"Departmental Climate and Student Experiences in Geography Graduate Programs": Research for Enhancing Departments and Graduate Education

Autor/inn/en	Solem, Michael N.; Lee, Jenny; Schlemper, M. Beth
Titel	"Departmental Climate and Student Experiences in Geography Graduate Programs": Research for Enhancing Departments and Graduate Education
Quelle	In: Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 35 (2011) 1, S.5-9 (5 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0309-8265
Schlagwörter	Graduate Students; Graduate Study; Ideology; Factor Analysis; Comparative Analysis; Intellectual Disciplines; College Environment; Departments; Student Experience; Geography Instruction; Qualitative Research; Statistical Analysis; Values; Interviews; Student Surveys; Teacher Attitudes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Ideologie; Faktorenanalyse; Geisteswissenschaften; Hochschulumwelt; Department; Abteilung; Studienerfahrung; Geography education; Geography lessons; Geografieunterricht; Qualitative Forschung; Statistische Analyse; Wertbegriff; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Schülerbefragung; Lehrerverhalten
Abstract	This article reports the authors' research which combined quantitative and qualitative methods to analyze a rather intangible phenomenon of interest to higher education researchers and administrators, that being "departmental climate" (often referred to as "academic climate"). This investigation required the authors to develop a method by which concrete aspects of departmental climate could be measured as a set of distinct yet interrelated concepts, which could then enable the academic environments of geographically and institutionally diverse departments to be compared for similarities and differences in their intellectual and social qualities. The factor analysis methodology they implemented grew from prior work by Jenny Lee (2004), who developed quantitative categories of academic values, beliefs and ideologies using national data collected from faculty in five disciplines (Biology, Business, Education, English and Political Science) in all types of two- and four-year academic institutions participating in the 1998 Faculty Survey by the Higher Education Research Institute. The results of their comparative analysis, when paired with related studies (Schlemper & Monk, 2011; Solem, Hopwood & Schlemper, 2011), have implications for how graduate education is practiced in terms of maintaining strengths while improving areas that are not adequately serving the academic development and socialization of particular groups of graduate students. (Contains 1 note.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10