An Analysis of Intercultural Students’ Self-Determination in Graduate Online Programmes: Implications for Praxis
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Abstract
The self-determination of online graduate students was studied in terms of the impact of autonomy, competence and relatedness upon their persistence. Unique to this study was the assessment of the potential influence of socio-cultural factors. As the majority of research into online university students’ persistence is generated from the US, Canada, UK and European countries assessing their own domestic populations, the global nature of this study provides a new perspective. Fifty-four online graduate students representing 26 countries participated representing 19 lesser developed economies and 7 developed economies. Collectivist versus individualistic cultures were equally represented. Self-determination Theory (SDT) was examined both in terms of the online classroom environment as well as overcoming life challenges for programme perseverance. A correlational matrix was used to reject the null hypothesis. Results indicated that statistically significant correlations exist among the three variables, and, in the instances of the variables of autonomy and relatedness, a significant negative correlation exists. The findings indicate that the participants displayed strong internal locus of control, self-directed learning, competency and relatedness in attaining success within the online environment programme. Cultural communitarianism values were not found to be of significant influence. Résumé L’autodétermination des étudiants des cycles supérieurs en ligne a été étudiée en termes d’impact de l’autonomie, de la compétence et des relations entre eux sur leur persistance. L’évaluation de l’influence potentielle de facteurs socioculturels est unique à cette étude. La majorité des recherches sur la persistance des étudiants universitaires en ligne étant générées par les États-Unis, le Canada, le Royaume-Uni et les pays européens qui évaluent leurs propres populations nationales, la nature mondiale de cette étude offre une nouvelle perspective. Cinquante-quatre étudiants en ligne de cycles supérieurs représentant 26 pays, représentant 19 économies moins développées et 7 économies développées, ont participé. Les cultures collectivistes et individualistes étaient également représentées. La théorie de l’autodétermination (TSD) a été examinée à la fois en termes d’environnement de classe en ligne et de résolution des problèmes de la vie quotidienne liés à la persévérance des programmes. Une matrice de corrélation a été utilisée pour rejeter l’hypothèse nulle. Les résultats ont montré qu’il existait des corrélations statistiquement significatives entre les trois variables et qu’il existait une corrélation négative significative dans les cas des variables autonomie et relation. Les résultats indiquent que les participants ont montré un fort locus de contrôle interne, un apprentissage auto-dirigé, des compétences et une relation de proximité pour réussir dans le programme d’environnement en ligne. Les valeurs du communautarisme culturel n’ont pas eu d’influence notable.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.007 | 0.020 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".