scholarly journals Resources, Potentials and Academic Achievements of Students. Part 1. Differentiation of Resources and Potentials

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 64-88
Author(s):  
L. Ya. Dorfman ◽  
A. Yu. Kalugin

Introduction. To develop the measures for improvement of the training in higher education, it is necessary to establish external and internal prerequisites for academic achievements of students. The external prerequisites include structural and functional organisation, educational environment. The internal prerequisites consist of cognitive factors – intelligence, creativity, and non-cognitive factors – self-efficacy, self-control, motivation, expectations and goal setting. However, the internal prerequisites have not yet thoroughly studied yet; the currently available information about them is rather contradictory and fragmented. There is no consistency in the interpretations and criteria of personal learning resources and potentials, and the numerous models are inaccurate in most cases.The aim of the present research is to conceptually harmonise and systematise disjointed scientific data on the internal resources and potentials of students as prerequisites for their academic success in higher education.Methodology and research methods. The resources and potentials are differentiated by personality categories and cognitive processes based on analytical review of psychological research. The system-integrative approach was the key approach to study the individual. Initially, this approach involves the identification (differentiation) of the basic components of the system followed by the reverse process – their commonality (integration) into the system, in which its new qualities and capabilities can be revealed.Results and scientific novelty. The psychological theories and concepts of resources and personality potentials are arranged and reconsidered. The differences in foreign and Russian studies of this topic are highlighted. Their diverse components from the field of general, social and development psychology are mainly due to different traditions. Despite the considerable differences in scientific search and research approaches, the general idea is revealed: the resources are recognised as the space of current, and potentials – the space of possible. This raises the questions about the optimal expression and measurement of data determinants of students’ academic achievements, and whether there are intersections between resources and potentials.The existing models of resources and potentials are critically assessed. The independent importance of these phenomena and the demand for their separate analysis are shown: the clarifications made by the authors, in some cases, contribute to a better understanding of the phenomena under consideration. The authors of the present article propose to classify both resources and potentials into personal and cognitive categories in terms of their future integration in order to fill some gaps in psychological knowledge. The specific actions are outlined to study empirically the resources and potentials of students’ academic achievements with the aim of building a generalised model, converging on the contributions of all internal prerequisites to these achievements.Practical significance. The research materials are of practical significance for specialists in higher education. Moreover, the research outcomes can be included in the training courses in personality psychology and cognitive psychology for students of psychology departments of classical and pedagogical universities.

Author(s):  
O.I. Taranenko ◽  
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L.A. Fedko ◽  
E.V. Shchepotieva ◽  
I.F. Veremeeva

The relevance of the formation of professionally and socially significant personality traits is obvious. The theoretical and practical issues of students’ cognitive activities during their studies in higher education institutions are considered. The definition of cognitive skills is formulated and their characteristics are proposed. Being formed cognitive activity characterizes the attitude of students to the content and process of teaching, the desire for effective mastering knowledge, skills and abilities. Cognitive activity is defined as the most important condition for their academic success. The ways of increasing the cognitive activity of students, both during classes and in the process of extracurricular self-training, are proposed. The importance of self-control of knowledge in the course of independent activity in the performance of group or individual work is emphasized.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (Extra-B) ◽  
pp. 568-574
Author(s):  
Mykhailo Liannoi ◽  
Olesia Dyshko ◽  
Serhii Melnyk ◽  
Mykola Chckailo ◽  
Andrii Hrybinichenko ◽  
...  

The practical significance of the work is to develop and implementation the methodology for the motor qualities development of the cadets of military higher educational institutions by means of military pentathlon; the criteria for assessing the academic achievements of cadets during physical education at military higher educational institutions.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 93-95
Author(s):  
Afzal Sayed Munna

The term traffic light refers to automatically operated coloured light those help control the traffic. In this piece of writing the term has been used to reflect from the day-to-day practice how one can make use of self-control for their academic success. The aim of introducing the traffic light toolkit in higher education is to ensure that there is an effective way to monitor and improve the learning experience. It was evidenced from previous use that the traffic light system encourage reflection and help continue ongoing self-assessment and improve academic performance level.


Author(s):  
Joanna Zawadka ◽  
Aneta Miękisz ◽  
Iwona Nowakowska ◽  
Joanna Plewko ◽  
Magdalena Kochańska ◽  
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AbstractThis article presents the results of a survey on yet under-researched aspects of remote learning and learning difficulties in higher education during the initial stage (March – June 2020) of the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 2182 students from University of Warsaw in Poland completed a two-part questionnaire regarding academic achievements in the academic year 2019/2020, living conditions and stress related to learning and pandemic, as well as basic demographic information, and Dyslexia Diagnosis Questionnaire (DDQ). The analyses were carried out in three sub-groups of students: who self-reported having a formal diagnosis of dyslexia (CDYS), self-reported reading difficulties, but had no formal diagnosis of dyslexia (SIDYS), and who reported no reading difficulties (CON). The results of the survey revealed that compared with the CON group, more students from CDYS and SIDYS groups did not pass at least one exam in the summer semester. CDYS and SIDYS groups experienced higher stress due to epidemiological restrictions, they had more difficulties than CON with the organisation of learning and obtaining credit during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results indicate a need for special consideration of additional support for students experiencing reading difficulties (whether or not they have a formal diagnosis).


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-277
Author(s):  
Stephanie Hofmann

AbstractDespite the growing linguistic and cultural diversity in higher education and research, little is known about how students and researchers use their plurilingual repertoire for writing and publishing. In particular, the roles of the national language(s) and the linguistic repertoire(s) vis-à-vis English as the lingua franca for academic writing and publishing have not been closely examined. This paper explores how doctoral researchers in Luxembourg position themselves in relation to macro-level discourses about language and academic success within their complex lingua-cultural and socio-economic setting. By analysing interview transcripts of two multilingual doctoral researchers from Russia and Germany, I show how in spite of their similar starting situations they negotiate agency to varying degrees. In particular, the prevalence of English and the pressure to publish in international journals seem to make them struggle to use their full linguistic repertoire in writing their theses.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadiia Vientseva ◽  
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Oleva Karapetrova

The article reports the results of the empirical study of the impact of volitional qualities development on the level of academic achievements of higher education institution students. The article gives a theoretical analysis of the main types of volitional qualities that affect the assimilation of educational material by students. There was established the level of their development and the relationship with academic achievements. The article also identifies the main psycho-pedagogical and organizational peculiarities that affect the success of mastering the knowledge by university students. The psychological and pedagogical recommendations for forming, developing and supporting the volitional sphere of students are developed.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-43
Author(s):  
Jia Liu ◽  
Lun Li

Capital, natural resources, technology and education are often considered to be the most important factors in improving the level of economic development. China is in the "efficiency-driven" stage of economic development. There are objective laws in the development of education level and economic growth, but they interact with each other. Economic growth provides the foundation and necessary conditions for the development of education. At the same time, the role of education in promoting economic growth is also very obvious. Based on the perspective of postgraduate training, this paper studies the role of education in economic efficiency-driven, through the study of theory, data collection and empirical analysis, combined with the development characteristics of China's higher education, and compares China's and US higher education policies to guide China's higher education. The development of education, and then promote the transformation of China into the "innovation-driven" stage, has certain theoretical and practical significance.


2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-76
Author(s):  
Tanzina Ahmed

Although community colleges are important entry points into higher education for many American students, few studies have investigated how community college students engage with different genres or develop genre knowledge. Even fewer have connected students’ genre knowledge to their academic performance. The present article discusses how 104 ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse students reported on classroom genre experiences and wrote stories about college across three narrative genres (Letter, Best Experience, Worst Experience). Findings suggest that students’ engagement with classroom genres in community college helped them develop rhetorical reading and writing skills. When students wrote about their college lives across narrative genres, they reflected on higher education in varied ways to achieve differing sociocultural goals with distinct audiences. Finally, students’ experience with classroom and narrative genres predicted their GPA, implying that students’ genre knowledge signals and influences their academic success. These findings demonstrate how diverse students attending community college can use genres as resources to further their social and academic development.


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