Department of Education, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Korea.
Department of English Language and Literature, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Korea.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 May 20;19(10):6208. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19106208.
Academic coaching has been emphasized in Korean universities as an effective measure to assist students' academic achievement and success. To better assess the needs of the students, the current study investigated academic coaching intake session reports archived at a Korean university from January 2017 to August 2021 and examined students' descriptions of their academic concerns and barriers. The intake session reports were categorized according to (1) students' affiliated department tracks, namely Humanities and Social Science (HSS) and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) tracks, and (2) the time the coaching sessions took place, i.e., before and after the outbreak of COVID-19. Text mining analysis was conducted to calculate the frequency of keywords, their degree of centrality, and the frequency of bigrams, or the sets of two adjacent words, for each category. Wordclouds and word networks were also visualized. The results indicated that the word study was dominant in both categories, reflecting the education culture in Korea. Similarities and differences between the two categories were also reported. Based on the results, practical implications for academic coaches, educators, and university administrators were proposed, and limitations were discussed.
学术辅导在韩国大学中被强调为一种有效措施，以帮助学生取得学术成就和成功。为了更好地评估学生的需求，本研究调查了韩国一所大学从 2017 年 1 月到 2021 年 8 月期间存档的学术辅导摄入阶段报告，并研究了学生对学术问题和障碍的描述。摄入阶段报告根据以下两个方面进行了分类：（1）学生的专业领域，即人文与社会科学（HSS）和科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）领域；（2）辅导阶段发生的时间，即在 COVID-19 爆发之前和之后。本研究还进行了文本挖掘分析，以计算每个类别的关键词频率、中心度、二元组（即两个相邻单词的组合）频率。还可视化了词云图和词网络图。结果表明，在这两个类别中，单词学习都是主导的，反映了韩国的教育文化。本研究还报告了这两个类别的相似点和不同点。基于研究结果，为学术辅导员、教育工作者和大学管理人员提出了实际的建议，并讨论了研究的局限性。
