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Facing the cliff-edge: care-experienced graduates’ access to and progression through taught postgraduate study in the United Kingdom 面对悬崖边缘：有护理经验的毕业生在英国攻读授课式研究生课程的机会和进展情况

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Higher Education Pub Date : 2024-04-19 DOI: 10.1007/s10734-024-01219-9

Zoe Baker

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Institution level awarding gap metrics for identifying educational inequity: useful tools or reductive distractions? 用于确定教育不公平的机构层面的授奖差距指标：有用的工具，还是令人反感的干扰？

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Higher Education Pub Date : 2024-04-15 DOI: 10.1007/s10734-024-01216-y

Katharine Elizabeth Hubbard

{"title":"Institution level awarding gap metrics for identifying educational inequity: useful tools or reductive distractions?","authors":"Katharine Elizabeth Hubbard","doi":"10.1007/s10734-024-01216-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-024-01216-y","url":null,"abstract":"Equity is increasingly seen as a core value for higher education systems around the world. (In)equity is often measured through construction of achievement gaps, quantifying the relative outcomes of two populations of students. Institution-level gaps are embedded in the policy landscape of HE, becoming performance metrics in their own right. These gap metrics increasingly inform the actions of governments, regulators, institutions and educators. This theoretical article scrutinises the technical and conceptual construction of achievement gaps through using the dominant UK conception of the institution level degree classification ‘awarding gap’. Drawing on Adam’s Equity Theory of Motivation, Rawls’s Distributive Justice and the Capability Approach as theoretical perspectives, I highlight multiple structural weaknesses in the conception of the awarding gap. I illustrate the implications of this metric by analysing simulated awarding gap data for a fictional institution, and through the perspectives of five idealised stakeholders. I identify multiple technical and theoretical limitations of the institution level awarding gap metric, including examples where the threshold-based nature of the awarding gap fails to capture statistical differences between groups, thereby undermining its utility in identifying inequity. I call on the sector to develop metrics that more accurately capture (in)equity of outcomes and align better with theoretical frameworks, thereby creating more powerful explanatory metrics that can inform meaningful action.","PeriodicalId":48383,"journal":{"name":"Higher Education","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140599135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The challenge of change: understanding the role of habits in university students’ self-regulated learning 变革的挑战：了解习惯在大学生自我调节学习中的作用

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Higher Education Pub Date : 2024-04-10 DOI: 10.1007/s10734-024-01199-w

Louise David, Felicitas Biwer, Rik Crutzen, Anique de Bruin

{"title":"The challenge of change: understanding the role of habits in university students’ self-regulated learning","authors":"Louise David, Felicitas Biwer, Rik Crutzen, Anique de Bruin","doi":"10.1007/s10734-024-01199-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-024-01199-w","url":null,"abstract":"Study habits drive a large portion of how university students study. Some of these habits are not effective in fostering academic achievement. To support students in breaking old, ineffective habits and forming new, effective study habits, an in-depth understanding of what students’ study habits look like and how they are both formed and broken is needed. Therefore, in this study, we explored these aspects among first-year university students in six focus group discussions (N = 29). Using a thematic analysis approach, we clustered the data in five themes: Goals Matter, Balancing Perceived Efficiency and Effectiveness when Studying, Navigating Student Life: from Structured Routines to Self-Regulation Challenges, the Quest for Effective Habits with Trying to Break Free From the Screen as subtheme, and the Motivation Roller Coaster. Findings suggest that students had different study habits depending on their goals. Students had quite accurate metacognitive knowledge about effective learning strategies for long-term learning, but often used other learning strategies they deemed most efficient in reaching their goals. Students indicated intentions to change, but did not prioritize change as their current habits enabled them to pass exams and change was not perceived as adding value. Fluctuations in motivation and transitioning to a self-regulated life hampered students’ intentions to form new and break old habits. Next to insights into factors affecting students’ behavioral change intentions, the findings suggest the importance of aligning assessment methods with life-long learning and supporting students in their long-term academic goal setting to prioritize study habits which target lasting learning to optimally foster their self-regulated learning.","PeriodicalId":48383,"journal":{"name":"Higher Education","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140599393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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When massified higher education meets shrinking birth rates: the case of South Korea 当高等教育大众化遭遇出生率下降：韩国案例

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Higher Education Pub Date : 2024-04-05 DOI: 10.1007/s10734-024-01220-2

Jisun Jung

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Student sociodemographic and school type differences in teacher-predicted vs. achieved grades for university admission 大学录取时教师预测成绩与实际成绩的学生社会人口学差异和学校类型差异

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Higher Education Pub Date : 2024-03-28 DOI: 10.1007/s10734-024-01217-x

{"title":"Student sociodemographic and school type differences in teacher-predicted vs. achieved grades for university admission","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s10734-024-01217-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-024-01217-x","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> In England, students apply to universities using teacher-predicted grades instead of their final end-of-school A-level examination results. Predicted rather than achieved grades therefore determine how ambitiously students apply to and receive offers from the most selective courses. The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) encourages teachers to make optimistic predictions to motivate students to apply ambitiously and achieve higher grades. However, little is known about variations in optimism across students and schools, as well as the mechanisms behind such variations. If certain groups of students or schools are predicted more optimistically than others, this may distort application, offer, and acceptance rates between these groups. Such distortions have the potential to impact efforts to promote wider participation and enhance social mobility. In this study, we use newly linked administrative education data to show predicted grades are differentially optimistic by student sociodemographic and school characteristics. These variations are often substantial and can only be partially explained by differences in students’ prior achievements, the subjects they studied at A-level, the degree subjects they pursue, and their choices of university and courses. We find less educationally advantaged students are in general more rather than less optimistically predicted, although there are two important exceptions to this trend. Once we control for GCSE score and A-level subject, greater optimism is observed in independent schools and among Oxbridge applications. Thus, differential optimism is positively impacting some of the most educationally advantaged students in the country. Our findings contribute to the growing consensus advocating for reforms to the admissions system, including whereby students can continue to revise their course choices until they receive their achieved grades, and universities only make offers after that date.","PeriodicalId":48383,"journal":{"name":"Higher Education","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140323469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Anticipatory governance in government: the case of Finnish higher education 政府的预期治理：芬兰高等教育案例

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Higher Education Pub Date : 2024-03-28 DOI: 10.1007/s10734-024-01211-3

Johanna Kallo, Jussi Välimaa

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Higher education trajectories of migrants and the role of age of arrival: evidence from native and migrant students in Chile 移民的高等教育轨迹和抵达年龄的作用：来自智利本土学生和移民学生的证据

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Higher Education Pub Date : 2024-03-25 DOI: 10.1007/s10734-024-01213-1

Alejandra Abufhele, Luis Herskovic, Samanta Alarcón

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Managing students’ illusion of control in higher education: effect on unrealistic optimism and expectancy disconfirmation 管理高等教育中学生的控制幻觉：对不切实际的乐观主义和预期不确定的影响

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Higher Education Pub Date : 2024-03-19 DOI: 10.1007/s10734-024-01212-2

Gonzalo Luna-Cortes

{"title":"Managing students’ illusion of control in higher education: effect on unrealistic optimism and expectancy disconfirmation","authors":"Gonzalo Luna-Cortes","doi":"10.1007/s10734-024-01212-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-024-01212-2","url":null,"abstract":"Prior studies showed that optimism has positive benefits for students in higher education. However, research indicates different types of optimism, including the unrealistic optimism associated with the illusion of control. The literature review showed a lack of research on the effect of the illusion of control among students in higher education. Two studies were conducted to fill this gap. In Study 1 (N = 210), university students responded to two surveys: one before oral presentations in class (measuring illusion of control and unrealistic optimism) and another after they received their grades for the presentations (measuring disconfirmation and satisfaction). The results show that the illusion of control is positively associated with unrealistic optimism, which leads to disconfirmation and dissatisfaction. Study 2 was a between-subjects design experiment (condition (N = 102) vs. control (N = 102)) that tested a stimulus to mitigate the illusion of control in this context. The results of Study 2 show that explaining to students their inability to control some variables during the presentation helps to reduce the illusion of control. This influences lower unrealistic optimism and disconfirmation, leading to higher satisfaction after the presentations. When testing moderating effects of demographics among these relationships, we found that gender moderates the effect of the stimulus used to reduce the illusion of control, with females showing a significantly higher decrease in this bias in comparison with male students. Based on these findings, we provide recommendations that can help to decrease the illusion of control in the context of higher education, with benefits for students and educators.","PeriodicalId":48383,"journal":{"name":"Higher Education","volume":"145 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140205617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Knowledge for the unknown? A history of the future in Swedish higher education and research policy, 1970–2020 未知的知识？瑞典高等教育与研究政策的未来史，1970-2020 年

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Higher Education Pub Date : 2024-03-13 DOI: 10.1007/s10734-024-01210-4

Lars Geschwind, Hampus Östh Gustafsson

{"title":"Knowledge for the unknown? A history of the future in Swedish higher education and research policy, 1970–2020","authors":"Lars Geschwind, Hampus Östh Gustafsson","doi":"10.1007/s10734-024-01210-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-024-01210-4","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses how the future has been discussed in Swedish higher education and research policy, providing an overview of public inquiries during the period 1970–2020. Expanding on the conceptual framework of German historian Reinhart Koselleck, the article approaches discourses on the future through the analytical lens of sociology of expectations. The findings demonstrate that all inquiries that attempt to advance arguments for policy change address the future—with temporal perspectives usually limited to the coming 15–20 years—whereby the future is conceptualised as an unknown and complex ‘knowledge society’, characterised by acceleration, high demands and fierce competition. A number of inquiries discuss the future development based on empirical data like shrinking age cohorts among potential students, while others describe threats and challenges based on needs for creating a sense of urgency. Inter- and multidisciplinarity, with respect to such future needs in both research and education, is consequently a key area of discussion throughout the period in question. Several other themes emerge as prevalent, including technological change and digitalisation as well as broader issues of how to organise the curriculum and lifelong learning. The historical analysis presented in this article is crucial for ongoing university debates, as it is demonstrated that temporal dynamics and future imaginaries have been highly formative for the development of Swedish higher education and research.","PeriodicalId":48383,"journal":{"name":"Higher Education","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140153034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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I can be a “normal” student: the role of lecture capture in supporting disabled and neurodivergent students’ participation in higher education 我可以成为一名 "正常 "学生：讲座捕捉在支持残疾和神经变异学生参与高等教育中的作用

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Higher Education Pub Date : 2024-03-11 DOI: 10.1007/s10734-024-01201-5

Chiara Horlin, Barbora Hronska, Emily Nordmann

{"title":"I can be a “normal” student: the role of lecture capture in supporting disabled and neurodivergent students’ participation in higher education","authors":"Chiara Horlin, Barbora Hronska, Emily Nordmann","doi":"10.1007/s10734-024-01201-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-024-01201-5","url":null,"abstract":"After the return to on-campus teaching post-Covid, reports of student disengagement and low attendance are common and anxieties over the relationship between lecture recordings and attendance have re-emerged, leading some educators to remove recordings. To understand the potential impact of such decisions, this study explored how neurodivergent and disabled students use recordings using a qualitative survey approach. Reflexive thematic analysis emphasised the need for learning flexibility and questioned traditional lectures. Neurodivergent and disabled students raised concerns over accessibility, highlighting the crucial nature of recordings beyond attendance. For example, features such as pausing or speed adjusted were described as vital for managing learning among disabled and neurodivergent participants. Our findings do not support an uncritical view of lecture recordings. Participants discussed the self-discipline required for effective use and responses reflected prior concerns discussed in the literature regarding recordings leading to focusing on lectures to the detriment of other sources of information. However, despite challenges, we found multiple examples of students using recordings to maintain engagement as a successful self-regulated learner. In line with Universal Design for Learning, our findings support the provision of lecture recordings as an inclusive and accessible technology for all students, not just those with declared disabilities. All data and analysis code is available at https://osf.io/ue628/.","PeriodicalId":48383,"journal":{"name":"Higher Education","volume":"284 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140099683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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