scholarly journals A Sense of Belonging

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wanda Hadley
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disability ◽  
Student Development ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
First Year ◽  
Students With Learning Disabilities ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
University Culture ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
The University

First-year students that identify as having a learning disability are an at-risk subgroup of students self-identifying on college campuses. Many of these students choose not to disclose their learning disability upon admissions to the university because of their concern about being accepted in the university culture. This research is from a two year study of the experiences of a group of first-year students with learning disabilities transitioning to a private, selective, coeducational, 4-year University in the Midwest. Qualitative data of focus group interviews and semi-structured individual interviews present the findings of the study. Chickering (1969) and Chickering and Reisser’s (1993) stages of student development theory are presented through Hadley’s (2009) interpretation of their experiences.

scholarly journals Med tvivlen som følgesvend: En analyse af omfang af og kilder til studietvivl blandt studerende

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (19) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Jesper Herrmann ◽  
Rie Troelsen ◽  
Anna Bager-Elsborg
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Student Development ◽  
Education System ◽  
First Year ◽  
Course Selection ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Study Programme ◽  
The University

De senere års uddannelsespolitiske initiativer har belønnet studerende, der er hurtige til at vælge en videregående uddannelse, og som holder fast i den uddannelse, de nu engang har valgt. At vælge uddannelse er imidlertid ledsaget af tvivl, og nyere dansk forskning har vist, at studerende vedvarende forhandler deres position på uddannelsen. I dette studie undersøgte vi, hvor stor en andel af aktive universitetsstuderende, der stadig var i tvivl om deres valg af studie, og vi undersøgte baggrunden for denne tvivl. På baggrund af en kvantitativ analyse af svar fra 4.339 studerende på Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus Universitet, fandt vi, at en tredjedel af de studerende, selv efter optagelse på deres uddannelse, stadig var i tvivl om, hvorvidt de havde valgt det rigtige studie, og at dette gjaldt for førsteårsstuderende såvel som for studerende på femte år. Analysen viste yderligere, at studietvivl var mere udbredt blandt studerende, som havde (i) svært ved at se det interessante og relevante i fagene; (ii) lav tiltro til egne akademisk evner; (iii) opnået lave karakterer ved forudgående eksamener på universitetet. I artiklens perspektivering diskuterer vi, hvorvidt studietvivl må betragtes som et almindeligt og uproblematisk studie- og livsvilkår eller, om studietvivl må antages at være problematisk. Recent reforms of the Danish education system tend to favour those students who are quick to decide what higher education course they want to study and then stick to their decision. However, research has shown that the process of course selection and completion is not always linear and that students continuously negotiate their position in their study programme. In this study we examined how current university students experienced doubt about their choice of programme, and we examined the context surrounding this doubt. Based on a quantitative analysis of answers from 4339 students at the Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences, we found that one third of students, even after enrolment in the university, had doubts about their choice of study programme. This was true for first-year students as well as students in their fifth year. Furthermore, the analysis showed that those students who (i) had difficulties finding interest and relevance in their study programme, (ii) had low confidence in their own academic abilities or (iii) had achieved low marks in previous exams at the university, were the most likely to be uncertain about their choice of course. We discuss whether having doubts about a chosen area of study once the programme has started can be considered a normal and unproblematic process in student development, or whether it should be considered problematic.

scholarly journals Using Student Learning and Development Outcomes to Evaluate a First-Year Undergraduate Group Video Project

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murray Jensen ◽  
Allison Mattheis ◽  
Brady Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Student Learning ◽  
Student Development ◽  
First Year ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Video Footage ◽  
Introductory Course ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Development Outcomes ◽  
The University ◽  
Video Project

Students in an interdisciplinary undergraduate introductory course were required to complete a group video project focused on nutrition and healthy eating. A mixed-methods approach to data collection involved observing and rating video footage of group work sessions and individual and focus group interviews. These data were analyzed and used to evaluate the effectiveness of the assignment in light of two student learning outcomes and two student development outcomes at the University of Minnesota. Positive results support the continued inclusion of the project within the course, and recommend the assignment to other programs as a viable means of promoting both content learning and affective behavioral objectives.

scholarly journals How a Public Relations Crisis Led to the Development of a Partnership Between Academics and Student Affairs to Enhance Student Success.

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Smith ◽  
Tom Brophy ◽  
Adam Daniels
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Student Affairs ◽  
Student Development ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
First Year ◽  
Strategic Enrollment Management ◽  
Student Development Theory ◽  
The University

In 2013, a public relations crisis led a mid-size university to reconsider the concept of student success on campus. Collaborations between Academic and Student Affairs leaders have resulted in important changes at the university. The university developed increased ability to support student success by investing in staff positions, exploring best practices to increase student success and retention, and implementing several initiatives including a first-year seminar pilot. Relying on data from national surveys, areas for improvement were identified. Underscoring all of these activities was a focus on student development theory, an increased understanding of institutional data, and a commitment to a comprehensive pan-institutional approach. Because the university has a lower than desired graduation rate (55%), several action teams were created to oversee various goals related to communications, year-long orientation experiences, and an academic anchor. Ultimately, this work has now reached the stage where a strategic enrollment management plan is under creation.

scholarly journals Personal development, resilience theory and transition to university for 1st year students

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luke Pickard ◽  
James McKenna ◽  
Julie A Brunton ◽  
Andrea Utley
Keyword(s):  
Student Development ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
First Year ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Transition To University ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Self Worth ◽  
Outdoor Orientation

Aim The study aimed to determine whether an outdoor orientation programme (OOP) could increase personal development, develop resilience and aid transition and adaptation in 1st year university students. OOPs are thought to aid transition through adventure experience. Based on student development theory, outdoor orientation programmes accelerate psychological growth (Vlamis et al., 2011). Method Semi structured interviews were conducted with 14 students who attended an outdoor orientation programme to investigate the experience of attending an OOP and transition to university. The data was analysed following Braun and Clarke (2006) Six phase approach to thematic analysis. Results Thematic areas discovered included ‘Personal development – Building more than a raft’. This theme described the way in which students developed self-worth and self-efficacy through the OOP experience. ‘The fine line between challenge and fear’ describes how delivery of an intervention such as an OOP needs to be carefully delivered to enhance the benefits and limit any possible detrimental experiences. Discussion These first year students developed in terms of self-worth and self-efficacy through overcoming challenge. This development was also linked to the students surprising themselves about their capacities for handling adversity. Keywords: Adaptation; transition; 1st year students; outdoor orientation program; resilience; personal development.

scholarly journals Academic Advising and the Student Transition to College

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe Cuseo
Keyword(s):  
Academic Advising ◽  
Student Development ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
First Year Experience ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Student Transition ◽  
Undergraduate Experience

The first year of college continues to be a critical period for student persistence, learning, and development. College students are under increasing pressure to make commitments to major and career plans at a very early stage in their undergraduate experience, often without the programmatic support to do so. First-year experience professionals, who are knowledgeable about student development theory and professionally committed to facilitating the transition of students to collee, are well position to fill the void in support for early academic and career decision-making. Provision of proactive and personalized support to meet the current demands for early educational and vocational decision-makingmay be pivotal for ensuring the success of today's first-year students in general, and today's growing number of first-generation students in particular.

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.

Criteria and indicators associated with adaptation to the educational process of first-year students at the university

2021 ◽  
pp. 87-93
Author(s):  
Evgeniya N. Popova
Keyword(s):  
Research Topic ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
First Year ◽  
Higher Education Research ◽  
Adaptation Process ◽  
Adaptive Potential ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Self Development ◽  
The University

The issue of adaptation of modern first-year students to the educational process at the university is one of the current pedagogical tasks. Successful adaptation significantly affects the quality of received education, the degree of formation of personal and professional qualities, contributes to the development of motivation, self-education, and self-development. The purpose of the research is to substantiate the criteria, indicators, and levels of adaptation of first-year students to the learning process at the university. The material for the study was the domestic scientific sources of studying the peculiarities of the adaptation process of students to educational activities in higher education. Research methods: analysis and generalization of psychological-pedagogical and educational-methodical literature on the research topic. We determine as the main criteria for the adaptation of first-year students to the university, the adaptive potential and professionally important qualities of students, consider these concepts, their structure, and their basic properties. On the basis of the analysis and generalization of the existing indicators of the implementation of the adaptive potential, we formulate the author's indicators for determining the level of its development. The degree of formation of professionally important qualities of students are low, medium, and high levels of development of emotional intelligence, negative communicative attitude, intellectual lability, and stress tolerance.

Analsis e-learning status in Palestinian universities, a case study of Palestine Technical University KadoorieTulkarm

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 154-178
Author(s):  
Heba Almbayed
Keyword(s):  
Learning System ◽  
Simple Random Sample ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Academic Level ◽  
Computer Course ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Technical University ◽  
Palestinian Universities ◽  
The University

The study aimed to analyze the reality of e-learning at Palestine Technical University-Khudouri/Tulkarem, and to identify the most important challenges facing students when using the education system, as well as to analyze the extent to which university students interact with the e-learning system, and to show the differences between the average opinions of the study sample on e-learning according to the study variables due to the nature of the study, the descriptive analytical approach was used, in order to reach practical results, and to achieve and analyze the reality of e-learning  a questionnaire consisting of (34) paragraphs was designed, where the study community consisted of (6,559) students, and a simple random sample of (522) students was taken, and the questionnaire was distributed electronically because it was not able to be distributed manually due to the prevailing conditions _ the spread of the Corona pandemic- at the time of the preparation of the study. The results of the study showed that (63.136%) of the researched believe that the reality of e-learning at the university suffers from different problems. The study indicated that (87.97%) among respondents, complaints have increased in the e-learning system after the Corona pandemic and that (81.36%) among the researchers, the infrastructure was one of the most barriers in e-learning. While (63.934%)of the researched that e-learning has a role to play in achieving Interaction among students, as the results of the study showed no differences Statistically significant to the reality of e-learning according to the gender variable, and there are no differences depending on the variable of the scientific qualification except in the field of e-learning reality, there are also no differences Statistics according to the variable of the academic level ,except for the field of Interaction with students. In the light of the results of the study, a series of recommendations were made, the most prominent of which were: 1.Include an e-learning system item in The computer course assigned as a university requirement for first-year students 2. Provide opportunities to train and develop the capabilities of all educational parties to use and apply E-learning.

scholarly journals Error Analysis of Students Essays: A Case of First Year Students of the University of Health and Allied Sciences

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Benjamin Amoakohene
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Error Analysis ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Communicative Skills ◽  
Daunting Task ◽  
Integral Role ◽  
The University

Writing is considered as a daunting task in second language learning. It is argued by most scholars that this challenge is not only limited to second language speakers of English but even to those who speak English as their first language. Thus, the ability to communicate effectively in English by both native and non-native speakers requires intensive and specialized instruction. Due to the integral role that writing plays in students’ academic life, academic literacy has garnered considerable attention in several English-medium universities in which Ghanaian universities are no exception. It is therefore surprising that prominence is not given to Academic Writing and Communicative Skills at the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS). In this paper, I argue for much time and space to be given to Academic Writing and Communicative Skills, a programme that seeks to train students to acquire the needed skills and competence in English for their academic and professional development. This argument is based on the findings that came out after I explored the errors in a corpus of 50 essays written by first year students of  UHAS. The findings revealed that after going through the Communicative Skills programme for two semesters, students still have serious challenges of writing error-free texts. Out of the 50 scripts that were analyzed, 1,050 errors were detected. The study further revealed that 584 (55.6%) of these errors were related to grammatical errors, 442 (42.1%) were mechanical errors and 24 (2.3%) of the errors detected were linked to the poor structuring of  sentences. Based on these findings, recommendations and implications which are significant to educators, policy makers and curriculum developers are provided. This study has implications for pedagogy and further research in error analysis. 

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