A Scale for Measuring Student Perceptions of Quality: An Australian Asian Perspective

ABSTRACT

Australia is rapidly moving into the globally competitive higher education market. As a consequence the issue of consumer satisfaction and quality is emerging as an area of interest. This paper focuses on the issue of student understandings of quality by developing a consumer derived scale which identifies the quality variables related to student perceptions with the university experience. The scale was derived from focus groups, in-depth interviews and through an examination of the literature. The scale was tested and refined on a cohort of 351 Australian and Singaporean/Hong Kong students studying business subjects at an Australian University. The refined scale comprised 25 quality variables which factored into four orthogonal components. The mean values of the variables and factors were examined to make inferences about how educational marketing practitioners can be assisted.     

新时代中国学生跨文化科研学习困境与超越——基于荷兰博士导师视角的质性研究

培养一流人才国际竞争力是新时代中国高等教育国际化和"双一流"建设的重要目标。基于16位荷兰研究型大学博士导师的访谈,运用Atlas.ti 7.5质性分析软件,分析了中国学生跨文化科研学习特点。结果显示,中国学生勤奋、专注、充满热情、学习能力强、能迎难而上的特点赢得荷兰导师高度认可,但在语言能力、学习主动性、批判思维、跨文化沟通能力、合作能力等方面存在不足,需重点培养。此外,与中国学生的跨文化碰撞,不仅提升了导师的文化回应指导能力,也促使他们自我审视和改进习惯性指导方式。这些发现可为中国高校培养国际化一流人才跨文化学习力提供借鉴。     

高等学校体育教育专业教学中学生创新能力的培养

创新是教育思想的灵魂,作为高等教育中的一个重要组成部分,学校体育教育必须顺应新世纪的发展要求,更新传统的思想和教学方法,培养具有创新能力的学生,加强体育师资队伍的建设,实施创新性体育教育.     

高等学校体育教育专业教学中学生创新能力的培养

创新是教育思想的灵魂,作为高等教育中的一个重要组成部分,学校体育教育必须顺应新世纪的发展要求,更新传统的思想和教学方法,培养具有创新能力的学生,加强体育师资队伍的建设。实施创新性体育教育。     

网络文化与高校学生教育管理

网络文化是一把双刃剑,它一方面带给大学生们学习、娱乐的便利,另一方面也给高校学生教育管理工作带来了挑战。为此,笔者从网络文化的特点入手,对网络文化的负面影响加以分析,并探讨高校学生管理的新对策。     

Internationalization of British Universities: Learning from the Experiences of International Counselling Students

This retrospective qualitative study investigated the experiences of 12 international students in a postgraduate counselling programme at a higher education (HE) institution in the UK. Results from an earlier empirical study on these students (Pattison, Counselling and Psychotherapy Research 3: 107–113, 2003) were mapped against concepts derived from a content analysis of Turner and Robson’s (2008) work on the internationalization of HE institutions. The focus is on what can be learned from the perceptions of participants when reframed and reviewed through an internationalization lens. The paper suggests ways in which British universities can enhance the development of academic and intercultural competencies and support the international counselling student to receive an internationalized HE experience.     

论高校“三生教育”的实践途径——大学生志愿者服务

大学生志愿者服务符合当代大学生身心发展特点,切合＂三生教育＂教育方式的要求,深化了＂三生教育＂课堂教学的内容,强化了教学效果,有助于＂三生教育＂终极目标的实现,可以成为高校＂三生教育＂的有效而重要的实践途径之一。考虑到＂三生教育＂课程实践性极强的特点以及志愿者服务活动的特性与优势,可以考虑将志愿者服务活动整合为＂三生教育＂的实践课程。     

网络环境下高校师德培育的困境与策略

本文分析了网络文化引发的德育环境的诸多变化,及其对当前师德培育工作造成的困难,提出了在网络环境下,高校创新师德培育工作的基本要求和策略。     

The Research Training Experiences of Doctoral Students Linked to Australian Cooperative Research Centres

This paper reports on the research trainingexperiences of Australian doctoral studentsworking in or funded by Cooperative ResearchCentres (CRCs), notes how their levels ofsatisfaction compare with those of theircounterparts in regular university science andtechnology disciplines and assesses to whatextent the CRC program is achieving its hopeswith respect to PhD training. Findings arebased on data from a survey of all enrolled PhDstudents in two research-intensive universitiesin Australia, together with supplementary datafrom student and supervisor interviews. Findings indicate that in the main, CRC-relatedPhD students fare well compared with theircounterparts in regular university departmentsand that on a number of indicators CRC-relatedstudents recorded higher levels of satisfactionwith their course experience. This situationsuggests that CRCs are playing a significantand worthwhile role in research training inAustralia.     

在校大学生与高校之间的法律关系研究

在校大学生与高校之间的法律关系,目前存在着民事法律关系说、行政法律关系说、特别权力关系说、教育法律关系说、混合法律关系说等不同观点,通过对这些观点的分析,笔者认为,在校大学生与高校之间的法律关系是一种混合关系,主体上是教育法律关系,其次在某些领域还存在着民事法律关系。     

Effective Cost-Sharing Models in Higher Education: Insights from Low-Income Students in Australian Universities

This study examines the global trend in shifting university costs from national governments to individual students and families, with a specific focus on the existing cost-sharing model in Australian higher education. The research examines the manner in which the availability of income-contingent loans (through the Higher Education Contribution Scheme, or HECS) enters into individual cost assessments and evaluative frameworks during the university exploration and search process of low-income Australian youth, and the resulting lessons that might be applied to other national contexts. Semi-structured interviews with 16 participants addressed a broad range of issues related to the development of educational aspirations, and how beliefs and attitudes about cost influenced participants’ understanding and decision-making regarding tertiary enrollment and post-graduate plans. A number of discreet and related themes emerged from analysis of the interviews, including motivations for attending university; pre-university cost considerations; self-assessments of skills, abilities, and personal traits and characteristics; general financial orientation; pre-university experiences and influences; and the role of others including family, peers, teachers and other school staff. The author concludes that the Australian system is worthy of consideration by other nations as a possible mechanism for enhancing access to higher education for individuals who might otherwise not possess the opportunity to participate.     

A Retrospective Study of South Asian Further Education College Students and their Experiences of Secondary School

This paper evaluates the results from a survey of further education college students and the processes of their secondary schooling. Postal survey responses from 109 randomly sampled college students (aged 16-19) from three colleges in the city of Birmingham provide the empirical base for the current research. The objectives of the study are to retrospectively analyse the secondary school experiences of South Asian college students currently in further education, probing key educational processes by ethnicity and gender. Respondents revealed their approaches towards education in general, teachers, religion and culture and parents. The broad conclusion suggests that respondents had managed to develop mixed 'educational identities', encompassing elements of the home as well as the school, aimed at permitting the effective transition from further into higher education. Differences were found between Hindu, Sikh and Muslim respondents and between genders.     

Help-Seeking Experiences and Attitudes among African American, Asian American, and European American College Students

The study examined African American, Asian American, and European American college students’ previous direct and indirect experiences of seeking professional psychological services and related attitudes. Survey data were collected from 254 European American, 182 African American and 82 Asian American college students. Results revealed that fewer African American and Asian American college students had sought professional psychological services, knew someone who had sought psychological services, and knew a close person who was diagnosed with a psychological disorder, relative to European American students. Furthermore, African American and Asian American participants showed less favorable attitudes on a variety of help-seeking attitudes, compared to the European American group.     

The Social and Demographic Characteristics of Direct and Delay Entry Nursing Students in Australian Universities

This national study compares the social and demographic characteristics of direct and delay entry nursing students in a earlier group of 1551 students in higher education programs (1987‐1990) with the national study group of 2295 students sampled in 1995. Using a specially constructed socio‐economic variable for comparison the analyses demonstrated a significant difference in the socio‐economic level of the household for the direct entry group but not for the delay entry group. There was also a significant difference between males and females in their direct and delay entry patterns. Further, there was a significant difference in the location of school attended for most of their secondary education for the direct entry group but not for the delay entry group. For both direct and delay entry students there was a significant difference in the number of siblings, the level of education attained by the mother and the income received by the mother in the households of the earlier and latter study groups.     

Teachers' Prior Experiences and Actual Perceptions of Professional Identity

Abstract

After a review of literature, 14 items were generated which represent teachers' professional identity. The participating teachers (n = 28) were requested to express and clarify their actual perception for each item. In addition they were asked to draw so‐called story‐lines from the present to the past and to clarify the highest and lowest points in these lines. The respondents were secondary school teachers with an average teaching experience of 21 years. All of them perceived their actual professional identity as positive. The teachers' stories of their experiences demonstrate so‐called progressive rather than regressive lines in their careers. Some teachers also demonstrate so‐called stability story‐lines, i.e. lines without high(est) and low(est) points. It is argued that—in the long term—these and other research findings can be relevant to those who are responsible in schools for the further development of teachers' careers.     

师范生弱势群体的个性弱点及其对策

在师范院校选取口齿不清,表达有障碍,性格内向和沉默寡言师范生共293名,采用卡特尔16种个性因素量表进行个性测评,结果显示：1．弱势群体师范生有孤独、冷漠、情感分裂等倾向,在学习和生活中缺乏信心;2．大一的新生适应性问题突出,大二师范生较为急躁,有较大的挫折感;3．弱势群体师范生较多为焦虑、内向、怯懦,情绪更趋于不稳定。因此,师范生弱势群体具有较多的个性弱点,需要给予更多的教育指导和帮助,让其更好的度过大学学习生活,成为个性健全的人。