Enhancing Faculty Motivation to Advise Students: An Application of Expectancy Theory

Hancock, Dawson R.

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“…This perception among faculty -that advising is not weighted in tenure decisions -is a consistent finding across research intensive institutions (Dillon & Fisher, 2000) and has resulted in a lack of interest and effort among faculty to advise students (Hancock, 1996). This is an unwelcome outcome given the central role faculty play in student retention (Vogt, 2008).…”

Section: The Current Predicament Of Managing Advising Knolwedge and T...mentioning

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Adwiki

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Dufour

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International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development

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Educational institutions worldwide are undergoing significant transformation in response to the changing economic scenario which is pressuring them to be innovative while reassessing their allotment of resources. As a result, many institutions are moving towards large-scale use of information technology (IT) to manage knowledge at different organizational levels. The authors present findings from a case study of an action research project undertaken to design and implement a web-based advising system for managing and sharing knowledge required by first-year engineering students. The primary users of the system were faculty members who advised students, as well as the students themselves. By following a participatory action research approach in combination with a socio-technical framework, the designed and implemented system – AdWiki – improved the use of existing advising resources as well as created new advising practices by integrating IT and organizational processes. In addition to socio-technical design literature their findings corroborate and extend the Socio-Technical Systems Engineering (STSE) framework. They provide evidence that ‘sensitization and awareness’ and ‘constructive engagement’, two core activities proposed in the STSE framework, can be effectively applied in practice to integrate organizational process and technological possibilities for managing knowledge. Findings from the case study also extend the socio-technical approach by incorporating components of action research into the framework and demonstrating the use of methods that allowed for virtual participation in systems development.

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“…The first instrument, the Advisor Attitude Survey (AAS), was constructed to measure two constructs: advisors' attitude toward developmental placement and types of advising activities practiced. In order to create an instrument with good content validity, current literature on academic advising for underprepared students was reviewed thoroughly (Aune, 2000;Belcheir, 2000;Billings, 2001;Bloom, 2002;Chenault, 1996;Creamer & Creamer, 1994;Crockett, 1985;Culp, 1994;Ender & Wilkie, 2000;Farren & Vowell, 2000;Fielstein, 1994;Frost, 1990Frost, , 1991Gardner, 1995;Garing, 1993;Gordon, 1984;Habley, 1993;Hadden, 1988;Hancock, 1996;Helfgot, 1995;Herndon et al, 1996;Jones et al, 1993;Jones, 1998;Jordan, 2000;Kadar, 2001;King, 1993aKing, , 1993bKing, , 1996King, 2000;Kramer, 2000;Kramer & Spencer, 1989;Laff, 1994;Levitz & Noel, 1989;Lords, 2000;Lowe & Toney, 2000;Marsh, 2000;Morante, 1989Morante, , 2001NACADA, 1997;Onofrio, 1988;Peterson & McDonough, 1985;…”

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Advisors' attitudes toward developmental placement and the academic performance and perceived success of their underprepared community college advisees

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Open admissions policies pose a critical challenge to retention at community colleges because, on average, over one third of the students enter unprepared to meet the academic demands. Faced with the shocking first-year attrition rate of over fifty percent at public community colleges (McCabe, 2000), taxpayers, legislators, and college officials have become embroiled in debate over the high cost of remediation and the "human capital" (Shaffer, 1997, 1998) costs of pitting access against excellence. Previous research has established that mandatory basic skills assessment and mandatory placement into developmental courses leads to lower attrition rates and higher grade point averages for underprepared students. Research also has shown that academic advising plays a critical role in improving student retention. This research project examined both developmental placement policies and the advisor/advisee relationship from a new perspective, through the lens of advisors' attitudes. This research explored the possibility that advisors hold preconceived views toward underprepared students and distinct opinions about the responsibility community colleges hold in providing them with access to higher education. It explored whether advisors' attitudes toward both underprepared students and the policies that direct course placement are related to the way the advisors view and carry out their role as advisor and, by extension, whether underprepared students' academic performance and perceived success is related to advisors' attitudes. Attitudes were measured on two researcher-constructed surveys. Two overarching hypotheses guided the study. The first hypothesis (H 1) was that advisors perform their advising duties in accordance with their attitudes or belief systems. H 1 gained statistical support. The second (H 2) was that advisors' attitudes toward underprepared students and toward developmental placement policies are related to their advisees' subsequent academic performance and perceived success. A relationship between advisors' attitudes and students' academic performance, as measured by course grades and completion rates, was not established. However, a small but significant relationship was found between students' perceptions of their advisors' attitudes and their own academic performance. Also, qualitative data indicated that students perceived a positive influence on their success from talking to their advisors.

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“…This theory assumes that people have goals which they like to achieve and for this reason, they work in organizations (Parijat and Bagga, 2004) or in some other groups or institutions. In other words, ETM views people as purposeful beings who behave in accordance with their expectations that their efforts will result in outcomes they value (Hancock, 1995). In fact, Vroom's theory starts with the idea that people tend to prefer certain goals or outcomes over others (Miner, 2015) and that extrinsic motivators are the causes for individuals to exhibit certain behaviors (Leonard, et.…”

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An analysis of the linkage between legislators’ behavior and electoral support: The case of the Filipino labor emigrants and the Congress of the Philippines

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This dissertation investigates one of the most popular phenomena - labor emigration, specifically zeroing on its impact on the legislative process by looking at the linkage between the behavior of legislators in terms of their performance as to the number of legislative measures they file in Congress, and the support of the overseas Filipinos including the Filipino Labor Emigrants (FLES) or Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in terms of the number of votes they cast for the legislators. This dissertation advances the hypothesis that, the more legislative measures legislators file in Congress that will benefit the FLEs or OFWs, the more votes they will get from this sector of the Philippine society, much more so if such legislative initiatives are publicized.

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Enhancing Faculty Motivation to Advise Students: An Application of Expectancy Theory

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