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Showing 1 to 20 of 133 for “"Academic and Professional"”.
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Cracking the Bamboo Ceiling: Examining the Academic and Professional Identity Development of Asian American Women Faculty
… women are often motivated to choose majors and careers considered “culturally valued”; majors that are focused more on STEM areas and careers that allow flexibility for them to manage their familial responsibilities. The implied message, that Asian American women should pursue a career …
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A Study of the Academic and Professional Preparation of the Public School Superintendents in the State of Washington
… purposes of this study were (1) to determine the academic and professional backgrounds of the superintendent and their relative value to his present position, (2) to determine what superintendents would recommend to be included in a course of study for prospective administrators, (3) to establish …
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Advancing Verbal Communication Skills Through Transcript-Based Feedback : Designing an AI-Assisted Language Learning Application, “Stepping Stones, ” to Support ESL Students in Academic and Professional Contexts
… language backgrounds, such as Korean, Japanese, and Chinese, in online academic and professional settings. Cultural norms around indirectness, shared context, and cautious self-expression often influence how learners communicate in English, leading to subtle but persistent barriers to clarity, …
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From novice to expert: assessment of the levels of expertise of South African Chartered Accountants and Auditors in an academic and professional programme using the Dreyfus's Five-Stage Model of Skills Acquisition
Knowledge in professional and business related courses are grounded in real-world business contexts, which influence the theoretical aspects of an academic programme. Most students in South Africa lack prior business and auditing knowledge, which makes it difficult for them to transfer the …
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Mixed messages: assessing communication in architectural education and practice
… explore perceptions of communication in both the academic and professional architecture communities. The author addressed (a) whether profession-specific communication skills are part of any National Architectural Accrediting Board-accredited U.S. undergraduate architecture program; (b) how …
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Workplace Bullying: An exploratory study in Australian academia
… adversely affects individuals, organisations and the community at large. While substantial research has been conducted on workplace bullying in different work settings, limited research exists on this behaviour at universities; no comprehensive studies have to date been conducted in the …
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Balch internet research and analysis tool development case study
… of research is to collect accurate data and there has been little work to insure that Internet survey systems are employing best practices as defined by academic and professional research to collect data. My dissertation reviews the current literature relating to best practices in …
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A Study of the Training of Secondary Biology Teachers in Negros, Philippines
… secondary biology teachers in Negros Occidental and Negros Oriental, Philippines, specific data regarding the academic and professional preparation of biology teachers were obtained. In addition, the respondents supplied opinions regarding the improvement of the undergraduate and graduate program …
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"We aim for them to be higher": The influence of Vietnamese immigrant parents on their children’s schooling and work
… Vietnamese immigrant parents have on the academic and professional achievements of their Australian-born children. The representation of this second-generation cohort in university and in the professional workplace is quite high. Though popular discourse may explain this as an outcome of …
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The impact of organisational politics on information technology strategy
The study consulted literature from both academic and professional domains. None of the literature referred to has done any study on the impact of organisation politics on IT strategy. The research conducted empirical case studies in two South African organisations. The two organisations are …
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The use of oral history and narrative research in broadening the historical foundation of the agricultural communication field
… communication community (consisting of both academics and the profession) is shallow and void of humanistic perspective, and there is a minimal amount of historical content that focuses on academic and professional history. The need to explore and interpret historical dimensions of this field …
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The Summer Research Opportunity Program: Mentorship and the Socialization of Underrepresented Minorities Into the Professoriate
The work goes on to discuss the academic and professional impacts of mentoring and networking. Students reported an increase in their writing and critical thinking skills as a result of faculty mentoring. Guidance towards or modeling of graduate study, occupational preparation, and the …
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English major community college presidents: a narrative inquiry
… major presidents) construct the stories of their academic and professional journeys. Six presidents shared their stories in private, audio-taped interviews. Narrative inquiry was employed as a qualitative method for analysis and interpretation of data, and themes were drawn from each president's …
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‘Between two lives': parenting and impacts on academic, professional achievements and socio-emotional outcomes for British-Ghanaians
… underachievement of Black students in education and, later, within the labour market. Yet, there are a number of shortcomings associated with research in this area. Firstly, there is a tendency to homogenise the achievement levels of all Black students. Thus observations made about the outcomes …
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Transitions: Starting the Second, Full Circle
… have led me to start the second circle of my professional life. It is an open and honest exploration of the back-story of my life and the academic and professional influences that led me to seek a Master of Fine Arts Degree at Virginia Commonwealth University. With no parallels and therefore …
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Participatory Mapping of Health Indicators and Services as a Tool for Anticipatory Co Planning: Finding the local vioce in the rural context
… to the Scottish Governments' Public policy and public service reconfiguration is collaborative working between service providers and service users in a framework of co-production. Despite this rhetoric of co-production of health services having been used for some time in health policy, and …
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A comparison of jazz studies curricula in master's programs in the United States
The purpose of this study was to compare and review curricular offerings in selected institutions in the United States that presently are identified as offering (a) formal degree(s) in jazz studies to music majors at the master's degree level.This writer has identified: common areas of study, …
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Using personal and academic development to reconcile research with learning and teaching in a model for scholarship in higher education
… between the three activity topics of learning and teaching, research and academic and professional development. 11 published articles and 7 others that have been prepared for publication were used as exemplar articles for analysis. This included the history and context of the writing and the …
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Philosophical and sociological perspectives on social work: towards some new understandings of research and practice
… showing how the published works meet the academic criteria set out in the University's Postgraduate Regulations, and reproduced, selected published works. Twenty two publications were included covering a period of twenty years. The collective works have a common thread of applying either …
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