Success Breeds Success. Moroccan and Turkish Student Mentors in the Netherlands

Of all the major migrant groups in theNetherlands, Turkish and Moroccan pupilsperform the least well in school. Althoughsmaller in number there is also a Turkish andMoroccan group that is successful in school. Inseveral projects these successful Turkish andMoroccan higher education students give, as astudent mentor, guidance and counselling toTurkish and Moroccan pupils in secondaryeducation. International literature hasextensively reviewed the effects of mentoring.The content of mentoring as such, however, hasnot been studied so much. In the article I willfocus on this somehow neglected aspect in theresearch. I will, based on my own qualitativeresearch, go into depth on how mentoring ispracticed on a daily basis. With the aim todevelop (the beginning of) a methodology I willlook how a mentor relationship develops overtime and describe the variety of themes amentor relationships deals with.     

Comparing higher education systems

This paper discusses the range of comparative studies which might legitimately be attempted. It considers the separate issue of whether they must necessarily be directed towards the testing of pre-constructed hypotheses. It describes how the Brunel-Gothenburg-Bergen international team is attempting to compare their three national systems and academic working within them.     

Computerized Cognitive Diagnostic Adaptive Testing: Effect on Remedial Instruction as Empirical Validation

The purpose of this study is to show the usefulness of cognitive diagnoses for remedial instruction. Cognitive diagnoses were done by an adaptive testing system using the rule-space methodology, which was developed by K. K. Tatsuoka and her associates (K. K. Tatsuoka, 1983, 1990; K. K. Tatsuoka & M. M. atsuoka, 1987; M. M. Tatsuoka & K. K. Tatsuoka, 1989). The results of the study strongly indicate that knowing students'knowledge states prior to remediation is very effective and that the rule-space method can effectively diagnose students' knowledge states and can point out ways for remediating their errors quickly with minimum effort. It is also found that the design of instructional units for remediation can be effectively guided by the rule-space model, because the determination of all possible knowledge states in a domain of interest, given an incidence matrix, is based on a partially ordered tree structure of knowledge states, which is equivalent to item-score patterns determined logically from the incidence matrix.     

HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE WORLD OF WORK: AN OVERVIEW

This article presents an overview of the state of the art in studies of higher education and the world of work, based on papers, some of which are published in this issue, presented at the 1992 annual meeting of the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers. It considers the contributions made to the study of the subject by different disciplines and sketches the range of relationships between higher education and work. It discusses the contribution of higher education to the labour market, its diversity and dynamics, and the employment experiences of graduates. It analyses the different value systems of the two sides, their expressions of needs, and reciprocal impacts. It asks what role government and institutions play in effecting the relationship. It analyses the knowledge and skills content of higher education. And, finally, it offers a research agenda. The emphasis of the paper is on the substantive issues against their institutional and structural aspects.