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The honors program Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Unique student characteristics?
Bachelor honors program
(Phase I – Spring 2015)
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Bas Swildens Ada Kool
The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
EHC Acting Board, June 2016. Left to right: Astrid Fritz, Christian Fischer, Ron Weerheijm, Pieter Veenstra, Marca Wolfensberger, Nils O. Andersen, Marleen Eyckmans, Maarten Hogenstijn. Not on picture: Vivian van Gerven, Victor Müller-Oppliger
EHC Acting Board, June 2016. Left to right: Astrid Fritz, Christian Fischer, Ron Weerheijm, Pieter Veenstra, Marca Wolfensberger, Nils O. Andersen, Marleen Eyckmans, Maarten Hogenstijn. Not on picture: Vivian van Gerven, Victor Müller-Oppliger
The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
• The veterinary study program consists of a three-year Bachelor’s study program
and a three-year Master’s program.
• The Master’s program has three specialisms: Companion Animal Health, Farm Animal Health/Veterinary Public Health and Equine Health.
• Every year we welcome 225 students
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Bachelor Honors Veterinary Medicine
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1. A 10 week clinical rotation, in addition to the regular program (15 EC);
2. The honors thesis (15 EC) consisting of an individual research project (7,5 EC) in combination with a theoretical part (7,5 EC) at honors level.
3. Multidisciplinary courses at other UU faculties and a special interdisciplinary elective course. (15 EC)
4. Self-organized international experience, for example through summer school, a study trip or an international conference.
The Veterinary Student Community
A community that connects all vet-students
With their own rituals
Rough and direct, however big hearted
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The Veterinary Student Community
DSK, Diergeneeskundige Studenten Kring
-Veterinary student society-
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DSKonline
Choral society ‘The Golden Trachea’ Veterinary students music ensemble ‘Syrinx’ Veterinary cycling club ‘Spoke in Study’ Veterinary hockeyclub ‘Poesh’ Veterinary students Rugby Club ‘Archaeopteryx’ focused on birds and exotic animals Foundation Day of the harness horse Veterinary Student Riding Association ‘De Solleysel’ Veterinary development co-operation ‘DIO’ ‘Hygieia’ student society in the field of public health and animal welfare. ‘VHiVer’ student society focused on horse health. Veterinary Livestock Breeders Club ‘De Uithof’
Introduction, research questions
The embedding of the honors course in the regular veterinary bachelor is a new concept designed on literature (Renzulli (1968, 2003), Sternberg (2003)) What are the talent characteristics of the veterinary honors student?
• Karin Scager et al. (2011) showed differences in talent characteristics between honors and non-honors students • However there is diversity among the honors students of seven different bachelor programs
What are possible improvements in the veterinary honors course?
• Ada kool et al. (2015 submitted) adds more personality traits that can help design a balanced veterinary honors program
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Theoretical background
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Creativity Cognition (intelligence)
‘Desire to learn’
‘Drive to excel’
‘Persistence’
‘Openness to experience’
‘Extraversion’
Motivation
Giftedness
Prof. Dr. Joseph S. Renzulli Professor of educational psychology at the University of Connecticut
Robert Jeffrey Sternberg Psychologist and psychometrician Oklahoma State University
Theoretical background
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Creativity Cognition (intelligence)
‘Desire to learn’
‘Drive to excel’
‘Persistence’
‘Openness to experience’
‘Extraversion’
Motivation
Giftedness
‘Need for structure’
‘Self-confidence’
‘Enjoying learning’
‘Nervousness, anxiety’
Design
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Online questionnaire among 1st-year veterinary students Response 36% (N = 116) for regular students and 91% (20/22) honors students
Based on the outcomes of 3 groups of veterinary students:
(1) honors students (N = 20) (2) 15% best students (N = 20) (3) Regular students (N = 96)
Compared with a large, UU-wide data set (Kool, 2015)
(674 honors, 1575 top 15% students and 8796 regular students; no veterinary students) ANOVA test are used to test differences between the groups on the talent characteristics.
Research population
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Group Veterinary GPA Standard deviation Range Honors (n = 20) 7,8 0,3 7,2-8,5 Best 15% (n = 20) 7,5 0,3 7,3-8,4 Regular (n = 96) 6,7 0,2 6,3-7,2 Group University GPA Standard deviation Range Honors (n = 674) 7,7 0,5 6,0-9,5 Best 15% (n = 1575) 7,9 0,4 7,5-9,6 Regular (n = 8796) 6,8 0,3 5,8-7,5
‘Openness to new experience’
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Within Veterinary groups: p = 0,23
Between Veterinary and UU: p = 0,92
No significant differences were found between veterinary honors students, the best 15% and regular students to be open to new experiences.
No significant differences were found between veterinary students and the broad Utrecht student population in openness to new experiences.
‘Openness to new experiences’ reflects the degree of intellectual curiosity, creativity and a taste for innovation and variety
‘Extraversion’
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Within Veterinary groups: p = 0,14
Between Veterinary and UU: p = 0,01
No significant differences were found between groups of veterinary students on extraversion.
Veterinary students consider themselves less extraverted than students from other studies.
Extraversion reflects energy, positive emotions, assertiveness, sociability, a tendency to seek the company of others and tend to talk a lot.
‘Desire to learn’
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Within Veterinary groups: p = 0,01
Between Veterinary and UU: p = 0,95
honors students score significantly higher on learning motivation than both regular students and the top 15% of students.
On average, there are no differences between the veterinary students and UU-wide group.
‘Desire to learn’ involves the enjoyment of learning, characterized by an orientation towards mastery, curiosity, and the learning of challenging, difficult, and novel tasks.
The top 15% of students scored lower than the honors students, but significantly higher than the regular students.
‘Drive to excel’
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Within Veterinary groups: p = 0,01
Between Veterinary and UU: p = 0,17
honors students and the 15% best students score higher than the regular students.
On average, there are no differences between the veterinary students and UU-wide group.
‘the drive to excel’, refers to the desire to perform well (to get high grades) and / or to positively differentiate from other students.
This is de largest difference of all the talent characteristics.
‘Persistence’
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Within Veterinary groups: p = 0,01
Between Veterinary and UU: p = 0,02
honors students and the 15% best students score higher than the regular students on persistence.
On average veterinary students score significantly higher than the UU-wide group of students.
‘Persistence’, comprises traits like task commitment, diligence, determination, or perseverance regardless of setbacks and difficulties.
‘Need for structure’
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Within Veterinary groups: p = 0,44
No significant differences were found between veterinary honors students, the best 15% and regular students.
The need of structure is only tested in the veterinary students groups.
‘Need for structure’ reflects the need for clarity and certainty.
‘Self-confidence’
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Within Veterinary groups: p = 0,01
Between Veterinary and UU: p = 0,01
Veterinary honors students score significantly higher on self-confidence the regular students. No difference with top 15%
Compared with the UU-wide group of veterinary students scored lower on self-confidence.
Great confidence in your own abilities affects learning behavior and the choices made as to whether or not to follow an honors program.
‘Enjoying learning’
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Within Veterinary groups: p = 0,01
Between Veterinary and UU: p = 0,02
honors students score significantly higher than both regular students and the top 15% of students.
Veterinary medicine students score generally higher than students from other UU-courses.
‘Enjoying learning’ indicates to what extent the students consider the courses and studying as pleasant or satisfying
‘Study related nervousness, anxiety’
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Within Veterinary groups: p = 0,02
Between Veterinary and UU: p = 0,07
honors students score lower than the regular students.
On average, veterinary students score slightly higher on study-related anxiety than the UU-wide group.
The extent to which students experience studying and examinations as stressful and feel that they can only just manage their study.
The top 15% is exactly between the other two groups, and not significantly different with the honors group or the group of regular students.
Round up
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honors students score significantly higher than both regular students and the top 15% of students in:
Veterinary honors students are unique within the veterinary community ………
Desire to learn Study related happiness
honors students and the 15% best students score higher than the regular students on:
honors students and the 15% best students score lower than the regular students in:
Persistence Self-confidence Need to excel
Study related anxiety
However: these traits seem to be associated with high performances in general
Round up
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Veterinary students are unique in Utrecht University………
Extraversion Self-confidence
Veterinary students score themselves lower than students from other studies in:
Study related anxiety
Veterinary students score themselves higher than students from other studies in:
Persistence Study related hapiness
Veterinary students score themselves higher than students from other studies in:
Creativity Cognition (intelligence)
‘Drive to excel’
‘Persistence’
‘Openness to experience’
‘Extraversion’
Motivation
‘Desire to learn’
Theoretical background
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Giftedness
‘Need for structure’
‘Self-confidence’
‘Enjoying learning’
‘Nervousness, anxiety’
Interpretation and implication
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What to do with this exclusive species………
Creativity
Students that score high on desire to learn are known to work more autonomous. The current course has attracted these students.
Veterinary students including the honors subpopulation score relatively low in the domain of
Desire to learn Study related happiness
Interpretation and implication
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What to do with the hidden potential honors program candidate………
In line with other research the veterinary honors students and the 15% best students score higher than the regular students on: and lower on:
Within the 15% best students are potential honors students.
Persistence Self-confidence Need to excel
Study related anxiety
In phase 2 this will be investigated through a specific questionnaire.
What was your main reason not to sign up for the HP? (Free text) What other reasons played a part? (Free text) What would have to change to make you join in? (Free text) What aspects of the HP did attract you? (Free text)
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