scholarly journals Analyzing the Influence of The Secondary to University Core Courses Alignment

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-32
Author(s):  
Flamur Bidaj ◽  
Anila Paparisto
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Core Curriculum ◽  
The Other ◽  
Classroom Teaching ◽  
First Year ◽  
Academic Factors ◽  
Linear Relationships ◽  
Core Courses ◽  
Transition From High School

The student success  in the first year, is influenced, among the other things, even by academic factors: college readiness, core  curriculum in high school, cognitive, etc.  The alignment analysis of the some core courses between university and high school, is the main objective of this article. The qualitative method and  student questionnaires, are used to carry out this analysis. The results obtained indicate the influence of curriculum alignment on classroom teaching and student success for three core courses: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry,  on the first year. Using the regress analyze,  some linear  relationships are found, either for two classroom teaching and student success indicators as well. Based on these results, we  emphasize the necessity for a greater student support during the transition from high school to university, in order to foster student success. This study was conducted in engineering study field, but it can be used in the other fields as well.

scholarly journals Building Connections in the First-year Undergraduate Experience

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
June Countryman ◽  
Andrew Zinck
Keyword(s):  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
The Past ◽  
Core Courses ◽  
Big Ideas ◽  
Undergraduate Experience ◽  
New Students ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Transition From High School ◽  
Support Students

Concerned about the success rate of new students in our program we designed and implemented a compulsory set of experiences which aim to support students in their transition from high school to university by 1) developing their sense of belonging to a community of learners and by 2) articulating with them the interrelationships among their first year core courses. We initiated various strategies which we have refined in response to student feedback over the past three years. In this paper we describe the pedagogical moves that constitute our initiative and the lessons we learned. We explore essential academic and personal issues that first-year students in all programs face. We share our research findings and address the big ideas that could be applied to any discipline or multi-disciplinary program. Préoccupés par les taux de rétention des étudiants de première année, les auteurs ont conçu et mis en oeuvre un ensemble d’expériences obligatoires dont le but est d’aider les étudiants à effectuer la transition entre l’école secondaire et l’université. Ils ont établi deux objectifs : (a) développer chez les étudiants le sens d’appartenance à une communauté d’apprenants et (b) démontrer les corrélations qui existent entre les cours de base de première année que les étudiants suivent. Diverses stratégies ont été entreprises et plus tard améliorées, à partir des rétroactions fournies par les étudiants au cours de l’étude de deux ans. Cet article présente une explication des actions pédagogiques de cette initiative et explore les questions essentielles académiques et personnelles auxquelles sont confrontés les étudiants de première année dans tous les programmes. Les résultats de cette étude sont résumés et les idées générales qui peuvent s’appliquer à n’importe quelle discipline ou à des programmes multidisciplinaires sont présentées en détail.

scholarly journals Managing the Transition: The Role of Optimism and Self-Efficacy for First-Year Australian University Students

2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Morton ◽  
Amanda Mergler ◽  
Peter Boman
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Life Stress ◽  
First Year ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Transition From High School

Students making the transition from high school to university often encounter many stressors and new experiences. Many students adjust successfully to university; however, some students do not, often resulting in attrition from the university and mental health issues. The primary aim of the current study was to examine the effects that optimism, self-efficacy, depression, and anxiety have on an individual's life stress and adaptation to university. Eighty-four first-year, full-time students from the Queensland University of Technology (60 female, 24 male) who had entered university straight from high school completed the study. Participants completed a questionnaire assessing their levels of optimism, self-efficacy, depression, anxiety, perceived level of life stress and adaptation to university. In line with predictions, results showed that optimism, depression, and anxiety each had a significant relationship with students’ perceived level of stress. Furthermore, self-efficacy and depression had a significant relationship with adaptation to university. We conclude that students with high levels of optimism and low levels of depression and anxiety will adapt better when making the transition from high school to university. In addition, students with high levels of self-efficacy and low levels of depression will experience less life stress in their commencement year of university. The implications of this study are outlined.

scholarly journals Conceptual Evolution of the Sequences and its Transition from High School to University in Morocco

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Elarif Khaoula ◽  
Hassouni Taoufik ◽  
Bouazza El Wahbi
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
First Year ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
Transition From High School ◽  
Conceptual Evolution

In this article, we present the question of our didactic research on the relative conceptual evolution and transition from high school to university in Morocco. We focused on the difficulties encountered by students in the first year of the Physics Sciences using a questionnaire which aims at evaluating the evolution of the concept of "Sequences” from high school to university, this one covers the basic concepts already taught during the last year of high school and second semester of university. The analysis of the student’s productions revealed several didactic obstacles originating from previous misconceptions taught at high school. The study results show a broad gap between the knowledge to teach and the knowledge taught at university. As a result, considerable efforts must be devoted to minimize this gap and resolve the problems identified in our study.

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.

Algebra in the Elementary Schools

1912 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 136-143
Author(s):  
James H. Shipley
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Elementary Schools ◽  
School System ◽  
The Other ◽  
First Year ◽  
The Real ◽  
Common Fractions ◽  
Class Room ◽  
The City

I have never yet heard of a high school teacher’s being satisfied with the first-year pupil’s knowledge of common fractions, and the other day a I. A. girl frankly admitted that she could not multiply 12⅔ by 15¾ because she had skipped one grade, had then had algebra and geometry, and the review didn’t touch on mixed numbers. Of course, this was not the fault of any teacher, but the fault of a system which is trying to crowd too many things into too small a space. The real efficiency of the schools does not depend upon their being housed in million-dollar buildings, under a well-organized administrative force, excellent equipment, etc.; it depends upon two things,—what is taught, and how it is taught; and more especially upon the latter; for every teacher of mathematics knows that a pupil can derive as much permanent good from the study of a very few topics or theorems, so presented as to be pleasing to the pupil, or at least interesting, and at the same time make him think, as he can from ten times the amount of material “rammed home” with the sole object of being reproduced at examinations. The policy of standardizing everything by examinations is doing our expensive school system an untold injury; the report of the city superintendent compares the schools according to the number of their pupils who pass the examinations, and the principal warns the teacher that he is rated according to the number of his pupils that pass, and this pressure is passed on to the pupil. Until some method of close class-room observation and supervision is introduced with a view to allowing free rein to a teacher’s individuality and originality even at the expense of his pupil’s failing the conventional examinations, it is hardly worth while suggesting other changes.

Teaching Mathematics Then and Now: Algebra in the Elementary Schools

2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 244-247
Author(s):  
James H. Shipley
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Elementary Schools ◽  
School System ◽  
Grade Level ◽  
The Other ◽  
First Year ◽  
Teaching Mathematics ◽  
Common Fractions ◽  
Class Room ◽  
The City

I have never yet heard of a high school teacher's being satisfied with the first-year pupil's knowledge of common fractions, and the other day a 1. A. [a specific grade level] girl frankly admitted that she could not multiply 12 2/3 by 15 3/4 because she had skipped one grade, had then had algebra and geometry, and the review didn't touch on mixed numbers. Of course, this was not the fault of any teacher, but the fault of a system which is trying to crowd too many things into too small a space. The real efficiency of the schools does not depend upon their being housed in million-dollar buildings, under a well-organized administrative force, excellent equipment, etc.; it depends on two things,—what is taught, and how it is taught; and more especially upon the latter; for every teacher of mathematics knows that a pupil can derive as much permanent good from the study of a few topics or theorems, so presented as to be pleasing to the pupil, or at least interesting, and at the same time make him think, as he can from ten times the amount of material “rammed home” with the sole object of being reproduced at examinations. The policy of standardizing everything by examinations is doing our expensive school system an untold injury; the report of the city superintendent compares the schools according to the number of their pupils who pass the examinations, and the principal warns the teacher that he is rated according to the number of his pupils that pass, and this pressure is passed on to the pupil. Until some method of close class-room observation and supervision is introduced with a view to allowing free rein to a teacher's individuality and originality even at the expense of his pupil's failing the conventional examinations, it is hardly worth while suggesting other changes.

Effect of the transition from high school to university on anthropometric and lifestyle variables in malesPresented in part at the Canadian Society for Nutritional Sciences, Canadian Nutrition Congress, held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, from 18–21 June 2007.

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison W. Pullman ◽  
Rachel C. Masters ◽  
Lindsay C. Zalot ◽  
Lauren E. Carde ◽  
Michelle M. Saraiva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
High School ◽  
Weight Gain ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
Male Students ◽  
First Year ◽  
Hip Circumference ◽  
Transition From High School ◽  
First Year University ◽  
Sedentary Activities

The obesity epidemic in North America has focused attention on the health risks of excess weight gain. The transition from high school to university is a critical period for weight gain, commonly referred to as the Freshman 15. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the transition from high school to university on anthropometrics and physical and sedentary activities in males. A total of 108 males completed 3 study visits: the summer prior to first year university, and the ends of the first and second semesters. Outcome measures were body mass, height, body mass index (BMI), body fat, waist circumference, hip circumference, waist:hip ratio, dietary intake, and participation in physical and sedentary activities. Between the summer prior to and the end of first year university, male students experienced a significant weight gain, of 3.0 kg, with significant increases in BMI, body fat, waist circumference, hip circumference, and waist:hip ratio. Energy and nutrient intake did not change. Final body mass was significantly predicted by intention for body mass to stay the same, relative to weight loss intention. Fast aerobic physical activity significantly decreased between the summer prior to and the end of first year university, while slow aerobic physical activity, strength training, and flexibility training did not change. Computer and studying time significantly increased, while television time and hours of nightly sleep significantly decreased between the summer prior to and the end of first year university. Weekly alcoholic drinks and binge drinking frequency significantly increased over this time period. In conclusion, between the summer prior to and the end of first year university, male students gained an average of 3.0 kg, with increases in related anthropometrics. These changes may be due to body mass change intention and (or) the observed decreased physical and increased sedentary activities, but appear to be unrelated to dietary intake.

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