12th Meeting with Supervisor

Date Dec 6, 2014 Time 11.30 - 12.30 Venue: Rm 422, Runme Shaw Bldg, HKU Key points - data collection, by streams, i.e. Arts + Biz + Social Science (enough sampling?) - data profiling, i.e. make the case why CCLU is representative - refer to the US and Aussie survey results - any areas of concern - options: 1. Comparative analysis; 2. Action research 3. Confirming/ Refuting hypothesis - What is the value of this research? Actions: 1. Send Gerry a 2-page document detailing the EdD project (status update); 2. Roll out the survey (collecting the data) by March 2015.

Other Student Engagement Surveys

NSSE China -> http://www.indiana.edu/~harweb/research/NSSE_China.html Assessing Student Engagement in China: Responding to Local and Global Discourse on Raising Educational Quality -> http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ965645.pdf Comparison of Educational Quality: Student Engagement in U.S. and China -> http://www.nsse.iub.edu/pdf/research_papers/international.pdf South African Survey of Student Engagement -> http://sasse.ufs.ac.za/ Australasian Survey of Student Engagement (AUSSE)-> http://www.acer.edu.au/ausse Student engagement evidence summary -> http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/documents/studentengagement/StudentEngagementEvidenceSummary.pdf Teaching Quality and Student Outcomes -> http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=gansu_papers&sei-redir=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com.hk%2Furl%3Fsa%3Dt%26rct%3Dj%26q%3DComparison%2520of%2520Educational%2520Quality%253A%2520Student%2520Engagement%2520in%2520U.S.%2520and%2520China%26source%3Dweb%26cd%3D4%26ved%3D0CFEQFjAD%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Frepository.upenn.edu%252Fcgi%252Fviewcontent.cgi%253Farticle%253D1004%2526context%253Dgansu_papers%26ei%3Du4YMUvuAHKesiAf4nYCgCg%26usg%3DAFQjCNFVsBJ_scsC0rjDjT0y2JD3FbzAtg#search=%22Comparison%20Educational%20Quality%3A%20Student%20Engagement%20U.S.%20China%22

Journal articles to read ....

2013 Student Academic Experience Survey -> http://www.hepi.ac.uk/455-2154/2013-Student-Academic-Experience-Survey-produced-jointly-by-HEPI-and-Which.html Student engagement, problem based learning and ... -> http://www.ejbest.org/upload/eJBEST_Douglas_2012_1.pdf Improving student engagement: Ten proposals for action -> http://alh.sagepub.com/content/11/3/167.full.pdf+html Student involvement theory -> https://www.middlesex.mass.edu/tutoringservices/downloads/astininv.pdf Applying Astin's Involvement Theory to Student-Faculty Interaction -> http://digitool.library.colostate.edu/exlibris/dtl/d3_1/apache_media/L2V4bGlicmlzL2R0bC9kM18xL2FwYWNoZV9tZWRpYS8zNDI0MA==.pdf Student engagement -> http://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/administration/president/sparc/meetings/docs/ChickeringPrinciples.pdf The Impact Of Engagement On The Academic Performance And ... -> http://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5453&context=etd Student engagement literature review - Higher Education Academy [UK]-> http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/documents/studentengagement/StudentEngagementLiteratureReview.pdf The relationship between student involvement factors and graduation -> https://getd.libs.uga.edu/pdfs/jones_todd_g_201205_edd.pdf Brief intro to student involvement theory -> http://www.niu.edu/engagedlearning/themed_learning/A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Student%20Development%20Theory.pdf Application of Astin's Involvement Theory toward Residence Hall ->

Ideas from PhD holders

Bernard Wong: 1. As you mention that you are planning to replicate CCSSE, are you going to use the attached scale as the questionnaire. I personally feel that their questions on engagement has been focusing a bit more on the behavioral (perhaps also academic) aspect of student engagement. As you may know, my personal conceptualization of student engagement will also include the affective as well as the cognitive aspect too, which is not included in the present questionnaire. I am not too sure if these are also some areas that you might wish to look into. 2. To facilitate the development of interview questions, it might be good if you have some prior thoughts about what might enhance/deter student engagement. In my research with secondary school students, I find that teacher affective support, teacher cognitive support, and peer support are important factors that predict student (dis)engagement. I think you might also consider some of these factors in your study, and turn these into interview questions. 3. I am not sure if you would also like to look into the outcomes of student engagement too, but it might be interesting to see how students with different levels of student engagement differ in their outcomes, like academic performance, satisfaction, job hunt, further study opportunities, etc. KY Chan: 1. Hypothesis: my solution to the problem(s), i.e. Research questions 2. Any other competing arguments? Built on them? Why mine stand out? 3. Evidence to convince why my hypothesis works 4. Conference/ journal publication to garner feedback/ critique Li Xueyan: 1. What's the other variable? How does variable A influence variable B? 2. right now, the topic is too generic!

10th Meeting with Supervisor

Date June 7, 2013 Time 17.30 - 18.30 Venue: Rm 422, Runme Shaw Bldg, HKU Key points - set deadline for chapters draft (and for Gerry's review) - What's my thesis? e.g. social economic indicator, family or social background, income level - stick to only one thesis, instead of a couple. For instance, a study by Professor Chou Kee-lee of the HKIEd showed that in 2011 48.2 per cent of 19- and 20-year-olds from the wealthiest 10 per cent of families were enrolled at university, compared with 11 per cent of those from families with incomes less than half the median level. Overall enrolment rates in university and non-degree tertiary courses were nearly 80 per cent for the rich and 41 per cent for the poor. - Finishing my dissertation is like building a tower: The hypothesis goes hand in hand with Lit Review; Indicator -> Hypothesis -> conceptual framework - Is the survey a good tool to prove my hypothesis? If not, adjust the tool! - assess the validity of the tool, ie. Did students understand the questions? - obtain the profile of students via the survey, cf CEDARS report - ask if students work full or part-time - how long do they travel from campus to home? - student's ethnicity, e.g. South Asian - students married with kids? how much time devoted to take care of kids? Actions: 1. Next time bring along a recorder, instead of jotting down notes; 2. for next meeting, print out a copy of the original CC Survey and the adapted one with highlighted changes; 3. Send Gerry the complete version of the questionnaire (with highlighted changes)and thus finalize the questionnaire; 4. Present my hypothesis, backed with Lit Review & Conceptual Framework; 5. Prepare a total of 10 slides, including 1 slide for Hypothesis, 1 Problem Stmt, 2 Conceptual Framework, 3 Lit reviews, 2 data analysis; 6. To be met in one month later. PS As I have to bring a group of students to Queensland for a 2-week English excursion, I will meet Gerry, probably in mid- or late July. Pls note.

"R" Data Analysis

Getting started: http://ayeimanol-r.net/ http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/ [better than SAS, or SPSS?] screenr ajdamiao http://www.twotorials.com/2012/04/sixty-two-minute-r-twotorials-now.html Object-oriented language - flexibility -> Grammar [ x <- 1+2] Writing up scripts -> Reproductivity An intro to R -> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.html Crisis replication psychology (fake data) http://pps.sagepub.com/content/7/6/528.full.pdf+html http://pss.sagepub.com/content/22/11/1359 http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124 http://www.socio.mta.hu/dynamic/simmons_et_al_2011.pdf R Studio download http://www.rstudio.com/ide/download/ Packages installation http://r4stats.com/ Help - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/r http://www.r-bloggers.com/ http://www.statmethods.net/ [Book: R in Action by Robert Kabacoff - http://www.manning.com/kabacoff/ {QA276.45.R3 K33 2011}] http://tryr.codeschool.com/ Graphics: http://ayeimanol-r.net/2013/04/21/289/ Books: 1. Analyzing Linguistic Data: A Practical Introduction to Statistics using R by R. H. Baayen (Mar 17, 2008) [http://www.ualberta.ca/~baayen/publications/baayenCUPstats.pdf] 2. Introductory Statistics with R (Statistics and Computing) by Peter Dalgaard (Aug 15, 2008) [QA276.45.R3 D35 2008]

Insights from EDUR 7066

a) Rationale behind choosing only one institute as a case study - perhaps it's