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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Kuwaiti students studying in the United Kingdom : a study of the issues that impact their adjustment

Al-Bahar, Abdullah Abdulrahman January 1998 (has links)
No description available.
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Preditores de evasão em diferentes ambientes acadêmicos

Barbosa, Carmem Lúcia Dantas 06 September 2013 (has links)
Submitted by Oliveira Santos Dilzaná (dilznana@yahoo.com.br) on 2014-01-21T14:44:56Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTAÇÃO CARMEM LÚCIA DANTAS BARBOSA.pdf: 2722208 bytes, checksum: ce33d2efe6b0ef24ddafd8878050f96f (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ana Portela (anapoli@ufba.br) on 2014-02-03T14:12:22Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTAÇÃO CARMEM LÚCIA DANTAS BARBOSA.pdf: 2722208 bytes, checksum: ce33d2efe6b0ef24ddafd8878050f96f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-02-03T14:12:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTAÇÃO CARMEM LÚCIA DANTAS BARBOSA.pdf: 2722208 bytes, checksum: ce33d2efe6b0ef24ddafd8878050f96f (MD5) / A evasão de estudantes é um fenômeno mundial e encontra-se presente nas diversas instituições de ensino brasileiras, sejam elas públicas ou privadas. As teorias explicativas desse fenômeno no ensino superior foram construídas principalmente com base na interação entre as características do estudante e da universidade. É a partir do trabalho de Vincent Tinto (1975), que se configura a moderna pesquisa sobre evasão universitária. O modelo teórico proposto por este autor permaneceu como referencial teórico de maior credibilidade e relevância no campo, apresentando como conceitos centrais a integração acadêmica e social à instituição, onde a decisão do estudante de permanecer ou deixar a universidade é o resultado do nível de conexão desenvolvido com a mesma. Segundo ele os indivíduos entram na universidade com uma variedade de atributos e características, experiências pré-universitárias e background familiar, sendo que cada um destes fatores tem um impacto direto ou indireto sobre o seu desempenho na universidade. Estes antecedentes influenciam no desenvolvimento de expectativas e comprometimentos educacionais que o indivíduo traz para o ambiente universitário e que podem influenciar na decisão de abandonar o curso. Este estudo investigou as diferenças entre preditores de intenção de evasão em diferentes ambientes acadêmicos. Comparou-se o poder preditivo da integração acadêmica, da integração social e de variáveis pessoais em relação à intenção de evasão, nos distintos ambientes, classificando-os, com base no modelo hexagonal de interesses de J. Holland (1997). Para este autor as pessoas procuram ambientes que lhes permitem pôr em prática as suas capacidades e aptidões, expressar as suas atitudes e valores e assumirem estatutos e papéis que lhes sejam agradáveis, ou seja, os indivíduos tentam buscam ambientes congruentes com suas características de personalidade. Em que medida diferentes ambientes acadêmicos possuem modelos explicativos distintos para os processos de permanência ou de evasão? Esta foi a questão central deste estudo e os resultados trouxeram à tona modelos explicativos variados para cada ambiente, com níveis de explicação peculiares. Participaram desta pesquisa 1028 estudantes dos bacharelados interdisciplinares da Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA). O instrumento utilizado foi a escala de Ajustamento ao Ensino Superior (EAJES), que possui qualidades psicométricas satisfatórias e que atendeu ao objetivo de pesquisar sobre a vivência acadêmica e trazer contribuições ao entendimento do fenômeno da evasão. Chegou-se à conclusão de que todos os preditores vinculados à integração acadêmica, bem como os fatores que formam a integração social e as variáveis pessoais participaram da explicação da intenção de evasão dos ambientes acadêmicos estudados, cada um evidenciando comportamentos diferentes a depender do tipo de ambiente envolvido. Vale aqui ressaltar a acentuada participação dos preditores da integração acadêmica no processo de intenção de evasão e o predomínio do fator satisfação com a formação, como maior preditor da explicação da intenção de abandono na maioria dos ambientes. Apenas o ambiente investigativo social (IS), como foi classificado o bacharelado interdisciplinar de Saúde teve como preditor a maturidade de carreira. O presente estudo teve como importante limitação a escolha de um delineamento de corte transversal, visto que este não permite identificar com segurança relações causais. Por fim levantou-se a importância de que os achados deste estudo possam ser ferramentas úteis para a compreensão do fenômeno da evasão universitária. The attrition of students is a worldwide phenomenon and is present in several Brazilian educational institutions, whether public or private. The theories explaining this phenomenon in higher education were built mainly based on the interaction between the characteristics of the student and the university. It is from the work of Vincent Tinto (1975), which sets the modern research university dropout. The model proposed by this author remained theoretical credibility and relevance of the field, showing how concepts central to academic and social integration to the institution where the student's decision to stay or leave the university level is the result of the connection developed with the same. He individuals enter the university with a variety of features and characteristics, precollege experiences and family background, and each of these factors has a direct or indirect impact on their performance at university. These antecedents influence the development of educational expectations and commitments that the individual brings to the university environment and may influence the decision to drop the course. This study investigated the differences between predictors of intention to attritton in different academic environments. We compared the predictive power of academic integration, social integration and personal variables on the intention of avoidance, in different environments, classifying them based on the hexagonal model of interests J. Holland (1997). For this author people seek environments that allow them to put into practice their skills and abilities, express their attitudes and values and take status and roles they are nice, ie, individuals try to seek environments congruent with their personality traits. The extent to which different academic environments have different explanatory models for the processes of stay or avoidance? This was the central question of this study and the results brought to light various explanatory models for each environment, with unique levels of explanation. Participated in this research 1028 interdisciplinary bachelor „students of the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). The instrument used was the Scale of Adjustment to Higher Education (EAJES), which has satisfactory psychometric qualities and who answered the purpose of researching the academic experience and bring contributions to the understanding of the phenomenon of attriton. Came to the conclusion that all predictors related to academic integration, as well as factors that make social integration and personal variables participated in the explanation of the intention of circumventing the academic environments studied, each showing different behaviors depending on the type of environment involved. It is noteworthy here the marked involvement of predictors of academic integration in the process of intent attriton and the prevalence of factor satisfaction with training as the best predictor of the explanation of intention to attriton in most environments. Only the investigative social environment (IS), was ranked as the interdisciplinary Bachelor of Health had as a predictor of career maturity. This study has important limitations as the choice of a cross-sectional design, since it does not allow to safely identify causal relationships. Finally got up the importance of the findings of this study can be useful tools for understanding the phenomenon of college dropout.
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Predictive model to reduce the dropout rate of university students in Perú: Bayesian Networks vs. Decision Trees

Medina, Erik Cevallos, Chunga, Claudio Barahona, Armas-Aguirre, Jimmy, Grandon, Elizabeth E. 01 June 2020 (has links)
El texto completo de este trabajo no está disponible en el Repositorio Académico UPC por restricciones de la casa editorial donde ha sido publicado. / This research proposes a prediction model that might help reducing the dropout rate of university students in Peru. For this, a three-phase predictive analysis model was designed which was combined with the stages proposed by the IBM SPSS Modeler methodology. Bayesian network techniques was compared with decision trees for their level of accuracy over other algorithms in an Educational Data Mining (EDM) scenario. Data were collected from 500 undergraduate students from a private university in Lima. The results indicate that Bayesian networks behave better than decision trees based on metrics of precision, accuracy, specificity, and error rate. Particularly, the accuracy of Bayesian networks reaches 67.10% while the accuracy for decision trees is 61.92% in the training sample for iteration with 8:2 rate. On the other hand, the variables athletic person (0.30%), own house (0.21%), and high school grades (0.13%) are the ones that contribute most to the prediction model for both Bayesian networks and decision trees.
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Cocriação de valor: conceitos e implicações vistos sob a ótica da educação a distância no Brasil / Value co-creation: concepts and implications seen from the perspective of distance education in Brazil

Carvalho, Danielle Daffre 15 May 2017 (has links)
Modalidade de ensino em crescimento no Brasil desde o início dos anos 2000 e com expectativa de contínua expansão, especialmente em função da cada vez maior facilidade de comunicação, seja via Internet, seja via celular ou tablet, a educação a distância (EaD) permite que indivíduos de áreas remotas ou aqueles com pouca disponibilidade de rotina regular para frequentar um curso tradicional, possam obter um diploma superior. Do ponto de vista das instituições de ensino, porém, as altas taxas de evasão são um obstáculo à manutenção e ampliação da oferta desta tipologia de curso. Para que haja a queda destas taxas, é necessário aumentar a lealdade dos estudantes e, para tanto, o valor percebido no curso, que, no caso da educação, faz sentido supor que seja criado entre alunos e universidade; isto porque, além de haver a necessidade de ambos os agentes para a prestação de serviço, o aluno possui papel fundamental para o sucesso do que se oferece (qualificação acadêmica). A literatura acadêmica do setor de serviços indica que, apesar de existir relação entre [cocriação de] valor e lealdade, esta, em geral, se apresenta mediada por qualidade e/ou satisfação. É neste contexto que este trabalho está inserido, apresentando como objetivo identificar os aspectos de cocriação de valor determinantes para a qualidade percebida e lealdade, com foco em educação a distância, por meio de uma pesquisa quantitativa com estudantes desta modalidade de ensino. Esta pesquisa foi antecedida pela exploração do tema com especialistas do setor que contribuíram com seus conhecimentos e experiências. Para a pesquisa quantitativa foi enviado questionário online de autopreenchimento para endereço eletrônico de estudantes de graduação EaD fornecidos por parceria com faculdades privadas e empresa de pesquisa voltada à educação. Ao final, foram obtidas 400 respostas válidas, usadas para entender o comportamento do aluno perante cocriação de valor e suas relações com demais dimensões de interesse (qualidade percebida, satisfação e lealdade). Duas vertentes mostraram-se relevantes na composição da cocriação de valor: coprodução, que engloba o compartilhamento de conhecimento, a interação faculdade-aluno e transparência na transmissão de valores e interesses da faculdade; e valor em uso, refletindo a experiência, o relacionamento e a capacidade de personalização do serviço educacional. Como era suposto, a cocriação mostrou-se influente na explicação dos construtos e tem a imagem da faculdade como uma dimensão importante em sua explicação. Quando observadas as relações entre variáveis latentes segundo o perfil do aluno, encontra-se que aqueles pertencentes à Geração Y são os que mais condicionam sua satisfação e lealdade à participação na criação do valor. / Growing type of education in Brazil since the early 2000s and with expectations of continued expansion, especially given the increasing ease of communication, whether via the Internet, whether via mobile phone or tablet, distance education (DE) allows individuals from remote areas or those with limited availability of regular routine to attend a traditional course, get a higher degree. From the perspective of educational institutions, however, the high dropout rates are an obstacle to the maintenance and expansion of supply of this type of course. In order to make these rates fall, it is necessary to increase the loyalty of students and, therefore, the perceived value, which in the case of education, it makes sense to assume created between students and university; this is because in addition to be a need for both agents to provide service, the student has fundamental role in the success of what is offered (academic qualification). The academic literature in the service sector indicates that although there is a relationship between [co-creation of] value and loyalty, this relation is usually presents mediated by quality and/or satisfaction. In this context, this work is inserted, aiming to identify the aspects of value co-creation that are determinants for perceived quality and loyalty, focusing on distance education, through a quantitative survey of students of this type of education. This research was preceded by an exploration of the theme with specialists of the sector who contributed with their knowledge and experiences. For the survey, an online self-completion questionnaire was sent to the e-mail of undergraduate students provided by a partnership with private colleges and a research company focused on education. In the end, 400 valid answers were obtained, used to understand the student\'s behavior in relation to value creation and their relationships with other dimensions of interest (perceived quality, satisfaction and loyalty). Two aspects have been relevant in the composition of value co-creation: co-production, which includes knowledge sharing, college-student interaction and transparency in the transmission of values and interests of the college; and value-in-use, reflecting the experience, the relationship and the capacity of personalization on the educational service. As was supposed, co-creation has proved to be influential in the explanation of constructs, and the image of college is an important dimension in its explanation. When the relationships between latent variables were observed according to the profile of the student, it was found that those belonging to Y Generation are the ones that present their satisfaction and loyalty conditioned to participation in the creation of value.
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Cocriação de valor: conceitos e implicações vistos sob a ótica da educação a distância no Brasil / Value co-creation: concepts and implications seen from the perspective of distance education in Brazil

Danielle Daffre Carvalho 15 May 2017 (has links)
Modalidade de ensino em crescimento no Brasil desde o início dos anos 2000 e com expectativa de contínua expansão, especialmente em função da cada vez maior facilidade de comunicação, seja via Internet, seja via celular ou tablet, a educação a distância (EaD) permite que indivíduos de áreas remotas ou aqueles com pouca disponibilidade de rotina regular para frequentar um curso tradicional, possam obter um diploma superior. Do ponto de vista das instituições de ensino, porém, as altas taxas de evasão são um obstáculo à manutenção e ampliação da oferta desta tipologia de curso. Para que haja a queda destas taxas, é necessário aumentar a lealdade dos estudantes e, para tanto, o valor percebido no curso, que, no caso da educação, faz sentido supor que seja criado entre alunos e universidade; isto porque, além de haver a necessidade de ambos os agentes para a prestação de serviço, o aluno possui papel fundamental para o sucesso do que se oferece (qualificação acadêmica). A literatura acadêmica do setor de serviços indica que, apesar de existir relação entre [cocriação de] valor e lealdade, esta, em geral, se apresenta mediada por qualidade e/ou satisfação. É neste contexto que este trabalho está inserido, apresentando como objetivo identificar os aspectos de cocriação de valor determinantes para a qualidade percebida e lealdade, com foco em educação a distância, por meio de uma pesquisa quantitativa com estudantes desta modalidade de ensino. Esta pesquisa foi antecedida pela exploração do tema com especialistas do setor que contribuíram com seus conhecimentos e experiências. Para a pesquisa quantitativa foi enviado questionário online de autopreenchimento para endereço eletrônico de estudantes de graduação EaD fornecidos por parceria com faculdades privadas e empresa de pesquisa voltada à educação. Ao final, foram obtidas 400 respostas válidas, usadas para entender o comportamento do aluno perante cocriação de valor e suas relações com demais dimensões de interesse (qualidade percebida, satisfação e lealdade). Duas vertentes mostraram-se relevantes na composição da cocriação de valor: coprodução, que engloba o compartilhamento de conhecimento, a interação faculdade-aluno e transparência na transmissão de valores e interesses da faculdade; e valor em uso, refletindo a experiência, o relacionamento e a capacidade de personalização do serviço educacional. Como era suposto, a cocriação mostrou-se influente na explicação dos construtos e tem a imagem da faculdade como uma dimensão importante em sua explicação. Quando observadas as relações entre variáveis latentes segundo o perfil do aluno, encontra-se que aqueles pertencentes à Geração Y são os que mais condicionam sua satisfação e lealdade à participação na criação do valor. / Growing type of education in Brazil since the early 2000s and with expectations of continued expansion, especially given the increasing ease of communication, whether via the Internet, whether via mobile phone or tablet, distance education (DE) allows individuals from remote areas or those with limited availability of regular routine to attend a traditional course, get a higher degree. From the perspective of educational institutions, however, the high dropout rates are an obstacle to the maintenance and expansion of supply of this type of course. In order to make these rates fall, it is necessary to increase the loyalty of students and, therefore, the perceived value, which in the case of education, it makes sense to assume created between students and university; this is because in addition to be a need for both agents to provide service, the student has fundamental role in the success of what is offered (academic qualification). The academic literature in the service sector indicates that although there is a relationship between [co-creation of] value and loyalty, this relation is usually presents mediated by quality and/or satisfaction. In this context, this work is inserted, aiming to identify the aspects of value co-creation that are determinants for perceived quality and loyalty, focusing on distance education, through a quantitative survey of students of this type of education. This research was preceded by an exploration of the theme with specialists of the sector who contributed with their knowledge and experiences. For the survey, an online self-completion questionnaire was sent to the e-mail of undergraduate students provided by a partnership with private colleges and a research company focused on education. In the end, 400 valid answers were obtained, used to understand the student\'s behavior in relation to value creation and their relationships with other dimensions of interest (perceived quality, satisfaction and loyalty). Two aspects have been relevant in the composition of value co-creation: co-production, which includes knowledge sharing, college-student interaction and transparency in the transmission of values and interests of the college; and value-in-use, reflecting the experience, the relationship and the capacity of personalization on the educational service. As was supposed, co-creation has proved to be influential in the explanation of constructs, and the image of college is an important dimension in its explanation. When the relationships between latent variables were observed according to the profile of the student, it was found that those belonging to Y Generation are the ones that present their satisfaction and loyalty conditioned to participation in the creation of value.
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L’influence de la surabondance informationnelle sur le non-recours au tutorat méthodologique en première année universitaire / The impact of information overload over the non-use of methodological tutoring in first academic year

Pourcelot, Charlotte 04 December 2015 (has links)
Les universités françaises sont en crise car le taux d’échec et d’abandon y est prégnant depuis plusieurs années. Les réformes nées ou naissantes poursuivent toutes le même but : la réussite. Alors que plusieurs dispositifs d’aide sont désormais offerts aux étudiants, ce travail se propose d’approfondir les travaux menés sur le non-recours au tutorat méthodologique. Il interroge pour cela la variable « information », et s’articule autour de trois hypothèses. - Les étudiants de premier cycle ont des capacités attentionnelles limitées qui les empêchent de faire des choix rationnels.- La surabondance informationnelle en premier cycle ne permet pas aux étudiants de recourir au tutorat méthodologique.- Les étudiants « engagés » qui reçoivent une information claire des potentialités et des objectifs du dispositif d’aide, et qui l’utilisent de manière optimale, réussissent. Pour les tester, nous avons fait appel à deux outils d’enquête complémentaires.Dans un premier temps, vingt-deux tuteurs ont été interviewés, ainsi que la directrice des études et de la vie universitaire, et trois directeurs d'Unité de Formation et de Recherche (UFR). Les résultats de ces enquêtes qualitatives réalisées in situ, révèlent que le tutorat méthodologique souffre de défauts d’information, et que des efforts doivent être fournis dans ce domaine. Des pistes d’amélioration pour informer efficacement les primo-entrants en vue d’augmenter le taux de fréquentation aux séances de tutorat sont donc présentées. Dans un second temps, ont été interrogés par questionnaires 392 étudiants de première année issus des trois facultés que compte l’Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA). Cette enquête avait pour buts de vérifier si les étudiants de premier cycle étaient bien informés des potentialités et des objectifs du tutorat méthodologique, et de faire le lien entre l’étudiant, usager d’un dispositif d’accompagnement méthodologique ou pédagogique, et le dispositif lui-même dans l’atteinte des objectifs qu’il s’est donnés. A partir du « modèle d’efficacité individuelle d’un dispositif d’accompagnement méthodologique ou pédagogique » de Ben Abid-Zarrouk (2013), les virtualités d’un tel outil ont été questionnées ainsi que les caractéristiques de ses utilisateurs. Cette recherche montre notamment que les étudiants qui établissent des stratégies de réussite optimale, qui sont attentifs aux informations relatives aux potentialités des dispositifs d’aide à la réussite en termes de réussite, qui l’estiment utile et qui en sont donc satisfaits, réussissent mieux que les autres, y compris les tutorés. Puis, en s’appuyant sur l’analyse factorielle, cette cohorte a pu être découpée en cinq classes : « Les Scolaires », « Les Oisifs », « Les Retardataires », « Les Irréprochables » et « Les Inadaptés », et huit variables qui se rapportent au tutorat ont pu être caractérisées. / French universities are in crisis because the failure and dropout rates among students have remained high for years. The existing reforms or those being tested are all pursuing the same purpose: achievement. When many assistive devices are now offered to students, this work will be dedicated to the further development of works undertaken on the non-use of methodological tutoring. For this purpose, it will interrogate the variable “information” and will focus on three hypotheses.- Freshmen have limited focusing capacities which do not allow them to make reasonable choices.- Information overload in the first university years does not allow students to use the methodological tutoring. - The “committed” students, who receive clear information about the potential and objectives of this aid scheme and who use it in the best possible manner, succeed.We have used two complementary survey tools to test them.First, twenty-two tutors have been interviewed, as well as the director of studies and university life and three directors of Training and Research Faculty. The results of such qualitative on-site investigations show that methodological tutoring is suffering from lack of information, and efforts must be made in this field. Sources of improvement, in order to inform efficiently the newcomers and increase the attendance rate in tutoring sessions, are thus introduced.Second, 392 freshmen, from the three faculties of the University of Haute-Alsace (UHA), completed questionnaires we gave them. This survey was conducted to determine if undergraduates had been well informed about the potential and objectives of the methodological tutoring and to establish a link between the student using a personalized methodological or educational support and the support mechanism itself in the achievement of the objectives of the plan. The potential of such a tool has been questioned, as well as the characteristics of its users in Ben Abid-Zarrouk’s « modèle d’efficacité individuelle d’un dispositif d’accompagnement méthodologique ou pédagogique » (2013).This research shows that students, who establish optimal achievement strategies, care about information related to the potential of success assistance schemes, find it useful and are then satisfied with it, can make it better than the others, including the tutored ones. So, based upon factor analysis, this cohort can be divided into five classes: “The School-goers”, “The Idle Ones”, The Stragglers”, “The Blameless”, “The Unsuitable Ones”, and eight variables related to tutoring have been characterized.

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