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- Philosophy, Graduate Students, Job Search, Student work placements

It is increasingly accepted that academic literacies form an integral part of undergraduate learning, yet the field is dominated by qualitative research and too little attention has been paid to the postgraduate level. This paper contributes a quantitative analysis of students at the postgraduate research level. The survey investigated forty-eight postgraduate research studentsA¢â¬â¢ academic literacies beliefs and researcher identity. The quantitative method employed here proved to be effective. Further, research studentsA¢â¬â¢ researcher identity and academic literacies beliefs appeared to be related. This study validates the use of quantitative instruments in academic literacies research. It is therefore suggested that similar quantitative instruments may prove valuable in future research.

- by Erika Spray
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- Quantitative Methods, Quantitative methodology, Academic Literacies, Research Writing

This quantitative study examined the role of mentoring on 332 Hispanic graduate students' sense of belonging and academic self-efficacy. The results found that mentored Hispanic graduate students reported significantly higher levels of sense of belonging and academic self-efficacy than unmentored students. A hierarchical regression found 24% of the variance in academic self-efficacy was accounted for by mentoring and sense of belonging. Implications for practice and future research are discussed. Resumen Este estudio cuantitativo examinó el papel de mentoría en trescientos treinta y dos estudiantes hispanos de postgrado-en cuanto a su sentido de pertenencia y eficacia académica propia. Los resultados encontrados señalan que estudiantes hispanos de postgrado que experimentaron mentoría reportaron niveles significativamente más altos del sentido de pertenencia y de eficacia académica propia comparados con los estudiantes sin mentoría.

Les migrations étudiantes se situent au coeur des débats actuels sur l’immigration. Adoptant généralement un point de vue géopolitique, les études portant sur ce phénomène oublient souvent de s’intéresser à son objet principal : l’individu. Au-delà des chiffres, il existe le vécu, l’expérience individuelle de celles et ceux qui partent étudier dans un pays étranger.
Cet ouvrage se propose d’explorer le vécu d’étudiants d’origine chilienne
ou colombienne au cours de leurs études à Paris, New York ou Boston.
Bien que les trajectoires individuelles ne soient pas complètement libres -puisque la migration internationale est soumise à des règles juridiques et institutionnelles précises, qui laissent une place réduite à l’improvisation - l’analyse des biographies éclaire le réagencement des déterminismes sociaux par les individus.
Cette recherche va à l’encontre de plusieurs idées reçues sur les migrations étudiantes : la garantie pour les étudiants d’une réussite assurée à leur retour, l’assouplissement des conditions de séjour pour les migrants très qualifiés, l’existence d’une classe internationale sans ancrages locaux, ou encore l’expatriation forcée des chercheurs des pays du Sud. Ces phénomènes apparaissent en effet clairement à nuancés grâce à la prise en compte de la subjectivité des individus d’une part, et des effets des investissements des pays émergents dans la société du savoir, d’autre part.

The premise of this book is simple: if the chapter writers could go back in time and talk with themselves when they began their studies, what advice would they give? Isn’t hindsight a bonus? Each chapter will offer this hindsight. The chapters will not be their personal stories, but useful lessons learned through their experiences. Those lessons will be offered to aspiring and current graduate students to help ensure that their studies are successful. Chapters contain contributions from a range of academics and academic-practitioners, from those getting established in their careers to those that are more novice and emergent. Its contributors include scholars from many universities throughout the United States. Contributors cover essential aspects of graduate study, such as writing and publishing, relationships with supervisors, utilizing rejection and critique, and becoming a researcher. Contributors write of studying for higher degrees and coping with family, illness, disability, and distance. Culture is bridged between Hispanic scholars and their colleagues in mainstream academia, and international students offer advice to those coming to these shores to study. This volume provides indispensable advice that every graduate student could utilize and follows on from the successful publication of Postgraduate Study in Aotearoa New Zealand: Surviving and Succeeding (McMaster & Murphy, 2014). The US edition will be part of an international ‘survive and succeed’ series currently being produced in Australia, the UK and South Africa.

- by Christopher McMaster
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- Education, Academic Development, Higher Education, Graduate Education
- by Marco Althaus
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- Career Management, Higher Education, Graduate Education, Career Guidance
- by Steve Bain
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- Graduate Students, Graduate Student

In May 2020, Arizona State University’s history department offered its first remote, digital internship to graduate students. Students completed a 180-hour internship between May and August 2020. The internship involved weekly meetings, curation, collecting, journaling, and marketing. Over the summer, the interns worked to identify a silence in the archive and address it by creating a collection plan targeting the perceived silence. The interns drew on their own networks to build the collection, created a collection plan, conducted oral history interviews, wrote a blog post, and completed a final portfolio.

- by Jason C. Thompson
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- Philosophy, Rhetoric, Composition and Rhetoric, Critical Pedagogy

This quantitative study was designed to investigate the differences in stressors and demographic variables of women enrolled in an online master's degree program in education. Participants were women with multiple personal, career, and family responsibilities. Survey data and demographic data were used to identify which stressors were most frequently experienced and whether there was a significant difference between stress scale scores and demographic variables. Seven hundred and fifty women completed the Social Readjustment Rating Scale -Revised (Hobson, 1998) and non-parametric tests were used to analyze the data. Findings indicated the stressors most common to female graduate students were related to family, finances, and health-related issues. The results also suggested there were significant differences among the demographic variables of age, ethnicity, program start date, number of courses completed, and marital status. For institutions of higher education these findings ...

- by Lynne Arric
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- Psychology, Instructional Design, Educational Technology, Distance Education

I wrote this booklet for anyone who is considering applying to graduate school for art history in the US. It is broken into three sections: Before Applying, The Application Process, and Life as a Graduate Student. The Second Edition, released in November 2014, has been revised and updated and includes printable worksheets and checklists designed to help prospective graduate students navigate the application process.

- by Amy Martin
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- Art History, Graduate School, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Education

What should professors do differently when teaching undergraduate students online as compared to teaching graduate students online? In what ways must professors modify their online course structure, teaching styles, and class policies when handling these two very different student groups? This paper will discuss the approaches that two professors, representing the College of Education at a regional southeastern university, utilize to provide support, scaffolding, and strategies for success to both of these important populations. Best practices, tips, and suggestions from the research for facilitating both undergraduate and graduate students in asynchronous online classes will be discussed.

- by Kelly Paynter and +1
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- Distance Learning, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students
- by Gönül Güneş
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- Graduate Students, Multiple Intelligence Theory

The purpose of this paper is to identify existing incongruencies in the academic and social approach to the individuals with learning disabilities and explore the possibility of looking at this issue as an evolutionary process, rather than the disease outbreak. It then proposes an alternative solution for a classroom environment, where all individuals, regardless of learning disability types, feel like a cohesive group. The projected Learning Ability Classroom explores the potentials of integration of a vast variety of tools, known to aid with most common learning disabilities, as well as other psychological and teaching tools used in non-academic industries, and will present the suggestions in eight major sectors of a classroom learning: leadership approach, time allocation, room layout, discipline, resources, exercises, tests and projects, and homework types and submissions. Finally, it discusses non-formal research, conducted in as a physical experiment of setting up Learning Ability Classrooms in business schools for undergraduate and graduate international cohorts.

Tenu les 1er, 2 et 3 février 2011, le 11e Colloque international étudiant du Département d’histoire de l’Université Laval a réuni près de soixante-quinze jeunes chercheurs de divers horizons, tant disciplinaires que géographiques. Venus du Brésil, de Belgique, de Suisse, de France, d’Ontario ou du Québec, ces étudiants ont fait part des résultats de leurs recherches, faisant du même coup l’étalage de toute la richesse des disciplines affiliées à ce qu’il est convenu d’appeler les sciences historiques. De l’archéologie aux sciences de l’information en passant par l’ethnologie, les études anciennes, l’histoire, l’histoire de l’art et la muséologie, la variété des sujets traités n’a eu d’égale que la qualité des présentations. Les dix-neuf textes rassemblés dans le présent recueil ont été soumis à un examen rigoureux par un comité de direction formé de quatre pairs. Ces articles ont été successivement annotés et commentés par tous les membres du comité de manière à s’assurer que les auteurs se sont bien conformés aux normes de transparence scientifique et de rigueur logique attendues d’une publication savante. Une nouveauté, cette année : ces textes sont précédés d’une préface signée par Maxime Coulombe, professeur d’histoire de l’art contemporain à l’Université Laval, qui a prononcé la conférence d’ouverture du colloque, le 1er février 2011. Les Actes de cette année embrassent un large éventail de sujets regroupés autour de huit thématiques : « Regards ethnologiques sur quelques pratiques familiales »; « Perspectives croisées sur la vie religieuse »; « Droit, justice et morale »; « Littérature et rhétorique en Antiquité »; « L’espace public et ses acteurs »; « Paysages urbains de Québec »; « Lieux cultuels de la France médiévale »; et « Enjeux méthodologiques et théoriques ».

- by Alexandre Turgeon
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- History, Art History, Interdisciplinarity, Graduate Students

The author argues that first-generation college students (FGS) have compounded challenges when they pursue graduate education. As a first-generation college student, he was not able to gather advice from family or his job supervisor, who had no experience with graduate school. Drawing from his experience and the existing FGS-related research, the author details practical advice for making a successful transition from college to graduate school. He concludes with a list of essential questions that prospective graduate students should ask themselves and their mentors when considering graduate study.

- by Brett Lunceford
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- Sociology, Philosophy, Communication, Teaching and Learning

Abstract. References to other scholars’ work is an important component of research writing, and one which requires careful attention in order to convey the writer’s stance toward the reported propositions and their relationship to each other and to the writer’s own work. Second language writers often find it difficult to master the skill of selecting appropriate forms for reporting verbs, and this is an area in which English for Academic Purposes (EAP) materials and teachers are called upon to provide guidance. However, accounts of reporting verb usage have demonstrated that this is a complex area, and simple prescriptions or proscriptions are not sufficient: appropriate choices are dependent on the relationship between form and function, both locally and globally in the citing text. The present paper extends the existing research literature on reporting verbs by examining some of the factors which guide the citing writer’s choices. Implications for the EAP classroom are also taken up.

The lived experiences of graduate student mothers and their unique challenges in comparison to working or faculty mothers are explored through their own words utilizing the theoretical perspective of Dorothy E. Smith. Their jobs as graduate students are rarely viewed as ‘real’ work outside of academia, they face financial woes due to low pay and high student loan debt. Graduate school and motherhood have cultural expectations of a full-time commitment and these incompatible idealizations leave graduate student
mothers feeling incapable of meeting the cultural expectations of being a ‘good’ mother and ‘good’ graduate student. Through in-depth, semi-structured, intensive interviews with twelve graduate student mothers, I explored how graduate student mothers negotiate conflicting roles, how their lives are shaped by cultural expectations of a ‘good mother,’ departmental, graduate school, and university policies, how they attempt to find balance, and what roles support systems play in their successes or struggles.

Tenu les 2, 3 et 4 février 2010, le 10e Colloque international étudiant du Département d’histoire de l’Université Laval a réuni une soixantaine de jeunes chercheurs de divers horizons, tant disciplinaires que géographiques. Venus de France, de Nouvelle-Écosse, de l’Ontario ou du Québec, ces étudiants ont fait part des résultats de recherches, faisant du même coup l’étalage de toute la richesse des disciplines affiliées à ce qu’il est convenu d’appeler les sciences historiques. De l’archéologie aux sciences de l’information, en passant par l’ethnologie, les études anciennes, l’histoire, l’histoire de l’art et la muséologie, la variété des sujets traités n’a eu d’égale que la qualité des présentations. Les douze textes rassemblés dans le présent recueil ont été soumis à un examen rigoureux par un comité de direction formé de quatre pairs. Ces articles ont été successivement annotés et commentés par tous les membres du comité de manière à s’assurer que les auteurs se sont bien conformés aux normes de transparence scientifique et de rigueur logique attendues d’une publication savante. Les Actes de cette année embrassent un large éventail de sujets regroupés autour de cinq thématiques, que voici : « Autour de la pratique disciplinaire »; « Idées en formation et en circulation »; « France/États-Unis : influences politiques transatlantiques »; « Art et représentation de soi en politique »; et « Technologies visuelles et diffusion du savoir scientifique ».

- by Alexandre Turgeon
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- History, Art History, Interdisciplinarity, Music Archiving

The purpose of this study is to examine the Latina Millennial experience while completing an advanced degree, and to identify the parental/familial supports that help them persist and succeed. Through the collection of the participants’ testimonios, interviews were designed to capture their lived experiences as well as, their perceptions of why they succeed. The study was conducted using narrative methods, specifically testimonios to recount the lived experiences of the participants. The conceptual framework includes Chicana Feminist Epistemology (Delgado Bernal, 1998) and resilience theory (Connor and Davidson, 2003; Masten, 2011; Richardson et al., 1990). The collected testimonios emphasize the factors that positively influenced Latinas to successfully pursue and complete an advanced degree. The testimonios also highlight how parents and family and support systems developed as they pursued an advanced degree.

- by Nadia Aguilar
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- Education, Higher Education, Chicana/o Studies, Parent Involvement

This study was designed to explore the graduate school experience, particularly issues of connectedness. Satisfaction with life, perfectionism and other demographic variables were examined. Results indicated that satisfaction with life, Self-Evaluative Perfectionism, and the
number of years enrolled at a current university, were significant predictors of campus connectedness. An interaction effect indicated that students with high Self-Evaluative Perfectionism scores, but low satisfaction with life scores were more likely to report lower
campus connectedness. When satisfaction with life was low, campus connectedness was significantly lower for White students only. Future research will examine whether campus connectedness predicts graduate program completion.

- by Christine Karhbet
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- Perfectionism, Life Satisfaction, Graduate School, Graduate Students

To ensure its survival in a world of rapid globalization and the COVID 19 Pandemic, a graduate school must improve the quality of its teaching and learning. According to the literature review, students worldwide faced problems and challenges following the closure of schools due to the pandemic. On this basis, it is deemed necessary to investigate postgraduate students' experiences during disruptions and their issues and concerns.Graduate students were identified as participants in the study. The interview was conducted using a specially designed open-ended interview form. The study found that most of the students stated that they have many issues and concerns. They need to enroll in postgraduate programs to remain competitive and differentiate themselves when competence in the job is required, such as being promoted to work or preparing for new work. It is difficult for them to learn everything in school; however, to improve their conditions and provide the best services to their clients, they must prioritize what benefits them.Based on the study's findings, it can be concluded that their professional development may not have been hampered despite difficulties in time management, work-life balance, and stress management.

- by Tarhata S . Guiamalon
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- Distance Education, Stress Management, Work-Life Balance, Graduate Students

Students, scholars, and higher education administrators in the United States have increasingly paid attention to sexual misconduct by university employees, especially following the #MeToo movement that went viral in October 2017. For instance, the Academic Sexual Misconduct Database, compiled by Michigan State University professor Julie Libarkin (2020), collects cases of academic sexual misconduct in the United States, based on public documents and news media reports. An online survey on fieldwork experiences (N=666, of which 516 were women) found that women respondents were 3.5 times more likely to report having experienced sexual harassment than men (Clancy et al. 2014, para. 19). Canta-lupo and Kidder’s (2018) review of over 300 publicly documented cases of sexual harassment of U.S. graduate students, found that a “disturbingly high proportion” of cases involved “higher-severity sexual harassment” (p. 4); 53% of cases involved professors who were serial offenders. They estimated that 10% of women graduate students at major U.S. research universities have been sexually harassed by faculty members.

- by Najma Akhther
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- Academia, Graduate Students, Sexual Misconduct, U.S. universities
- by Lance King
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- Education, Teacher Education, Lifelong Learning, Psychometrics

The purpose of this study is to identify the factors that affect the intention of Business and Management graduate students, scholars, and members of the academe to participate in research conferences. In order to get a better understanding of this study, a framework based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) model by Ajzen (1991) was adopted. Through this study, the proponents aim to answer the following questions:
Which factors influence graduate students and scholars’ intention to attend research conferences?
Do attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control affect the intention to attend research conferences altogether?
Which among the three factors significantly affects the intention to attend research conferences?
To assess the factors that influence the intention of individuals particularly those in the higher education system to attend research conferences, a survey instrument was created based on the TPB model, which according to Azjen (1991), suggests that an individual’s intention to perform certain tasks or behaviors can be determined through understanding the following determinants - attitude toward the behavior, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control.
The results of the study showed that among the three determinants, subjective norms and perceived behavioral control, surprisingly, do not have a significant effect on the intention of graduate students, scholars, and members of the academe to attend research conferences. This means that the respondents’ social pressure to contribute to scholarly literature from family, friends, colleagues, or even professors does not necessarily influence their intention to attend research conferences. As for perceived behavioral control, regardless of the circumstances and preparedness of the respondents, it would not necessarily influence their intention to attend or participate in a research conference. On the other hand, attitudes towards attending conferences were deemed the most significant determinant. This is aligned with the results of Skoglund et al. (2020), where attitude was found to be a significant determinant in predicting attendance in lectures.
Through this study, conference organizers will have a better understanding of the intention to attend research conferences. They can use these results for future conferences to highlight the ease of presenting and publishing research in conference proceedings and journals, as well as to forward the academic recognition that comes from peers and colleagues in contributing to scholarly literature. This study adds to the scant literature of research on academic conferences and journals per se in the Philippines.

- by Noel Murad
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- Graduate Students, Business and Management, Academic Journals, Research Conferences

This study aims at examining the writing skills of a group of Indonesian graduate students of English. A particular attention has been focused on the coherence of their production of argumentative texts. Employing a discourse analytical case study, three texts written by three Master's degree students of the English language education at a local university in Central Java, Indonesia, were analyzed. Coherence and cohesion is inextricable in which both are crucial in academic writing as to achieve a makes-sense text. Therefore, it is an urgent need to look at the writing competency of students as they are at graduate level, majoring in the English language education. The texts produced by the students were scrutinized through the lens of micro-and macro-level coherence (Thornburry, 2005). From this theory, cohesion is involved in micro level coherence. The findings indicate that the students show a bit weakness on achieving coherent texts due to lack of optimization of cohesive devices especially conjunctions to create interconnectedness of the whole sentences in the texts. Abstract This study aims at examining the writing skills of a group of Indonesian graduate students of English. A particular attention has been focused on the coherence of their production of argumentative texts. Employing a discourse analytical case study, three texts written by three Master's degree students of the English language education at a local university in Central Java, Indonesia, were analyzed. Coherence and cohesion is inextricable in which both are crucial in academic writing as to achieve a makes-sense text. Therefore, it is an urgent need to look at the writing competency of students as they are at graduate level, majoring in the English language education. The texts produced by the students were scrutinized through the lens of micro-and macro-level coherence (Thornburry, 2005). From this theory, cohesion is involved in micro level coherence. The findings indicate that the students show a bit weakness on achieving coherent texts due to lack of optimization of cohesive devices especially conjunctions to create interconnectedness of the whole sentences in the texts.

- by Sarah Gorman
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- Mental Health, Graduate Students

Objective – This research aimed at sketching personal values of graduate students at a faith-based institution in Indonesia. It also investigated the possible influence of these personal values and the students’ perceptions towards the values of their institution on their emotional attachment (affective commitment) to the institution.
Methodology/Technique – A cross-sectional survey was employed as the primary method in the collection of the data. The fieldwork comprised the distribution of a self-administered questionnaire to potential respondents through direct contact. A convenience sampling was used to invite respondent participation. A total of 250 questionnaires were distributed of which 143 were usable, representing an overall response rate of 53 %.
Findings – Results derived from the research suggested that the students, in general, embraced religious and intellectual values in their personal life. These dominant values seemed to be congruous with the demands of academic life in a faith-based educational institution as well as the demand of business worlds in the future. Likewise, a high level of affective commitment was exhibited by the students. Findings of the research also showed perceived institutional and personal values of students were more strongly predictors of students’ affective commitment than either one alone.
Novelty – There has been little research on the relationships between personal values, institutional values and affective commitment in the Indonesian higher education institution contexts. Thus, this research fills this gap.

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- Graduate Students, Personal values, Affective Commitment, Institutional Values
- by Emmanuel Akanwa
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- Adult Education, Andragogy, Public Deliberation, Adult Learners

This descriptive-correlational study aimed to undertake a survey-type research to comparatively analyze the barriers to the commercialization of outcomes of academic investigations. The statistical population of this study included the graduate students in campuses of Allameh Tabatabaei University and Kharazmi University in the Academic Year 2015-2016 (N=1200). To do this end, a simple random sampling was used. Besides, the sample size was determined as 290 individuals resorting to Krejcie-Morgan Table. A researcher-made questionnaire was used to collect the required data. The validity of the questionnaire was approved through mustering the viewpoints of elite professors and its reliability was confirmed using the Cronbach's Alpha (0.84). Having resorted to exploratory factor analysis (via operating the principal components and recounting the loads higher than 0.40), 6 factors were extracted that could explain up to 55.067% of the total variance. Also, high internal consistency revealed an acceptable alpha coefficient for the factors (from 0.52 to 0.89). The results of comparative comparison of the components through Independent Two-Samples T-test showed that, among the students of forenamed campuses, only financial-credit component was significantly different and, consequently, there was not any significant difference in terms of other components.

- by Lynne Arric
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- Instructional Design, Educational Technology, Women's Studies, Distance Education

The current study is aimed at identifying the problems that graduate students (MA and Ph.D.), supervisors, co-advisors, and examiners have in evaluating and reviewing theses while the students are preparing the thesis and after finishing the work as perceived by each group. The target group of subjects comprised of 5 MA and 4 Ph.D. female students from King Saud University and Umm Al-Qura University who have finished writing and have defended their theses. In addition, randomly selected were 10 supervisors and co-advisors who have supervised MA and Ph.D. theses

- by Prof. Reima Al-Jarf
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- Evaluation, Graduate Students, Theses, Doctoral Dissertations

Social media use claimed by political scientist influenced low integrity level of political participation among young people but aligning political movements with media literacy competency reported develop civic engagement from civic knowledge and drive to democracy participatory. It is essential for young people actively engage in political activities having media literacy competency in developing effective communicator. To test the value of integrity, a model of media literacy competency was tested among 388 students from four Higher Education Institutions in Melaka namely Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Melaka Branch, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia, Melaka, Multimedia University, (MMU) Melaka and Kolej Islam Universiti Melaka (KUIM). New media literacy scale instruments are developed from digital significance modeling and media literacy models to test the integrity of young people through Validation Factor Analysis (CFA) and the establishment of the CFA Model of Media Literacy Scale. Findings show that multi-dimensional model of media literacy has achieved good matching accuracy and achieves convergence validity based on significant relationship variables. This scale also achieves discriminatory and predictive validity that supports the Malay version of psychometric features. This study directly contributes to the formation of media literacy scales and understanding of new media literacy that is important for the community, government and media practitioners in interpreting and understanding.

- by Dr. Mohd Sufiean Hassan and +1
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- Political Participation, Media Literacy, Young People, Graduate Students

As the academic marketplace is increasingly saturated with PhD graduates, universities need to consider new ways of exposing doctoral candidates to the world outside academe. But this is not as simple as offering resume-writing classes. A meaningful shift in attitude needs to take place within universities, or else doctoral programs, which public policy now suggests are the key to a nation's economic future, will do a great disservice to their students http://www.universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/think-again/

- by Andrew M. Boggs
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- Graduate Education, Graduate employment, Graduate Students, Phd
- by Nilufer Kalkan Yorulmaz
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- Hadith Studies, Graduate Students

Impostor phenomenon (IP) refers to an overwhelming feeling of intellectual fraudulence and aﬀects individuals across a number of ﬁelds. Academia provides an environment in which these feelings can ﬂourish, particularly within postgraduate students. In spite of the research exploring these feelings, we know little about how to reduce them in academia. Clinical research has identiﬁed guiding principles to assist those aﬀected, particularly through mentorship. This article describes a series of interventions for postgraduates adapted from clinical research. These four interventions identiﬁed IP and its consequences, explored disciplinary and academic literacies strategies, and taught postgraduate students how to read academic journal articles and use literacy strategies to write literature reviews. Parametric and nonparametric analyses show that impostor feelings reduced by 23% relative to a control group. This research suggests that programmes could use similar interventions in academic skill sets to help reduce IP feelings in their postgraduate students.

- by Jonathan Cisco
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- Literacy, Academic Advising, Graduate Students, Disciplinary Literacy

Decision making is a process of making a choice from a number of alternatives to achieve a desired result. This study was conducted to assess the extent of decision-making involvement among graduate school students in one state college as implications for educational leadership. The study respondents were the 115 graduate school students and were chosen through stratified random sampling. Findings revealed that most of the graduate school students have high extent of decision-making involvement in terms of instructional programme and school human resources while moderate extent in terms of infrastructural facilities. At the same time results showed that there is no significant difference on the extent of graduate students' involvement in decision making in terms of instructional programme, school human resources and infrastructural facilities when grouped according to their profile variables. Educational leaders should promote forms of participation in decision making that increase graduate students' actual involvement in decisions concerning their duties and opportunities for development and also provide for more sharing on issues concerning the school management, particularly educational leadership.

Graduate students occupy social positions within institutions of higher education that are rife with role strain and, relative to broader power relations within these institutions, are marginalized. In this study, we inquire how the social positions and concomitant roles of graduate students shape their mental health experiences, investigating potential institutional sources of stress. Our findings suggest that master’s and doctoral students have unique mental health concerns related to their roles and social positions as graduate students. Major institutional sources of stress include role strain, mentor relationships, isolation, and funding.

- by Kristina Simacek and +2
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- Sociology, Education, Mental Health, Graduate Students
- by Santiago Riera Mora
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- Landscape Archaeology, Teaching, Fieldwork, Learning

This book is a heart-to-heart talk from one graduate student to another on practical strategies and tips for writing and publishing during graduate school. More than that, it offers inspiration and encouragement to discouraged students who have received setbacks in the writing and publishing process. In this book, you'll learn about the writing process that involves drafting, feedback, rewriting, and editing.

- by Shuyi Chua
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- Academic Writing, Academic Publishing, Graduate Students

The symptoms of anxiety and depression amongst university students are more common throughout the globe as it affects one's social, economic, and academic life negatively. Although the students in developing and low-income countries have more tendencies to experience depression and anxiety, the extent and pattern of the problem of depression are largely unknown. This paper focuses on exploring the various models of depression amongst recent graduates of Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, Sylhet-Bangladesh, who experienced depression and anxiety throughout their academic life. This is an exploratory study where in-depth interview methods have been used for the collection of data. This study involved field research, and it is based on the primary data and secondary data received from books, articles, newspapers, archival documents review, and other online sources to define concepts and relevant terms. Thematic analysis method has been employed through coding processes to analyze the collected data. The findings from this study revealed that most students, especially the female students, suffered from depression and anxiety in their academic life. This is most likely due to educational, social, personal, and family-related issues. This study also reveals a high tendency of suicide, involvement in illegal activities, and failure to attain academic goals amongst depressed students. Hopefully, from this research, these findings will provide some guidelines and policy strategies based on the nature of these problems. Also, it will serve as a guide for future researchers and academic and policymakers to base their reports on in order to reduce this social disease.

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- Depression, Bangladesh, Society, Graduate Students