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Niemczyk, Ewalina Kinga – Brock Education: A Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2016
Graduate students' development as researchers is a key objective in higher education internationally. Research assistantships (RAships) nurture graduate students as novice researchers as they develop theoretical and methodological knowledge. However, few studies have investigated the ways institutional regulations, informal practices, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Dissertations, Graduate Students, Full Time Students
Kember, David; Ho, Amaly; Leung, Doris Y. P. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2016
There is a need for a questionnaire designed specifically to evaluate taught postgraduate (TPg) awards for quality assurance or enhancement purposes. Comparison of undergraduate and TPg awards suggests that as the former have broadened their ambit to better nurture generic graduate attributes, TPg awards have concentrated on advanced specialised…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Questionnaires, Student Attitudes
Shapiro, Doug; Dundar, Afet; Wakhungu, Phoebe Khasiala; Yuan, Xin; Nathan, Angel; Hwang, Youngsik – National Student Clearinghouse, 2016
As a supplement to "Completing College: A National View of Student Attainment Rates -- Fall 2009 Cohort," hereafter "Completing College," this report takes a state-by-state look at the various pathways that students take to complete a college degree or certificate. This report focuses on six-year student success outcomes and…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Graduation Rate, Educational Attainment, Educational Trends
Lebron, Juan Carlos – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this journal-ready dissertation was to examine the degree to which changes had occurred in the ethnic/racial diversity of first-time in college students who were enrolled full-time in Texas community colleges. Specifically, the ethnic/racial diversity changes (i.e., Asian, White, Hispanic, and Black) of first-time in…
Descriptors: Ethnic Diversity, Undergraduate Students, College Freshmen, Enrollment
McGhee, Kenneth – College and University, 2020
A nationwide discussion that is currently taking place related to student loan debt; a number of presidential candidates are discussing ideas for student loan forgiveness. Some states have offered free community college as a possible solution. Free community college would allow students to save money for two years before transferring to a…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Student Financial Aid, Paying for College, College Readiness
Brennan, John – UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, 2021
This report forms part of an international project, led by UNESCO's International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP), on higher education's role in supporting "flexible learning pathways." Flexible learning pathways in higher education provide routes to the acquisition of knowledge and skills at different life stages, to meet the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Flexible Progression, Access to Education
National Student Clearinghouse, 2017
Of all students who started college in fall 2015, 73.4 percent persisted at any U.S. institution in fall 2016, while 61.1 percent were retained at their starting institution. The persistence rate is the percentage of students who return to college at any institution for their second year, while the retention rate is the percentage of students who…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, School Holding Power, Full Time Students, Part Time Students
Irinoye, Omolola; Ayamolowo, Sunday; Tijnai, Olawale Kazeem – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Technology, 2016
The increase in demand for university education remains unmet especially in developing countries; this has made adoption of distance education imperative in our educational system. Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has been identified as a tool for improving education quality especially in developing countries. The study examined…
Descriptors: Part Time Students, Nursing Students, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
Vella, Elizabeth J.; Turesky, Elizabeth F.; Hebert, Jenni – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to use a heutagogical approach to determine whether students enrolled in blended courses achieve higher grades relative to those enrolled in completely online courses, in addition to identifying demographic predictors of academic success in college courses involving Web-based modes of instruction.…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Grade Point Average, Gender Differences, Blended Learning
Mukeredzi, Tabitha Grace; Sibanda, Doras – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
The purpose of this study was to understand the nature and extent of subject content and curriculum knowledge that part-time Post Graduate Certificate in Education students in one South African university, brought to the classroom, and the kind and level of knowledge that they expected and sought from the programme. The study employed a…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Graduate Students, Foreign Countries
Zámková, Martina; Prokop, Martin; Stolín, Radek – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2016
This paper addresses the exam success rates in Mathematics 1 at the College of Polytechnics in Jihlava (CPJ). Primary data taken from the school information system cover the years 2006--2015. We carried out a success rate analysis based on several criteria (form of study, the reason for termination of studies, gender). We observed the dependence…
Descriptors: Mathematics Tests, Technical Institutes, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Achievement
National Student Clearinghouse, 2016
"Current Term Enrollment Estimates," published every December and May by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, include national enrollment estimates by institutional sector, state, enrollment intensity, age group, and gender. Enrollment estimates are adjusted for Clearinghouse data coverage rates by institutional sector,…
Descriptors: Enrollment Trends, Public Colleges, Private Colleges, Proprietary Schools
Shapiro, Doug; Dundar, Afet; Huie, Faye; Wakhungu, Phoebe Khasiala; Yuan, Xin; Nathan, Angel; Bhimdiwala, Ayesha – National Student Clearinghouse, 2017
This Signature Report examines the rate of completion of postsecondary certificates and degrees by first-time-in-college degree-seeking students who initially enrolled in two- and four-year colleges and universities (public, private nonprofit, or private for-profit) nationwide in fall 2011. It tracks their enrollment behaviors and outcomes for six…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Educational Certificates, Academic Degrees, Two Year Colleges
National Student Clearinghouse, 2017
"Current Term Enrollment Estimates" is published every December and May by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. It provides national enrollment estimates by institutional sector, state, enrollment intensity, age group, and gender. Enrollment estimates are adjusted for Clearinghouse data coverage rates by institutional…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Postsecondary Education, Enrollment Rate, Enrollment Trends
Marcella Bombardieri – Center for American Progress, 2017
Policymakers across the country have increasingly recognized the imperative to produce more college graduates in order to build a competitive economy. In fact, the United States needs more than 16 million more people to earn a postsecondary credential by 2025. The United States will never hit those targets unless part-time students are offered a…
Descriptors: College Students, Part Time Students, Student Experience, Student Needs