The relation among self-efficacy,learning approaches,and academic performance: an exploratory study

Self-efficacy influences students’ activities, effort and persistence, and it can help predict their motivation and academic performance. This study attempts to investigate the relationship between self-efficacy, preferred learning methods, and academic performance under different learning methods in a unique hospitality course setting. The results indicate that hospitality management students prefer a “learn by doing” approach instead of computer-based learning and lecturing. This study concludes that self-efficacy affects the academic performance in both lecturing and practical learning in hospitality education. However, students’ preference in terms of learning methods does not influence their academic performance. Emphasizing “learn by doing” in the hospitality higher education curriculum is recommended in addition to recruiting faculty members with extensive industry experience. Conversely, it is recommended that faculty find the means to increase students’ self-efficacy when adopting different teaching approaches.     

The importance of career goal in relation to academic performance: a case study of hospitality management students

ABSTRACT

Hospitality management programs have commonly offered exclusive learning opportunities to talented students in order to keep “brains” in the industry. While academic performance indices are often used to identify “brains” in the education sector, scant research has empirically examined whether “brains” are intended to stay in the industry. This study surveyed 304 hospitality management students and examined the relationships between their career-goal related factors and academic performance. Findings indicate that career goal and positive job valence toward the hospitality industry are significantly related to academic performance. The results of this study contribute to the limited literature on the relationship between career goal and academic performance.     

论教授终身制及其在中国高校的应用问题

自20世纪初美国大学建立终身教授制度以来,该制度在维护学术自由、平衡行政权力与学术权力等方面发挥了重要作用,促进了美国高等教育的繁荣发展。中国高校有与之相似的终身制度———职称终身制,但是在实际应用过程中出现了概念不清、大学教师为职称而研究等问题,为此,国内一直在进行教师聘任制度的改革。     

高校学历证书在线即时电子注册工作中的问题与对策

论述了高校毕业生学历证书电子注册制度的5个特征，讨论了高校学历证书在线即时电子注册工作中存在的问题，提出了相应对策。     

The Development and Positioning of Business Related University Tourism Education

Abstract

The teaching of tourism at a higher education level has become well established in British universities, but in the UK, as elsewhere in the world, the place of tourism studies within the academic curricula remains uncertain. The paper considers the diversity and complexities of tourism studies through a categorisation of journal articles, and through an investigation of the underlying debates that have influenced the design of academic curricula in the UK. The paper concludes that tourism, at least at present, should not be regarded as discipline but as a field and that the most common approach in the UK has been to emphasise the business studies subjects. The University of Northumbria's established undergraduate travel and tourism management course is presented as a case study of this approach to the subject field.     

Narratives of irony and failure in ethnographic work

Organizational ethnography is one of the most valued approaches to qualitative studies of organizations. Much attention has been given to the development of the research process, of which the researcher's identity is an integral part. However, we believe that the analysis of research failures has been much less developed in the discourse of ethnographic methods for the study of organizations. Therefore, we have explored some of the “slips” in ethnographic work, as described in accounts of fellow organizational anthropologists. As the study is qualitative, we have adopted a narrative research method. We have divided the “slips” (i.e., errors) into four categories important for the ethnographer's identity: (a) one's role; (b) one's project, (c) one's relation to “the Other”; and (d) the social context of the slip. Copyright © 2010 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

国外中国旅游研究进展：学术贡献视角的述评

文章分析了国外中国旅游研究的总体情况,对其主要进展进行了基于学术贡献视角的阐述和评价。研究指出,国外中国旅游研究主要的学术贡献集中在引介、应用和理论检验方面,而扎根于中国旅游发展实践的理论建构尚不多见。研究认为,国内外旅游学界存在的信息不对称,国外学界和业界了解中国旅游发展迫切的刚性需求,以及研究可进入性和调研深度的缺失,是导致目前国外中国旅游研究领域理论贡献成果较为欠缺的主要原因。深入中国旅游发展实践进行理论提升,并实现同西方现有理论的对话乃至超越,将是中国本土的旅游研究走向世界的关键。     

论语言差异与民族学生学业质量

本文运用文化人类学的研究方法,对影响民族学生学业质量的文化因素进行了深入的研究分析,在此基础上,以文化冲突等相关理论为依据,着重从文化的角度分析影响民族学生学业质量的语言差异因素,并进行理论解释和探讨,提出相关的对策建议。     

对学术论坛中国化的现实批判及愿景展望

学术论坛的价值取向表现在传播、教育、文化三个层次上,其发展趋势表现出全球化、本土化、区域化、校本化特征,其组织特点表现为路径多元化,其内容主要包括知识教育、创新教育、政治教育、人文教育、生活教育等五个维面。目前,学术论坛中国化呈现出三个发展误区：形式摹仿、国际立场与区域性断裂严重、论坛文化构建的无目标性,因此学术论坛中国化的价值取向应由传播层面向教育层面转变,并应积极致力于文化层面的建设,依据各级各类学术论坛文化定位和内容结构选择的异同形成独具文化结构的品格特征。     

上海商学院管理学院学风调查与对策思考

上海商学院管理学院采用问卷调查形式,从大学生在学习期间求知目的、治学态度、学习过程中的行为表现三个层面调查学生在思想、行为与作风上所反映出的学风现状,分析影响学风的主要因素和我校学风存在的主要问题。在此基础上,提出了加强学风建设的六点建议。