Huang Yifan, Huang Miao, Wang Huijuan, Chen Zhaojun, Liu Xinqiao
Center for Higher Education Development Research/Institute of Education, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China.
College of Humanities, Yantai Nanshan University, Yantai, China.
Front Psychol. 2023 Mar 22;14:1115867. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1115867. eCollection 2023.
Students' college satisfaction is an important part of measuring the quality of college teaching. The admission of college entrance exam is the first step for college students to enter colleges and corresponding majors. Whether they affect students' college satisfaction after enrollment is related to the formulation and adjustment of college admission strategies and training methods. This paper is based on data from students in colleges in Beijing enrolled in the fall of 2006 and 2008 and adopts propensity score matching to analyze the influence of the admitted characteristics of college entrance exams, such as whether they were accepted by their first choice. We also further explored the heterogeneity. The empirical results show that whether the student was admitted to the first-choice college has a significant positive impact on overall satisfaction and academic and nonacademic satisfaction, while whether the student was admitted to the first-choice major has no significant impact on nonacademic satisfaction. In addition, making an independent major choice has a positive effect on the improvement of overall satisfaction and academic satisfaction, and the impact on overall satisfaction is even greater than that of being admitted to the first-choice major. The impact of the admission characteristics of college entrance examinations on the satisfaction of students in liberal arts and science and students of different types of colleges and universities presents different characteristics.
学生的大学满意度是衡量大学教学质量的重要组成部分。高考录取是大学生进入大学及相应专业的第一步。它们在学生入学后是否会影响其大学满意度，这关乎大学招生策略和培养方式的制定与调整。本文基于2006年秋季和2008年秋季在北京高校入学的学生数据，采用倾向得分匹配法分析高考录取特征的影响，比如是否被第一志愿录取。我们还进一步探究了异质性。实证结果表明，学生是否被第一志愿大学录取对总体满意度、学业满意度和非学业满意度均有显著的正向影响，而学生是否被第一志愿专业录取对非学业满意度没有显著影响。此外，自主选择专业对总体满意度和学业满意度的提升有积极作用，且对总体满意度的影响甚至大于被第一志愿专业录取。高考录取特征对文科和理科学生以及不同类型高校学生满意度的影响呈现出不同特点。
