Quantitizing text: using theme frequency and theme intensity to describe factors influencing time-to-doctorate

The increasing length of time that students take to attain the doctorate (TTD) is of concern in higher education. Separate focus groups with students and eight faculty members were used to investigate factors perceived to influence TTD in Education. The percentage of participants citing a theme (theme frequency) and the percentage of statements referring to a particular theme (theme intensity) were used to describe the strength of the associations found. Analysis of students and faculty responses suggests that structure, defined as the nature and arrangement of program tasks and resources, is strongly associated with TTD whereas communication, the way program expectations and requirements are communicated, has a moderate association. Students’ responses indicate that the nature of the dissertation committee formed (committee) and the desire to work and attain goals despite obstacles encountered (motivation) are each strongly associated with TTD whereas faculty responses indicate these associations are moderate and minimal, respectively. Faculty responses indicate that the amount and quality of academic preparation received (preparation), and the nature of academic guidance, mentoring and supervision received (advising) have at least a moderate association with TTD whereas students’ responses suggest the association is at most moderate. Whereas faculty comments suggest that whether a student enrolls part-time or full-time (enrollment) is moderately associated with TTD, enrollment did not emerge as a factor among students. Recommendations for practice and further research are provided.     

A Conversation with James O. Ramsay

Jim Ramsay was born on September 5, 1942, in Prince George, British Columbia. He pursued undergraduate studies at the University of Alberta, where he completed a BEd in 1964 with a major in English and a minor in mathematics. He then specialized in statistics and psychometry, earning a PhD in psychology from Princeton University in 1966. After holding a temporary lectureship in the Department of Psychology at University College London for one year, he joined the Department of Psychology at McGill University, where he rose through the academic ranks. He was chair of his department from 1986 to 1989 and spent sabbatical leaves in Cambridge, Grenoble, and Toulouse. He was named professor emeritus upon his retirement in 2007. Jim is the author of four influential books and over 100 peer‐reviewed articles in statistical and psychometric journals. He developed much of the statistical theory behind multidimensional scaling and is widely recognized as the founder of functional data analysis. Three of his papers were read to the Royal Statistical Society, and another won The Canadian Journal of Statistics 2000 Best Paper Award. The Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) awarded him a Gold Medal for research in 1998 and an honorary membership in 2012. Jim was president of the Psychometric Society in 1981–82 and president of the SSC in 2002–03. The following conversation took place at Jim's home in Ottawa, Ontario, on March 14 and April 4, 2012.     

用爱心点亮自信快乐的职场人生

本文将大学生就业及其职场人生作为一个环节纳入其整个人生长河加以考量,试图从人生的高度,利用心理学、行为学及社会学等相关理论和知识,阐述大学生面对职场人生本应秉持的思想、修养及其目标的达成思路及路径等,以期为被功利化所困惑、且仍深陷迷途的大学生指明方向;同时也不妨为高校就业指导添支手杖。     

班主任工作之我见

班主任是在学校中全面负责一个班学生的思想、学习、健康和生活等工作的教师,与学生的发展息息相关。本文通过分析当代技校学生的特点,从班级团队、学生心理、班干部培养、关爱后进生等六个方面介绍班主任管理工作。     

民办高校学生心理问题分析

民办高校为学生提供了更多的受教育的机会,但民办学校的学生存在各种问题,本文就笔者以在民办高校两年的教学经验对民办高校学生的各种心理现象做分析,并讨论其解决办法,其内容包括研究其现象的原因,提升学生自信心的重要性以及教师要采取的一些办法,以便准确把握学生心理,因材施教,有的放矢,提高效率,使学生成材,成为一个身心健康、乐观积极、生活愉快的人。     

Factors Related to the Academic Performance of Students in the Statistics Course in Psychology

Many studies have examined the factors that influence academic performance in primary and secondary education as well as at university, with the purpose of enhancing learning at these stages and reducing drop-out rates. It is within this research framework that we want to emphasise the deficient performance of students enrolled on the statistics course in the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Barcelona. Consequently, this paper attempts to determine the factors that affect student performance in this subject by undertaking an analysis of a structural equation model and determining its stability over time. In order to accomplish our objective, we worked with two samples of students enrolled statistics classes. The first group comprised 211 students enrolled in the academic year 2000–2001, while the second comprised 287 students enrolled in the academic year 2001–2002. By administering a questionnaire, we obtained information concerning such variables as demographic data, previous academic record, information related to the subject and the degree of satisfaction with it, and the final mark obtained by the students in the subject. The parameters for each group of students were estimated separately and the goodness of fit of the proposed structural model was assessed. The data analysis showed a good fit with both data bases, but the set of estimated parameters differed in the two academic years under consideration.     

谈五年制大专生班级学生自主管理

五年制大专生管理具有自身的特殊性，他们既不同于中学生，也不同于大学生。因此对于他们的管理，必须遵循教育规律，必须按教育学、心理学揭示的科学规律进行管理。为适应时代发展的要求，顺应新时期自由精神的需要，体现“以人为本”的教育管理理念，本文从五年制大专生的特点出发，给出了五年制大专生班级学生自主管理的一些方法。     

浅议高校学生干部队伍作用的发挥

学生骨干队伍作用的发挥是学生工作关键的一环,对学生思想政治工作的开展有着重要的意义。本文结合当前高校学生思想政治工作的实际,运用管理学、心理学的方法对学生骨干队伍作用的发挥作了探讨。初步总结了学生骨干队伍有效发挥作用的规律和方法。     

An analysis of university year-round operation

The implementation of year-round operation has often been suggested as a means for accommodating additional demand for student admissions at a university campus of fixed capacity. However, because the student flow process at a university has not been well understood, many institutions have been disappointed to find the actual benefits resulting from the addition of a regular summer program of instruction to be far less than they had expected. This paper demonstrates that, due to established patterns of student attendance, a reasonable expectation of a change to year-round operation is that the undergraduate admission rate will increase by 5 per cent when enrollment is held fixed. Moreover, the summer term will attract only one-third as many undergraduate students as are enrolled during the regular academic year. These computations assume that no attempt is made to exert control over student attendance patterns.A queueing model is developed that relates the admission rate to the proportion of students who belong to various cohorts with common workload requirements and attendance patterns. Data gathered at the University of California, Berkeley campus is used to estimate these proportions for a campus which offers a year-round program. From these estimates are derived values for the overall admission rate and the ratio of summer enrollment to average nonsummer enrollment. These values are then compared with those obtained for a campus of like size which does not offer a year-round program of instruction. The paper concludes that, unless an institution is willing to exert control over student attendance patterns, university year-round operation is probably not economical in a society which places heavy emphasis on the summer as a time when students should vacation or take temporary jobs.     

Location determinants of high-growth firms

County-level location patterns of INC5000 companies provide one map of American entrepreneurship and innovativeness, and understanding the local factors associated with these firms’ emergence is important for stimulating regional economic growth and innovation. We draw on the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship to motivate our regression model, and augment this theory with additional regional features that have been found to be important in the firm location literature. Zero-inflated negative binomial regressions indicate that these firms exist in counties with larger average establishment size, higher educational attainment and more natural amenities. Income growth, a mix of higher paying industries, and more banks per capita are associated with a smaller presence of these types of firms, all else equal. We conclude that the local conditions favouring high-growth firms are likely to be different from those favouring new firms in general, and that these conditions differ significantly in urban and rural areas and by industrial sectors.     

建设高校学习型、研究型辅导员队伍的思考

建设一支学习型、研究型辅导员队伍是高校在新形势下更好的培养高素质人才、实现思想道德教育目标、促进大学生健康成长的需要。本文探讨了高校建设学习型、研究型辅导员队伍的必要性和重要性,指出建设学习型、研究型辅导员队伍的现状和问题,并提出几点建议。     

对健身排舞引入高校体育课程内容的探析

高校体育课程改革要求丰富体育课程内容,要为学生提供较大的选择空间。健身排舞本身所具有的价值功效,恰恰符合课程改革的需要,对培养学生终生体育的意识、提高体育运动能力、促进个性心理的发展有着重要的现实意义。     

建立科学的高校辅导员绩效考核体系

科学、合理、高效的辅导员绩效考评是加强辅导员队伍建设的重要内容,是充分发挥辅导员在学生事务管理工作中核心作用的必然选择。本文分析了目前高校辅导员绩效考核中存在的问题,阐明现有的考核体系指标和分析方法不科学的原因,并根据辅导员的岗位特点,给出了完整的高校辅导员绩效管理系统构建方法。     

大学生申诉管理方案策划——以河南Z高校为例

依法治校,构建和谐校园是党的十六大精神在大学校园的具体体现。随着"平等"、"权益"的观念日益深入人心,学生的维权意识越来越强烈。本文以河南Z高校为研究背景,策划了一个较为完善的学生申诉管理方案,从制度上和结构上保护学生合法权利与高校的自主管理权,实现学生的全面发展,构建和谐校园。     

Estimating the economic impacts of public spending in a sub-region: an econometric approach.

Expenditures on a public institution represent not only a cost to the taxpayer but an economic benefit to the region in which it is located. The economic impact on a region's income is here calculated through an econometric model and associated multipliers. The impact on government income tax recepits is similarly calculated. The tax revenues are also used in determining the net cost of operation of the institution. These calculations are performed for the expenditures associated with the new State University Hospital at Stony Brook, N.Y. located in the region formed by Nassau and Suffolk Countries. The regional income multiplier is found to be 1.64.     

当代大学生择业调查

本文针对大学生的职业观、择业观和就业观的现状,初步探讨当代大学生的择业的情况及其影响因素。通过本研究所得出的一系列数据,为高校大学生的择业观、就业观提供出理论支持;为政府在制定相关就业策略上可进行一定的参考;也给应用心理学的研究提出了一些有用的资料。     

Understanding the postgraduate education market for UK‐based students: a review and empirical study

This paper examines why postgraduate students in the UK decide to take up a further degree, the factors influencing their choice of programme and institution and the sources of information consulted. The study is based on a literature review, other sources of information and primary research with students at one institution. Based on responses from 102 current students the analysis reveals that improvement of career prospects was the prime motivator for studying a postgraduate qualification, allied to a desire to gain or update skills to become more employable. Students also chose to study for their own personal satisfaction. For the university in question, accreditation of some programmes was a deciding factor influencing their choice of institution. The reputation of the university and its location were also important. Various sources of information were referred to but the use of faculty and tutors as ‘salespeople’ had significant impact. Managerial implications for universities and directions for further research complete the paper. Copyright © 2004 Henry Stewart Publications     

Academic scholarship,organization prestige,and the earnings of U.S. business school deans

This study models the market for business school deans as an outcome of a differential game between a university's central administration and the job candidates in the market for business school deans. In our model, the ability of a business school dean to advance the organization is enhanced by his or her own scholarly reputation, such that a job candidate chooses an optimal level of scholarship that relates to his or her marketability. In this way, the supply of scholarship (by job candidates) can be seen as the supply of job candidates in the market for business school deans, whereas the demand for scholarship can be seen as the demand for business school deans. The main features of our game‐theoretic model are tested using data from both national and regional business schools and colleges in the U.S. Econometric results indicate that each additional scholarly contribution by a business school dean generates a wage premium ranging from $1,000 to $1,200, whereas in the case of national institutions, each additional student enrolled at the doctoral (master's) level raises the wage by $671 ($56). Lastly, the production of between nine and 10 scholarly contributions is found to be necessary in order to face a 50% probability of holding a business school deanship at a national institution, whereas production of about 37 scholarly contributions leads to a 50% probability of holding a deanship with a named business school at a national institution.     

西安体育学院排球普修课现状的分析与对策

运用文献资料法、问卷调查法、数理统计等方法,对我院排球普修课现状进行调查,对学生上课的心理、课程内容、学习兴趣等教学现状进行分析,发现大多数学生接触排球较晚,基础差;多数学生认为排球课内容不够丰富,学习效果较差;学院硬件设施不够齐全,影响教学质量。通过研究寻找一种合理实用的教学方法,注重学生教学能力的培养,运用多种教学原则,使有能力的学生更好地发挥自己的特长,使我院排球普修课得到进一步的完善。     

浅议高等院校个人劳务所得管理中存在的问题

我国高等院校作为以教学科研为主的大型事业单位,在适应社会经济发展的过程中劳动关系的构成导致了劳动所得的组成愈加复杂,如何挖掘并处理好劳动所得特别是个人劳动所得中存在的问题是高等院校人力资源管理中的重大课题。