Dissertation. Sense of Belonging: The relationship between Social Isolation or Exclusion ; Social Identity Theory; Belonging Motivation? on the impact of academic performance
Literature Review
Research Tools
Research Design
Recruitment
Data Collection
Data Analysis
Report Writing
Ethics
BME Attainment Disparities
Potential DV's
BME Students - a focus of their HE experience and personality to address attainment gap
Mixed Method: Embedded Correlational Design
Binary Logistic Regression - Only if i use Grade attainment as my DV
Potential IV's
Social Identity Theory
Introversion & Extraversion
Belongingness
Locus of Control
Resilience/Grit
Self Efficacy
IPA
Multiple Regression - Only if i use student engagement scale as my DV
Survey's / All scales
Open text box investigating students experiences and expectation
Demographic Information
age
gender
disability - yes or no
commutting
School
Course
Sean Kelly (2009) Social identity theories and educational engagement, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 30:4, 449-462
Student Engagement
Higher Education Student Engagement Scale (HESES): Development and Psychometric Evidence - Karen C. H. Zhoc; Beverley J. WebsterRonnel B. KingJohnson C. H. LiTony S. H. Chung
Comment: In regards to the way i would like to potentially approach student engagement is how student engagement affects the IV. Not looking into the specific scale's multi- dimensions.
Maroco, J., Maroco, A. L., Campos, J. A. D. B., & Fredricks, J. A. (2016). University student’s engagement: development of the University Student Engagement Inventory (USEI). Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 29(1), 21.
Intention To dropout
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41155-016-0042-8 University student’s engagement: development of the University Student Engagement Inventory (USEI)
Measuring student engagement in UK higher education
A personal view : https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/system/files/hub/download/keynote_mantz_yorke-_measuring_student_engagement_in_uk_higher_education._a_personal_view.pdf
Social Isolation/Exclusion/Loneliness
Depression
Anxiety
Cognitive Distress
Loneliness, Attachment, and the Perception and Use of Social Support in University Students. Stephanie Bernardon, Kimberley A. Babb, Julie Hakim-Larson, and Marcia Gragg
University of Windsor.
POI: The scales are something to consider
Standard Multiple Regression (with clever demographic analysis in order to deconstruct belonging, isolation/loneliness and social identity theory.
Self-esteem or confidence?
How to write a dissertation:
Multiple Regression variables cannot be just a set of variables put together. You should have a theoretical or conceptual reason
Discussion
Whys its difficult to measure student engagement
https://demmelearning.com/learning-blog/student-engagement-factors/
Mixed Method: Explanatory Design
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- 3 themes that should come up: sense of agency, belonging and support
Social Categorisation theory
there are levels of abstraction
Prejudice?
Qualitative Design
Interesting Questions:
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Social identity theory places an emphasis on students value systems. Behaviours that are negatively affects a students chance of success in school are explained through their maintenance of their positive social identity in the face of low academic status.
There are some strategies that the low academic status groups can do: individual mobility; social creativity and direct competition
Another measure of engangement taht is specific for NTU is their dashboard. Get their dashboard score and see if there is a correlation between the score and the student engangment scale. Finally, ask students what they think engangment means to them.
The development and initial use of a survey of student ‘belongingness’, engagement and self-confidence in UK higher education
Students’ Sense of Belonging at School in 41 Countries: Cross-Cultural Variability
Sense of Belonging in College Freshmen at the
Classroom and Campus Levels
Why Do Women Opt Out? Sense of Belonging and Women’s Representation in Mathematics
To Belong Is to Matter: Sense of
Belonging Enhances Meaning in Life
Thomas, L. (2012). Building student engagement and belonging in Higher Education at a time of change. Paul Hamlyn Foundation, 100.
Following this method, one must choose students from varying spectrums of scores, possibly.
Belongingness: A prerequisite for nursing students’ clinical learning
Staff – student relationships and their impact on nursing students’ belongingness and learning
Kahu, E. R. (2013). Framing student engagement in higher education. Studies in higher education, 38(5), 758-773.
University student’s engagement: development of the University Student Engagement Inventory (USEI)
IPA
Smaller number of themes tend to present a more thorough and synthesised analysis. A paper on how to do analysis https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1191/1478088704qp004oa
Examples of good IPA