The aim of this paper is to highlight the fact that students enter their higher education careers underprepared and fail their engineering studies due to the lack of various life skills. The South African Government i...The aim of this paper is to highlight the fact that students enter their higher education careers underprepared and fail their engineering studies due to the lack of various life skills. The South African Government is attempting to redress the social inequalities which prevailed in the education sector during the apartheid era. However, many students attempting their higher education studies are in many respects still under-prepared. This is mainly due to insufficient life skills, communication skills, numeric skills, and literacy skills. In the current study it was established, by means of a self-administered questionnaire, that students＇ lacking time of management skills, and study skills, are conditioned by their schooling not to value or use prescribed text books. These results re-emphasise the fact that students drop out of the programme for reasons other than academic performance and underline the need for effective measures toward student support and effective student learning.展开更多
According to the sample survey on 6050 students in Shanghai,there is a low correlation between schoolwork burden and academic achievements.Moreover,schoolwork burden seems to even have some negative effects on test pe...According to the sample survey on 6050 students in Shanghai,there is a low correlation between schoolwork burden and academic achievements.Moreover,schoolwork burden seems to even have some negative effects on test performances.Therefore,it is suggested further studies be conducted regarding ways for students to make the best use of their study time in the hope that examination-oriented teaching could be changed toward the educational system with multi-standards and multi-developments so that heavy burden of schoolwork could thus be alleviated.展开更多
文摘The aim of this paper is to highlight the fact that students enter their higher education careers underprepared and fail their engineering studies due to the lack of various life skills. The South African Government is attempting to redress the social inequalities which prevailed in the education sector during the apartheid era. However, many students attempting their higher education studies are in many respects still under-prepared. This is mainly due to insufficient life skills, communication skills, numeric skills, and literacy skills. In the current study it was established, by means of a self-administered questionnaire, that students＇ lacking time of management skills, and study skills, are conditioned by their schooling not to value or use prescribed text books. These results re-emphasise the fact that students drop out of the programme for reasons other than academic performance and underline the need for effective measures toward student support and effective student learning.
文摘According to the sample survey on 6050 students in Shanghai,there is a low correlation between schoolwork burden and academic achievements.Moreover,schoolwork burden seems to even have some negative effects on test performances.Therefore,it is suggested further studies be conducted regarding ways for students to make the best use of their study time in the hope that examination-oriented teaching could be changed toward the educational system with multi-standards and multi-developments so that heavy burden of schoolwork could thus be alleviated.
