Perceived life balance, cultural experience, and academic outcomes: A comparative study of first-generation students in South Africa and Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Not much is known about how first-generation students’ cultural experiences, resourcefulness, resilience and their belief that they are able to balance multiple roles affects their academic success. In this North-South comparative study, we examined the impact of culture and perceived ability to balance multiple academic and non-academic roles (balance belief) on academic outcomes experienced by first-generation and non-first-generation students in Canada and South Africa. We also identified the relationship between culture, balance belief, student resilience and resourcefulness and academic outcomes (grades, adjustment and academic self-efficacy). While academic behaviours were similar across countries and similar between students who are and are not first-generation, some non-academic roles differed. Further, for all students, greater balance belief had a small positive effect on grades, university adjustment and academic self-efficacy. When balance belief was combined with students’ academic resourcefulness, predictions of grades, especially for first-generation students from South Africa, were improved. Interventions that improve balance belief may aid students in each country; but understanding cultural experiences related to resourcefulness and resilience is importance since their association with balance belief varies between country and first-generation status.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".