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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Faculty Interviews"”.
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A Case Study of the Leadership Program at Andrews University: its Origins and Early Development as Reflected in Documents and Relics, Participant and Faculty Interviews, and Participant-Observation, 1994-2003
… the program and the experiences of participants, faculty, and staff involved in the program during those years.</p> <p><em>Method</em>. Using a case-study approach, I have examined the conceptual development and procedural evolution of the Leadership Program at Andrews University from 1994 through …
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Barriers Faced by Nontraditional Black Female Students at a Historically Black College or University
… of nontraditional Black female students and faculty perceptions regarding these barriers. The study was conducted at a HBCU in the southern part of the United States. Participants in the study included five HBCU faculty and five nontraditional Black female students. In this qualitative …
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An investigation into employee perceptions of organisational culture change : a case study of a change initiative at the University of Cape Town Faculty of Health Sciences
… operationalised. Twelve, open-ended, in depth interviews were conducted with health professionals of a university medical faculty. Interviews were recorded, transcribed and analysed. Open-coding word based techniques were used to identify themes from the qualitative text. Qualitative analytical …
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Chicano Studies Courses: Latina/o Student Engagement in Community Colleges
… design was employed, drawing on semi-structured interviews with fourteen Latina/o community college students, supplemented by faculty interviews and non-participant classroom observations to provide contextual insight into instructional practices. While faculty interviews and classroom …
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Death in the Curriculum: A Terror Management Theory Assessment of Emotions and Mortality Reminders in Post-Secondary Interdisciplinary Environmental Education Courses at Selected Canadian Universities
… IEE curriculum. Content analysis of faculty interviews and curricular materials revealed Fear as the prevalent emotion associated with death-thought prompts and an overall negative emotional load within eight courses taught in two post-secondary case studies. Our analysis also …
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Faculty Perceptions of a High-poverty, High-Performing School
This qualitative case study investigated faculty perceptions of a high-poverty, high-performing school in a Midwestern town in Indiana. The study sought to identify practices and organizational structures that faculty perceives contributed to achieving a pass rate of 85% on the Math and 81% on the …
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Burnout and Work Fatigue in Contingent Faculty During the COVID-19 Pandemic
… shift to remote learning had a major impact on faculty and students in higher education institutions (HEIs). As a result of the pandemic, many stakeholders in HEIs have experienced burnout and work fatigue, specifically, contingent/adjunct faculty. Contingent/adjunct faculty comprise a majority …
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Beyond Lip Service: How teachers in a private school utilize multicultural literature
… focus groups, and two types of teacher interviews, faculty interviews, observational field notes, and teacher pedagogical artifacts. The interpretivist paradigm was utilized to coded and analyzed the data using modified analytic induction, descriptive activity codes (Bogdan & Bilken, …
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Using Bourdieu to understand the function of digital literacy in an English class: A case study of a higher education university in Namibia
… instruments were used: student questionnaires, interviews and focus group discussions and faculty interviews. The study revealed that despite Namibia's ICT policy that calls for learners to be prepared at high school for the integration of ICTs, quite a number of first year students had no …
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Differences in Educational Goals Within the Field of Electrical Engineering
… of this study was to investigate, through interviews, the opinions of practicing engineers in both industry and academia to determine if a misalignment of needs and educational goals between the two groups exists. Thus, the guiding research question for this study was: “How do electrical …
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Going where students are: comparing faculty and student uses and perceptions of social networking in higher education
… Diffusion of Innovation attributes to compare faculty and students’ current rate of adoption of using SNSs and their perceptions of the advantages and disadvantages of using them as tools to enhance teaching and learning. The population consisted of School of Education faculty and students at a …
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An Analysis of Selected California Community College Faculty Members' Perceptions of Challenges Experienced during the First Year of Hire
… and sources of support encountered by new faculty the first year of hire. Nineteen participants were interviewed from three community colleges. Interview sites were chosen to include three institutions of different sizes. Site 1 was an urban-centered college and a part of a multi-college …
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Nontraditional Students in Associate Degree Nursing: Perceived Factors Influencing Retention and Empowerment
… this study. Data were triangulated from student interviews, classroom observation, student reflective journals, student faculty interviews, and literature review. Data analysis was guided by Van Manen's methodology for phenomenology.</p><p>The themes identified as representing the experiences of …
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Nursing Students' Experiences in Personal Spiritual Formation and in Provision of Spiritual Care to Patients
… volunteered to participate in semi-structured interviews. The sample was further refined to those who claimed commitment toChristian faith and scored high on the faith maturity scale, resulting in an interview sample of 16 students from Liberal Arts University and 11 students from Health …
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Mentoring in Engineering Capstone Design Courses: Beliefs and Practices across Disciplines
… Through anecdotal descriptions of the course, faculty roles have been classified as mentoring. Yet, there have been few systematic and empirical studies that aid in the exploration of the pedagogy and its effectiveness. This study used Kram's model of mentoring as a lens to explore mentoring in …