Rural Students in a Chinese Top-Tier University: Family Background, School Effects, and Academic Performance

First-Year Students Background and Academic Achievement: The Mediating Role of Student Engagement

“…In general, data supported the hypotheses that student engagement is a mediating variable of the relationship between students' academic preparation and sociocultural status and students' academic achievement. These data are relevant in that they help further explain why, in some investigations, the sociocultural status was not found as a determinant of academic performance (Anderton et al, 2016;Postiglione et al, 2017). Current data were collected at a private university where, in general, the families of the students may have a higher sociocultural status than that of the families of students at public universities.…”

Factors Affecting the Quality of Learning Outcome in a Higher Educational Institution

“…Researchers are exploring the problem of the students' educational outcome from various standpoints. For instance, scientists study the influence of stress severity (Clinciu, 2013); social class background (Hansen & Mastekaasa, 2006); upon the student's achievement at University; as well as the interdependence of family parenting style, current family and friendship relations, distancing from those cultural environment where the students were raised (Lehmann, 2014;Khuziakhmetov & Gabdrakhmanova, 2015); students' academic performance structural survey (Garnaeva et al, 2008); academic achievement of rural students at Universities of a higher rank (Postiglione, Ailei, Jung, & Yanbi, 2017); new teaching methods introduction (Gabdrakhmanova, 2015;Gabdrakhmanova, Khusainova, & Chirkina, 2016b); students' adapting to teaching and learning activities (Zhegulskaya, 2011); cultural incorporation of rural schoolchildren into urban culture and adaptation to a higher educational institution (Xiulan, 2015); teaching mathematics in rural and urban school (Young, 2010); developing academic curriculum on modular basis (Garnaeva, Aganov, Nefedyev, & Nizamova, 2015); creativeness in teacher and student's joint working within educational process (Khuziakhmetov & Gabdrakhmanova, 2016); employing network information resources in the educational process to facilitate adaptation of students (Garnaeva, Nizamova, & Temnikov, 2015;Gabdrakhmanova, Khusainova, & Chirkina, 2015); social activity and academic progress (Nuñez, 2009;Gabdrakhmanova, Khusainova, & Chirkina, 2016a). The problem of students' progress is also discussed at upgrade training courses for university professors (Gabdrakhmanova, Khusainova, & Chirkina, 2015;Gabdrakhmanova, Kalimullina, & Ignatovich, 2016;Lim & Morris, 2009;Brady & Bates, 2015;Gagné, & White, 1978;Purdie, & Hattie, 1999;Zimmerman, Bandura, Martinez-Pons, 1992).…”

From Learning Theory to Academic Organisation: The Institutionalisation of Higher Education Teaching Assistant Position in China

“…The data-driven decisions based on the gaps of understanding by the actors compounded with the complicated population characteristics that are represented in numerical values have done more harm to the unpredicted real world rather, than benefit. Some studies have reported that the culture of obedience and family pride seemingly have also affected the critical thinking and creativity of the Chinese students largely at the higher education institutions in China and abroad ( Jian 2012;Postiglione et al 2017). The blind persuasion of reporting research based on numerical values have muted the metacognition of the students at the higher education institutions; especially about what data fail to tell us, and why.…”

“…In order to disguise this at times, they seem to pin their faith on numbers overwhelmingly. There are instances when students show importunate demands to seek views, listen to ideas, seek notes of credibly academic but unpublished papers, and even unknowingly plagiarize to reproduce and report what they perceive could be better illustrated numerically ( Jian 2012;Jordan and Gray 2013;Ma, Mccabe, and Liu 2013;Postiglione et al 2017). …”