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The Music Professors of YouTubiversity
… education. The results illustrate how music professors use YouTube for teaching and learning in a post-pandemic world. I aim to bridge the divide between the ivory tower and cybersphere by highlighting current collaborations between traditional and YouTube academics and suggesting how the two …
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Optimal class scheduling subject to professors' preferences
This new form of multiattribute utility optimization is based on ordinal as opposed to cardinal utility and is defined from a corresponding integer programming model in operations research which (1) is solved for ordinal cost factors and (2) serves as the problem's theoretical starting point. It is …
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Selected clothing practices of male university professors
… interest of Virginia Polytechnic Institute male professors in regard to their class size, academic rank, college affiliation, and age. Data were obtained by use of mailed questionnaires completed by 440 men who were age twenty-five years or older and had taught at least one year. Each participant …
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Doing right by students: professional ethics for professors
… ought to result in different principles for professors' guidance.This work formulates a set of ethical principles specific to the relation between professors an their students in American higher education.Chapter I explores the applied ethics literature for a method to identify and validate …
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Capturing Critical Whiteness: Portraits of White Antiracist Professors
… based on the stories of three white university professors who are nominated by their students as white allies. Through the thick description of setting and context, white privilege is named as the researcher's experience and that of each of the participants. The researcher examines ways in which …
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How Professors Infuse Critical Thinking into College Courses
… purpose of this case study was to explore professors’ understandings about how they infuse critical thinking within Signature courses in one private Catholic university, where a strong commitment exists to develop students’ critical thinking skills through the Core Curriculum. This …
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Career Narratives of Women Professors in South Africa
… with very few women at the uppermost level of professorship. At the time that this study was conducted women comprised only eight percent of the total number of professors in South Africa. The central aim of the study was to tell the story behind these statistics on gender inequalities by …
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Exploring the Moral Dimension of Professors' Folk Pedagogy
… of two major conceptions in higher education: professors' folk pedagogies and teaching's moral dimension. Folk pedagogy is the accumulated set of beliefs, conceptions and assumptions that professors personally hold about the practice of teaching (Bruner, 1996). When these beliefs and …
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The epistemic beliefs of novice and expert college professors
… different types of experiences common to CEGEP professors, and determine whether any are associated with the sophistication of a professor’s epistemic beliefs. In surveying CEGEP professors from Heritage College (35 responses), the data demonstrated no association of statistical significance …
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Mentors And Social Relationships: The Impact On Adjunct Professors
<p>Adjunct professors are growing in numbers across higher education institutions. There are mentor programs at many universities, but there is little research into the social aspects of mentoring relationships. The traditional format of mentor programs is a structured program between a senior …
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Professors' perceptions of student readiness for college-level mathematics
… The purpose of this research is to determine if professors feel that traditional incoming freshmen students are prepared for college-level mathematics, and what factors they feel contribute to this level of preparation. To research this topic, professors from chosen two- and four-year colleges …
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Socialization of full professors in physical education teacher education
Professors in a tenure track position are promoted from assistant to associate and then full professor. Being promoted is significant as it means a significant contribution to teaching, research and service. Research has suggested that becoming a full professor has substantial organization meaning …
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Characteristics of Mentor Relationships in Male and Female University Professors
Graduate school socialization and mentoring are based on adult development theory as articulated by Jung, Erickson, and Levinson. As adults mature, they go through several stages of detaching from family and learning how to live in the world. During this period (which encompasses undergraduate and …
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Exploring professors’ perceptions of generative artificial intelligence in higher education
… this study seeks to investigate university professors’ perspectives on GenAI and the implications for policymakers. Specifically, this study focused on perceptions of GenAI use and academic misconduct, and the underlying assumptions professor’s hold regarding whether GenAI undermines or …
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Mindset theory among education professors in a Midwestern private college
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An Exploration of Professors’ Use of Twitter in Higher Education
Scant research has explored how professors in Canadian universities use Twitter as a teaching tool or to augment knowledge about their subject disciplines. This case study employed a mixed-method approach to examine how professors in an Ontario university use Twitter. Using a variation of the …
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An Examination of College Flute Professors' Approaches to Improving Students' Intonation Skills
… study was to examine what methods college flute professors use to improve their students intonation skills and to highlight resources to aid future practices on the subject of intonation. The research questions guiding this study were (a) Do college flute professors teach students how to improve …
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Judgements of Selected Practicing Teachers and University Professors Toward Teacher Education Curricula
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