Pathways to Engineering: The Validation Experiences of Transfer Students
Pathways to Engineering: The Validation Experiences of Transfer Students
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工程之路：转学生的验证经历
DOI：
10.1080/10668926.2014.981892
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发表时间：
2015
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1
通讯作者：
T. Ozuna
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作者：
Y. Zhang;T. Ozuna
社区学院工程转学生是美国工程学位获得者和技术劳动力的重要学生群体。针对这类学生，我们采用Rendón（1994）的验证理论，探讨学生在转入四年制综合性、有抱负的研究型大学之前在社区学院的经历。研究结果显示，社区大学教师是参与者学术认同经验的最重要支持。他们也在工程技术转让的人际验证经验中发挥了重要作用。独特的社区学院环境帮助参与者对自己的学术能力充满信心，家庭成员在支持转学生的学术生涯中发挥了重要作用。这项研究可以帮助研究人员，教育工作者和政策制定者更好地了解工程转学生在社区学院的验证经验，并随后提供计划，服务和政策，以更好地支持这些学生未来的学习和职业生涯在工程。
Community college engineering transfer students are a critical student population of engineering degree recipients and technical workforce in the United States. Focusing on this group of students, we adopted Rendón’s (1994) validation theory to explore the students’ experiences in community colleges prior to transferring to a four-year comprehensive, aspiring research university. The findings of the study indicated that faculty of community colleges were the most important support for the participants’ academic validation experiences. They also played an important role in engineering transfers’ interpersonal validation experiences. The unique community college environment helped participants to gain confidence in their scholastic abilities, and family members were instrumental in supporting transfer students in their academic career. This study could help researchers, educators, and policy makers better understand engineering transfer students’ validation experiences in community colleges and, subsequently, offer programs, services, and policies to better support these students for their future study and career in engineering.