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Cantwell, Robert H.; Scevak, Jill J.; Bourke, Sid; Holbrook, Allyson – International Journal of Educational Research, 2012
Understanding how candidates cope with the demands of PhD candidature is important for institutions, supervisors and candidates. Individual differences in affective and metacognitive disposition were explored in 263 PhD candidates from two Australian universities. Several questionnaires relating to affective and metacognitive beliefs were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metacognition, Factor Analysis, Individual Differences
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Leonard, Carl; Bourke, Sid; Schofield, Neville – Issues in Educational Research, 2004
The late 20th Century saw the rapid rise of quality assurance and effectiveness measures in most industries and organisations. These trends were very much reflected in education at all levels. An associated emergent trend in primary and secondary education in Australia was growth in the use of standardised measures of student achievement that…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Quality of Life, School Effectiveness, Educational Quality