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Showing 1 to 20 of 142 for “"Academic disciplines"”.
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DOCTORAL FACULTY ADVISOR-STUDENT RELATIONSHIP: A MULTI-CASE STUDY OF THREE ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES
… faculty advisors is crucial for the students’ academic and professional development. While previous research has emphasised the role of faculty in providing guidance and supervising dissertations, our understanding of the dynamics and boundaries of these relationships remains limited. Many …
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The form and function of fixed collocational patterns in research articles in different academic disciplines
… study of fixed collocational patterns in written academic English. The fixed collocational pattern is a continuous string of words which is found to occur frequently in language data. This study uses lexical analysis software to study an electronic corpus of academic research articles in an …
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Variation in use of nouns as nominal premodifiers in advanced student writing across academic disciplines
<p>Academic writing possesses many characteristics that distinguish it from other registers, such as heightened information density, elaborated reference, and an impersonal style (Biber et al., 1999; Biber & Gray, 2016). However, disciplines manifest these language features differently (Biber & …
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Understanding institutional agents’ engagement and function in supporting undocumented and DACA students in higher education across academic disciplines
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Comparable Worth in Academia: The Effects on Faculty Salaries of the Sex Composition and Labor-Market Conditions of Academic Disciplines
… whether similar mechanisms operate within academic labor markets, asking whether increasing proportions of women in academic disciplines depress faculty salaries independent of the effects of labor-market conditions and individual-level salary predictors.
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Faculty Teaching Goals at Senior Research Universities
… could be used to predict these goals. The eight disciplines used in this study were: accounting, chemistry, computer science, economics, English, math, mechanical engineering, and psychology. The independent variables were: gender, academic rank, course level, tenure, and four Biglan categories …
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Some Effects of Teaching Assistants' Perceived Interest and Relevance Upon Acquisition of Lecturing Skills Modeled in a Protocol Videotape
… protocol materials for use with diversified academic disciplines; using somewhat neutral topics in the lesson (i.e., topics which are not perceived as being highly interesting or relevant by the viewers, may be just as cost-effective as content specific topics.
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A foundational approach to high school introductory chemistry
… integration of subject matter from other academic disciplines. The text is designed to provide an extensive introduction to the science of chemistry by means of historical narratives, written in dialogue form.
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Learning style preferences of female undergraduate students in the U.S. and possible associations with selected ‘hard’ vs. ‘soft’ academic majors
… and possible associations with 'hard' vs. 'soft' academic major selection. The Felder-Soloman Index of Learning Styles inventory was utilized to identity the learning style preferences of 189 research participants. Biglan's Taxonomy of academic disciplines was used to categorize academic …
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Rape as a tool of war: a critical study
… of rape as a "tool of war" in various academic disciplines and approaches including Anthropological Studies, Feminist Studies and Historical Studies. The analysis also includes Political Studies and its various sub-disciplines, case studies of African conflicts and more specifically …
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The political economy of employment relationships in New Zealand
… relationships themselves are shaped by academic families of disciplines that reflect the wider structured antagonism that is inherent in capitalism. However, core finding in the thesis is that although the academic disciplines are inextricably linked with the nature of employment …
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A NARRATIVE INQUIRY INTO CONTINGENT MUSIC FACULTY EXPERIENCES
… Tenure-track faculty reduction is significant in academic disciplines such as music. This qualitative narrative inquiry study explored the professional experiences of contingent music faculty through semi-structured interviews. Narrative inquiry allows for individual participant voice in which …
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A Case Study Examining Teacher Responses to Principal Feedback of Class Observations
<p>Four teachers from each of the four major academic disciplines: Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, and English Language from a suburban high school in the Southeastern United States participated in a study which examined teacher responses to principal feedback of class room observations. Each …
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Scientific achievements by Antarctic expeditions in the aftermath of the Sixth International Geographical Congress: 1895-1905
… of their objectives, scientific staffs, and academic disciplines. Comparisons are made of the success of the early expeditions (1895-1905) of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration and some simple quantitative as well as qualitative judgments are attempted. It is acknowledged that the …
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Sensemaking and identity : traditional narratives of university roles and recognition of faculty expertise.
… study examined how 11 faculty members in academic disciplines of communication made sense of their identities as both professors and consultants and how their sensemaking was understood by nine university administrators at the same institution who were responsible for public-facing, …
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Governing Social Bodies: Affect and Number in Contemporary Cricket
Two recent cybernetics-derived academic disciplines, biomechanics and operations research, have worked to reshape cricket. Liberalization and the consequent large flows of money into the game have resulted in a transformation in how the game is regulated, coached, and played. In this dissertation, …
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The Relationship Between Interaction Patterns on an Online Idea Generation Community and the Implementation of Ideas
… implications for action for professional and academic disciplines were presented.</p>
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Chinese Female Graduate Students' Academic Socialization Across Disciplines - Perspectives On Language, Culture, And Gender
… identity, the present study aims to explore the academic socialization experience of three female Chinese graduate students in the United States. The ethnographic case study collected data from various sources such as classroom observations, open-ended questionnaires, interviews with participants …
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Teaching is like engineering: my living educational theory
… change, or scientific developments in other academic disciplines emerge. [...] This context statement documents my historical journey through the Doctor of Professional Studies by Public Works process. The logic is largely chronological in nature, but doubtless some historical revisionism has …
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Field Dependence-Independence and Computer-based Instruction in Geography
… on learning and students' outcomes across academic disciplines and at all levels of schooling. Field dependent learners generally perform less well than field independent individuals in most instructional environments. The consequences of cognitive style differences have not been thoroughly …
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