The Design and Validation of a Self-Report Survey Examining Postsecondary Students’ Perceptions of Success: The Perceived Success in Study Survey (PSISS)
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Abstract
Postsecondary students' well-being is closely linked to success, which has predominantly been viewed from institutional perspectives rather than student experience. Addressing this gap, students and educators at a New Zealand postsecondary institution identified elements of overall success. Two existing measures were integrated with the student/educator feedback to form a 27-item questionnaire that was piloted twice via social media using snowball recruitment (n=225, n=237). There was strong internal consistency, and factor analysis identified five main factors of influence. The survey is found to be a comprehensive measure of perceptions of success and could be useful in identifying learners' levels of success-promoting attitudes and strategies, which may be of particular relevance during the COVID-19 pandemic Keywords: Motivation; perceptions of success; self-efficacy; student wellbeing; work-life balance Le bien-être des étudiants de l'enseignement postsecondaire est étroitement lié à la réussite, qui a été principalement considérée du point de vue des établissements plutôt que de l'expérience des étudiants. Pour combler cette lacune, des étudiants et des éducateurs d'un établissement postsecondaire de Nouvelle-Zélande ont identifié les éléments de la réussite globale. Deux mesures existantes ont été intégrées aux commentaires des étudiants et des éducateurs pour former un questionnaire de 27 éléments qui a été testé deux fois via les médias sociaux en utilisant le recrutement en boule de neige (n=225, n=237). La cohérence interne était forte et l'analyse factorielle a permis d'identifier cinq facteurs d'influence principaux. L'enquête s'est avérée être une mesure complète des perceptions de la réussite et pourrait être utile pour identifier les niveaux d'attitudes et de stratégies de promotion de la réussite chez les apprenants, ce qui pourrait être particulièrement pertinent pendant la pandémie de COVID-19. Mots clés : motivation ; perceptions de la réussite ; auto-efficacité ; bienêtre des étudiants ; équilibre entre vie professionnelle et vie privée.
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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 | 0.056 | 0.045 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
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".