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Relationship between students' opinions, background factors and learning outcomes: Finnish 9th graders learning English

2017

Moving from North to North: how are the students’ university flows?

2021

AbstractStudent mobility has been much commented upon and much studied. Student mobility has social, economic, and political consequences. This form of mobility is relevant, in Italy, in terms of south-north flows, while the mobility of northern students toward the South and Centre of Italy is negligible. To the best of our knowledge, a proper focus on the dynamics among northern regions has not yet been carried out. This study focuses on the interregional mobility of northern first-year students. To this end, we use a longitudinal dataset with students’ individual histories from 2008 to 2017, obtained from the cohort-based datasets collected using the Italian Ministry of University’s admin…

Special issue BOOK OF ABSTRACT 2022 CTRAS CONFERENCE NEW AND OLD CHALLENGES TO SUPPORT ALL STUDENTS’ MATHEMATICS TEACHING AND LEARNING IN INCLUSIVE, …

2022

Special issue BOOK OF ABSTRACT 2022 CTRAS CONFERENCE

An analysis of Italian university students' performance through segmented regression models: gender differences in STEM courses

2021

AbstractThis paper investigates gender differences in university performances in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) courses in Italy, proposing a novel application through the segmented regression models. The analysis concerns freshmen students enrolled at a 3-year STEM degree in Italian universities in the last decade, with a focus on the relationship between the number of university credits earned during the first year (a good predictor of the regularity of the career) and the probability of getting the bachelor degree within 4 years. Data is provided by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MIUR). Our analysis confirms that first-year performance is strong…

Social disparities in students’ trajectories to French « grandes écoles »

2021

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Competency Profile of the Elementary School Teacher : analysis of Pre-service Elementary School Teacher's Opinion

2014

ResumenEl objeto del presente estudio se centra en conocer la opinión del alumnado de la primera promoción del Grado en Educación Primaria de la Universidad de La Rioja (n=105) sobre las competencias que configuran el perfil del docente, con el fin de contrastarla con los resultados que nos brinda la investigación y esbozar propuestas para la formación de los futuros maestros. Para tal fin se diseña y administra un autoinforme integrado por diferentes atributos presentados en un formato de respuesta de tipo Likert. Los resultados han derivado en dos escalas; la primera determina el ser del docente y se agrupa en competencias para saber hacer y en competencias afectivo-emocionales; la segund…

Perception of Medical Humanities among Polish Medical Students: Qualitative Analysis

2022

Medical humanities (MH) courses are a critical element of the medical curriculum influencing the establishment of a physician in the medical profession. However, the opinion about MH among medical students remains unknown. Interviews from seven focus groups were analysed. The students attended one of three Polish medical schools in Gdansk, Krakow, and Warsaw and were recruited to the discussion focused on the impact of drug manufacturers’ presence at medical universities on socialization in the medical profession. Thematic analysis was conducted using the theoretical framework of social constructivism. The students’ opinions about the MH classes arose during the analysis. In six…

How Effective are Business Ethics/CSR Courses in Higher Education?

2016

AbstractConcern is increasing worldwide for introducing dedicated courses on business ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in higher education curricula. In this study, awareness of business ethics is investigated from a sample of 307 undergraduate and postgraduate management students at a Polish university. This investigation aims at assessing management students’ awareness of business ethics issues, focusing on the potential differences in such perceptions depending on previous business ethics/CSR courses taken. Surprisingly, our results do not match prior findings in the extant literature. Notably, in our sample, having taken previous courses on business ethics/CSR does not p…

Students' Information Literacy Development as a Guarantee of Qualitative Studies

2015

Publication devoted to information literacy development updates. Information literacy competencies as the basis for the success of a human life takes on a special significance in higher education teaching. Success of this process is driven by university cooperation partners: teachers, librarians and administrations work. Teachers implement information literacy development methods courses, librarians responsible for information resources in institution make up their own training system, but the administration - facilitates the implementation of information literacy and financial support. Competencies based on governmental, professional or institutional defined standards, which can provide an…

Testing invariance between web and paper students satisfaction surveys. A case study

2017

[EN] Purpose: This paper studied the measurement invariance (MI) across web-based and paper-based surveys to evidence if both techniques of data collection can be regarded as equivalent. Design/methodology: We develop a multigroup confirmatory factor analysis (MGCFA) with Maximum Likelihood Estimation to asses measurement invariance of the Job Diagnostic Survey (JDS) adapted to teaching, with data collected from paper and web surveys. Sample from paper surveys was constituted by 294 student of a Spanish public university in the academic years 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2009-10. Internet surveys were administered through an open source survey application called Lime Survey. We received 241 complet…