Seeking academic help and building community as a grad student | Episode 1 Season 2

We're back for our second season!

In our first episode of season two, Sarah and Becca talk about building community in an online grad program and help-seeking in grad school. They also:

-discuss the many ways in which we can seek help

-discuss research on how grad students seek academic help

-review tips for connecting with others in grad school

-answer a reader question on how to manage an online grad school program

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This episode discusses research by Stuart Karabenick (1940-2020), who was an incredible mentor during Sarah Davis’ PhD. One of the first times they met at a conference where he was in a role of a mentor, after hearing about her research he asked her: “How can I help you?” He is fondly missed and we know he would love hearing that we are discussing his work on help-seeking in this episode.

Show notes:
Dunn, K. E., Rakes, G. C., & Rakes, T. A. (2014). Influence of academic self-regulation, critical thinking, and age on online graduate students’ academic help-seeking. Distance Education, 35(1), 75–89. https://doi.org/10.1080/01587919.2014.891426

Karabenick, S. A., & Gonida, E. N. (2018). Academic Help Seeking as a Self-Regulated Learning Strategy: Current Issues, Future Directions. In Handbook of Self-Regulation of Learning and Performance (2nd ed., pp. 421–433). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315697048-27

Makara, K. A., & Karabenick, S. A. (2013). Characterizing sources of academic help in the age of expanding educational technology: A new conceptual framework. In S. A. Karabenick & M. Puustinen (Eds.), Advances in help-seeking research and applications: The role of emerging technologies (pp. 37–72). IAP Information Age Publishing.