students’ perception on teamwork on the basis of information management, communicative competence and shared leadership, and to compare the students’ perception on both universities according to three variables of segmentation. It is part of a population of 740 students of both grades of teacher, selected a sample of 296 students by simple systematic sampling without affixing. A inferential descriptive study was carried out by using a nonparametric Mann-Whitney U test for independent variables as it did not meet the assumption of normality. The analyses show that students do not exercise tasks and capacities related to the treatment of information received and generated in groups, or to the shared leadership, although it shows the contrary regarding the capacities and tasks entailed in the communicative competence, which means serious difficulties for teamwork.

Refining Contrapuntal Pedagogy: Reflections on Teaching Warsan Shire’s “Home” and W.H. Auden’s “Refugee Blues” to First-Year Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bridget Grogan
Keyword(s):  
Racial Identity ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Poetic Voice ◽  
Teaching Poetry ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

This article reports on and discusses the experience of a contrapuntal approach to teaching poetry, explored during 2016 and 2017 in a series of introductory poetry lectures in the English 1 course at the University of Johannesburg. Drawing together two poems—Warsan Shire’s “Home” and W.H. Auden’s “Refugee Blues”—in a week of teaching in each year provided an opportunity for a comparison that encouraged students’ observations on poetic voice, racial identity, transhistorical and transcultural human experience, trauma and empathy. It also provided an opportunity to reflect on teaching practice within the context of decoloniality and to acknowledge the need for ongoing change and review in relation to it. In describing the contrapuntal teaching and study of these poems, and the different methods employed in the respective years of teaching them, I tentatively suggest that canonical Western and contemporary postcolonial poems may reflect on each other in unique and transformative ways. I further posit that poets and poems that engage students may open the way into initially “less relevant” yet ultimately rewarding poems, while remaining important objects of study in themselves.

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