Study on the Influence of Academic Scientific Communities in the Capacity for Sustainable Development of College Students

SHS Web of Conferences, Jan 2015

The rapid social development and speedy growth of the total information amount put forward ever higher demands on the sustainable capacity of college students. As a brand-new way to train college talents, academic scientific communities play a vital role in enhancing the capacity for their sustainable development. This paper is developed on the basis of the samples from three universities affiliated to the Ministry of Education in Wuhan and exploratory empirical case studies, in which the motive and performance of college students involved in academic scientific communities as well as the management of those communities are analyzed. Effects of participation are used to research the influence. As a result of the study, this paper suggests a steady reinforced construction of academic scientific Communities to improve the sustainability of college students.

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Study on the Influence of Academic Scientific Communities in the Capacity for Sustainable Development of College Students

SHS Web of Conferences Study on the Influence of Academic Scientific Communities in the Capacity for Sustainable Development of College Students Jin Zhang 0 0 Huazhong Agricultural University , Wuhan, Hubei, P, R , China The rapid social development and speedy growth of the total information amount put forward ever higher demands on the sustainable capacity of college students. As a brand-new way to train college talents, academic scientific communities play a vital role in enhancing the capacity for their sustainable development. This paper is developed on the basis of the samples from three universities affiliated to the Ministry of Education in Wuhan and exploratory empirical case studies, in which the motive and performance of college students involved in academic scientific communities as well as the management of those communities are analyzed. Effects of participation are used to research the influence. As a result of the study, this paper suggests a steady reinforced construction of academic scientific Communities to improve the sustainability of college students. college students; for Sustainable Development - Analyzed from the perspective of demography, the sample takes on the following characteristics: as regard to the gender construction, females take up 58.3%, and males 41.7%; from the point of grade construction, freshmen account for 36.8%, sophomores 24.7%, juniors 26.3%, and seniors 12.2%; from the point of specialties, the questionnaire is well representative with a balanced proportion of specialties, which cover Science, Engineering, Agriculture, Medicine, Humanity and Law, and Economics and Management. 2 The current situation of college student’ s involvement in academic scientific communities 2.1 The Motive Communities of College students’ Involvement in Academic Scientific In respect of the motive, 53.2% of the college students have or once joined the academic scientific communities, which are the mainstream among all the communities participated in by students. The fact that 91.2% of the students join these academic scientific communities of their own accord indicates that quite a number of college students are interested in them. 91.8% of the students join those communities out of interest, 87.4% of them participate in clubs with the intention to improve their academic study, and 92.7% of them want to expand their social circles and strengthen their comprehensive quality through community activities. This shows that the motive of the college students involved in academic scientific communities is relatively pure and they have certain expectations before taking part in those communities, which are mainly to accelerate selfdevelopment, improve their academic study and strengthen their comprehensive quality. In order to have an overall understanding of the motives of the college students involved in academic scientific communities, this paper assigns the value to each variable according to the following rule: 1= strongly disagree; 2= disagree; 3= neutral; 4= agree; 5= strongly agree. The total score of the motive, ranging from 5 to 20, is the sum value of the four variables. The motive is stronger as the total score is higher. Taking gender and grade as the independent variables and motive as the dependent variable, this paper discovers the following facts with single factor analysis of variance: the total score of female college students (16.28) is higher than that of male college students; the score of community members’ motive is decreasing from freshmen to seniors (Their scores are 16.38, 15.74, 15.56, 14.92 respectively.). It is indicated that compared with male and high-grade students, female and low-grade students are keener on participating in academic scientific communities as the P value of different gender and grade is less than 0.05 in both cases. The details are shown in table 1 below. Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior P 2.2 Performance of College Students Involved in Academic Scientific Communitis In terms of college students’ performance in communities, 63.9% of the college students “have taken part in most of the community activities, 60.6% of the students “enjoy community activities”, 53.9% of the them believe that “most community members take an active part in club activities”, and 74.3% of them participate in community activities out of interest and of their own accord. It suggests that most of the college students frequently take part in the activities of academic scientific communities of their free will and they can get pleasure from community activities. However, at the same time, there are still about 40% of the students who engage in fewer activities and have weaker emotional experience. Among them, 15.9% of the college students seldom participate in community activities and 21.3% of them do not like communities’ activities. It means that a lot of things need to be done so that we can arouse more students’ enthusiasm for community activities and enhance (...truncated)


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Jin Zhang. Study on the Influence of Academic Scientific Communities in the Capacity for Sustainable Development of College Students, SHS Web of Conferences, 2015, 17, DOI: 10.1051/shsconf/20151702009