Students Strategies to Survive the Academic Transition: Recycling Skills, Reshaping Minds

Autor/in	Dias, Diana Da Silva
Titel	Students Strategies to Survive the Academic Transition: Recycling Skills, Reshaping Minds
Quelle	In: European Journal of Engineering Education, 47 (2022) 6, S.1050-1060 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Dias, Diana Da Silva)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0304-3797
DOI	10.1080/03043797.2022.2113368
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Engineering Education; Educational Experience; Self Concept; Student Role; Prediction; Student Characteristics; Undergraduate Students; Student Attitudes; Academic Failure; Dropouts; Resilience (Psychology); Student Adjustment; Role Perception + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Ingenieurausbildung; Bildungserfahrung; Selbstkonzept; Vorhersage; Schülerverhalten; Drop-out; Drop-outs; Dropout; Early leavers; Schulversagen; Student; Students; Adjustment; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Adaptation; Role conception; Rollenverständnis
Abstract	The expectations students bring to Higher Education (HE) are explored, as well as the way they handle the clash between what they expect and what they actually find when attending Engineering programs. This study intends to understand if dissimilar engineering student profiles can be identified when considering the centrality of the student's role in his or her life, and the academic success. The focus was put on the experiences of first-year students on an Engineering HE institution to uncover four different ways/rationales to build their own identity as a HE student. If an overinvestment in the student role can predict a greater possibility for further studies and an underinvestment can predict lower resilience that can lead to failure or dropout, the ability to manage their student role together with the other roles associated with youth seems to predict an academic success similar to those who devoted their lives exclusively to studying. In other words, the fact that the student role overshadows the youth role is not enough for success. The balance between different life roles appears much more as a predictor of academic comfort and, consequently, of success. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01