Reflecting on the Relationship Between Standardised Admission, Academic Expectations and Diverse Student Cohorts in Postgraduate Taught Business and Management Programmes

2007 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-13
Author(s):  
Yvonne Turner
Keyword(s):  
Academic Expectations ◽  
Diverse Student ◽  
Student Cohorts ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Business And Management

Telling Reflections: Teaching Sustainably in a Complex Learning Environment

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debbie Prescott
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Teacher Educator ◽  
Learning Design ◽  
Contextual Cues ◽  
Online Delivery ◽  
Regional University ◽  
Assessment Tasks ◽  
Environmentally Responsive ◽  
Diverse Student ◽  
Student Cohorts

AbstractThis article examines learning design in a postgraduate preservice teacher setting. The overarching aim was to embed environmentally responsive approaches throughout two companion units for diverse student cohorts. This article reports on a teacher educator self-study in a regional university with extensive online delivery for large units (300–800 students) in a 1-year course. The author examines how assessment tasks in literacy- and numeracy-oriented units are designed to meaningfully integrate environmental sustainability using contextual cues, collaborative learning, complex tasks, and reflexivity. The author argues for the use of these four key guidelines of environmentally responsive pedagogies alongside environmental education programs to emphasise messages of sustainability even in units that are not traditionally environmentally oriented. Challenges include problematising the nature of effective teaching and dealing with the complexities of purposeful learning. Innovative unit learning design alone, however, is inadequate if the surrounding systems are fragmented and seen as separate to learning about sustainability.

Self-sexualization in preadolescent girls: Associations with self-objectification, weight concerns, and parent’s academic expectations

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 515-522 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine R. Starr ◽  
Eileen L. Zurbriggen
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Academic Expectations ◽  
Weight Concerns ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Academic Goals ◽  
Parental Reports ◽  
Self Objectification ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Academic Self Efficacy

We investigated the relationship of self-sexualization to self-objectification, weight concerns, self-efficacy, academic outcomes, and career aspirations among preadolescent girls. Participants were 89 six- to nine-year-old girls; parental reports were also obtained. Two thirds of girls showed signs of self-sexualization by choosing a sexualized doll over a nonsexualized doll as who they preferred to look like and/or who they currently look like. Girls who self-sexualized reported higher self-objectification and weight concerns than girls who did not self-sexualize. Self-sexualization was unrelated to social, emotional, and academic self-efficacy and to girls’ career confidence and interest. However, parents of girls who self-sexualized reported their daughters had lower academic performance and enjoyed school less compared to girls who did not self-sexualize. Additionally, parents of girls who self-sexualized had lower academic expectations for their daughters. It is possible that in preadolescence self-sexualization affects girls’ body cognitions and parental expectations without (yet) affecting self-efficacy or academic goals.

It’s Just a Draft: On the messy, the unfinished and the speculative in writing

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Doubtfire
Keyword(s):  
Art Education ◽  
Developmental Cycle ◽  
Academic Expectations ◽  
Art Students ◽  
Academic Practice ◽  
The Relationship

Language, and by extension writing, are used in conjunction with art to explain, decipher and decode. With the move of art education to be increasingly in line with academic practice, the written work undertaken by art students is measured and governed by expectations of being refined, finished and persuasive. Practice is often an altogether messier endeavour than the writing that accompanies, explains and justifies it would have you believe. Considering the relationship between writing and practice, It’s Just a Draft proposes the relevance of writing that falls short of academic expectations: the messy, the unfinished and the speculative. The article focuses on various aspects of written practice, namely: process, and the notion of embracing all stages of writing in a finished text; drafts, the idea of writing and rewriting/thinking and rethinking text as a continuous and developmental cycle; and style, more specifically what constitutes an academic voice. The article reflects somewhat on its own implication in relation to these ideas, being paradoxically more formulaic than the sort of writing that it discusses.

scholarly journals Acculturation Strategy, Integration Paradoxes and Educational Adaptation—A Case Study of Chinese Visiting Scholar’s Family in the United States

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Weidong Li ◽  
Sisi Chen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
The United States ◽  
Academic Expectations ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
Mediated Effects ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Acculturation Strategy ◽  
The Relationship

In this case study, we developed a theoretical framework for examining the relationship between acculturation strategy and educational adaptation. By interviews and observations of one Chinese visiting scholar’s family in the United States, we found that the family utilized integration as the acculturation strategy to adapt to the US educational environment. However, we also found that the family’s perceived integration attitudes and behaviors were opposed to its actual integration attitudes and behaviors, which we called integration paradoxes. These integration paradoxes included the following four areas: a) cultural difference; b) academic and non-academic problem solving; c) academic expectations; and d) bicultural competence. The findings indicated potential moderated and/or mediated effects of the four integration paradoxes on the relationship between integration and educational adaptation.

Marketing Skills as Predictors of Profitability of Franchisees in Davao City, Philippines

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
JAMES Q. CAMPOAMOR ◽  
JOANNA LYNN L. MERCADO ◽  
EDUARDO D. DE GRACIA
Keyword(s):  
Multivariate Analysis ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Return On Investment ◽  
Leadership Skills ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Business Approach ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Business And Management ◽  
Very High

Franchising has assumed a popular role in starting and expanding businesses worldwide. Entrepreneurs, both neophytes and experienced, are keenly interested in taking advantage of franchising as an avenue for venturing into new businesses. Franchisees’ success and failure experiences need to be studied to guide would be and existing entreprenuers to wield the franchising business approach more profitably. The study was conducted to determine the relationship between franchisees’ traits and the profitability of their franchised business in Davao City, Philippines. Franchisees’ traits included system follower, marketing skills, business and management skills, communication skills and leadership skills, and profitability was modified as very high, high, and moderate. Descriptive statistics and multivariate analysis specifically discriminant analysis were used to test the hypothesis of the study. Respondents were 35 franchisees operating for the last 3 years (2010-2012) in the different malls in Davao City. Results showed that the franchisee level of traits was very high while the franchised business level of profitablity in terms of return on investment (ROI) was high. And, the franchisee level of marketing skills was the trait that best predicts the franchised business’ level of profitability.Keywords: Business franchising, franchisee traits, profitability, multivariate analysis,Philippines

Nursing student-patient relationship – a 10-year comparison study in Finland

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arja Suikkala ◽  
Helena Leino-Kilpi ◽  
Jouko Katajisto
Keyword(s):  
Associated Factors ◽  
Nursing Student ◽  
Clinical Learning ◽  
Patient Relationship ◽  
Comparison Study ◽  
Group Level ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Student Cohorts ◽  
Patient Relationships ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractObjectiveThis study aimed to describe and compare the group-level findings from 2005–2006 and 2015–2016 regarding students’ and patients’ views of the nursing student-patient relationship and associated factors.MethodsThe data were in both cases collected using Student-Patient Relationship Scales. The data were analysed statistically.ResultsIn both student cohorts, authoritative and facilitative student-patient relationships were reported by the students more frequently than mechanistic relationships. Authoritative relationships were most common in both patient cohorts, whereas facilitative relationships had become more frequent than mechanistic relationships. A positive change of views in the student and patient cohorts was found in factors associated with the relationship.ConclusionIn order to strengthen a clinical learning culture that reflects a facilitative student-patient relationship, further research is needed on the processes and outcomes of that relationship.

scholarly journals Examining test anxiety in terms of academic expectations stress and motivation to study

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 1139-1158
Author(s):  
Eyüp Çelik ◽  
Selami Yıldırım
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Extrinsic Motivation ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Academic Expectations ◽  
School Students ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Study Lesson ◽  
8Th Grade ◽  
Exam Anxiety ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between the exam anxiety level of middle school students, their academic expectations stress, and level of motivation to study lesson. The study group consisted of 364 (184 female and 180 male) 7th and 8th grade secondary school students. Three instruments were used for data collection; Academic Expectations Stress Inventory, Motivation to Study for Adolescences Scale and Exam Anxiety Scale. Exam anxiety was chosen as dependent variable while academic expectations stress and motivation to study lesson were set as independent variables. In the current study, the relationship between variables was examined by Pearson correlation coefficient and whether independent variables predict dependent variable or not was tested by multiple regression analysis. As a result of correlational analysis, a positive and significant relationship was observed between teacher/parental expectations, self-expectations, amotivation and exam anxiety. On the other hand, intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation were not associated with exam anxiety. As a result of regression analysis, it was concluded that family/teacher expectations, self-expectations, amotivation, and extrinsic motivation significantly predicted exam anxiety.

scholarly journals The relationship among academic expectations, academic satisfaction and career planning: The sample of tourism undergraduate studentsAkademik beklenti, akademik memnuniyet ve kariyer planlaması ilişkisi: Turizm lisans öğrencileri örneği

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmut Demir ◽  
Şirvan Şen Demir
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Career Planning ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
State Universities ◽  
Academic Expectations ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Negative Results ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
The Relationship

<p class="zet">Higher education institutions have an important role in the career planning of individuals. But, student selection examinations is the most important factor for their choosing school and directly or indirectly affect their career choices, and their expectations and satisfaction levels can cause positive or negative results. In term of 2013-2014, data for this study were collected from the students of thefourthgradestudents intourism undergraduateeducation at state universities in Turkey. The purposes of this study was to compare the academic expectations from the institutions and satisfaction levels of the students with regard to academic services provided by their university and examine the relationship between expectation and satisfaction levels of the students and their career planning. Questionnaire for this study was developed from prior research and published scales on a 5-point Likert-type which was based on three dimensions. Through conducting a face-to-face interview, a total of 583 questionnaires were collected from students. PASW was used to analyze the data that includes various statistical tools such as factor analysis, correlation analysis and regression analysis. As a result, the findings indicate that expectation and satisfaction levels have a negative correlation with each other, and these two factors have positive influence on career planning.</p><p class="zet"> </p><p class="zet"><strong>Özet</strong></p><p class="zet">Yükseköğretim kurumları, bireylerin kariyer planlamasında önemli bir yere sahiptir. Ancak, yükseköğretime giriş sınavının okul seçiminde en önemli faktör olarak görülmesi, bireylerin kariyer tercihlerini doğrudan ya da dolaylı olarak etkilemekte ve bu durum onların beklenti ve memnuniyet düzeylerine bağlı olarak olumlu ya da olumsuz sonuçlar doğurabilmektedir. Türkiye’deki kamu üniversitelerinde 2012-2013 eğitim öğretim yılında, turizm lisans eğitimi alan dördüncü sınıf öğrencilerini kapsayan bu araştırmanın amacı, kurumlarından akademik beklentileri ile onlara sağlanan akademik hizmetlerden memnuniyet düzeylerini karşılaştırmak ve kariyer planlaması ile ilişkisini ortaya koymaktır. Konuyla ilgili literatürden yararlanılarak, beklenti, memnuniyet ve kariyer planlamasına yönelik beşli Likert türü bir anket formu oluşturulmuştur. Yüz yüze görüşme yöntemi ile 583 adet anket formu toplanmıştır. Verilerin analizinde PASW istatistik programı kullanılarak değişkenlere faktör analizi, korelasyon ve çoklu regresyon analizi uygulanmıştır. Sonuçta, bireylerin beklentileri ile memnuniyet düzeylerinin ters yönlü bir ilişkisi olduğu, aynı zamanda bu iki temel faktörün kariyer planlamasını etkilediği bulgusuna ulaşılmıştır.</p>

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