عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
IR
51T
انگلیسی
IR
Student engagement in Canada and the United States in an era of globalization
[Thesis]
;supervisor Kuh, George D.
Indiana University: United States -- Indiana
: 2007
237 pages
Ph.D.
, Indiana University: United States -- Indiana
Neoliberalism is influencing many aspects of higher education--its public charter with society, faculty roles and responsibilities, and the experiences of individual students. While studies have examined the effects of neoliberalism on nations and faculty, there is considerably less research on these effects on students, particularly from the students' point of view. It is not known how these sweeping changes influence student engagement in colleges and universities, and how the changes in faculty roles and responsibilities may affect students in various disciplines in different countries.To compare student engagement in two countries with different responses to global forces, Canada and the U.S., a series of hierarchical linear regression (HLM) models were developed to analyze data from the 2006 administration of the National Survey of Student Engagement. Overall, students in the U.S. are more engaged, particularly in areas of active and collaborative learning and student-faculty interaction. Between-country differences also were found in student engagement patterns by major. Canadian and U.S. students in education and professional fields of study were more engaged generally, whereas Canadian students in the arts and humanities, and life and social sciences were less engaged than their peers.Neoliberal policies in higher education may encourage growth in "cash cow" programs in inexpensive fields, such as arts and humanities, business, and social sciences, increased student enrollments without concomitant increases in full-time tenure-track faculty, and greater reliance on part-time instructors. Consequently, students in those programs interact less with faculty, and report lower overall engagement than their peers. This study also identified areas of student engagement in Canada and the U.S. that administrators and researchers in both countries should investigate more thoroughly, such as highly engaged first-year engineering students in Canada and high student-faculty interaction in U.S. life sciences majors.
Higher education
Student engagement
Comparative education
Hierarchical linear modeling (HLM)
Canada
National Survey of Student Engagement (nsse)
Engagement
Globalization
Kandiko, Camille Blackwell
ایران
National Center for Globalization Studies
old catalog
TL
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