Students' choice of universities in Germany: structure,factors and information sources used

Student recruitment is an increasingly important topic for universities worldwide. But in order to develop sophisticated recruitment strategies, recruitment officers need to have a clear understanding of how and why students choose colleges. This review compares the German and US research concerning university choice models, choice criteria and information sources prospective students use when exploring their options after school. The paper emphasizes the complexity of the decision-making processes of freshmen and reveals three gaps in the German student recruitment research literature. The development of a German university choice model, an increased application of explorative research methodologies, and the consideration of additional aspects possibly impacting the college choice could help to refine German research approaches.     

The impact of major on college persistence among freshmen

Using national-level data and a two-step procedure combining least squares regression and logit analysis, this paper examines the impact of majors on college persistence among freshmen. Holding other variables constant, women with business majors and undecided majors are less likely to persist than other women. Women with health majors are most likely to persist. Men with education majors and undecided majors are less likely to persist than other men. Men with business majors are slightly more likely to persist than other men. Differences in persistence rates are explained by differences in the relative magnitudes of goal-commitment, subject-interest, social-forces, and self-image effects. Some policy recommendations are provided.     

Faculty and student perceptions on college cheating: evidence from Turkey

Investigation of academic dishonesty has increased markedly in the past two decades; however, the body of research offers inconclusive evidence for many variables. This study examines faculty and student perceptions of in‐class and out‐of‐class cheating behaviours and provides contextual evidence for the prevalence of assessment practices used. Faculty and students differed only slightly in their attitudes toward collegiate cheating and their views on possible reasons for it. We found that the prevalence of teaching and assessment types used in student grading is significantly correlated with perceptions of out‐of‐class cheating, but not with out‐of‐class cheating behaviours. Students with less experience in out‐of‐class assessment display a less ethical attitude toward out‐of‐class cheating.     

教育需求方对高等教育专业选择意愿的调查研究

高等教育的专业设置必须考虑教育需求方的要求 ,调查问卷表明 :学生选择时注重专业设置胜过学校声望与位置 ;学生喜欢选择与经济接轨的专业 ;家长与学生在法律、英语、心理、管理方向的选择上有显著性差异 ;高等教育的招生政策应更灵活 ;有必要对学生进行升学与就业指导。     

本科院校旅游专业办学模式对比分析与发展对策

旅游专业办学模式是高等旅游教育的重要环节,直接影响到旅游人才培养的质量。随着旅游产业的地位提升和转型升级,需要更高层次、更加优秀的旅游专业人才,这就要求高等旅游教育遵循办学规律,积极探索出一条适合本科院校的旅游专业办学之路。在综述国内本科院校旅游专业办学模式的基础上,对比分析旅游学院建制和旅游系部建制两种办学模式及其效果,探讨从特色专业到旅游学院、再到国际化办学的旅游专业办学路线图,最后就提升旅游学科地位、完善旅游人才培养模式、推进产学研合作等提出了具体建议。     

高中生的大学升学抱负和升学选择--兼论其他社会经济因素的影响

根据对安徽省和上海市高中3年级学生的抽样问卷调查分析,结果表明,升学和就业选择不受大学升学抱负安定性的影响,但是本科和专科选择受升学抱负变化的影响,升学抱负形成越早,越有可能到本科院校学习。     

略议高职院校学前教育专业《学前心理学》学科实训

实训是指按照人才培养规律与目标,对学生进行职业技能、应用能力训练的教学过程。加强《学前心理学》实训是由高等职业教育的属性要求、学前教育专业的人才培养目标,以及《学前心理学》的学科性质决定的。高职院校《学前心理学》学科教学应该更新教育理念,体现高职教育的职业性;整合教学内容,突出学科的应用性;加强职业技能能力培养、强化教学的实践性等,将实训贯穿于整个教学过程中,融"教、学、做"为一体,实现学校学习与职业要求的一致性,培养符合社会需要的高素质幼儿教育人才。     

浅议高职高专毕业生就业去向的选择

如今,高职高专院校普遍存在,其毕业生就业问题成为关乎学校发展、关乎社会发展的重大问题,如何指导高职高专院校毕业生妥善选择就业方向至关重要。本文在分析高职高专院校毕业生选择就业去向时面对的各种问题的基础上提出了相应的建议。     

Exploring the potential for and promise of incorporating distributive and procedural justices into post-secondary assessment of student learning

This paper explores the potential of incorporating constructs of distributive justice and procedural justice into summative assessment of student learning in higher education. I systematically compare the process used by managers to evaluate employee performance in organizations – performance appraisal (PA) – with processes used by professors to assess student learning in academe. These procedures are remarkably similar in terms of objectives to facilitate and measure performance/learning, criteria for defining desired performance/learning, the procedures used by raters to evaluate performance/learning, and the procedure used by employees and students to assess fairness of their PA/grades. I then summarize empirical research regarding distributive justice (DJ) and procedural justice (PJ) in organizations. Finally, I posit how positive attitudes and behaviors associated with DJ and PJ in organizations might transfer to benefit students, professors, administrators, and universities in academe.     

高职院校酒店管理专业实践教学中的问题及对策

高职院校酒店管理专业在实践教学中遇到了一些具有普遍性的问题,如学生心态与思想问题,情商低的问题,教学与实践脱节问题,体能及管理制度滞后问题等,本文提出如何解决这些问题的一些措施。     

高校专业对就业率和薪资的影响分析

本文采用麦可思研究院连续三年对中国应届大学毕业生求职与工作能力的调查数据,从本科、高职高专专业大类和主要专业小类着眼分析专业对毕业生毕业半年后就业率和薪资的影响。本文认为,就业率和薪资的影响差距并不是专业之问的教育水平差异造成的,而是受市场供求关系的影响。通过专业的结构性调整即减少失业严重的专业的招生数量,可以有效地提高大学毕业生的就业率。     

五年制高职艺术类专业数学教学改革与结构再建

从当前五年制高职艺术类数学课程体系中存在的问题入手,紧扣高职艺术类数学的学科特色与教学实践,再建数学课程的结构与体系。在教学实践中,将物理常识章节、趣味数学章节、数学实验与数学软件引入高职艺术类数学教学,使学生在充分进行形象思维的同时,增强逻辑思维与推导能力,发展学生的创新意识,成长为现代化建设需要的技能型人才。     

河北省高职学生心理健康状况及其教育的对策

高职院校的大学生作为中国高校学生中一个特殊群体,存在着不同程度的心理问题。本文通过对河北省高职院校大学生心理健康现状及心理健康教育状况的调查分析,提出高职院校应完善心理健康教育教学体系,全面开展心理咨询与辅导,注重教育方法的灵活性,加强心理健康教育的师资队伍建设,学校教育与家庭教育相互配合。     

A model for Islamic education from Turkey: the Imam-Hatip schools

The aim of this article is to examine the Imam-Hatip schools and their basic features, the characteristic model of Islamic education in Turkey that was proposed as an alternative model for other Muslim countries during their madrasa reform movements in the aftermath of the September 11 events in the USA. In the continuation of the madrasa tradition during the Saljuki period under state supervision, along with the modernisation efforts in education since the late Ottoman period, these schools have been revitalised and adapted to the contemporary conditions of educational institutions. At the foundation of these schools, there lay a notion of reconciliation between the ‘traditional’ and ‘modern’. Throughout the years of the Turkish Republic, these schools have constantly become a controversial issue in terms of their number, structure, and student and alumni profiles. Especially after the opening process of the Turkish people and Turkish foreign policies to the world, the issue has become an international one since the 1980s. After the events of 11 September 2001, these schools were offered as an alternative model for madrasas in Muslim countries and therefore drew international attention to themselves.     

Unlocking the potential of the Internet to improve college choice: a comparative case study of college-access Web tools

Students and parents rely on Web-based tools to navigate the college-choice process, yet little research has been done to understand this environment. While this shift has made the process easier to navigate for some, we contend that the move will grow an already large digital divide in the USA. We use Hossler and Gallagher's college-choice framework to examine the substance and function of three college-access Web portals. Our findings suggest these tools are likely to serve many students well in the process, but may exacerbate the digital divide with consequences for low-income students.     

School choice in England: evidence from national administrative data

We study school choice in England using a new dataset containing the choices of all parents seeking a school place in state secondary schools. We provide new empirical evidence to inform how the school choice market functions, including the number of choices made, whether the nearest school is the first choice and the probability of an offer from the first choice school. These indicators show that school choice is actively used by many households in England. We use the rich data available to describe how choices vary by pupil, school and neighbourhood characteristics and how school choice is used differently by different groups and in different parts of the country. For the first time, we are able to present national data on how the school choices made by parents vary according to pupils’ ethnic group and across urban and rural areas. We show, contrary to some existing literature that has relied on smaller and less representative samples of parents and pupils, that school choices do not vary significantly by social background. We show that parents pro-actively use the choice system and present new evidence on the extent to which the current school admissions criteria that prioritise distance penalise poorer families.     

如何防止高等职业教育“晋通化”

当前高等职业教育存在“普通化”的倾向，本从高等职业教育的价值定位，招生选拔制度，培养考核方式及教学评估等方面论述了如何防止高等职业教育“普通化”。     

高职院校学生心理问题分析及教育目标体系建构

高职学生心理健康问题有其自身特点,在分析高职学生心理状况的基础上,提出了合理的高职院校心理健康教育工作目标体系,以期对目前高职院校心理健康教育工作有所启示。     

Major obstacles limiting the development of bilingual education in Chinese college

Bilingual education is introduced in many Chinese colleges today. A number of studies on bilingual education have been done, but few has significant outcome. From a completely new perspective, the author suggests that there are several major obstacles limiting the development of the new trend, i.e., the limited competent faculty, limited appropriate course materials and limited secondary language proficiency students. Recommendations are given to the problems identified.     

Translating norms from Europe to Turkey: Turkey in the Bologna Process

This article focuses on the structural changes Turkish higher education is going through as a result of Turkey’s integration into the European educational space. The focus of the article is the process of policy transfer. For this purpose, the article outlines the changes in Turkish higher education comprehensively to explain the dynamics of the policy transfer. Creation of a national qualifications system and establishment of a quality assurance system are given as examples of policy transfer. The article concludes that while the system is becoming more student-centred, change in higher education is happening in a very top-down fashion, where participation of relevant stakeholders is not ensured.