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Martin Carnoy Brenda Jarillo Rabling Jonatan Castano-Munoz Josep Maria Duart Montoliu Teresa Sancho-Vinuesa 《Higher Education》2012,63(1):53-82
A highly touted feature of the so-called global “revolution” in higher education is the trend to use information technology
to reach a broader clientele. Although there is evidence that students may be learning the material in on-line courses as
well as in traditional face-to-face universities, how well students learn content is not the only reason they persist to a
degree, and student persistence is an important goal of higher education institutions. In this paper, we make the case that
the life conditions for students attending virtual universities are different from those of “traditional” students in face-to-face
universities, and that this difference puts a particular (largely non-pecuniary) premium on time to degree. With our data
from a Catalan virtual university, the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), we are able to test this hypothesis directly by
using the heterogeneous degree structure of the Catalonian/Spanish higher education system to estimate whether the number
of courses required to get various degrees (the length of the degree program) is significantly related to student persistence.
The study analyzes several cohorts of students (those who entered in 2000–2003) studying in the UOC and estimates the factors
that influence their degree completion. We find that the completion rate is generally low, but that students taking shorter
degree courses at the UOC are much more likely to complete their degrees. This suggests that, given their clientele, on-line
universities operate under very different constraints from their face-to-face counterparts. Our results are important for
higher educational researchers, who have mainly focused on younger populations attending face-face universities. They also
can serve university administrators who launch distance education degree programs and make high stakes decisions about them
with little of no information on the likely behavior of their older students, and can serve employers who are deciding whether
to subsidize their employees to take advanced degrees through on-line programs of study. 相似文献
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Using cluster analysis this study investigated the characteristics of learning strategies learners use in online courses with
one-on-one mentoring. Three distinct approaches were identified: “Mastery oriented”, “Task focused” and “Minimalist in effort”.
Despite the widespread concern that students will have difficulty managing their time in online courses with high level of
student freedom, this study found that the vast majority of learners were very effective in their learning strategies. The
findings speak well for the potential of distance education environments to provide high quality self-paced learning, accommodating
different learning strategies, which is difficult to do in group-paced courses. We further explored how these approaches relate
to and interact with, participants’ background and their levels of satisfaction and self reported learning. 相似文献
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Dr Uri Zoller 《Research in Science Education》1996,26(3):317-326
Students at all ages hold a wide variety of scientifically faulty knowledge structures called “misconceptions”. As far as
misconceptions in chemistry are concerned, college science students are no exception. Systematic administration to freshman
biology majors of specially-designed mid-term and term higher-order cognitive skills (HOCS)-oriented examinations within the
courses “General and Inorganic Chemistry” and “Introduction to Modern Organic Chemistry” proved these examinations to be very
effective in revealing and distinguishing between students'misconceptions, misunderstandings, and“no conceptions”. Several of these have never been mentioned before in the relevant research literature. Accordingly, reflective teaching
strategies to overcome this “misconceptions problem” and affect meaningfully subsequent learning have been explored and implemented
within our longitudinal effort to develop students' HOCS. The study results combined with accumulated experience indicate
that properly designed HOCS-oriented examinations may be very effective for revealing, but notper se for overcoming, students' misconceptions. However, within HOCS-oriented chemistry teaching, the assessment of students by
such examinations is very useful particularly for providing data for remediation purposes via appropriate modification of
the teaching strategies. Eventually, this leads to gains in students' HOCS which is in line with the overall goal of the current
reform in science education. 相似文献
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In order to help students make well-informed choices, reliable college ranking systems with comparable information about higher education institutions worldwide have been welcomed by many students. Because traditional college rankings had many methodological problems, a new type of user-based ranking, called “personalized college ranking” started to develop in many nations in the late 1990s. In 2008, Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan (HEEACT), launched a ranking project called “College Navigator in Taiwan” which developed the first Asian student-based college search engine to provide local and international students with transparent information on Taiwan’s higher education institutions. The main objective of this paper, therefore, is to compare the rational, strategies and pathways for establishing personalized college rankings. In order to analyze the gap between students’ preferences and university presidents’concerns over ranking indicators, HEEACT’s “College Navigator in Taiwan” is adopted as a case study at the end of paper. 相似文献
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Peter Riley Bahr 《Research in higher education》2012,53(1):94-121
The traditional unidirectional (“linear”) postsecondary path from high school to a community college to a 4-year institution
into the workforce represents accurately a decreasing proportion of the pathways actually taken by students through higher
education. Instead, students increasingly exhibit patterns of enrollment that take them through multiple postsecondary institutions,
both within levels of the higher education system (e.g., multiple community colleges, multiple 4-year institutions) and across
levels (e.g., movement back and forth between community colleges and 4-year institutions). These “swirling” patterns of enrollment
are widely recognized by scholars of higher education, but they remain poorly understood. In this study, I employ data that
address 89,057 first-time students in the California community college system to answer a number of key questions concerning
lateral transfer between community colleges, which, according to prior research, constitutes one sizeable component of student
“swirl”. Building on the very limited work on this topic, I examine whether the reported high prevalence of lateral transfer
holds true under a more stringent operational framework than that employed in prior work. I explore whether lateral transfer
is primarily an artifact of students enrolling simultaneously in multiple community colleges, sometimes called “double-dipping”.
I investigate the timing of lateral transfer from several different perspectives to determine how lateral transfer fits in
students’ progress and development. Finally, I probe the relationship between students’ level of academic investment in their
current community college and the risk of lateral transfer. 相似文献
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This article is written to inspire curriculum developers to centre their efforts on the learning processes of students. It
presents a learning-based paradigm for higher education and demonstrates the close relationship between curriculum development
and students’ learning processes. The article has three sections: Section “The role of higher education (HE) institutions”
presents a discussion of the role of higher education in the knowledge society. Section “Contextual learning” presents the
paradigm of contextual learning which we see as a useful foundation for curriculum development. Section “Curriculum development
in practice—the BETA course” shows how a particular course in Business Economic Theory and Analysis has been developed using
this paradigm. The article will be of interest to all academics interested in students’ learning processes but is especially
relevant to those responsible for curriculum development. 相似文献
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Jane A. Van Galen 《The Urban Review》2010,42(4):253-270
This paper explores the possibilities of working with White, working-class teacher education students to explore the “complex
social trajectory” (Reay in Women’s Stud Int Forum 20(2):225–233, 1997a, p. 19) of class border crossing as they progress through college. Through analysis of a course that I have developed, Education and the American Dream, I explore political and pedagogical issues in teaching the thousands of teacher education students who are the first in
their families to attend college about social class. Arguing that faculty in teacher education too often disregard the significance
of deep class differences between themselves and many of their students, I propose that teacher education include coursework
in which upwardly-mobile students (a) draw upon their distinctive perspectives as class border-crossers to elucidate their
“complex social positioning as a complicated amalgam of current privilege interlaced with historic disadvantage” (Reay in
Women’s Stud Int Forum 20(2):225–233, 1997a, p. 25) and (b) complicate what Adair and Dahlberg (Pedagogy 1:173–175, 2001, p. 174) have termed a cultural “impulse to frame class mobility as a narrative of moral progress”. Such coursework, I suggest,
has implications for the development of teacher leaders in stratified schools. The paper draws upon the literatures on social
class and educational attainment, on the construction of classed identities in spite of silence about class in public and
academic discourse, and on pedagogies for teaching across class differences. 相似文献
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Dr Rod Fawns 《Research in Science Education》1996,26(1):1-22
The aims of the junior technical schools in Victoria were, from the time of their formal establishment in 1911, to provide
preparatory education-training for two groups. First, for the relatively small number who proceeded to higher technical education,
appropriate for industrial chemists, engineers and architects, and secondly, for the relatively larger numbers who sought
to enter skilled trades. The first successful campaign in Australia for a general science for all other secondary students
in Victoria was waged in the War years 1939–43 on a platform of science as “a badge of utility and a key to good citizenship”.
These were the modest terms upon which science teaching secured a more central place in the classical literary curriculum.
The final campaign twenty years later in technical schools was fought on the platform that school science was “not just a
servant to trade or engineering courses.” 相似文献
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Web 2.0 offers a new type of interactive technology that may change the focus and approach of formal education in ways we
are just beginning to comprehend. The new and unique qualities of Web 2.0 can be compounded in traditional educational settings
by the fact that students often times have far more experience with and understanding the new technology than the teachers
who are developing curriculums and setting educational goals. At the same time, Web 2.0 has become so pervasive in such a
short time that it makes little sense to ignore it in educational settings. This current article suggests blogging may be
the most “education friendly” of the new interactive tools. Blog posts offer students the opportunity to develop their own
voice in the classroom, while commentary serves as an important reinforcement for self-reflection and continued participation.
The difficulty for teachers is in understanding how to integrate, use and maintain course blogs so that they are a strong
and positive educational force in the classroom. At the core of using blogs is the development of blog management strategies.
Based on the authors’ use of blogs in undergraduate courses, the current paper outlines an approach to blog management. 相似文献
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Gerald Wangenge-Ouma 《Higher Education》2012,64(6):831-844
The funding of higher education in South Africa has in the recent past been a subject of animated debate. This debate has ranged from the adequacy of government funding of higher education, the suitability of the funding framework, to protestations against frequent tuition fee increases. At present, the debate is mainly about “free” higher education. Unlike most African countries, South Africa has an established history of cost sharing. But, for a while now, students, especially Black students, have been demanding tuition free higher education even though the country has a student financial aid scheme to support talented but poor students. The demands for tuition free higher education suggest, among others, the possible existence of financial barriers to higher educational opportunities. This paper is a sequel to the debate on free higher education in South Africa. It seeks, in the main, to understand and examine the rationale and drivers for the students’ demand for “free” higher education. What are the financial barriers to higher educational opportunities that the current funding architecture has failed to address? Secondly, why are students demanding free higher education when there is a scheme to support talented but poor students? Is cost sharing inconsistent with the country’s post-apartheid transformation policy in higher education? Finally, is “free” higher education the panacea to the access and participation challenges facing Black students? 相似文献
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The aim of this article is to shed light on some aspects of professional responsibility by investigating students’ visions
of future work and notions of professional responsibility. The data is based on interviews with samples of freshmen in three
educational programmes at the University of Oslo in Norway. The data has been analysed in relation to two thesis claimed by
Steven Brint: “The rise of a utilitarian ethos” in higher education and the movement from “social trustee professionalism”
to “expert professionalism”. The findings show that the students in our sample do not think of higher education primarily
as a means to get credentials that will be useful in the labour marked. An intellectual interest in the discipline is the
most prevalent reason for the students’ educational choices. Furthermore our findings support an orientation towards “expert
professionalism” rather than “social trustee professionalism”. But, embedded in the perspective of an expert there is an emphasis on ethical knowledge, moral and/or societal responsibility
and the wish to do good for others. However, the students’ sense of responsibility seems to be restricted to certain “localism”
of their specific occupation. Based on the findings we argue that the students reveal a moral awareness that should be taken
seriously by the educational institution in order to foster critical rationality and professional commitments. 相似文献
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Alejandro J. Gallard Mart��nez 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2011,6(3):719-723
This forum considers argumentation as a means of science teaching in South African schools, through the integration of indigenous
knowledge (IK). It addresses issues raised in Mariana G. Hewson and Meshach B. Ogunniyi’s paper entitled: Argumentation-teaching
as a method to introduce indigenous knowledge into science classrooms: opportunities and challenges. As well as Peter Easton’s:
Hawks and baby chickens: cultivating the sources of indigenous science education; and, Femi S. Otulaja, Ann Cameron and Audrey
Msimanga’s: Rethinking argumentation-teaching strategies and indigenous knowledge in South African science classrooms. The
first topic addressed is that implementation of argumentation in the science classroom becomes a complex endeavor when the
tensions between students’ IK, the educational infrastructure (allowance for teacher professional development, etc.) and local
belief systems are made explicit. Secondly, western styles of debate become mitigating factors because they do not always
adequately translate to South African culture. For example, in many instances it is more culturally acceptable in South Africa
to build consensus than to be confrontational. Thirdly, the tension between what is “authentic science” and what is not becomes
an influencing factor when a tension is created between IK and western science. Finally, I argue that the thrust of argumentation
is to set students up as “scientist-students” who will be considered through a deficit model by judging their habitus and
cultural capital. Explicitly, a “scientist-student” is a student who has “learned,” modeled and thoroughly assimilated the
habits of western scientists, evidently—and who will be judged by and held accountable for their demonstration of explicit
related behaviors in the science classroom. I propose that science teaching, to include argumentation, should consist of “listening
carefully” (radical listening) to students and valuing their language, culture, and learning as a model for
“science for all”. 相似文献
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Lectures are often thought of in terms of information transfer: students (do not) “get” or “construct meaning of” what physics
professors (lecturers) say and the notes they put on the chalkboard (overhead). But this information transfer view does not
explain, for example, why students have a clear sense of understanding while they sit in a lecture and their subsequent experiences
of failure to understand their own lecture notes or textbooks while preparing for an exam. Based on a decade of studies on
the embodied nature of science lectures, the purpose of this article is to articulate and exemplify a different way of understanding
physics lectures. We exhibit how there is more to lectures than the talk plus notes. This informational “more” may explain
(part of) the gap between students’ participative understanding that exists in the situation where they sit in the lecture
on the one hand and the one where they study for an exam from their lecture notes on the other. Our results suggest that in
lectures, concepts are heterogeneous performances in which meaning is synonymous with the synergistic and irreducible transactions of many different communicative modes, including
gestures, body movements, body positions, prosody, and so forth. 相似文献
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This study analyses why and how academic inbreeding as a recruitment practice continues to prevail in Japan, a country with
a mature higher education system, where high rates of academic inbreeding endure in most of the research-oriented universities
in spite of several higher education reforms. Based on a qualitative analysis, we disclose three characteristics that lead
academics to become inbred at Japanese universities. One characteristic—the adoption of “open recruitment processes” in detriment
of “closed recruitment processes”—changed over time, limiting academic inbreeding practices, but two other characteristics
remained unchanged over time: the “one university learning experience” and the “concentration of doctoral supervisors at the
same university”. These latter characteristics represent difficult challenges to be tackled as they are also traditional characteristics
of the Japanese higher education system. The research also shows that academic inbreeding practices are a means to assure
organizational stability and institutional identity, features perceived as important by Japanese universities. A central challenge
for the Japanese universities is then to guarantee these features without needing to rely on academic inbreeding practices
to obtain them. However, devising policies to meet this challenge calls for institutional will to change, proactive strategies
and time. 相似文献
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Dr. James E. Bruno 《The Urban Review》1995,27(2):101-120
“Doing time” is an expression that is generally associated with prisoners who are disconnected from society and find themselves
counting the days and minutes until their release from prison. In many respects, at-risk students attending our nation's large,
urban, inner-city middle and high schools also consider themselves as not being connected to school or society and to be “doing
time” in the classroom. Qualitative and subjective impressions of doing time at school have become the theme of many movies,
books, and research articles. This study extends this qualitative type of research by quantitatively framing time allocation
preferences and temporal dominance characteristics for a large sample of teacher-perceived “at-risk” students at several large
urban high school sites. A sample of normal attaining students at the same school site served as a comparison group. The findings
of this research effort generally support other more qualitative studies and indicate that there are strong preferences in
at-risk students toward nondirected time-consuming activities (i.e., hanging out, video games, watching TV, etc.) with low-directed
to nondirected time preference ratios. Normal attaining students had the reverse pattern, i.e., higher-directed to nondirected
time preference ratios and higher preferences toward directed time-consuming activities that might be associated with investments
in the schooling process (homework, studying, personal development, etc.). Interpretation of the circles test, a projective
psychological procedure for establishing temporal dominance for at-risk students, revealed a general lack of recognition and
connectiveness between past, present, and future events in their life and weak temporal dominance or orientation toward the
future. 相似文献
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There is a growing consensus that traditional instruction in basic science courses, in institutions of higher learning, do
not lead to the desired results. Most of the students who complete these courses do not gain deep knowledge about the basic
concepts and develop a negative approach to the sciences. In order to deal with this problem, a variety of methods have been
proposed and implemented, during the last decade, which focus on the “active learning” of the participating students. We found
that the methods developed in MIT and NCSU were fruitful and we adopted their approach. Despite research-based evidence of
the success of these methods, they are often met by the resistance of the academic staff. This article describes how one institution
of higher learning organized itself to introduce significant changes into its introductory science courses, as well as the
stages teachers undergo, as they adopt innovative teaching methods. In the article, we adopt the Rogers model of the innovative-decision
process, which we used to evaluate the degree of innovation adoption by seven members of the academic staff. An analysis of
interview and observation data showed that four factors were identified which influence the degree innovation adoption: (1)
teacher readiness to seriously learn the theoretical background of “active learning”; (2) the development of an appropriate
local model, customized to the beliefs of the academic staff; (3) teacher expertise in information technologies, and (4) the
teachers’ design of creative solutions to problems that arose during their teaching. 相似文献
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The Touchstones series of poetry anthologies was first published in the UK between 1968 and 1972 in five volumes. Over a million copies and
three revisions later, Touchstones Now 11–14 appeared in the summer of 2008. Few, if any, books for the classroom can claim such longevity. In this article, the compilers
of the anthologies, Michael and Peter Benton, look back over the 40 years of the series’ life. They reflect upon the principles
which have guided their choices; and the social and political pressures, often exerted by governments, which they have confronted
in their attempt to help school students become enthusiastic, committed and discriminating readers of poetry.
Bionote: Michael and Peter Benton taught in various secondary schools in the UK for 10 years before becoming University Lecturers
in Education. Separately, they have published many articles and academic books on the teaching of English and, together, they
have collaborated on a variety of anthologies for the classroom in addition to the “Touchstones” series, notably their books
on poetry and painting, “Double Vision”, “Painting with Words” and “Picture Poems”. Michael Benton is Emeritus Professor of
Education, University of Southampton; Peter Benton is Emeritus Fellow, St Cross College, & formerly Lecturer in Education,
Department of Educational Studies, University of Oxford. 相似文献
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Rosario Hernández 《Higher Education》2012,64(4):489-502
A distinction is often made in the literature about “assessment of learning” and “assessment for learning” attributing a formative function to the latter while the former takes a summative function. While there may be disagreements among researchers and educators about such categorical distinctions there is consensus that both types of assessment are often used concurrently in higher education institutions. A question that often arises when formative and summative assessment practices are used in continuous assessment is the extent to which student learning can be facilitated through feedback. The views and perceptions of students and academics from a discipline in the Humanities across seven higher education institutions were sought to examine the above question. A postal survey was completed by academics, along with a survey administered to a sample of undergraduate students and a semi-structured interview was conducted with key academics in each of the seven institutions. This comparative study highlights issues that concern both groups about the extent to which continuous assessment practices facilitate student learning and the challenges faced. The findings illustrate the need to consider more effective and efficient ways in which feedback can be better used to facilitate student learning. 相似文献
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Katherine Main 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2010,37(3):77-93
Explicit training in teaming skills (both preservice and inservice) has been identified as a key means of facilitating the
effective functioning of teaching teams (Main, 2007). This case study explored how groupwork tasks within university coursework
can prepare preservice education students to work effectively in teaching teams. Three students in their final year of study
were primed to the skills that have been identified as necessary for successful team practices. The students then participated
in a semi-structured interview about their groupwork experiences at university. Results from this study of preservice teacher
education students reflected findings from studies of students’ groupwork experiences in other disciplines (i.e., business).
Students reported opportunities to practise teamwork. However, they were not explicitly taught “how” to work effectively together.
It was also found that the assessment focus was entirely on the final “product” and not on the group “process”. 相似文献
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Jian-hua Hu 《Frontiers of Education in China》2006,1(3):402-416
After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the administrative system of higher education then was characterized
as “centralized”, “Tiao and Kuai” were segmented (some higher education institutions were directly administered by provincial
governments, and some were affiliated to the relative administrative departments of the state) and higher education institutions
(HEIs) were government-run. The reform in the administrative system of higher education launched in the 1980s broke down the
segmentation of “Tiao and Kuai”, and changed it into a new administrative system emphasizing the role of the provincial governments
(“Kuai-oriented mode”). Thus, HEIs gained more autonomy and tremendous changes have taken place in the relation between HEIs
and the government. However, weakening the government’s administrative control over HEIs and readjusting government-HEIs relations
are still the main concerns in reforming the administrative system of Chinese higher education.
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Translated from Journal of Nanjing Normal University (Social Science), 2005 (4) 相似文献