Adaptation Of First-year Students Research Articles

ADAPTATION OF FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS TO THE CONDITIONS OF DISTANCE LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

The article deals with the issue of first-year students’ adaptation to the conditions of distance educational environment in a higher education institution. The theoretical aspects of the problem under study are revealed. The concept of "adaptation of first-year students" is clarified as a complex process of integration into a new social environment, which involves the assimilation and reproduction of relevant norms, values and roles, building new social relations for the purpose of harmonious coexistence and establishing effective interaction with participants in the educational process of a higher education institution (administration, teaching stuff, curator, parents, members of the academic group). The classification of types (forms) of adaptation is presented; the following forms are singled out: active, passive, social, didactic, psychological, formal, socio-psychological, physiological and professional. The characteristic problems of first-year students’ adaptation in the conditions of distance learning in higher education institutions are identified related to self-organization of activities and mastering new types of it, disorientation in the organizational issues of the distance educational process, lack of skills to independently process a large amount of material, the ability to use educational platforms, Google applications, video conferencing, social networks, general student communities, etc. The program "I am a student" is designed; it is aimed at optimizing the process of adaptation of first-year students in the conditions of distance learning in higher education and preventing their maladjustment. Its conceptual and content aspects are characterized. The directions (organizational, informational, psychological, preventive) and stages (organizational and diagnostic, motivational and content, final and reflective) of the program implementation are indicated. The content of each block of the program is described in detail; the following blocks are singled out: educational and orientation, social and orientation, social and adaptation, and sociocultural. The expected results of the program implementation are predicted at the level of each first-year student (activity, mobility, independence, stress resistance, self-control, self-organization, readiness to implement their own educational trajectory) and at the level of the student group (absence of conflicts, involvement in the academic community, academic performance, integrity of the student group, readiness to provide support and assistance, etc.)

Research of the socio-psychological adaptation problem of college freshmen

The adaptation of first-year students is one of the main problems in the field of modern research. The adaptation period takes place during the entire training period. However, the most important stage is the training in the first year, which requires its own foundation. The professional activity of a future specialist depends on the level of his adaptation. The article presents the results of an ascertaining experiment to study the socio-psychological adaptation of college freshmen. The research work was carried out on the basis of the Almaty State Polytechnic College. The study involved first-year students studying in various fields. The study showed that there are students in the educational institution who find it difficult to adapt. It is necessary to create optimal conditions for the successful adaptation of students to college. In order to overcome anxiety, fear, communication difficulties, correct self-esteem, correct formation of one's self in the process of adaptation to college, a specially developed training program of psychological support should be implemented, aimed at creating a favorable psychological climate in the team, as well as the development of effective interpersonal communication skills.

Pedagogical potential of the discipline «Russian language and culture of speech» in the adaptation of first-year students

Pedagogical potential of the discipline «Russian language and culture of speech» in the adaptation of first-year students

ADAPTATION OF FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS TO INDEPENDENT WORK IN HIGHER SCHOOL

This article reveals the causes of difficulties in adaptation of first-year students to the training process in higher school and ways of their elimination. It concretizes the possibilities of independent work.

Адаптация студентов-первокурсников с разной межполушарной организацией мозга к дистанционному обучению в вузе

The spread of the COVID-19 infection has posed new challenges to first-year students in terms of their adaptation to the learning conditions at universities, including those associated with distance education. The aim of this article was to analyse the adaptation of first-year students to distance learning at the university, depending on their individual typological organization of hemispheric asymmetry. Materials and methods. The research was performed in 2019–2020 and involved first-year students of Samara State Medical University. Their individual typological indicator of the psycho-emotional state was compared with various indicators of the psycho-emotional state in the activity-stereotypical and activitysituational conditions. The AC-5 Aktivatsiometr hardware and software complex was used. Results. Completely new data on the psycho-emotional sphere of students were revealed. In 2019, when firstyear students attended classes on campus during their adaptation period, the differences (upward or downward) of activity-stereotypical and activity-situational indicators from the individual typological indicator, albeit they pointed to non-optimal situational working state of the nervous system, were not critical. In 2020, all educational institutions, including medical universities, turned to distance learning. As a result, a significant number of subjects showed excessive deviations in the abovementioned indicators and strain on the adaptive potential, which indicates predominance of mental overexcitation in the course of repeated switching between distance and on-campus education during the semester. Adaptation against the background of such a psycho-emotional state significantly increases the likelihood of inadequate reactions in first-year students and causes nervousness in their relationships with peers and teachers, which, in turn, can pose serious obstacles to fulfilling their life potential during senior years. The physiological mechanisms outlined in the article will form the scientific basis for developing measures to reduce maladaptation among first-year students and choosing the optimal learning style, as well as for effective emotional regulation and self-regulation of medical students.

Annual dynamics of parameters of physical development of boys and girls aged 18 and 19

The questions concerning the terms of juvenile age body measurement as well as body composition variability remain relevance and academic novelty. Such studies results data are essential for systematic analysis on secular trend of young generation development.Material and methods. Longitudinal study of physical development (length, body weight, muscle and fat component) of boys and girls aged 18 and 19, studying at 1–2 courses of university and living in a dormitory has been applied.Results and discussion. In boys and girls aged 18–19, body length and body weight have increased for 1 year on average by 1.5 and 0.9 cm and by 1.3 and 1.2 kg, respectively. In 22.6 % of boys and 54.8 % of girls body length does not change. The annual changes in the fat component are not reliable, whereas the muscle component increases significantly by 3 % in boys and by 0.8 % in girls. Students living in a dormitory often experience a lack of night sleep, they do not have enough physical activity, consume not enough calories, valuable proteins and fats. Because of this, physical development may deteriorate.Conclusions. The annual variability of the indicators of physical development of students aged 18–19 years indicates the ongoing processes of growth and development, which are more pronounced in boys, in girls there is a tendency to stabilize the length of the body. Knowledge about the sensitivity of the body of first-year students mastering the requirements for studying at a university and independent living in a dormitory is necessary for the organization of work on pedagogical support during the adaptation of first-year students.

Methods of adaptation of first-year students in higher education institution, as a basis for involvement in academic and student life at an early stage of education

While studying at a higher educational institution, a student is immersed in a unique world with its own rules and laws. Training in various forms of specialization lasts from 4 to 5.5 years. During this time, the student manages to replenish his knowledge base with unique competencies and qualities that will later help to achieve successful career growth. It is obvious that getting a higher education plays a significant role in the formation of a personality, higher schools have everything necessary to test the acquired knowledge and skills. The flexibility of the curricula allows students to choose which disciplines they want to study. But before starting to function comfortably in an educational environment, students must go through adaptation. In the entire history of the existence of educational organizations, there was no higher educational institution where the student felt comfortable and cozy from the first days. This article pays special attention to the methods and forms of undergoing the adaptation period for first-year students on the example of the implementation of a number of activities taking place at the Institute No. 1 “Aviation Technology” of the Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University).

Information support of adaptation of students of the 1st course to education in higher education institutions (based on the example of lviv polytechnic national university)

The purpose of the article is to study the experience of developing and implementing an informationresource to improve the adaptation of first-year students to study in higher education. The methodology is toapply general scientific methods of analysis, generalization, systematization, and comparison, which allowedto develop of a hierarchical structure of the process of adaptation of first-year students in the educationaland social environment of higher education to design and fill information resources for student interactionwith departments university (for example, Lviv Polytechnic National University). The scientific novelty is theexpansion of theoretical knowledge and practical skills to create an information resource that will help studentsfind the necessary and useful information to facilitate its adaptation. Conclusions. Creating an interactiveinformation space for the adaptation of first-year students provides an opportunity to ensure the successfuladaptation of students to new challenges in their lives. The management of higher education institutions isinterested in the fastest possible educational, scientific, creative, sports, and social adaptation of students.The proposed hierarchical structure will determine the main directions of adaptation of students dependingon the peculiarities of the organization of student life in higher education. Each direction of adaptationcontains its own sub-goals, which detail the activities in this direction. Achieving the mentioned sub-goals isensured by appropriate means and recommendations. The offered information resource will allow to carry outinformation support of the student in the course of its adaptation. This resource will greatly simplify the searchfor the necessary information for educational, scientific, creative, and social activities of the student, help inorganizing independent work, and provide feedback to the first-year student with the structural units of highereducation.Keywords: adaptation, an adaptation of freshmen, an institution of higher education, informationeducational space, social adaptation, psychological adaptation, freshmen.

Teaching First-Year Students: Literature Review

The effectiveness of university academic process depends on how quickly and effectively a first-year student overcomes the challenges of the induction process. Creating conditions for the successful induction of students in the educational process is one of the priorities of higher education. This paper focuses on the literature review devoted to the main directions of current scientific research on the problem of adaptation of first-year students.

Критерии и показатели адаптации студентов первого курса к образовательному процессу в вузе

The issue of adaptation of modern first-year students to the educational process at the university is one of the current pedagogical tasks. Successful adaptation significantly affects the quality of received education, the degree of formation of personal and professional qualities, contributes to the development of motivation, self-education, and self-development. The purpose of the research is to substantiate the criteria, indicators, and levels of adaptation of first-year students to the learning process at the university. The material for the study was the domestic scientific sources of studying the peculiarities of the adaptation process of students to educational activities in higher education. Research methods: analysis and generalization of psychological-pedagogical and educational-methodical literature on the research topic. We determine as the main criteria for the adaptation of first-year students to the university, the adaptive potential and professionally important qualities of students, consider these concepts, their structure, and their basic properties. On the basis of the analysis and generalization of the existing indicators of the implementation of the adaptive potential, we formulate the author's indicators for determining the level of its development. The degree of formation of professionally important qualities of students are low, medium, and high levels of development of emotional intelligence, negative communicative attitude, intellectual lability, and stress tolerance.

Адаптація студентів-першокурсників до умов навчання у закладах вищої освіти

The problem of adaptation of first-year students is a topical issue of higher education institutions. Adaptation of students is a rather complex and long process that lasts during all years of study in a higher education institution, but the most important and problematic period is the period of study in the first year. One of the important criteria for the adaptation of freshmen to the conditions of stay and the learning process in higher education is their health. The stronger the health of students, the more successful their adaptation. The article presents the deteriorating health of first-year students; interpretation of the concept of «adaptation»; various forms (types) of adaptation of student's youth are considered; factors influencing the adaptation process; difficulties in adapting freshmen. Independent physical education and sports in extracurricular time contribute to the more successful adaptation of freshmen to the learning process. The article considers the most common forms of independent physical education classes among students. Adaptation takes place during all years of study, but the most important and problematic period is the period of study in the first year. Admission to free economic education is determined by changes in the living conditions of students, leads to the destruction of previously developed habits, skills, values ​​of former high school students, partial or complete loss of relationships with former classmates and more. There are several (types) of forms of adaptation: formal adaptation, refers to the cognitive and informational adaptation of students to the new environment, to the structure of higher education, to the requirements and their obligations; social adaptation – the process of internal integration of groups of first-year students and the integration of these groups with the student environment as a whole; didactic adaptation, concerns the preparation of students for new forms and methods of educational work in higher education.

Features of the socio-psychological adaptation of first-year students of a medical university

Features of the socio-psychological adaptation of first-year students of a medical university

Research of factors influencing the process of adaptation of first-year students to the conditions of higher educational institution

The article presents an analysis of the results of the study of the physiological, psychological, social and motivational characteristics of students. The logic of research led to the use of a complex of such research methods as theoretical methods (analysis, synthesis, refinement of concepts), empirical methods (questioning, testing, self-assessment, methods of statistical information processing). Compiled a detailed percentage of the degree of influence of various factors on the course of the process of adaptation of students to new learning conditions. A detailed analysis of all evaluated criteria was carried out, and the adaptation features of the state of first-year students were disclosed. The results of the study can be useful to teachers, curators and representatives of administrative management positions of a higher educational institution in organizing the conditions of the educational process.

Информационные технологии как фактор развития социально-педагогической адаптации студентов-первокурсников в системе высшей школы

The article deals with the impact of information technologies on the development of social and pedagogical adaptation of fi rst-year students in the higher school system. Information technologies that contribute to the active development of social and pedagogical adaptation include digital (electronic) libraries, information and educational portals, websites and applications, e-mail, educational video tutorials, messengers, Google Forms. Information technologies enshrined in the Federal Law of 29.12.2012 N 273-FL “On education in the Russian Federation” are considered. The main aspects of the phenomenon of socio-pedagogical adaptation of first-year students are reflected, the principles of working on the Google Forms platform and the impact of information technologies on the process of socio-pedagogical adaptation from the positions of the teacher/curator of the student group and students are described in more detail. As a result of the analysis, it was determined that the use of information technologies makes a signifi cant contribution to the process of successful social and pedagogical adaptation of fi rst-year students in the higher school system.

Process of adaptation of first-year students to study at university as pedagogical phenomenon: structure and characteristics

The article is devoted to the study and analysis of the process of adaptation of first-year students to studying at a university as a pedagogical phenomenon. In the process of developing the personality of a future specialist, a significant role is played by the initial stage of studying at a university. Its complexity lies in restructuring the whole system of value-cognitive orientation of the student’s personality, developing new methods of cognitive activity and forming certain types of interpersonal relationships. The main characteristic of this stage is the process of students’ adaptation to university education. The aim of the paper is to develop scientific ideas about the nature, structure, and characteristics of students’ adaptation to the educational process in a university. The article considers scientific works on the problem under study, reveals different approaches of researches to adaptation Based on the analysis of scientific literature and experience, the author defines the terms “adaptation”, “the process of adaptation”, “adaptedness”. The comparative analysis of the terms “adjustment” and “adaptation”, “imitation” and “adaptation”, “socialization” and “adaptation” is carried out. Special attention is also given to the significant role of education for the process of adaptation and socialization. The structure of the process of students’ adaptation to studying at a university including types, phases, and forms of adaptation is thoroughly investigated and described in the article. Based on the results of students’ recitation the paper presents the list of the most common difficulties in the process of adaptation of first-year students in order of their significance.

Features of adaptation and adaptive capabilities of first-year students with different strategies for translating meanings

Successful adaptation of students to the University environment is a prerequisite for effective educational and professional activities and the formation of a professional personality. The article describes the study of adaptation and adaptive capabilities of students with different strategies for translating meanings, the relationship between verbal and non-verbal activity of students and their adaptation to higher education, and adaptive capabilities. The sample was made up of the first year students studying in the areas of Psychology and Linguistics. A total of 78 people participated in the study, including 56 girls, 22 boys aged 17-20 years (M=17.9; SD=0.58; 71.8% of girls). The following methods were used: survey-method "strategies of meaning transfer" by E. A. Suroedova, the method of "Adaptation of University students" by T. D. Dubovitskaya, A.V. Krylova, multi-level personality questionnaire (MLE) of "Adaptability" A. G. Maklakova and S. V. Chermiyanina; statistical methods (descriptive statistics, Mann Whitney U test, Kruskal-Wallis test, Wilcoxon Rank-Sum Test, Spearman rank correlation coefficient). The study established differences in the adaptation and adaptability of first-year students with different strategies of meaning transfer, and revealed the relationship with the adaptive capabilities of students and verbal activity. The results of the study can be useful for psychological services to help students adapt and develop communication skills, namely the ability to translate meanings, and researchers in the field of educational psychology.

Закономерности макродинамики вузовской адаптированности первокурсников

Academic adaptation serves as a foundation for further professional development of a sudject. The paper considers the dynamics of first year students who entered university in 2011-2019 to identify the nature of correlation of social and socio-psychological adaptations. A systemic approach has been used to examine the data. The results obtained helped to identify correlations and structure of academic adaptation of first year students. Intercorrelations of the components have been examined; functional regularity has been identified using the average for each structure component; basic attribute of the structures and their systemic entities have been found. The structure was studied using divergence, coherence, and structure orderliness indices. The macrodynamics of academic adaptation has been revealed.

Philosophical and psychological considerations when choosing educational development for students to adjust to studies

According to earlier research, majority of first-year undergraduates have some difficulties adapting to the study pattern in universities. A series of papers state that this process is greatly affected by the regional realities where they live, therefore the researchers designed and tested a number of educational developments leading to better adapting. Herewith, the analysis of findings does not suggest that a combination of educational developments identified by theory and verified experimentally could be described as necessary and sufficient. It necessitates further research in this area and it’s efficiency will depend on choosing the right methodology for the research. Based on the four-level methodology of scientific analysis by I.V. Blauberg and E.G. Yudin there is rationale to incorporate the provisions of the activity theory when analyzing a package of educational developments. It’s implementation in physical education would ensure first-year undergraduates adapt to the study pattern in a university as effectively as possible.The main methods of research included the analysis and consolidation of scientific and methodological data, summative experiment to determine the functional state of students and correlation of the findings with their biological age. Experimentation was carried out by the Department of Physical Education, Chuvash State Agricultural Academy, Russia. The research resulted in supplementing the earlier proposed set of educational developments with other two. The first of them is to objectify the need for physical exercise as an effective way to enhance adaptation of firstyear students. The second one is to have monitoring and corrective measures in place as part of the activity. Together with the earlier recommended framework, these educational developments ensure all functionalities of the activity to improve the studied process of first-year students adaptation to the study pattern in a university. Whereby a set of educational developments could be termed as a coherent organic system

Адаптація першокурсників до організаційних форм навчання в закладі вищої освіти

Адаптація першокурсників до організаційних форм навчання в закладі вищої освіти

Анализ адаптационных процессов в образовательной среде студентов с инвалидностью младших курсов

The article discusses the existing problems associated with the adaptation of first-year students with disabilities, who have profound impairments of body function (totally blind, deaf, and lesions of the musculoskeletal system) in the educational process at the university. Cause-and-effect relationships were established in the existing difficulties of relationships with classmates, which depend both on the student and on the psychosocial climate in the group.