scholarly journals Graduate Students’ Evolving Perceptions of Writing Collaboratively

1969 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-81
Author(s):  
Anita H. Ens ◽  
Karen Boyd ◽  
L. Allyson Matczuk ◽  
Warren T. Nickerson
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Collaborative Writing ◽  
Language And Literacy ◽  
Doctoral Studies ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Self Study ◽  
Relational Aspect ◽  
Process Product

As members of a language and literacy doctoral cohort, we four authors attempt to situate ourselves within a community of practice in which knowledge is socially constructed. In this context, we explore our identities as collaborative writers and researchers. This paper documents the self-study that we undertook while collaboratively writing scholarly articles. We framed our research with three questions addressing process, product, and theory. How do individual writers approach a collaborative assignment, both emotionally and cognitively? Do writers perceive a difference in the quality of collaborative text versus individual text? How does experience connect to theory? Our experience indicated an increased consciousness of our writing processes and made us more aware of issues of style, audience, and clarity. Furthermore, the data emphasized the relational aspect of collaborative writing. We concluded that collaborative writing has a place in doctoral studies for its potential in increasing dialogue within a discourse community.  

Formation of an Academic Research and Writing Group

2020 ◽  
pp. 002205742097960
Author(s):  
Tugba Kamali Arslantas ◽  
Gamze Turkmen ◽  
Okan Arslan ◽  
Selin Deniz Uzunosmanoglu
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Formative Research ◽  
Writing Group ◽  
Positive Impression

The purpose of this study was to establish a community of practice (CoP) called an academic research and writing group (ARWG), to improve the research and writing skills of graduate students, and to increase their levels of interaction while conducting their academic research. In the current study, formative research was implemented to improve the quality of academic output from the ARWG group. The study’s findings showed that specific features added through the ARWG provided both a positive impression toward the ARWG and encouraged novice researchers to work collaboratively.

UNDER-GRADUATE STUDENTS AND THE ROLE OF E- LIBRARIES TO UPLIFT THE QUALITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (26) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dharambeer Singh
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Multiple Access ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
Brick And Mortar ◽  
Education Status

Digital libraries, designed to serve people and their information needs in the same way as traditional libraries, present distinct advantages over brick and mortar facilities: elimination of physical boundaries, round-the-clock access to information, multiple access points, networking abilities, and extended search functions. As a result, they should be especially well-suited for the disables. However, minorities, those affected by lower income and education status, persons living in rural areas, the physically challanged, and developing countries as a whole consistently suffer from a lack of accessibility to digital libraries. This paper evaluates the effectiveness and relevance of digital libraries currently in place and discusses what could and should be done to improve accessibility to digital libraries for under-graduate students.

Retention and Institutional Effort: A Self-Study Framework

NASPA Journal ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dudley B. Woodard ◽  
Sherry L. Mallory ◽  
Anne M. De Luca
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Assessment Framework ◽  
Self Study ◽  
Institutional Retention ◽  
Retention Effort

This article describes a retention assessment framework as a way of helping practitioners use existing literature and research to assess how good their institutional retention effort is. It addresses the rationale for the framework, why some institutions graduate students at higher rates than predicted given the entry characteristics of its students, and how to use the framework.

Understanding Performance Coach Development: Perceptions About a Postgraduate Coach Education Program

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamie Araya ◽  
Andrew Bennie ◽  
Donna O’Connor
Keyword(s):  
Informal Learning ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Formal Learning ◽  
Coach Education ◽  
Types Of Knowledge ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Learning Contexts ◽  
Diverse Learning ◽  
Coach Development ◽  
Semistructured Interviews

The purpose of this study was to enrich our understanding of formal coach education settings. We investigated how coaches developed knowledge during a postgraduate tertiary coach education course. We also explored coaches’ perceptions of changes they made to their coaching attitudes, behaviours, skills, and practices as a result of their studies. Semistructured interviews1were conducted with 17 performance coaches. Results revealed that coaches developed knowledge through rich learning situations that were relevant to their coaching context. Furthermore, the three types of knowledge (professional, interpersonal and intrapersonal; Côté & Gilbert, 2009) were fostered in an environment that was socially constructed through a Community of Practice. Coaches felt they were better equipped to develop athlete performance as a result of the knowledge gained through the course. The findings reinforce the importance of developing formal coach education that is learner-centred, provides diverse learning experiences, and embraces informal learning concepts when embedded in formal learning contexts.

About quality of dissertations, or this strange GOST

2021 ◽  
pp. 65-75
Author(s):  
Yu.V. Kazakov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
System Approach ◽  
Scientific Methodology ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
Academic Degree ◽  
Practical Guide ◽  
Classical Methodology ◽  
And Performance

Examined is relevance of a subject of work is caused by the continuing deterioration of dissertation works. Therefore, article purpose is to define the system reason of deterioration of training of the top skills by the analysis of contents and structure of theses. The main shortcomings of dissertations, and understanding of their structural elements by applicants of an academic degree by communication with them in the course of preparation and carrying out preliminary protection of these were analyzed. Results of the analysis were compared to requirements of classical methodology and to interpretation of these requirements in the methodical managements and in publications. The essential system reason of decline in quality of dissertation works is in their traditional unsystematic structure, whith investigation withdrawal from scientific methodology and particular leveling of motivation to the analysis of a condition of a question and the received results of researches and also to system approach to the thesis, need of strengthening of methodological training of graduate students according to the uniform nation-wide program providing system approach to the organization of researches for all scientific specialties, and processing’s of the “Thesis and Abstract of the Thesis” standard according to classical requirements of scientific methodology and the system approach to dissertation work Is shown. The system scheme of the thesis, which can make a manual basis is the practical guide to organization and performance of dissertation work for training of graduate students and applicants is offered.

scholarly journals THE DESIGN OF THE RESEARCH METHOD IN GRADUATE RESEARCH WORK

2020 ◽  
pp. 289-299
Author(s):  
Imane Ghazlane ◽  
◽  
Bouzekri Touri ◽  
Mohamed Bergadi ◽  
Khalid Marnoufi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Graduate Research ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
The University

Regardless of the discipline or institution in which scientific research will be conducted, the "method» is present. It remains fundamental of all research work that can inevitably affect problem-solving, development of the nation, and threaten quality of life. This is an exploratory study on research methods used in graduation projects in the following disciplines (health sciences, engineering, biological and agronomic sciences, and social sciences). The method used in this work is based on:(a) semi-structured survey by interviewing supervisors of final dissertations and theses in different selected disciplines (b) systematic analysis of the fifty-research work of graduate students. The works obtained from the libraries of the University Hassan II of Casablanca in different disciplines, submitted between 2014 and 2018. The parts of the empirical phase were analyzed, according to the processes and concepts of each discipline, to highlight the elements of the research method. The findings indicated the influence of the national scientific production by the design of the research method. The data collection and analysis are the sections that may affect the integrity of the research method. Our contribution is to remedy the standardization of the method and adapting it to the contexts of the needs of different disciplines.

scholarly journals GENERALIZED MODEL OF INTEGRATED TECHNOLOGY OF MEDICAL STUDENTS’ INDIVIDUAL WORK MANAGEMENT IN LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

2019 ◽  
pp. 144-149
Author(s):  
K. B. Oleksii ◽  
T. V. Savaryn ◽  
I. I. Vorona
Keyword(s):  
Modern Science ◽  
Management Effectiveness ◽  
Integrated Technology ◽  
Organization And Management ◽  
Individual Work ◽  
Self Study ◽  
Favorable Conditions ◽  
Functional Components ◽  
Work Management

Different approaches to the study of the system of students’ individual work management have been analyzed. The peculiarity of the proposed integrative technology of students’ individual work management is that the management effectiveness is achieved through the organization of the students’ individual work with diagnostic objectives, the achievement of which is subject to a clear description and definition. Structural components of integrated technology are: goals, content, methods, organizational forms and functional components. It has been proved that the effectiveness of management of students’ individual work depends on the goals and methods of achieving them; internal motivation and cognitive interests of students; quality of the content aspect of educational information for self-study; creation of favorable conditions for self-realization of a student; the methodological provision of the discipline, its precise planning, organization and management, student’s free time; the competent use of various forms of current and periodic control. Integrated technology develops intellectual and creative students’ abilities, helps to make decisions. This circumstance is especially important, as in modern science, there is an increasingly evident tendency to the synthesis of knowledge, to the awareness and disclosure of the collectivity of cognition objects.

scholarly journals Current state of educational services provision to future masters of educational institution management

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (2 (131)) ◽  
pp. 179-187
Author(s):  
Olha Yeromenko
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Services ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Flexible System

The article raises the topical issue of training competitive professionals capable of working under modern market conditions. The transition to market relations changes the education policy and the system of educational services provision. The professional destiny of a future manager and the success rate of an educational institution depend on the quality of providing educational services to graduate students specialised in educational institution management. The purpose of the article is to analyse the results of a survey of graduate students aimed at determining the status of educational services given within the specialty 073 "Management" (specialization "Educational Institution Management") in various higher education institutions of Ukraine. Monitoring the state of the educational services provided to graduate students majoring in educational institution management has been carried out on the basis of general scientific and empirical cognition methods: comprehensive study of quality training of master-course students, observation, survey in the form of questionnaires, analysis of graduate students’ responses, analogy. The criteria enabling graduate students to assess the quality of educational services provided by higher education institutions have been defined: the fundamental nature of training; level of knowledge and experience of teaching staff; organization of the educational process; culture and communication level of teachers; reaction of teachers and administration of higher education institution to further demands of graduate students, etc. On the basis of the analysis and generalisation of the processed material, the basic demands of master-course students majoring in educational institution management for increase in the level of educational services have been defined: decrease in theorising of educational material; practice orientation; increase in the use of interactive teaching methods by teachers; expansion of the list of optional courses; increase in opportunities for individual counselling at a convenient time; involvement of leading specialists, experts, experienced educational institution managers in teaching; improvement of facilities and resources of an institution; increase in the level of additional educational services provision in higher education institutions. According to the results of the study, it has been concluded that it is necessary to establish a flexible system of training master-course students majoring in educational institution management.

scholarly journals Quality of Academic Life at the Postgraduate Stage: A Saudi Female Perspective

10.28945/4691 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 127-147
Author(s):  
Amani Khalaf H Alghamdi ◽  
Sue L. T. McGregor
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
National Development ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Social Aspect ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Subjective Data ◽  
Educational Aspect

Aim/Purpose: Vision 2030 (Saudi Arabia’s national development plan) expects women (50% of all university students) to contribute to a viable economy and ambitious nation, meaning data about their quality of academic life (QAL) during their university experience are timely and significant. They are key players in the nation’s future. Background: This inaugural, exploratory study addresses this under-researched topic by exploring the spiritual, cognitive, physical, social, and psychological dimensions of Saudi female graduate students’ QAL. Methodology: Data comprised the lead author’s reflections and reflexion and interviews with 17 Saudi female graduate students conveniently sampled from Imam Abdul Rahman bin Faisal University (IAU) (Eastern Province) in January 2020. A new Academic Quality of Life Schema was especially designed for this study and future research. Contribution: A Middle Eastern country’s perspective is shared about female graduate students’ QAL from a holistic perspective (spiritual, mind, and body) and through the lens of a new QAL Schema (cognitive, social, and psychological). Findings: Spirituality was the highest rated holistic QAL dimension (76.6%) followed with body (67.4%) and mind (intellect) (58.8%). Despite a generally positive QAL evaluation (67.6%), participants (a) lamented their inability to sustain previous levels of religious devotion and practice, (b) reported health issues with deep emotions and surprise, and (c) experienced dissatisfaction with the educational aspect of their QAL. Regarding the QAL Schema, (a) their lack of research savviness hampered their ability to learn and enjoy the graduate experience; (b) psychological anxiety hampered their ability to connect with the Creator and poor time management and heavy academic workload compromised exercise and leisure with all three causing an imbalanced lifestyle; and (c) social peer camaraderie and positive classroom environments were appreciated. Recommendations for Practitioners: Women’s colleges should (a) collect subjective data about female graduate students’ satisfaction with university services, specialization and teaching decisions, and faculty members’ and peer colleagues’ support; (b) provide and promote services related to places and means of recreation, leisure, and alone time; and (c) ensure that guidance and counseling offices develop strategies to reduce stress and anxiety factors hindering QAL. Recommendation for Researchers: Future studies should use larger sample frames and, for comparative purposes, previously validated empirical QAL instruments. Saudi-based QAL studies should include religion. Mixed methods research designs are recommended as is a gendered comparative study for the gender-segregated Saudi higher education context. Impact on Society: Deeper understandings of Saudi female graduate students’ QAL will facilitate (a) tailored institutional and faculty support leading to higher enrolment levels, (b) stronger knowledge bases and more sophisticated research skills for students and (c) improved labor force participation. Future Research: Over 1/3 of participants felt their academic gains were not as strong as anticipated, yet few commented about teaching staff or teaching methods. Future research should expand inquiries into the educational aspect of QAL as well as the underrepresented social aspect of QAL.

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