Mahtab Changaei; Hossain Salimi Bajestani; Kiiumars Farah Bakhsh; Asiyeh Shariatmadar; Noorali Farrokhi
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This study was conducted to develop a pattern of academic probation based on lived experiences of students and research texts related to the subject. This study is a qualitative research using phenomenology method and purposive sampling. Twelve semi-structured interviews were carried out with 10 female ...
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This study was conducted to develop a pattern of academic probation based on lived experiences of students and research texts related to the subject. This study is a qualitative research using phenomenology method and purposive sampling. Twelve semi-structured interviews were carried out with 10 female and 2 male students who were placed on academic probation. The interviews were recorded and transcribed and then, the data were analyzed using the Colizzii analysis method. Also, 25 related research texts were selected through purposive sampling and analyzed using content analysis. In general, 6 themes of individual, family, educational, economic and social factors,and non-adaptive coping strategies with 25 sub-themes were obtained from the analysis.The conceptual pattern of academic probation was developed by organizing themes and sub-themes emerged from the data, in the form of causes (causaltive, interferring and background), strategies/reactions and consequences. Considering to the pattern of academic probation, it seems that in the case of persisting the conditions and non-interference, the problem of students' failure to study successfully would continue and even intensify. To help such students to come out of this cycle, multidimensional interventions, including psychological counseling, are suggested.
Zabih Pirani; alireza faghihi; sed Ali Moosavi
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The present study was performed by a qualitative-phenomenological method seeking to understand and comprehend this concept. Data collection and sampling methods were respectively semi-structured and targeted interviews. The sampling process was continued according to the prevailing "theoretical saturation" ...
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The present study was performed by a qualitative-phenomenological method seeking to understand and comprehend this concept. Data collection and sampling methods were respectively semi-structured and targeted interviews. The sampling process was continued according to the prevailing "theoretical saturation" rule in qualitative methods with the sample size up to 23 interviews with three groups of students, parents, and teachers. The Colaizzi multi-stage model was used to analyze the data. All relevant data were organized in the form of sub-, primary/macro, and central categories. Accordingly, 61 sub-concepts, 5 main categories (group of students), 3 categories (parents), and 4 categories (teachers) were obtained. Examining the lived experiences of these actors was accompanied by contradictions in views and some similarities. The similarities included success in exam (competitive examination), score (grading), and occupation and emphasis on "multiple successes", "family status", "emphasis on exam results", and the "empirical discipline model" also indicated some differences in viewpoints. The students' lived experience in understanding academic achievement oversaw more diverse and multiplied achievements, while they were limited to more centralized successes such as the proudness of the family in parents’perspective. From the teachers’ viewpoints, the academic achievement was reduced to the precise result of the competitive examination of the Experimental Science Discipline. According to the findings, one can say that the reductionism view rate of academic success was the highest in teachers’ view and the lowest in students’ perspective. Moreover, the narratives of the teachers group showed more eccentricity with the prevailing trend of competitive examination system.
