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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"student expectations"”.
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Student expectations of future life roles
… The purpose of this study was to explore how students understand and distinguish between different life roles, and therefore gain insight into the expectations they have of their future life roles. Using Kelly's Repertory Grids Technique, qualitative data was obtained through fifteen …
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A service marketing approach to recruiting students in German private universities :exploratory thesis of student expectations and experiences
… how they can best compete in the market, attract students, find their market niche and differ-entiate themselves from similar institutions. The recruitment of students at private universities is particularly difficult. This study explores which factors influence their selection and evalua-tion …
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Educational Accountability: Investigating the Collective Capacity of a Middle School
… ability to provide more academic support to students and a more nurturing environment. At the same time, teachers had varied student expectations that deterred them from achieving even higher levels of collective instructional capacity.
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An art history curriculum guide for seventh and eighth grades
… teaching art history to seventh and eighth grade students based on the principles of discipline-based art education (DBAE). The student included historical facts, descriptions and the application of DBAE. The curriculum included a series of lesson plans which contained objectives, audio visual …
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A framework for the delivery of built environment student satisfaction in England
… Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice” (2016). The impact of the on-going policy development has resulted in greater access to higher education but also increased financial pressures on students and their family. This study assesses the impact of the continuing policy …
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College and Career Readiness of First Time in College Social Studies Students
… instruction by exploring the understandings and expectations of US history educators at the secondary and post-secondary levels. It is important to study how the realist philosophy inherent in state-mandated standards clashes with teachers’ and students’ understandings of what is real and to …
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Sustained partnerships: the establishment and development of meaningful student-faculty relationships
… the one-on-one connections between successful students and the faculty members with whom a meaningful relationship was fostered. The specific focus was on the establishment, development, and reciprocity within the context of the relationships. By comparing the students' experiences to their …
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Differential analysis of student and teacher instructional expectations
The purpose of this study was to determine if students and teachers differed in their expectations of classroom instruction. Professional experience and empirical evidence indicate that there may be significant classroom instruction expectation differences held by higher education students and …
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Beta Drift: Forecasting the Manifold Relationships between Students and their Pursuit of STEM Careers
… occupational career choices of underrepresented students in their pursuit of a STEM career. Data selected from the High School Longitudinal Study beginning with the base year through the fourth wave were employed in a large-scale multinomial regression analysis. Anticipated <em>STEM occupation at …
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Examining Indigenous Students’ Persistence in a Hybrid Pre-Nursing Transitions Environment
Transitions programs to support non-traditional students have been in existence in Canada since the educational reform movement of the 1970s (Malatest & Associates, 2004). Scholarly research in the success of such programs is frequently presented in terms of institutional directives such as …
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The psychological contract as an explanatory framework for the student experience at Sunderland Business School
… being encouraged by Government to admit students from under-represented groups and those with non-traditional qualifications. The University of Sunderland has been one of the most successful in attracting students from these groups. but has been less successful at retaining those students …
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The Relationship of Teacher Retention to Personality Style at VisionQuest National Limited
… treatment and education program for court-placed students. Recruiting and retaining quality teachers is a problem faced by VisionQuest administrators. Over the course of a school year, there are usually several teaching-position vacancies, and turnover is high, especially in the first few months …
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Examining Student Perspectives On Information Literacy
… needs and demographics of today’s digital native students. This study was designed to ascertain first-year undergraduate students’ definitions and perspectives of information literacy to determine how they are aligned to the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) six frames of …
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Being a ‘model’ student: the impact of affective influences on full-time undergraduate student behaviours and practices in the current Higher Education context in England
… research explores how full-time undergraduate students’ (FTUG) behaviours can be theorised in terms of the State’s biopolitical influence and distribution of power amongst constantly evolving actors within English Higher Education. Findings demonstrate how this framing enables a timely and …
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Social learning online: A study examining the use of threaded discussions
… are providing access to a broad range of students through online courses. With the increase of enrollment and demand, it is necessary to better comprehend the role and relationship of the tools available within those courses. The primary purpose of this research effort was to explore the …
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Expectation to reality: college freshmen and the use of alcohol
… freshmen. It was designed to explore an area of student alcohol use that has not been well researched. An extensive amount of research has been done on reasons students use alcohol, the consequences of alcohol use, patterns of alcohol use, and the expected effects of alcohol consumption. However, …
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Identifying student satisfaction in an offshore British higher education institution using appreciative inquiry 4-D
Student satisfaction is a critical focus for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), influencing reputation, recruitment, and alumni engagement. As the cost of tertiary education rises, HEIs worldwide strive to meet student expectations. However, understanding student satisfaction remains complex, …
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Epistemological Authenticity in Science Classrooms
… (NRC, 1996) envisions science classrooms where students engage productively in activity that is similar to scientific inquiry. It is presumed that by engaging in this kind of activity students will come to deeper understandings of scientific inquiry and scientific knowledge. For this …
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