How can first-year education contribute to the development of students' general skills? An examination from the perspective of Institutional Research (IR).

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K02943
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 09050:Tertiary education-related
• Research Institution: Ishikawa Prefectural University
• Principal Investigator: Sawada Tadayuki 石川県立大学, 生物資源環境学部, 教授 (50300447)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 垣花 渉 石川県立看護大学, 看護学部, 教授 (60298180) ; 石川 倫子 石川県立看護大学, 看護学部, 教授 (80539172)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 初年次教育 / 適応感 / キャリア意識 / 汎用的技能 / 学業成績（GPA） / 教学IR

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this study, to explore the ideal approach to first-year education in conjunction with supporting students' career development, we aimed to: (1) objectively understand the current state of generic skills in first-year students and again in third-year students before job hunting, and (2) examine how students' individual characteristics at the time of enrollment, as well as their sense of university adaptation and career awareness after enrollment, are related to learning outcomes (academic performance and generic skills) throughout the undergraduate program.

Free Research Field

高等教育

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究の意義は，１年時および就職活動前の３年時における学業成績ならびに汎用的技能習得における個人差と伸長度を規定する要因について、Astin（1993）のI-E-Oモデルを基に、学生の学習成果（learning outcome）に焦点を当てて検討することにある。すなわち、入学時の個人特性の影響を考慮した上で、入学後の初年次教育における大学適応感やキャリア意識の醸成の重要性について、学修成果との関連を通して分析することができたと考える。