scholarly journals Graduate students’ preferences in technology usage in student-faculty interactions at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
William Boateng ◽  
Christina Boateng ◽  
John Boateng
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Technology Usage ◽  
Cape Coast ◽  
Faculty Interactions ◽  
The University

Evaluative Speech Acts of Ghanaian Graduate Students: A Case Study of the University of Cape Coast, Ghana

1970 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-112
Author(s):  
Abraham Kwesi Bisilki ◽  
Isaac Bisilki
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Cape Coast ◽  
Evaluative Language ◽  
The University

This paper describes an aspect of language use in the Ghanaian academic community, specifically investigating the use of evaluative speech acts in the review language of graduate students at the University of Cape Coast (UCC). The study is situated in Hyland’s (2004) conceptual framework of evaluative language. Using a content analysis approach to corpora, the study revealed that the reviews of the graduate students contained both positive and negative evaluative speech acts as well as linguistic mitigating strategies meant to soften criticisms that were face-threatening. However, it is worthy of note that the positive speech acts or praises were recorded in a higher proportion than were the criticisms. More intriguing was the discovery that much more of both the praise and the criticism were focused on the text, rather than on the author. Overall, the pattern of evaluative language use discovered in this analysis, if generalisable, renders the academic discourse culture of the Ghanaian graduate student more akin to Asian linguistic cultures than to Western ones.   Actes de Discours Evaluatif des Etudiants de Cycle Supérieur de l’University of Cape Coast, Ghana   Résumé Cet article décrit un aspect de l’utilisation du langage dans la communauté académique ghanéenne, en examinant, notamment, l’utilisation des actes de discours évaluatif dans le langage des étudiants de cycle supérieur de l’University of Cape Coast (UCC). Cette étude se situe dans le cadre théorique conceptuel de Hyland (2004) relatif à l’utilisation du langage évaluatif.  En utilisant une approche pour l’analyse du contenu appliquée au corpus, l’étude a révélé que les évaluations des étudiants de cycle supérieur comprenaient à la fois les actes de discours positif et négatif ainsi que certaines stratégies atténuantes linguistiques adoptées pour adoucir les critiques qui étaient menaçantes pour la face. Toutefois, il est important de noter que les actes de discours positif ou d’éloges étaient enregistrés dans une proportion supérieure à celle des critiques. Il est aussi intéressant de noter que, selon la découverte faite, la plupart des éloges et des critiques étaient concentrés sur le texte, plutôt que sur l’auteur. En général, le schéma d’utilisation du langage découvert dans cette analyse, si généralisable, rend la culture de discours scolaire de l’étudiant ghanéen de cycle supérieur plus comparable aux cultures linguistiques asiatiques qu’à celles de l’Occident.

Book Reviews

2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 589-591
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Mechanism Design ◽  
Incentive Compatibility ◽  
Dominant Strategy ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Dynamic Mechanism Design ◽  
Temple University ◽  
The University ◽  
Robust Mechanism Design

Dimitrios Diamantaras of Temple University reviews “An Introduction to the Theory of Mechanism Design,” by Tilman Börgers. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Presents explanations of classic results in the theory of mechanism design and examines the frontiers of research in mechanism design in a text written for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of economics who have a good understanding of game theory. Discusses screening; examples of Bayesian mechanism design; examples of dominant strategy mechanisms; incentive compatibility; Bayesian mechanism design; dominant strategy mechanisms; nontransferable utility; informational interdependence; robust mechanism design; and dynamic mechanism design. Börgers is Samuel Zell Professor of the Economics of Risk at the University of Michigan.”

scholarly journals Teaching 7000 Students Per Year

1990 ◽  
Vol 105 ◽  
pp. 76-80
Author(s):  
R. Robert Robbins
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Teaching Program ◽  
Undergraduate Program ◽  
Credit Hours ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
The World ◽  
Teaching Faculty ◽  
The University

The undergraduate program at the University of Texas has grown into the largest astronomy teaching program in the world, with some 7000 students per year (almost 20,000 credit hours). The department has 22.5 Ph.D.-level teaching faculty, about 45 graduate students, and about 40 pre-professional undergraduate majors. But most of the enrollment is in courses that satisfy the science requirements of students in liberal arts and non-technical majors. In 1985–86, 96.4 per cent of our undergraduate credit hours taught were in such classes. It is instructive to examine the historical reasons for our growth and its educational consequences, and to draw some conclusions from both for other programs.

scholarly journals Students’ Satisfaction with the University of Cape Coast Residential and Academic Experiences

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Boakye-Yiadom
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Method ◽  
Focus Group Interview ◽  
Academic Experiences ◽  
Cape Coast ◽  
Mixed Method Design ◽  
Sequential Explanatory Mixed Method ◽  
Practical Experiences ◽  
The University ◽  
Students Satisfaction ◽  
Academic Services

The purpose of the study is to explore students’ satisfaction with the University of Cape Coast experience. The study adopted a sequential explanatory mixed-method design and used current students as the population of the study. A sample size of 420 students was used for the study. The study used questionnaires and focus group interview guides to obtain data from participants. The study used descriptive statistics and a thematic analysis approach to analyse the data obtained. The study revealed that students are less satisfied with residential services and attributed this to irregular water supply, unsanitary toilet and urinal facilities, congestion in student rooms. Furthermore, the study showed that students were less satisfied with some academic services. The study recommended that the leadership of departments, faculties and colleges need to review their curriculum with the approval of the Academic Board to enhance students’ practical experiences in their academic programmes.

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