Economics and Student Affairs Project

Research question: find that there is statistically significant evidence that the responses to the question if your expectations for studying in Economics at UVic have been met? differ depending upon the respondent’s choice of department. If the distribution of responses varies considerably between the different study hours categories.

There are three types test we are able to do.

  1. regression

Since we have a set of new binary variable now, we are able to do logistic regression and to identify which predictor is important for student’s choice about whether use this service.

One example is which factor is related to whether student use academic advising service. Please see example one: whether student use Academic Advising.

  1. test for Likert scale data.

Example two: Do Males and Females answer differently?

Example three: Do scoring tendencies differ by countries?

Scoring tenancies are calculated by using Likert scale. For example, in this case, we assign 1 to “not helpful”, 2 to “somewhat not helpful”, 3 to “neutral”, 4 to “somewhat helpful”, 5 to “helpful”, and 0 to “no basis to judge”.

  1. test correlation between two variables.

Example four: Whether Expectation and Faculty to Choose are correlated.

1. Resource Usage

Generate a set of binary variables to illustrate the resource usage at UVic for this group of international students.

1.1 Different resource usage

This diagram shows if students use this type service. The idea is from Susan, Tricia and David. We dichotomize the question 34 to question 54 to generate binary variables about whether students use this service. We identify “no basis to judge” and “NA” as “FALSE” and other items as “TRUE”.

For those questions:

Q34. If you have used any of the university services listed in this question, please indicate how helpful you found that service: - Academic Advising

Q35. If you have used any of the university services listed in this question, please indicate how helpful you found that service: - Centre for Academic Communication in Library (formerly The Writing Centre)

Q36. If you have used any of the university services listed in this question, please indicate how helpful you found that service: - Math and Stats Assistance Centre in Library

Q37. If you have used any of the university services listed in this question, please indicate how helpful you found that service: - Counselling Services in University Centre

Q38. If you have used any of the university services listed in this question, please indicate how helpful you found that service: - Career Services

Q39. If you have used any of the university services listed in this question, please indicate how helpful you found that service: - International Student Services in University Centre

Q40. If you have used any of the university services listed in this question, please indicate how helpful you found that service: - Librarians in Library

Q41. If you have used any of the services listed in this question, please indicate how helpful you found that service: - Private paid tutoring services

Q42. If you have used any of the services listed in this question, please indicate how helpful you found that service: - Community services (Such as community programs. churches, etc.)

Q43. How helpful are the following resources provided by Economics faculty, staff and students? - Front Office Advising

Q44. How helpful are the following resources provided by Economics faculty, staff and students? - Undergraduate Adviser in Economics

Q45. How helpful are the following resources provided by Economics faculty, staff and students? - Meeting with Instructor Outside of Regular Officer Hours (e.g., end of classes)

Q46. How helpful are the following resources provided by Economics faculty, staff and students? - Meeting with Instructor During Regular Office Hours

Q47. How helpful are the following resources provided by Economics faculty, staff and students? - Economics Teaching Assistants - Tutorials

Q48. How helpful are the following resources provided by Economics faculty, staff and students? - Economics Teaching Assistants - Office Hours

Q49. How helpful are the following resources provided by Economics faculty, staff and students? - Economics Course Union - Peer Tutoring

Q50. How helpful are the following resources provided by Economics faculty, staff and students? - Economics Course Union - Other Activities

Q51. How easy is it to find information about the following on the UVic website? - Student Recruitment

Q52. How easy is it to find information about the following on the UVic website? - International Student Services

Q53. How easy is it to find information about the following on the UVic website? - Department of Economics

Q54. How easy is it to find information about the following on the UVic website? - Academic Advising Centre

This graph show different percentages of resource usage.

Put them in order, we can identify the low resource usage. For international students, the usage of community service and course union activity are relatively low.

This hear map shows where are the issues.

The dark color in left hand side highlights the low usage of resource.

1.2 Different attitude towards to service

Based on previous analysis, we also can look at the attitude of international students towards to service and resource in campus.

students have different judgement for the quality of services. The results match to previous analysis.

Put them in order, it is easy to see that economics course union and community services are least helpful in the perspective of international students.

This heat map also illustrate the low participation rate and high satisfaction rate of services at campus.

Through this heat map, we can identify average score for each service and find a lot of information.

2 Second set of explained variables: if UVic is diverse and if it is easy to make friends

Q22. Please indicate your level of agreement with the following statements: - I feel that UVic is a welcoming and internationally diverse university.

Q23. How easy is it making friends with: - Canadian students

Q24. How easy is it making friends with: - International students from your home country

Q25. How easy is it making friends with: - International students from other countries

Q26. What situations have you found challenging related to making social connections?

2.1 Different attitude towards to UVic’s diversity

Put them in order.

This heat map highlights the issues.