scholarly journals Laying the Groundwork for a New Library Service: Scholar-Practitioner & Graduate Student Attitudes Toward Altmetrics and the Curation of Online Profiles

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Reed ◽  
Dana McFarland ◽  
Rosie Croft
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Student Attitudes ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Library Service ◽  
Major Barrier ◽  
Academic Communities ◽  
Scholarly Identity ◽  
Online Reputation

Objective – In order to inform a library service related to creating and maintaining online scholarly profiles, we sought to assess the knowledge base and needs of our academic communities. Participants were queried about use, issues, and attitudes toward scholarly profile and altmetric tools, as well as the role librarians could play in assisting with the curation of online reputation. Methods – Semi-structured interviews with 18 scholar-practitioners and 5 graduate students from two mid-sized universities. Results – While all participants had Googled themselves, few were strategic about their online scholarly identity. Participants affirmed the perception that altmetrics can be of value in helping to craft a story of the value of their research and its diverse outputs. When participants had prior knowledge of altmetrics tools, it tended to be very narrow and deep, and perhaps field-specific. Participants identified time as the major barrier to use of scholarly profile and altmetrics tools. Conclusions – Librarians are well-placed to assist scholar-practitioners who wish to curate an online profile or use altmetrics tools. Areas of assistance include: personalized support, establishment of goals, orientation to specific tools, orientation to altmetrics and scholarly promotion landscape, preparing users for potential difficulties, discussing copyright implications, Open Access education, and guidance with packaging content for different venues and audiences.

Exploring professors’ experiences supporting graduate student well-being in Ontario faculties of education

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 397-411
Author(s):  
Vera Woloshyn ◽  
Michael J. Savage ◽  
Snezana Ratkovic ◽  
Catherine Hands ◽  
Dragana Martinovic
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Inclusive Learning ◽  
Ontario Education ◽  
Faculties Of Education ◽  
Diverse Groups

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore Ontario education professors’ perceptions of well-being, document ways in which they support graduate students’ well-being and discuss perceived challenges in doing so.Design/methodology/approachA basic interpretative design was used, with participants consisting of seven (four females, three males) tenured professors from five faculties of education in Ontario, Canada. Participants completed one to two semi-structured interviews. Interviews were audio recorded, transcribed for member checking and read holistically to identify emergent themes across participants.FindingsParticipants provided multifaceted representations of well-being and reported that supporting graduate students’ psycho-socio-emotional well-being was a critical aspect of their role. They discussed the intentional use of specific strategies including creating inclusive learning environments, nurturing caring relationships, providing academic accommodations and promoting relevant on-campus supports and services. Finally, participants identified factors that challenged their abilities to support graduate students’ wellness including institutional norms and expectations, shifting student demographics and uncertainties with respect to professional capacities.Practical implicationsGraduate student mentorship should be included in the faculty reward system. The provision of private, specialized services offered by trained personnel is also recommended. Future research is needed to explore faculty experiences supporting and mentoring diverse groups of graduate students.Originality/valueWhile limited in participant numbers and educational jurisdiction, this research extends current mentoring models by adding a mental health and well-being component, thus bridging gaps between well-being and graduate mentorship in higher education.

Getting My Feet Wet: A Student Educator's Perspective on a Successful Learning Experience

1997 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Gifford
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Holistic Education ◽  
Unexpected Events ◽  
School Buses ◽  
Master Of Science ◽  
Strongly Connected

I am a third-semester graduate student at the Audubon Expedition Institute (AEI), a college based in Belfast, Maine. This is a unique, fascinating, and sometimes crazy educational experience in which we travel around a different bioregion of the country each semester. Our method of transport is two converted school buses; we camp out every night and become strongly connected with the land around us. Our degree will be a master of science in environmental education; we study ecosystems and environmental and social issues through self-directed education. Our program emphasizes experiential and holistic education within a strong learning community, and sometimes we have the opportunity to turn unexpected events to our advantage. As a learning community we are each other's roommates, teachers, students, and peers. We cook and eat together and live in an intense, closely knit environment. This semester our community consists of 27 graduate students and four faculty.

Abstract W P334: VA Healthcare System Responses to National Stroke Care Reorganization

Stroke ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa M Damush ◽  
Kristine K Miller ◽  
Laurie Plue ◽  
Arlene A Schmid ◽  
Laura Myers ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Acute Stroke ◽  
Nurse Managers ◽  
Stroke Care ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Acute Stroke Care ◽  
Major Barrier ◽  
Ongoing Work ◽  
Final Sample ◽  
Cross Training ◽  
Stroke Center

Aims: In 2011, the VA released the Acute Ischemic Stroke (AIS) Directive which mandated reorganization of acute stroke care, including self-designation as Primary (P), Limited Hours (LH), or Supporting (S) stroke center. We conducted interviews across stroke centers to understand barriers and facilitators faced in response. Methods: The final sample included 38 (84% invited) facilities: 9 P, 24 LH, and 5 S facilities. In total, 107 persons were interviewed including ED Chiefs, Chiefs of Neurology, ED Nurse Managers/Nurses and other staff. Semi-structured interviews were based on the AIS Directive. Completed interviews were transcribed and analyzed using Nvivo 10. Results: Barriers reported were a lack of personnel assigned to coordinate the facility response to the directive. Data collection and lack of staff were likewise commonly reported as barriers. For thrombolysis measures, the low number of eligible Veterans was another major barrier. LH and S facilities reported some unique barriers: access to radiology and neurology services; EMS diverting stroke patients to nearby stroke centers, maintaining staff competency, and a lack of stroke clinical champions. Some solutions applied included cross training X-ray technicians to provide head CT coverage, developing stroke order sets and templates, and staff training. Larger facilities added a stroke code pager system and improved upon its use, and established ED nurses to become first alerts for an acute stroke patient. LH and S facilities also responded by attempting to secure additional services and by establishing formal transfer agreements to improve Veteran tPA access. Conclusions: The AIS Directive brought focused attention to reorganizing and improving stroke care across a range of facility types. Larger VA facilities tended to follow established practices for organizing stroke care, but the unique LH designation presented challenges to consistently organize systems. Since Veterans have financial interest in presenting to a VA facility, ongoing work to organize VA care and to improve access to thrombolysis at smaller VA facilities is needed. This protocol was supported by Genentech Inc. Protocol ML 28238, VA HSRD QUERI Rapid Response Project 11-374, and the VA Stroke QUERI Center.

Understanding Graduate Student Parents: Influence of Parental Status, Gender, and Major on Graduate Students’ Motivation, Stress, and Satisfaction

2022 ◽  
pp. 152102512110722
Author(s):  
Hyeon Jean Yoo ◽  
David T. Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Multiple Roles ◽  
Parental Status ◽  
Special Population ◽  
Stem Fields ◽  
Student Parents ◽  
And Gender

Graduate student parents are a unique subpopulation in higher education that accounts for a large proportion of graduate students. While student parents struggle to balance multiple roles, female students in STEM fields may face more significant barriers in balancing family and academic responsibilities compared to male graduate student parents or female students in non-STEM fields. Despite the urgent need to support this special population, little attention has been paid to how parental status, major, and gender affect graduate students. In this quantitative study of 545 graduate students, we examined the influence of parental status, major, and gender on motivation, stress, and satisfaction. A series of factorial ANOVAs found significant differences in motivation and mental health between graduate student parents and non-parents. Our findings highlight the importance of providing adequate resources to graduate students according to their status.

scholarly journals Sensemaking and identity management amidst major organizational change

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Madeline Pringle
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Student Teaching ◽  
Identity Management ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Organizational Leaders ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Management Processes

Organizational change is inevitable and its impacts will affect all members, albeit to different degrees. These changes also bring about uncertainty, especially as it pertains to one's organization-based identities. However, when studying change and identity, organizational communication scholars have often missed studying the interplay of one's many organization-based identities and how these are made sense of and managed amidst major organizational change. This thesis employs a phronetic-iterative methodology to analyze 16 semi-structured interviews with U.S. graduate students to understand how they have made sense of and managed their organization-based (i.e., graduate student, teaching assistant/instructor, department, university) identities after the COVID-19-induced transition to fully online education in Spring 2020. Analysis of this data suggested that participants used two types of ideal self discursive resources to make sense of and manage these identities, while also experiencing their sensemaking and identity management processes in two distinct stages. Additionally, participants revealed the importance of organizational places as it pertained to making sense of this change and its impacts. With these findings, this thesis extends theoretical work surrounding sensemaking, identity, and place, especially as it pertains to organizational change and providespractical recommendations for organizational leaders in academia to assist some of their highly impacted and identity-precarious populations--graduate students.

scholarly journals Enhancing the Graduate Experience: A Conference for Graduate Student Put On by Graduate Students

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krystal Corbett ◽  
Galen Turner ◽  
Heath Tims ◽  
Narate Taerat ◽  
Nichamon Naksinehaboon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Graduate Student

scholarly journals THE DIALOGICAL EXPERIENCE OF BEING A MOTHER OF A CHILD AND A NURSE IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diene Monique Carlos ◽  
Monika Wernet ◽  
Aline Cristiane Cavicchioli Okido ◽  
Wanderlei Abadio de Oliveira ◽  
Aline Oliveira Silveira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Parental Care ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Family Relationship ◽  
Institutional Support ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Institutional Policies ◽  
Virtual Communication

ABSTRACT Objective: to understand the experience of being a mother of a child and a nurse working in the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: a research study with a qualitative approach, conducted with 17 participants from different cities of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Data collection took place in the months of April and May 2020, through semi-structured interviews conducted via an open access virtual communication platform. The data were thematically analyzed, based on the Complexity Paradigm. Results: the absence and mismatch of scientific and systematic information at the beginning of the pandemic, the fragile institutional support, and the concern of contamination of the children generated stress and anguish in the mother-nurses. The support previously offered by schools and family members was hindered by the pandemic, leading to a greater demand for parental care. Creative strategies to provide distraction, as well as religiousness and spirituality were valued to face the chaos experienced. Conclusion: nurses, while being valued as important frontline professionals in the fight against the pandemic, are invisible in their personal-affective dimension and in that of being a mother. The study indicates the need for structural institutional policies so that mother-nurses are placed in a position of equality and safety for the full exercise of the profession and a healthy intra-family relationship, especially in contexts of adversity such as that experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals Community Service-Learning in a Large Introductory Sociology Course: Reflections on the Instructional Experience

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-78
Author(s):  
Jana Grekul ◽  
Wendy Aujla ◽  
Greg Eklics ◽  
Terra Manca ◽  
Ashley Elaine York ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Community Service Learning ◽  
Introductory Sociology

This paper reports on a pilot project that involved the incorporation of Community Service-Learning (CSL) into a large Introductory Sociology class by drawing on the critical reflections of the six graduate student instructors and the primary instructor who taught the course. Graduate student instructors individually facilitated weekly seminars for about 30 undergraduate students, half of which participated in CSL, completing 20 hours of volunteer work with a local non-profit community organization. We discuss the benefits of incorporating CSL into a large Introductory Sociology class and speculate on the value of our particular course format for the professional development of graduate student instructors. A main finding was the critical importance to graduate students of formal and informal training and collaboration prior to and during the delivery of the course. Graduate students found useful exposure to CSL as pedagogical theory and practice, and appreciated the hands-on teaching experience. Challenges with this course structure include the difficulty of seamlessly incorporating CSL student experiences into the class, dealing with the “CSL”/ “non CSL” student division, and the nature of some of the CSL placements. We conclude by discussing possible methods for dealing with these challenges.  

scholarly journals The Current State of Communication Education in Ghana: A Critical Analysis of Stories from the Field

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 58-69
Author(s):  
Wincharles Coker
Keyword(s):  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Community Practice ◽  
Communication Education ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Academic Communities ◽  
Current State ◽  
Language Research ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Education In Ghana

Narratives offer academic communities a moment of reflexivity. However, stories told by members in academic communities are  under-studied. Drawing on Wenger’s idea of community of practice, the present study examined the narratives of 12 senior  communication educators in three public universities in Ghana, and how the narratives shape the knowledge economy. Using field notes, technical documents, and structured interviews, the study revealed that community practice in the field of communication education in Ghanaian public universities is constrained by a not so vibrant community that faces challenges in localising a Western curriculum, and is yet to coordinate its local language research agenda.

scholarly journals The Exploration of Skilled and Less-Skilled EFL Graduate Students' on L1 and L2 Writing Strategies

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 517
Author(s):  
Syaadiah Arifin
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
English Education ◽  
L2 Writing ◽  
Writing Strategies ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Think Aloud Protocols ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Cyclical Process ◽  
L1 And L2 Writing ◽  
L1 And L2

This study aims to analyze the similarities, differences, and transferability of students' writing strategies in L1 (Indonesian) and L2 (English). Data were obtained from four participants majoring in English Education, two males and two females, which were categorized into skilled and less-skilled writers. The data were collected for four months using various methods, namely think-aloud protocols (TAPs), retrospective and semi-structured interviews, observations, and written drafts. The result showed that students employed similar personal strategies while writing in Indonesian (L1) and English (L2). This means that they transferred L1 strategies to L2 with some variances and similarities. The skilled writers viewed writing as a cyclical process of planning, writing, reading/rereading, rehearsing, and revising their texts. Meanwhile, less-skilled writers tended to employ linear and less recursive strategies. Furthermore, subsequent studies need to be conducted using these research findings and suggestions.

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