상위권 대학 이공계열 학생들의 학업부진 원인과 대처 방안 탐색: A대학 사례를 중심으로

Abstract

This study was conducted to identify the causes of academic weakness and to find the ways to cope with it for the students majoringin science and engineering at the top university in Korea. For this purpose, a questionnaire was conducted for students who experiencedacademic warning and poor academic performance at A university, and a total of 207 students responded. The results were dividedinto two groups majoring in science and engineering or not and the characteristics and differences of each group were analyzed. Inaddition, in-depth interviews were conducted with five students who had experienced academic warning and poor academic performance. As a result, the group majoring in science and engineering had a relatively low level of difficulty in forming interpersonal relationshipsand relatively high degree of participation of activities in their departments. The group majoring in science and engineering have atendency to choose careers that are connected with their majors, and therefore, their response was relatively low due to lack of careergoals. However, the group majoring in science and engineering had difficulty in academic performance due to the difference in basiccourses and the level of recognition about self-learning strategy needed for university study was relatively low compared with the groupmajoring in non-science and engineering. When they experienced academic problems, they said that their interest, support, and positivefeedback from professors helped them recover their motivation and continue their studies. Through these results, it was confirmed thatintervention and support are needed considering the academic situation and characteristics of the students majoring in science and engineering.