"I Advise, You Decide": How Academic Advisors Shape Community College Students' Enrollment and Credit Load Decisions

IF 2.9 3区 教育学 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Review of Higher Education Pub Date : 2024-02-01 DOI:10.1353/rhe.0.a919068
Lyle McKinney, Gerald V. Bourdeau, Andrea Backscheider Burridge, Mimi Lee, Melissa Miller-Waters, Yolanda M. Barnes
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Academic advising has been described as the second-most important function in the community college (behind only instruction) toward helping students achieve their goals. Using interview data from 78 students and 33 advisors at one of the nation’s largest and most racially diverse community college systems, our qualitative case study examined how academic advisors inform, and directly influence, students’ enrollment decisions. Advisors emphasized their role as supporting and scaffolding student decision-making, but not making decisions for students. Most advisors endorsed a developmental approach focused on building students’ knowledge and capacity to make better decisions about their own academic trajectory. However, some students had conflicting expectations of the advising relationship (e.g., advisors should tell them exactly what to study, which courses and how many to take), which resulted in frustration and desires for highly prescriptive advising.

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"我建议,你决定":学术顾问如何影响社区学院学生的入学和学分决定
在社区学院中,学术指导被视为帮助学生实现其目标的第二重要职能(仅次于教学)。我们的定性案例研究通过对全美规模最大、种族最多元化的社区学院系统中的 78 名学生和 33 名顾问的访谈数据,考察了学术顾问如何告知并直接影响学生的入学决定。顾问们强调,他们的角色是为学生的决策提供支持和支架,而不是替学生做决定。大多数辅导员都赞同采用发展性方法,注重培养学生的知识和能力,使他们能够更好地决定自己的学业发展轨迹。然而,有些学生对升学指导关系的期望相互矛盾(例如,升学指导应该明确告诉他们应该学习什么、选修哪些课程以及选修多少课程),这导致了他们的挫败感和对高度规范性升学指导的渴望。
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期刊介绍: The official journal of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), The Review of Higher Education provides a forum for discussion of issues affecting higher education. The journal advances the study of college and university issues by publishing peer-reviewed articles, essays, reviews, and research findings. Its broad approach emphasizes systematic inquiry and practical implications. Considered one of the leading research journals in the field, The Review keeps scholars, academic leaders, and public policymakers abreast of critical issues facing higher education today.
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