Students In Academic Settings Research Articles

Addressing the links between and internal vs. external regulation factors, achievement emotions and gender in problematic use of ICT at university.

The study of internal and external regulation in the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and the analysis of academic emotions have become increasingly important due to their impact on academic life at university. This research aims to investigate the links between internal vs. external regulation factors, achievement emotions, and gender in the problematic use of ICT among university students. The study recruited 317 university students, predominantly female (72.51%), using an ex-post facto design. The SRT-ERT scale was used to assess technology-related behaviors, and the AEQ Scales measured academic emotions before, during, and after class. Correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis, and ANOVA were employed to identify significant relationships. Significant relationships were identified between regulatory behaviors, with male students exhibiting more dysregulated behavior and greater exposure to dysregulatory technology environments. Individual and contextual behavioral nonregulation and dysregulation in the use of ICT were significantly predictive of negative academic emotions. The findings suggest that both personal and contextual factors of regulation significantly influence the emotional experiences of students in academic settings. The study highlights the need for psycho-educational interventions to promote better regulatory behaviors among university students, particularly males.

Parental Expectations and Student’s Morality Mediating Role of Frustration Intolerance

This study aimed to examine how student morality was affected by parents’ expectations and the emphasis was on moral disengagement and academic dishonesty. The study further demonstrated the mediating role of frustration intolerance between parental expectations and students’ morality. A sample of students was chosen from various educational institutions (colleges and universities) in the Attock and Wah Cantt districts. For data collection, the researchers used four reliable scales namely, Living up Parental Expectations Inventory (LPEI), Frustration Discomfort Scale (FDS), Moral Disengagement Scale (MDS) and Academic Dishonesty Scale (ADQ). The findings from the research showed that students striving to live according to their parent’s expectations, students frequently indulge in moral disengagement and academic dishonesty. The findings additionally indicated that male students exhibited a greater degree of moral disengagement and academic dishonesty than female students furthermore frustration intolerance partially mediates the relationship between parents’ expectations and the moral behaviour of learners. The study findings suggest that to promote and fortify ethical actions in students, parents' desire needs to be handled effectively. By considering the impact of the pressure of parental expectations on moral disengagement and academic dishonesty, parents and educationists can organise collective efforts to create a supportive atmosphere to encourage integrity and honesty among students in academic settings.

Differences in Teachers’ Assessments of Students by English Learner Status

This paper investigates potential disparities in how teachers perceive academic achievement between English Learner (EL) students and their non-EL counterparts. Using data on elementary and middle school students in North Carolina, I compare teachers' academic assessments of EL students to those of non-EL students in the same class with the same standardized-test-based achievement. Results reveal that teachers hold more negative perceptions of achievement for EL students compared to academically comparable non-EL peers. These results emphasize the added difficulties experienced by EL students in academic settings, compounding the challenges they already encounter from language barriers.

Role of Locus of Control and Self-Efficacy in Predicting Academic Procrastination: A Quantitative Analysis

Abstract: The current research aimed at studying about locus of control and self-efficacy acting as possible predictors for academic procrastination among students while also assessing the relationships between all the variables and finding any gender differences among them. Procrastination is a very common phenomena observed in many areas of life but can be specially seen among students in academic settings. Many researches have also found the negative effects of academic procrastination on students so it becomes important to know more about it and how it is related to some other aspects in our daily life. A total of N=100 students were part of the study including males (N=50) and females (N=50). For data collection Procrastination assessment scale –students, Rotter’s locus of control scale and General self-efficacy scale was utilised. After data analysis it was found that locus of control and self-efficacy do act as significant predictors for academic procrastination and there were no significant gender differences found among these.

Editorial: Are We Addressing “Quiet Quitting” in Faculty, Staff, and Students in Academic Settings?

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Adapting systematic scoping study methods to identify cancer-specific physical activity opportunities in Ontario, Canada

BackgroundIdentifying cancer-specific physical activity programs and post-secondary courses targeting students in academic settings (i.e., “real world” opportunities) may promote physical activity behaviors among cancer survivors. Using knowledge synthesis methods such as systematic scoping study methods may facilitate knowledge tool development and guide evidence-based practice to improve knowledge transfer. However, identifying these opportunities poses a challenge as systematic scoping study methods have yet to be applied and adapted to this context. Thus, to extend systematic scoping study methods, the purpose of the current investigation is to describe the adaptation of systematic scoping study methods in the context of cancer-specific “real world” opportunities in Ontario, Canada.MethodsSystematic scoping study methods were adapted to develop a knowledge tool, which was a credible resource website for researchers, clinicians, and survivors. Three search strategies including Advanced Google Search, targeted website search, and consultations with experts were used to identify eligible (e.g., appropriate for cancer survivors, offered in the community) cancer-specific physical activity programs. Only the targeted website search was used to search post-secondary institutions because they are centralized onto one government website.ResultsFifty-eight programs and 10 post-secondary courses met the eligibility criteria. Relevant data from these opportunities were extracted, charted, synthesized, and uploaded onto the resource website. The most successful search strategy for cancer-specific physical activity programs was the targeted website search followed by Google Advanced Search and consultations with content experts.ConclusionsChallenges were experienced due to lack of standard reporting among opportunities, bias of potentially relevant records, and changing nature of resulting records. The current investigation demonstrated that systematic scoping study methods can be applied to cancer-specific physical activity programs and post-secondary courses in the context of cancer survivorship in Ontario yielding robust results. The method can be further adapted and updated in future knowledge syntheses in health-related contexts.Systematic review registrationThe systematic scoping review method protocol has not been registered.

Lise Öğrencilerinin Olumsuz Değerlendirilme Korkularının Akademik Başarıya İlişkin Bilişsel Çarpıtmalar Bağlamında İncelenmesi

The aim of this study is to investigate the fears of negative evaluation of high school students in academic settings in the context of cognitive errors related to academic achievement. The participants of the research consisted of 915 students from different high school types in Konya. Pearson correlation coefficient and stepwise regression analysis were used in the analysis of the obtained data. According to the results, it was found that high school students' fear of negative evaluation in academic settings was statistically significant predicted by catastrophizing, self-value, outer attribution and perfectionism variables, respectively. In the light of the findings, some discussions were made and some suggestions were made.

Student Performance Prediction with Optimum Multilabel Ensemble Model

Abstract One of the important measures of quality of education is the performance of students in academic settings. Nowadays, abundant data is stored in educational institutions about students which can help to discover insight on how students are learning and to improve their performance ahead of time using data mining techniques. In this paper, we developed a student performance prediction model that predicts the performance of high school students for the next semester for five courses. We modeled our prediction system as a multi-label classification task and used support vector machine (SVM), Random Forest (RF), K-nearest Neighbors (KNN), and Multi-layer perceptron (MLP) as base-classifiers to train our model. We further improved the performance of the prediction model using a state-of-the-art partitioning scheme to divide the label space into smaller spaces and used Label Powerset (LP) transformation method to transform each labelset into a multi-class classification task. The proposed model achieved better performance in terms of different evaluation metrics when compared to other multi-label learning tasks such as binary relevance and classifier chains.

Examining the Psychosocial Barriers of Female Students in Academic Settings of Sindh: The Case of Public Sector University of Sindh, Pakistan

The collective responsibilities and rights of female students are ignored in the academic domain of Sindh, Pakistan. The third world countries are a mirror image of it and highlight their declining condition in the educational perspectives of female education. The twelve Psychosocial barriers are highlighted in this study. They are analyzed to know about their extent in female students in one of the Public sector universities of Sindh, Pakistan. The quantitative design was adopted, and a questionnaire was used as the instrument to measure percentages and frequencies. A five-point Likert Scale was selected for the process of data collection measurement from thirty female participants of the English department. The thirty female students represented four academic stages in a co-academic setting. After the analysis of data through SPSS software, the results affirmed that female students do face problems to pursue their higher education in the shape of psychological fears, uncomfortable situations, adoption of different rough attitudes against her existence in academics, dominancy of the male colleague in academic and societal boundaries, cultural and parental disparities in mind sets that ultimately results to the unawareness of societal conservative norms established in educational setting of Universities in Sindh, Pakistan.

Academic Advising Using Theoretical Approaches for Medical Students Who Are Struggling in Preclinical Years.

Theoretical approaches provide a foundation for helping students in academic settings. The application of learning theories in medical education is also well documented. However, very few studies have applied a theoretical framework to academic advising for struggling students in the preclinical years of their medical education. This article summarizes key learning theories and their application to commonly found problems among first- and second-year medical students. The authors review current advising processes based on widely used theories in medical education and cite examples from their practices about how these theories can be used in effective academic advising. They also discuss the importance of using a holistic approach while helping students overcome academic barriers during their time in medical school.

Acculturating Stress, Language Anxiety and Procrastination of International Students in the Academic Settings

Objectives. The aim of the study is to examine the procrastination among international students in academic settings in Ukraine.
 Materials & Methods. The 41 participants were recruited from two national universities in Volyn oblast who came from African countries to obtain higher education in Ukraine. Procrastination Scale, Acculturative Stress Scale, Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale were applied in the research.
 Results. Evidence consistently suggests that there are no gender differences in procrastination, acculturating stress, and language anxiety. However, a weak negative correlation between procrastination and age of the participants was found (r=-0.26 p<0.05). It is possible to hypothesise that academic procrastination is less likely to occur in mature age, being replaced by the procrastination in other life domains. The findings of multiple regression suggest that acculturative stress and language anxiety taken together predict procrastination of the international students (R2 = 0.469, F (4, 37) = 2.741, p=0.015). However, amongst other predictors only fear of negative evaluation as a separate scale of language anxiety is an independent robust predictor of procrastination. One unanticipated finding was that accultuarion is not a significant moderator of the interaction between fear of negative evaluation and procrastination. Therefore, international students’ procrastination is predicted by rather social anxiety of being evaluated than cultural settings and language anxiety per se. This inference is in line with the evidence that test anxiety and communication apprehension are not independent significant predictors of procrastination.
 Conclusion. The current study showed that the main predictor of procrastination is linked to social anxiety which might be triggered by new cultural and academic settings and, therefore, transformed into procrastination. However, with a small sample size which represents only African students, caution must be applied, as the findings might not be extrapolated for the international students from other countries. Further studies, which take these limitations into account, will need to be undertaken.

When social work students meet workers with mental-health lived-experience: a case study

ABSTRACTMental Health Workers with Lived Experience of mental illness (MHWLE) are a growing workforce in countries veering to recovery orientation in mental health services. MHWLE entrance into the workforce challenges conventional role-definitions and practices in mental health services. This case study portrays issues raised by social work students following a workshop with MHWLE as part of their graduate-level training. A workshop with MHWLE was designed for 24 social work graduate students during a mental health seminar. Following the workshop, a focus group was held. The students’ thoughts and experiences during the workshop were collected and analyzed. Thematic analysis of the topics raised by the students included three main categories: (i) Experience of confusion about MHWLE role, (ii) Controversies regarding MHWLE disclosure of lived experience, and (iii) Concerns about boundary setting by MHWLE. Connecting MHWLE with social work students in academic settings can help better prepare social workers for the encounter with peer services in the mental health field, and support harmonization of this new yet rapidly growing workforce in mental health. In addition, the students had an opportunity to self-reflect and explore their own views and experiences regarding fundamental aspects of professional identity and their own practices in general.

General and Life-Domain Procrastination in Highly Educated Adults in Israel.

Procrastination is usually perceived as a general behavioral tendency, and was studied mostly in college students in academic settings. Recently there is a growing body of literature to support the study of procrastination in older adults and in different life-domains. Based on these advances in the literature, the present study examined procrastination in 430 highly educated adults in Israel. Findings showed that respondents reported significantly higher procrastination in maintaining health behaviors and spending leisure time rather in other life-domains. Forty percent of participants reported high procrastination in health behaviors, while only 9.5% reported this level of procrastination in parenting and 1% in the general tendency to procrastinate. Further findings suggested that 25% of respondents reported high procrastination in four or more life-domains, and 40%—in one to three life-domains. The general tendency to procrastinate was moderately associated with procrastination in finance, education, and career life-domains and weekly with other life-domains. Fourteen percent of participants reported that procrastination influenced their life the most in health behaviors, 12% in career and education and 11% in romance and family life. These initial findings contribute to the overall perspective of life-domain specificity of procrastination in adults, and emphasize the importance to further study and develop a life-span perspective.

Helping learners level up with cognitive supports.

This column describes strategies for helping educators and trainers address common problems with executive functioning and memory for their audiences, to better facilitate learning. The purpose of the article is to suggest strategies for maximizing learning and goal achievement for students in academic settings, as well as for building employee knowledge and skills in the psychiatric rehabilitation workforce through worksite-based training. The content in this column is drawn from the professional experience of the authors as well as available literature. Educators and trainers encounter many challenges when assisting people to achieve desired learning objectives. Attending to the cognitive needs of all learners, by supporting their planning, attention, memory, and reasoning skills, can minimize some of these challenges. Educators and trainers may implement the strategies described to better engage with their audiences, whether in an academic or clinical practice environment. Implementation of specific strategies to offset limitations will positively affect all learners, who benefit both from maximized knowledge and skill acquisition as well as improved job performance. Improved learning will likely translate to better practitioner skill over time, which should lead to improved outcomes for service users in the field of psychiatric rehabilitation. (PsycINFO Database Record

Middle range theory evaluation: bridging the theory-practice gap

Nurse education is being challenged to maintain quality in light of shortage of practice professionals, societal demands and rapid changes in health care delivery. The importance underlying the practice of nursing education must continue to be explored through theories to bring about refinement of educational strategies for nursing discipline. The involvement of students learning using this process will help create learning values that serve to retain inquisitive and reflective nursing students in academic settings, while expanding evidence-based education in nursing. This article describes selected middle range theory evaluation as a tool for bridging theory-practice gap and suggests approaches to generate active growth in nursing education to inform and promote optimal client health outcomes through use of concept linkages in theories.Keywords: Middle Range Theory, Theory, Evaluation, Bridging Theory-Practice Gap

The Relationships between Emotional Intelligence and Perceptions of Faculty Incivility in Higher Education. Do Men and Women Differ?

Awareness of the concepts of incivility and emotional intelligence (EI) and of their relevance to higher education has grown in recent years. Incivility has been widely linked to deviant behaviours that are known to negatively impact upon students, while EI has been linked, among other things, to pro-social behaviours. However, the links between EI and faculty incivility (FI), and in particular uncivil behaviours perpetrated by faculty towards students in academic settings, remain unmapped. Similarly, the role of gender with respect to such links have yet to be examined. Thus, the current study examined the relationships between EI and perceived FI towards students as a function of gender. The research was conducted among 210 undergraduate students from one major college in Israel. High scores in the SEA EI branch were correlated with reduced FI perceptions among female students but not among male students. However, the links between general EI scores and perceived FI toward students did not indicate any gender effect.

Textbook Buddhism: introductory books on the Buddhist religion

Textbooks on Buddhism comprise a large, varied genre and have long been used to introduce the religion to students in academic settings. This review essay examines ten textbooks on the subject, noting their distinctive features, strengths, and weaknesses, as well as the types of courses that are well suited to each work. Additional information from a survey on Buddhism textbooks conducted by the author is used to supplement our understanding of which sources are regularly used in Buddhism courses and why. Unresolved tensions over whether to stress the coherence or diversity of Buddhism, and how comprehensive a textbook should be, are noted. Arguing that ‘Textbook Buddhism,' as a product of scholarly imagination, is a distinctive form of the tradition, it behooves specialists to be more reflective about their use of textbooks and to be more intentional in helping students to read them critically.

Nursing & indigenous education integration

The number of indigenous nurses practicing in Canada and the USA falls far below population census levels. To increase recruitment, retention and graduation of indigenous nursing students in academic settings, access to education and curriculum revision is needed. Integration of nursing and indigenous knowledge may improve the outcomes of nursing education, resulting in improved practice. Curricula revision, such as inclusion of media which reflects indigenous experience, supports cultural identity and enhances the learning experiences provided by academic settings. Traditional foundations of nursing knowledge are based on science, aligning theory with practice. Nursing education leads to applications of communication, comfort, nutrition and hygiene to improve health. Indigenous knowledge added to this foundation as it incorporates various aspects of the physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual world, understanding their function and purpose. The Medicine Wheel represents a structural education framework of knowledge shared among many Aboriginal peoples. Incorporating this knowledge into traditional nursing education systems may remove barriers to academic success for many students. Cultural identity within this framework influences the level of self-confidence and positive psychological adjustment that occurs in personal, professional and academic environments. When indigenous education and cultural identity are absent from nursing curricula, it may represent a subtle racism. This has a negative impact on students’ self-confidence and academic success. It contributes to lower levels of nursing student recruitment, retention and graduation. Developing the future nursing workforce can benefit from utilizing efforts to recruit, retain and graduate indigenous nurses. By incorporating aspects of Aboriginal epistemology into pedagogy and curriculum, nursing education will broaden the potential of providing more inclusive education. Integration of nursing and indigenous education supports cultural identity and promotes diversity within the nursing profession that provides care for all people.

Conformity to Masculine Norms and Intellectual Engagement

Research on the relationship between masculinity and intellectual engagement may be helpful in exploring the current challenges of male students in academic settings. Although the traditional male role in Western societies has often included notions of winning, competitiveness, and achievement, there is a growing research literature that documents male struggles with achievement, particularly in academic, intellectual, and occupational domains (Morris, 2011; Rosin, 2010; Sax, 2008a, b). In this study, the relationships between conformity to masculine norms and intellectual engagement were explored in a sample of diverse men in the United States. It was predicted that men who more strongly conformed to masculine norms would demonstrate lower intellectual engagement. As predicted, conformity to masculine norms was significantly predictive of lower intellectual engagement on three of the five constructs measured (Openness to Experience, Intellectual Complexity, and Love of Learning). Conformity to masculine norms was not a significant predictor of Need for Cognition or Curiosity.

“But Before I Go to My Next Step”: A Longitudinal Study of Adolescent English Language Learners' Transitional Devices in Oral Presentations

This multiple case study examines patterns in the oral second language use of three Spanish‐speaking English language learners in rehearsed presentations produced annually over 4 years (Grades 9–12) in a U.S. high school. Analysis focuses on students' changing use of transitional devices called frame markers (Hyland, 2005) as a lens for understanding language used by school‐aged immigrant students in academic settings, the nature of classroom presentations, and the role of a range of contextual factors from a longitudinal perspective. Students produced relatively complex structures to mark transitions, even at early proficiency levels, likely due to opportunities for rehearsal and use of supporting written texts. Despite notable commonalities, students took varied paths in language use, responding individually to presentational environments. Such findings provide evidence that both context and individual variation contribute to oral second language use in school settings and provide a rationale for research that attends to academic and presentational settings in which students produce oral language.