scholarly journals Expanding Support for Graduate Students: Library Workshops on Research Funding Opportunities

2017 ◽  
Vol 78 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carrie Forbes ◽  
Gina Schlesselman-Tarango ◽  
Peggy Keeran

This case study describes the development, implementation, and assessment of a series of grants research workshops for graduate students, which were implemented to fill a gap in graduate student support. We assessed the workshops through a series of focus groups, and findings show overall satisfaction with the grants tools and workshop. However, participants noted areas of improvement around outreach and promotion and general communication with graduate students. Additional themes emerged related to graduate student socialization and research behaviors, which suggests that librarians have an important role to serve in these areas.

2017 ◽  
Vol 78 (3) ◽  
pp. 297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carrie Forbes ◽  
Gina Schlesselman-Tarango ◽  
Peggy Keeran

This case study describes the development, implementation, and assessment of a series of grants research workshops for graduate students, which were implemented to fill a gap in graduate student support. We assessed the workshops through a series of focus groups, and findings show overall satisfaction with the grants tools and workshop. However, participants noted areas of improvement around outreach and promotion and general communication with graduate students. Additional themes emerged related to graduate student socialization and research behaviors, which suggests that librarians have an important role to serve in these areas.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (10) ◽  
pp. 25-32
Author(s):  
Javad Anjum ◽  
Naveen Nagaraj

The main theme of this brief tutorial is to assist Communication Sciences and Disorders graduate students and faculty mentors in their independent and collective pursuits of funding opportunities. Readers can make use of the proposed strategies to build creative and collaborative funding toolkits and adopt them to suit their goals of identifying and applying to a wide range of graduate student funding opportunities. Special emphasis will be placed on ways of effectively utilizing the array of cloud-sharing and fund-searching tools to facilitate the fund-seeking process. A primer on drafting successful funding applications and ways of evaluating the integrity of resources will be discussed as well.


2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 15-33
Author(s):  
Meagan A. C. Troop ◽  
Lauren E. Wallar ◽  
Erin Aspenlieder

This paper presents the findings of a mixed-method case study conducted at the University of Guelph on the relationship between practice lecturing and graduate student self-efficacy. Building on the work of Boman (2013), and using surveys and individual interviews, we measured and characterized the perceived changes in graduate students’ self-efficacy in learner-centred lecturing. Our research question was: In what ways, if any, does microteaching contribute to participants’ perceived self-efficacy in learner-centred lecturing? Our results and discussion reveal that practice increases self-efficacy with respect to the design, facilitation, and assessment of learner-centred lectures, and is a vital component to graduate student teaching development programming.  


1970 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-112
Author(s):  
Abraham Kwesi Bisilki ◽  
Isaac Bisilki

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.


2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. ar59
Author(s):  
Soojeong Jeong ◽  
Jennifer M. Blaney ◽  
David F. Feldon

Faculty and peer interactions play a key role in shaping graduate student socialization. Yet, within the literature on graduate student socialization, researchers have primarily focused on understanding the nature and impact of faculty alone, and much less is known about how peer interactions also contribute to graduate student outcomes. Using a national sample of first-year biology doctoral students, this study reveals distinct categories that classify patterns of faculty and peer interaction. Further, we document inequities such that certain groups (e.g., underrepresented minority students) report constrained types of interactions with faculty and peers. Finally, we connect faculty and peer interaction patterns to student outcomes. Our findings reveal that, while the classification of faculty and peer interactions predicted affective and experiential outcomes (e.g., sense of belonging, satisfaction with academic development), it was not a consistent predictor of more central outcomes of the doctoral socialization process (e.g., research skills, commitment to degree). These and other findings are discussed, focusing on implications for future research, theory, and practice related to graduate training.


2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-122
Author(s):  
Krista Hoffmann-Longtin ◽  
Maria Brann ◽  
Katherine E. Ridley-Merriweather ◽  
Betsy Wackernagel Bach

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