Using path analysis, the present study focuses on the development of a model describing the impact of four judgments of self-perceived academic competence on higher education students' achievement goals, learning approach, and academic performance. Results demonstrate that academic self-efficacy, self-efficacy for self-regulated learning, academic self-concept, and perceived level of understanding are conceptually and empirically distinct self-appraisals of academic competence which have a different impact on student motivation, learning, and academic performance. Furthermore, the current study suggests that students reflecting high scores on the four measures of self-perceived competence, are more persistent, more likely to adopt mastery and/or performance approach goals, less anxious, process the learning material at a deeper level, and achieve better study results. However, this study also warns that high self-perceived competence (e.g., perceived level of understanding), if not accompanied by a mastery goal orientation, can turn into overconfidence resulting in lower persistence levels and poorer study results.
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This article describes the relation between mental health and academic performance during the start of college and how AI-enhanced chatbot interventions could prevent both study problems and mental health problems.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has forced higher education (HE) to shift to emergency remote teaching (ERT), subsequently influencing academic belonging and social integration, as well as challenging students' engagement with their studies. This study investigated influences on student engagement during ERT, based on student resilience. Serial mediation analyses were used to test the predictive effects between resilience, academic belonging, social integration, and engagement.
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Little has been published regarding the training of academic developers themselves to support internationalization of the curriculum (IoC) initiatives. However, higher education institutions around the globe are responding to strategic demands for IoC which prepare students as ‘world-ready’ graduates. We employed qualitative research synthesis to identify recent journal articles which consider current trends in academic development to support IoC. Despite their diversity, we found common themes in the five selected studies. Our discussion and recommendations weave these themes with Betty Leask’s five-stage model of the process of IoC and Cynthia Joseph’s call for a pedagogy of social justice. “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal for Academic Development on 19/11/15, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/1360144X.2019.1691559.
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Introduction: The social distancing restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic have changed students’ learning environment and limited their social interactions. Therefore, the objective of this study was to investigate the influence of the social distancing restrictions on students’ social networks, wellbeing, and academic performance. Methods: We performed a questionnaire study in which 102 students participated before and 167 students during the pandemic. They completed an online questionnaire about how they formed their five peer social networks (study-related support, collaboration, friendship, share information, and learn-from) out-of-class. We performed social network analysis to compare the sizes, structures, and compositions of students’ five social networks before and during the pandemic, between first- and second-year students, and between international and domestic students. Additionally, we performed Kruskal–Wallis H test to compare students’ academic performance before and during the pandemic. We performed thematic analysis to answers for two open-end questions in the online questionnaire to explore what difficulties students encountered during the COVID-19 pandemic and what support they needed. Results: The results showed that the size of students’ social networks during the pandemic was significantly smaller than before the pandemic. Besides, the formation of social networks differed between first- and second-year students, and between domestic and international students. However, academic performance did not decline during the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, we identified three key areas in which students experienced difficulties and needed support by thematic analysis: social connections and interactions, learning and studying, and physical and mental wellbeing. Conclusion: When institutions implement learning with social distancing, such as online learning, they need to consider changes in students’ social networks and provide appropriate support.
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Increasingly, internationalisation at home and internationalisation of the curriculum are adopted by universities across the globe but their systemic implementation is a complex process. For instance, academics and academic disciplines understand and approach internationalisation differently, as previous studies have shown. However, there is little research on the role of such disciplinary perspectives in relation to different internationalisation practices and interventions. Using the Becher-Biglan framework of academic tribes, this exploratory study compares 12 undergraduate programmes at a Dutch university of applied sciences and addresses the question if the different disciplinary approaches to internationalisation as identified in previous studies are also reflected in the choices of internationalisation at home activities. The findings show there is more variation in the range of activities rather than in the types of activities and that it is within the rationales underlying those choices where the influence of disciplinary perspectives is more visible.
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The concept of autonomy has received considerable attention in both –philosophy and psychology. From the perspective of philosophy, autonomy refers to self-governance of one’s actions. In psychological theory, the focus has been more on human beings striving to experience autonomy and self-determination. In this entry, we will examine the elusive concept of autonomy from different theoretical angels and focus in particular on how autonomy emerges through social interactions and how it develops over the course of the lifespan. We will pay special attention to the role autonomy plays in creativity and the exploration of the possible.
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Dit liber amicorum, is geschreven door collega’s uit Nederland en elders in de wereld, ter ere van Frank de Jong, een zeer gewaardeerde lector van Aeres Hogeschool Wageningen, tevens hoogleraar aan de Open Universiteit. Frank was een van de eerste lectoren binnen Aeres Hogeschool en hij heeft bijgedragen aan en invloed gehad op de ontwikkeling van het praktijkgericht onderzoek binnen de faculteit in Wageningen en Aeres Hogeschool als geheel. Frank bestierde twee lectoraten: Responsief onderwijs én Kenniscreatie en ecologisch handelen. Het individu dat leert in een bepaalde context (sociaal of cultureel) staat centraal in zijn denken. Gandhi schreef eens dat ‘je zelf de verandering moet zijn die de wereld wil zien’. Hij benadrukte daarmee dat samen werken, samen leren en samen creëren start bij hetindividu. We moeten dus eerst zelf omarmen en belichamen wat we willen leren enontwikkelen. Dat typeerde Frank als lector. Hij probeerde te belichamen wat hij zelf onderzocht. Dat bleek een zoektocht. Een zoektocht waarin Frank zijn toehoorders soms bijna dwong om zijn gedachtegoed te omarmen. Ook als academic director van de Master Leren en Innoveren had hij invloed op de wijze waarop er geleerd werd. Met succes: de master is al jaren een topopleiding. Het beeld dat uit het liber amicorum naar voren komt, is dat van een hardwerkende, doelgerichte en vooral verbindende collega. Frank weet wat hij wil en kan daarin overtuigend zijn. Het spiegelt ook zijn vermogen om onderwijs, onderzoek en verschillende kennisdomeinen met elkaar te verbinden. Het is onze oprechte hoop dat dit boek niet alleen een eerbetoon aan Frank is, maar ook een bron van inspiratie voor professionals die geïnteresseerd zijn in hoe het individu leert en hoe kennis tot stand komt.
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