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McGaw, Martha Ann Davis; Evans, Simone McGaw – IGI Global, 2021
The metrics presently being used to gauge student success have become outdated and irrelevant. Enrollment, persistence, and degree attainment are secondary measures, missing entirely the question of whether students are truly achieving an effective life skillset while attempting to complete degree or graduation fulfillment. Student success, and…
Descriptors: College Students, Success, Outcomes of Education, Educational Change
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Waters, Johanna; Brooks, Rachel – Palgrave Macmillan, 2021
This book explores questions around the meaning and significance of international student migration. Framed in relation to the mobilities -- and immobilities -- of international students, the book highlights various key themes emerging from the rich interdisciplinary scholarship in this area, including socio-economic diversification in mobile…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Mobility, Socioeconomic Status, Student Diversity
Mayer, Susan Jean – Peter Lang New York, 2012
This book provides practitioners and scholars with a number of practical tools for studying and implementing democratic learning processes within schools, and theorizes these tools in relation to current developmental learning and democratic theory. Three dimensions of knowledge are framed--foundational, expert, and personal--and the place of each…
Descriptors: Democracy, Learning Processes, Learning Experience, Teacher Role
King, Kathleen P., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2009
This handbook is a much expanded version of the original Learning Activities Survey published by Dr. Kathleen P. King of Fordham University in 1998. Based on her ground breaking research in this field where she used a mixed methodology research approach to study transformative learning, the book will provide a model of research, firsthand…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Adult Education, Lifelong Learning, Educational Research
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Gibson, Philip – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2004
This paper considers experience of further education (FE) from a student perspective. Students were involved in a longitudinal research project designed to develop a comprehensive analysis and interpretation of their progress on a vocational study programme. Using case studies as part of a multi-method research strategy, students' motivation and…
Descriptors: Learning Experience, Student Motivation, Student Attitudes, Beliefs
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Rhodes, Christopher; Nevill, Alan – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2004
A survey of student satisfaction and dissatisfaction was undertaken within an undergraduate education studies cohort at a new university in the English Midlands. The cohort included both 'traditional' and 'non-traditional' students and represented an increasingly typical 'widened' community of students within higher education. This student-…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Surveys, Social Integration, Foreign Countries