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Showing 1 to 20 of 160 for “"Higher Education and Teaching"”.
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Using Large-Angle Beamstrahlung To Detect And Diagnose Colliding Beams For Luminosity Optimization
… beams. Monitoring the beam helps in analyzing and studying the beams profiles, allowing beams adjustments, and eventually leading to a perfect beams collision. The perfect beam collision results in a higher luminosity; as a result, a high particles production rate and new physics can be …
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Qualitative Study Of Taiwanese Students Studying Abroad: Social Interactions, Navigating Us Culture, And Experiences Learning English Language
… life because Taiwan entered the global village and English language changed into a more important skill in order to communicate with foreigners. Many Taiwanese parents desire their children become proficient English speakers so that they send them to "buxiban" (cram schools) in Taiwan or study …
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Identification of the Presence of the Restoration Concept in Seventh-day Adventist Nursing Programs in the United States
… In 1976 Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) nursing educational leaders adopted a statement of philosophy and goals that incorporated the concept of restoring humans to God's image. Although Adventist education was founded upon restoration themes, no empirical evidence indicates that nursing faculty …
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Health Science Faculty Retention At Small And Mid-Sized Sized Private Universities
… factor limiting the ability of institutions of higher education (IHE) to meet healthcare workforce demands. To address this problem IHE leaders must not only recruit, but also retain faculty. Given this problem, the purpose and question of this research study was to identify personal and …
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A study to determine how many person hours are expended by learning consultants and school psychologists to complete an evaluation from initial referral to final placement
… an initial evaluation by a Learning Consultant and a School Psychologist. Surveys were distributed to a random sample of Learning Consultants and School Psychologists in South Jersey. The survey consisted of eighteen areas which are a part of an initial evaluation. Participants were asked to …
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From challenge to triumph: the voices of African American male students at Mid-Atlantic University
… of the low numbers of African American males in higher education. Furthermore, this study seeks to identify factors that are successful with keeping African American males in college. The methodology consisted of quantitative (surveys) and qualitative analyses (focus group interviews) that …
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Beliefs and Practices of Expert Respiratory Care Faculty on Critical-Thinking Learning: a Case Study
… thinking. This case study describes the beliefs and practices of faculty members in an academically strong program in view of developing critical thinking.</p> <p>Method. A qualitative, single case-study design was used to identify critical-thinking strategies and beliefs incorporated by the …
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Rhetorical outcomes: A genre analysis of student service-learning writing
… impacts on students, faculty, institutions, and community members, the relationship between service-learning and student writing outcomes is not well understood. This study presents the results of a genre analysis of student-authored ethnographies composed in four distinct sections of a …
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Becoming and Thriving as an EFL Instructor: Exploring Key Factors Contributing to Positive Identity Construction
… Ninety valid responses were collected and subjected to correlation analysis using SPSS. Due to nonnormality in the data, Kruskal-Wallis and Spearman’s rho tests were employed to derive referential outcomes. Data analysis revealed teaching experience and overseas experience were not …
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Student Evaluations of Teaching, Course and Student Characteristics at Andrews University
… type of rating of specific Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) dimensions and overall rating students tended to give for the courses that they took, identified the dimensions that predicted the overall rating, and assessed the association of gender, student academic status, course level, course …
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Effects of parenting styles, academic self-efficacy, and achievement motivation on the academic achievement of university students in Ethiopia
The prime purpose of this study was to propose and test an integrated parental and social-cognitive model of academic achievement and examine the effects of parenting styles, academic self-efficacy, and achievement motivation on academic achievement by employing an ex-post facto prospective …
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The educational beliefs of a group of university teachers and their students: Identification, exploration and comparison
The quality of teaching and learning in tertiary education contexts is influenced by many factors including the educational beliefs of the university teachers and students who teach and learn in such contexts. Most belief research in the tertiary education sector has, to date, reported on the …
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When human life begins
… of human life is debated not only in religious and political communities, but within the scientific community as well. Particular attention is given to this issue as advances in science make it possible to manipulate the embryo and fetus at early stages of development. This study explores these …
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Service-Learning Faculty Perceptions
… by their experience with service learning, and how service learning affects faculty's personal and professional perceptions and job satisfaction. Data were collected from 130 participants at higher education institutions throughout the U. S. via an electronic survey. The data were used to …
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Students' Perceptions of Integration of Faith and Learning and Intentional Teaching Strategies at a Christian University
… students’ perceptions of integration of faith and learning (IFL) in an instructional context where intentional integrative strategies were used to enable IFL for students.</p> <p>Method</p> <p>This study used a case study design that relied primarily on qualitative sources. The case …
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