Graduate prospects explain undergraduate program standing in university league sports science tables.

IF 1.7 4区 教育学 Q2 EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES Advances in Physiology Education Pub Date : 2024-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-02-29 DOI:10.1152/advan.00126.2023
Ole J Kemi, Victoria Penpraze, Nairn Scobie, Niall G MacFarlane
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UK university undergraduate programs are compared by independent subject-specific rankings (Complete, Guardian, and Times), based on data from the National Student Survey, Higher Education Statistics Agency, Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, Research Excellence Framework, and the universities. The sports and exercise science program at the University of Glasgow has steadily risen to currently rank as the top UK program. This investigation aimed to identify the underlying factors that explain this. Therefore, we obtained underlying scores for entry standard, student satisfaction, research foundation, graduate prospects, staff-to-student ratio, expenditure/student, continuation, program support to students, and teaching quality from the ranking providers for years 2010-2024, and statistically modeled which factors significantly affected the rankings. We found that entry standards and graduate prospects strongly correlated significantly with ranking results. Principal component analysis indicated that a model of graduate prospects and entry standards explained 66.2% of the variance in ranking results. Multiple linear regression with all underlying factors included in the model indicated they explained 78% (R2 = 0.78) of the total variance, while stepwise elimination of insignificant factors identified graduate prospects as the sole factor that significantly affected outcome by explaining 71% (R2 = 0.71) of the variance. Therefore, the primary predictor of ranking success in UK university league tables for sports science is graduates' professional success (graduate prospects).NEW & NOTEWORTHY University rankings are used by applicants and stakeholders to judge programs, including undergraduate studies. In the rankings, undergraduate UK programs are compared and contrasted against each other based on how they score for criteria that affect student life and future prospects. Here, we determined the relative influence of those criteria and found that graduate prospects, how students professionally benefit from their study after graduation, is the factor that matters most for the ranking results.

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毕业生前景解释了大学联盟体育科学排行榜中本科课程的排名。
英国大学本科课程由独立的特定学科排名(《完全》、《卫报》、《泰晤士报》)进行比较,这些排名基于全国学生调查、高等教育统计局、大学和学院招生服务处、卓越研究框架以及各大学的数据。格拉斯哥大学的运动与锻炼科学专业稳步上升,目前已成为英国排名第一的专业。这项调查旨在找出造成这种情况的根本原因。因此,我们从排名提供者那里获得了 2010-2024 年的入学标准、学生满意度、研究基础、毕业生前景、师生比例、支出/学生、持续性、对学生的课程支持以及教学质量等方面的基本分数,并对哪些因素对排名有显著影响进行了统计建模。我们发现,入学标准和毕业生前景与排名结果密切相关。主成分分析表明,毕业生前景和入学标准模型解释了 66.2% 的排名结果差异。将所有基本因素纳入模型的多元线性回归表明,这些因素解释了总方差的 78% (R2=0.78),而逐步剔除不重要的因素后发现,毕业生前景是唯一对结果有显著影响的因素,解释了 71% (R2=0.71) 的方差。因此,预测英国大学体育科学排名成功与否的主要因素是毕业生的职业成就(毕业生前景)。
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期刊介绍: Advances in Physiology Education promotes and disseminates educational scholarship in order to enhance teaching and learning of physiology, neuroscience and pathophysiology. The journal publishes peer-reviewed descriptions of innovations that improve teaching in the classroom and laboratory, essays on education, and review articles based on our current understanding of physiological mechanisms. Submissions that evaluate new technologies for teaching and research, and educational pedagogy, are especially welcome. The audience for the journal includes educators at all levels: K–12, undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs.
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