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Academic leadership: perceptions of academic leaders and staff in diverse contexts Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Ngoc Bich Khuyen Dinh, Aysun Caliskan, Chang Zhu

Universities have been coping with various challenges and pressures over the last decade. Therefore, capacity building for academic leaders is a critical point for universities to survive in this challenging era. Yet, existing studies suffer from several limitations. Among others, they do not consider the examination of academic staff members’ and leaders’ perceptions from diverse contexts, thus capturing insight into current practices. Using ...

Predicting freshmen's academic adjustment and subsequent achievement: differences between academic and professional higher education contexts University of Antwerp

Jonas Willems, Tine van Daal, Peter Van Petegem, Liesje Coertjens, Vincent Donche
This study tests an integrative model, which delineates how students’ academic motivation, academic self-efficacy and learning strategies (processing strategies and regulation strategies) at the end of secondary education impact academic adjustment in the first semester of the first year of higher education (FYHE) and subsequent academic achievement at the end of the FYHE, in two types of HE programmes. More precisely, the present study explores ...

Academic development and educational developers: Perspectives from different European higher education contexts KU Leuven

An Verburgh
This paper reports research in five European universities, in four countries between 2004 and 2008. The research explored and compared institutional contexts for academic development and the interpretations and reflections of a number of academic developers on the organizational position and role of academic development, and of 'developers'. A nuanced notion of 'service', commitment to scholarship, (inter)disciplinary flexibility, a strong ethos ...

Measuring school and teacher academic optimism in diverse school contexts University of Antwerp

Ruud Lelieur, Noel Clycq, Jan Vanhoof
Academic optimism is the reflection of a triadic set of interactions between efficacy, trust, and academic emphasis, which positively correlates with students' performance, also after controlling for previous performance, SES and other demographic variables. This study focuses on refining and validating existing school and teacher academic optimism questionnaires. Cognitive interviews (n = 5), a pilot study (n = 106) and a large-scale study (n = ...

Chinese International Students’ Coping Strategies, Social Support Resources in Response to Academic Stressors: Does Heritage Culture or Host Context Matter? Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Chun Cao, Chang Zhu, Qian Meng

This current study qualitatively explored Chinese international students’ coping strategies and social support resources in dealing with academic stressors. A consensual qualitative research (CQR) methodology was used on analyzing data gathered from semi-structured interviews. We identified an array of academic stressors and differentiated them according to the frequency labels (from general to rare). Academic competency, academic culture ...

Exploring a small world: motivations and obligations for academic travel in a Flemish context Ghent University

Tom Storme
Short-term travel has become a significant component of work for many academics. This brings about new challenges for the individual academic, academic institutions, but also society more generally. Regular short-term travel is bound to have an impact on the work-life balance of the traveller and his or her family, while the high environmental costs and possible gender/social inequality associated with this mobility raise questions about the ...

First-grade retention in the Flemish educational context: Effects on children’s academic growth, psychosocial growth, and school career throughout primary education KU Leuven

Mieke Goos, Jan Van Damme, Patrick Onghena, Katja Petry, Jerissa de Bilde
This study examined the effects of first-grade retention on children’s academic growth, psychosocial growth, and future school career by following a cohort of first graders until the start of secondary school. The study took place in the Flemish educational context where primary school students are taught in uniform curricular year groups; the same curricular goals are set for all students, irrespective of ability; and grade retention is used as ...

Academic leadership programs in new higher education context Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Ngoc Bich Khuyen Dinh
Given the context of increasing interests in academic leadership development (ALD) within and across academic institutions but a lack of research on academic leadership in Higher Education (HE) settings, this dissertation focuses on examining participants’ perceptions towards effectiveness and impacts of the ALD programs. To be more specific, the dissertation aimed at exploring: (i) how academic members and academic leaders perceive AL and its ...