“Everything is Bigger and Different”: Black Engineering Transfer Students Adjusting to the Intensity and Academic Culture of the 4-Year Campus
“Everything is Bigger and Different”: Black Engineering Transfer Students Adjusting to the Intensity and Academic Culture of the 4-Year Campus
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10.1007/s11256-022-00644-3
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2022-11
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S. Buenaflor;Bruk Berhane;Sharon Fries-Britt;Ashley Ogwo
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作者：
S. Buenaflor;Bruk Berhane;Sharon Fries-Britt;Ashley Ogwo
黑人工程转学生在从社区大学转学到四年制大学的过程中面临着独特的挑战。本文的目的是更好地了解这些学生的经历以及他们适应四年制学校的方式。我们确定了黑人工程转学生在与以下相关的经历中注意到的具体挑战：（1）他们必须适应的启发式教学和学习，以便成功驾驭新的校园环境； （2）学生在教师似乎期望他们已经知道的内容中遇到的信息差距； (3) 必须适应四年制工程课程学术要求差异的问题。除了沿着这些特定领域展开我们的发现之外，我们还关注这些挑战在大型城市地区的潜在影响。
Black engineering transfer students face unique challenges while navigating the transfer process from a community college to a 4-year institution. The purpose of this paper is to better understand the experiences of these students and the ways in which they adjust to the 4-year school. We identify specific challenges noted by Black engineering transfer students in their experiences related to: (1) heuristics of teaching and learning that they had to adapt to in order to successfully navigate new campus environments; (2) information gaps that students encountered in what faculty seemed to expect them to already know; and (3) problems in having to adjust to the differences in the academic demands of the 4-year engineering program. In addition to unpacking our findings along these specific domains, we attend to the potential impact of having these challenges in a large, urban, metropolitan area.