The research is a national study of educational research in Australia, with particular emphasis
Students’ perceptions of the role their higher degree studies play in their workplace
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Overall, students held a positive attitude toward the role of their higher degree studies in the workplace. In other words, they believed their degrees played quite an important and positive role in their career. They most highly appreciated their studies in making them generally a lot more aware of educational research (70.2%), helping them to get a lot more out of educational research information and perspective (62.1%), helping them to gain a much deeper understanding of what they do in their work (60.1%), and making them refer a lot more often to research publications or findings in the future (51.9%). The participants seemed to emphasize on the theoretical benefits that their studies could bring to themselves. However, they appeared to be more cautious and sceptical when evaluating the contribution their studies could make to their employers and their actual working practices. Only 28.6% of respondents chose “a lot” when answering the question “Do you believe your experiences as a higher degree student are helping your school, centre or institute get more out of educational research information” while up to 45.1% chose “some”. Similarly, when being asked whether their studies had actually helped them to do their work better, 39.3% and 39.7% students chose “a lot” and “some” respectively. As regards the practical ways the students were using or would use their higher degree studies to change what they did, the answers were quite varied falling into seven categories: general work practices change (18.4%), personal development (15.5%), career development (14.7%), organisational change (14.2%), classroom change (9.6%), informing others (5%), network Commented [UoN2]: List like this are difficult to read – when you have several percentages to report, use a table or graph depending on the content. development (0.6%). 1.7% of students were uncertain of the practical way of taking advantage of their higher degree studies. The students’ attitudes towards the impact of educational research on educational practice or planning as a result of their degree studies, the responses were also positive. Up to 88.4% students felt more informed about educational research and 82.8% of them agreed that the impact of educational research was beneficial. The students seemed to be a bit less positive in terms of the level of impact with only 52.7% declaring that the impact of educational research was greater than they previously believed and up to 42.5% answering that there was no change at all. The students generally appreciated the role their higher degree studies play in their workplace. On theory, the students were highly positive about the benefits that their higher degree studies could bring to themselves (their general awareness). However, they were more cautious about the extent to which their studies could be actually beneficial to their employers and the extent to which their studies could actually help them in their working practices. tải về 328.91 Kb. Chia sẻ với bạn bè của bạn:
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