IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jsusta/v14y2022i23p15894-d987707.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Application of Biographical Data in Student’s Major Selection

Author

Listed:
  • Yuting Wang

    (School of Humanities & Law, Northeastern University, No. 3-11, Wenhua Road, Heping District, Shenyang 110819, China)

  • Guandong Song

    (School of Humanities & Law, Northeastern University, No. 3-11, Wenhua Road, Heping District, Shenyang 110819, China)

Abstract

The research studies describe that students utilize Information and Communication Technology (ICT) widely to improve their academic performance. In the classroom, students use ICT assistive technologies via laptops and smartphones for academic and non-academic activities. The ICT tool interactions are applied to developing an effective learning environment that is used to support the student’s learning and understanding in a specific context. The utilization of ICT motivates the students to utilize the technologies in the classroom environment. The ICT training policies help resolve the fundamental issues that students come across, particularly high school students going to college. However, most students do not know enough about their major tendencies and feel lost when deciding on a major. Our study aimed to apply ICT biographical data as a tool for major selection. Based on the rationale of psychometrics and valuable evidence, some studies show that the average high school score is the best predictor of the average college score. The biographical data prediction method is the pre-university life history of students of different majors. Compiling questionnaires takes the college academic performance of students as the studying criterion and weights projects on the biographical data table to develop college students’ biographical information blank and its norm system to provide services for student’s choice of major. Various results show that biographical information blank items are diverse, and the impurity of the content may lead to low internal reliability (α coefficient is usually between 0.60 and 0.80) but a high test–retest validity coefficient (usually between 0 and 0.90). In contrast, its validity has predictive validity because it is independent of each score. Furthermore, since biographical information blanks comprise verifiable and unverifiable items, the ideal subjects answered more reliably because they were accountable for their responses. Studies show that the description of individual life history was moderately associated with the results recorded by the psychologist.

Suggested Citation

  • Yuting Wang & Guandong Song, 2022. "Application of Biographical Data in Student’s Major Selection," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(23), pages 1-13, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:14:y:2022:i:23:p:15894-:d:987707
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/23/15894/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/23/15894/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Salvador Baena-Morales & Rosabel Martinez-Roig & María J. Hernádez-Amorós, 2020. "Sustainability and Educational Technology—A Description of the Teaching Self-Concept," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(24), pages 1-20, December.
    2. Waleed Mugahed Al-Rahmi & Ahmed Ibrahim Alzahrani & Noraffandy Yahaya & Nasser Alalwan & Yusri Bin Kamin, 2020. "Digital Communication: Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Usage for Education Sustainability," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(12), pages 1-18, June.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Mohammed Abdullatif Almulla & Mahdi Mohammed Alamri, 2021. "Using Conceptual Mapping for Learning to Affect Students’ Motivation and Academic Achievement," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(7), pages 1-17, April.
    2. Mohammed Abdullatif Almulla & Waleed Mugahed Al-Rahmi, 2023. "Integrated Social Cognitive Theory with Learning Input Factors: The Effects of Problem-Solving Skills and Critical Thinking Skills on Learning Performance Sustainability," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(5), pages 1-26, February.
    3. Tutaleni I. Asino & Nicole M. Colston & Ayodeji Ibukun & Clement Abai, 2022. "The Virtual Citizen Science Expo Hall: A Case Study of a Design-Based Project for Sustainability Education," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(8), pages 1-18, April.
    4. Ali Mugahed Al-Rahmi & Alina Shamsuddin & Uthman Alturki & Ahmed Aldraiweesh & Farahwahida Mohd Yusof & Waleed Mugahed Al-Rahmi & Abdulmajeed A. Aljeraiwi, 2021. "The Influence of Information System Success and Technology Acceptance Model on Social Media Factors in Education," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(14), pages 1-23, July.
    5. Eirini Triantafyllidou & Anastasia Zabaniotou, 2022. "From Theory to Praxis: ‘Go Sustainable Living’ Survey for Exploring Individuals Consciousness Level of Decision-Making and Action-Taking in Daily Life Towards a Green Citizenship," Circular Economy and Sustainability, Springer, vol. 2(1), pages 113-139, March.
    6. Roberto Araya, 2023. "Connecting Classrooms with Online Interclass Tournaments: A Strategy to Imitate, Recombine and Innovate Teaching Practices," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(10), pages 1-25, May.
    7. Hyo Geun Song, 2023. "Understanding Social Media Users’ Mukbang Content Watching: Integrating TAM and ECM," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(5), pages 1-15, February.
    8. Jawad Abbas & Uthman Alturki & Misbah Habib & Ahmed Aldraiweesh & Waleed Mugahed Al-Rahmi, 2021. "Factors Affecting Students in the Selection of Country for Higher Education: A Comparative Analysis of International Students in Germany and the UK," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(18), pages 1-17, September.
    9. Wanglin Ma & Puneet Vatsa & Hongyun Zheng & Emmanuel Donkor & Victor Owusu, 2023. "Does Adoption of Information and Communication Technology Reduce Objective and Subjective Well-Being Inequality? Evidence from China," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 169(1), pages 55-77, September.
    10. Rosita Capurro & Raffaele Fiorentino & Rubina Michela Galeotti & Stefano Garzella, 2023. "The Impact of Digitalization and Sustainability on Governance Structures and Corporate Communication: A Cross-Industry and Cross-Country Approach," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(3), pages 1-27, January.
    11. Yanhua Yang, 2023. "Impact of Organizational Support on Students’ Information and Communication Technology Self-Efficacy, Engagement, and Satisfaction in a Blended Learning Environment: An Empirical Study," SAGE Open, , vol. 13(4), pages 21582440231, December.
    12. Uthman Alturki & Ahmed Aldraiweesh, 2021. "Application of Learning Management System (LMS) during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Sustainable Acceptance Model of the Expansion Technology Approach," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(19), pages 1-16, October.
    13. Jian-Hong Ye & Yi-Sang Lee & Chiung-Ling Wang & Weiguaju Nong & Jhen-Ni Ye & Yu Sun, 2023. "The Continuous Use Intention for the Online Learning of Chinese Vocational Students in the Post-Epidemic Era: The Extended Technology Acceptance Model and Expectation Confirmation Theory," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(3), pages 1-18, January.
    14. Anastasia Atabekova, 2020. "University Discourse to Foster Youth’s Sustainability in Society amidst COVID19: International and Russian Features," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(18), pages 1-32, September.
    15. Uthman Alturki & Ahmed Aldraiweesh, 2023. "An Empirical Investigation into Students’ Actual Use of MOOCs in Saudi Arabia Higher Education," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(8), pages 1-23, April.
    16. Puneet Vatsa & Junpeng Li & Phong Quoc Luu & Julio Cesar Botero‐R, 2023. "Internet use and consumption diversity: Evidence from rural China," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 27(3), pages 1287-1308, August.
    17. Omar A. Alismaiel, 2023. "Digital Media Used in Education: The Influence on Cyberbullying Behaviors among Youth Students," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(2), pages 1-19, January.
    18. Ibrahim Youssef Alyoussef, 2021. "Massive Open Online Course (MOOCs) Acceptance: The Role of Task-Technology Fit (TTF) for Higher Education Sustainability," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(13), pages 1-14, July.
    19. Masouda A. Gurban & Abeer S. Almogren, 2022. "Students’ Actual Use of E-Learning in Higher Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic," SAGE Open, , vol. 12(2), pages 21582440221, May.
    20. Feiqiang Fu & Wenhui Zha & Qiwei Zhou, 2023. "The Impact of Enterprise Digital Capability on Employee Sustainable Performance: From the Perspective of Employee Learning," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(17), pages 1-22, August.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:14:y:2022:i:23:p:15894-:d:987707. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.