FACTORS INFLUENCING COLLEGE STUDENTS TO CHOOSE CAREERS WORKING WITH ELDERLY PERSONS

As the proportion of older adults in our society increases, the need for professionals with a knowledge of the aging process and a desire to work with elderly persons is being recognized. Relatively little information is available concerning the factors that contribute to the desire to work with older adults. To explore such factors, 282 college students (35 males and 227 females) ranging in age from 18 to 72, who attended three colleges and one university in central Massachusetts, were examined. For the past 20 years, these academic institutions have offered an intercollegiate, interdisciplinary program in Gerontology studies. Thirty-one percent of the students surveyed planned on specializing in careers working with older adults. While emotional closeness to an older adult during childhood was found to be related to considering a career in health care, having taken care of an elderly person during childhood was significantly associated with a desire to work with older adults. Positive work characteristics most frequently listed by students who planned on working with older adults were: interesting, challenging, emotionally lifting, and productive. However, the students also listed negative work characteristics as well. Those most frequently reported were: difficult, frustrating, and depressing.     

FROM PERSUASION TO ACCOMMODATION IN PUBLIC TWO-YEAR COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT

This was the first of a series of papers presented February 20, 2001 at a national conference sponsored by North Texas State University held in the Omni Hotel Dallas, TX. The author relates the 1950 status of two-year college development, numbers and locations of university professors specializing in the field, and the need to persuade citizens they should have a public two-year college in their midst. Events are traced which led up to the overwhelming demand by the public in the late 1960s and early 1970s to have their own two-year college. This condition precipitated the untiring work of university faculty specialized in this field to accommodate the need for assistance at both the state level planning and for local college establishment. The citizens participatory comprehensive study involvement developed initially as a way of overcoming resistance and persuading citizens they needed a college is a viable approach today for periodically evaluating and future planning to meet changing societal manpower needs. The author urges continued use of action research tools to accommodate evolving local area educational needs.     

ISSUES IN COUNSELING IMMIGRANT COLLEGE STUDENTS

The immigrant population of urban community colleges has grown in recent years, creating new challenges for college counselors. Counseling intervention is essential to enable immigrant students to cope with the stresses of immigration and the effects of those stresses on their college performance. Acculturation is a process that changes with time and that affects students of different ages differently. Cultural variations among immigrants affect social and academic performance in college as well. Developing English language fluency both accompanies and is accompanied by other adjustment issues. College counselors can facilitate both student' adjustment and the college's recognition of immigrant students' cultural perspective.     

大学校园文化在实现大学生社会化中的功能探究

大学生社会化的目标实际上是由人格形成、专业知识与技能形成和社会技能形成三个方面构成的统一体。目前,校园文化工作存在着重物质文化建设和知识传授,轻内涵建设;娱乐性活动过多、心理卫生工作不足;校园文化工作缺乏足够的适应能力等问题。有鉴于此．校园文化通过教育与引导的规范与约束和凝聚与稳定与陶冶与激励两条途径实现其功能,主要对应于思想政治教育、校园德育、专业知识技能教学和校园文化娱乐活动、校园心理卫生工作等方面的校园文化工作。     

从劳动法视角探究兼职大学生遭遇侵权之原因及解决模式

通过对北京某高校随机抽取的400余名学生进行问卷调查,对16名有过特殊兼职经历学生的个别访谈,以及对若干中介单位和用人单位的实地走访,对不同层次法律法规的检索研究和知名专家学者的采访,深入探讨了兼职大学生遭遇侵权的产生原因及对策,力图在现有制度框架下为保护兼职大学生的合法权益提出较为有效的解决途径.     

影响大学生法律意识培养的因素

分析影响法律意识的因素,对大学生法律意识的培养意义重大。就目前内蒙古地区的实际来看,影响大学生法律意识培养的因素包括陈旧的传统法律观念、社会不良因素、学校法制教育、家庭成长环境及大学生自身五个方面的因素。针对这些因素进行有针对性的工作,无疑对大学生法律意识的培养具有积极的意义。     

DOMAIN DIFFERENCES IN THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL BELIEFS OF COLLEGE STUDENTS

This study examined the differences in the epistemological beliefs of college students across major fields of study. Beliefs in fixed ability, simple knowledge, quick learning, and certain knowledge were assessed for 290 students attending a large urban public university. Major fields of study were classified in domains of study according to the hard-soft and pure-applied dimensions of Biglan's well-known classification of academic fields. Additional analyses examined the effects of gender, age, year in college, and GPA. Results indicated that students majoring in pure fields were less likely than those in applied fields to hold naive beliefs in simple knowledge, quick learning, and certain knowledge, and students majoring in soft or pure fields were less likely than others to hold naive beliefs in certain knowledge. Gender, age, and GPA were also related to students' beliefs. The results of this study suggest that students' beliefs about the nature of knowledge and learning are related to the disciplinary contexts in which students select and experience their specialized coursework in college.     

FROM DEVELOPMENTAL EDUCATION TO GRADUATION: A COMMUNITY COLLEGE EXPERIENCE

Using an ex post facto analysis of outcomes data, this paper tracks the academic performances of developmental and non-developmental students and examines the effects that developmental courses have on subsequent academic progress leading up to graduation. Three-year data on developmental students and graduates were analyzed to discern the characteristics of students graduating from the College, and to compare and contrast the characteristics of developmental and non-developmental students who graduated. The College graduates were categorized into four groups with respect to their academic preparation as suggested by their placement scores. During the three-year period considered, over 61% of the College's graduates took one or more developmental courses. This study shows that there is a positive link between the number of developmental courses taken and time to graduation. Consistent with prior studies, it is remarkable that developmental students perform equally well in college level courses as non-developmental students, depending on the number of pre-college level courses taken. As higher education institutions are facing increasing demands for accountability and performance requirements, accurate assessment and placement of students needing interventions become more imperative. However, accountability measures linked to retention, graduation rates, and federal student financial aid may disadvantage community colleges, especially because roughly two-thirds of community college students attend part-time and require remediation.     

A STUDY ON ENGLISH READING PROFICIENCY OF STUDENTS IN COLLEGE

The study attempted to investigate the mean level of the participants' reading proficiency and identify what levels of reading comprehension questions (literal,reorganization and inferential)the participants are able to answer. A written reading comprehension test wag administered. The participants consisted of 45 students enrolled in college English class. The data obtained from a written reading comprehension test,a background questionnaire,and a structured interview which was analyzed by using SPSS. The results indicated that the participants' mean level of reading proficiency Was below the standard.     

高职院校学生德育工作雏议

加强高职生思想道德建设的方式要宽领域、多渠道。全校各部门、各方面要把学生思想道德教育贯穿到各自工作的全过程,形成思想道德教育的合力,齐抓共管,常抓不懈。真正实现"教书育人""管理育人""服务育人"的教育宗旨。培养一代优秀的高职生,必须坚持两手抓:一手抓专业文化基础理论、专业技能的提高;一手抓思想道德素质的提高。只有坚持两手抓,才能达到全面提高,从而加快学校事业发展的进程,保证社会主义建设后继有人。     

CONFIDENCE AND COMPETENCE AMONG COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS: SELF-EFFICACY AND PERFORMANCE IN GRAMMAR

Proper grammar is crucial for effective communication. Two surveys of students in an introductory writing course sought to identify predictors of grammar ability. Students demonstrated a limited grasp of the language, struggling with such issues as the distinction between “it's” and “its.” Women performed better than men at the beginning of the semester, but the gap later narrowed. There was a correlation between self-efficacy (confidence in one's ability to perform a particular task) and grammar ability at the end of the semester. To the knowledge of the authors, this is the first study to empirically link grammar self-efficacy and grammar performance. High school grade point average also predicted grammar ability at the end of the semester.     

大学生们：莫让债务限制了你的梦想

接受大学教育一直被看成是提升生活质量的入场券。这很可能是一个学生将要做出的最重要的决定，同时它也许能在实现人生目标中获得最高的回报率。遗憾的是，一些学生对此决定未作深思熟虑便选择了热门名牌大学，从而承担了巨额债务。由于过度超支，她们自己毁掉了创造辉煌未来的机会。     

DEVIATIONS FROM PREDICTED GROWTH OF ABILITIES FOR MALE AND FEMALE COLLEGE STUDENTS1

126 university seniors were retested with the same battery of precollege aptitude measures administered four years earlier. To evaluate the effect of different educational experiences and orientations, college test performance, corrected for level of high school performance, was correlated with amount of work taken in specific course areas, grades awarded in these areas, and inventory items relating to background and educational philosophy. The results support the notion of greater differentiation in the residual intellectual growth of males. Deviations from predicted growth on the college test performance indices were relatively uncorrelated with each other and more correlated with specific experiences for males than for females.     

ASSESSING LEARNING STYLES TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF PERFORMANCE OF COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS IN DEVELOPMENTAL WRITING PROGRAMS: A PILOT STUDY

Why are many community college students unable to exit remedial college preparation programs and advance into credit courses? Many educators have grappled with this question for years. While many fads and new techniques have been tried, few have been successful, except for learning styles, a research-based approach that has demonstrated statistically significant results. Learning styles refer to the way students concentrate on, process, internalize, and recall new and difficult information. Most people have learning-style preferences, but individual preferences differ significantly and the stronger the preference, the more important it is to provide compatible instructional strategies, especially among less academically successful students whose preferences may be quite different from successful students. With this in mind, two experiments were conducted at an urban community college experiencing difficulty getting remedial students to pass the ACT Writing Skills Test. In both experiments, the majority of students passed the standardized test and improved their scores significantly.     

THREE EXPERIMENTAL ATTEMPTS TO REDUCE ABSENTEEISM FROM COLLEGE CLASSES

Absenteeism is becoming a major problem on the post‐secondary level as some colleges struggle against declining enrollments. Three experiments designed to reduce absenteeism were carried out. In the first, randomly‐selected subjects were contacted on the telephone by a “secretary” who expressed the professor's concern that students attend class regularly and study hard. In the second, the professor initiated three brief interpersonal contacts with randomly‐selected students. As compared with a control group of uncontacted students the intervention reduced absenteeism in the first experiment but not the second. In the third, reward, punishment, and the combination thereof were manipulated. Punishment resulted in a marginally significant reduction in absenteeism compared to a control group. Exam scores were not significantly affected in any of the three experiments. Implications of the results were discussed.     

商贸类学生商务礼仪素养教育探析

在现代经济社会中,商务人员除了要具备专业知识和技能外,还必须具有良好的职业素养。商务礼仪是商务人员在商务活动中应遵循的行为规范和准则,商务礼仪素养可谓是商务人员重要的职业素养。构建培养商贸类学生商务礼仪素养的教学体系,改革商务礼仪教学形式是职业院校教育教学中不可或缺的部分。商贸类学生商务礼仪素养的养成,将会增强其职业竞争能力,并为其职业发展创造美好前景。