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Brown, Dannie L. – Industry and Higher Education, 2015
The purpose of this research was to assess students' expectations of future job satisfaction. Data were collected from 484 students enrolled in the BBA programme at Cape Breton University, Nova Scotia, Canada. Locke's job satisfaction theory and Hackman and Oldham's job characteristics model provided the theoretical foundation for the study.…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Expectation, Cohort Analysis, Cultural Differences
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Woodcock, Stuart – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2014
Teachers are one of the most important factors in successful inclusion of students with a learning disability in mainstream classrooms. Attitudes towards inclusion of certain students in classrooms have been mixed, and many attitudes are often developed during the pre-service training and early teaching years. This study investigated the attitudes…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Student Teacher Attitudes, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Attribution Theory
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Weeks, Lori E.; Villeneuve, Michelle A.; Hutchinson, Susan; Roger, Kerstin; Versnel, Joan; Packer, Tanya – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2015
We investigated the experiences of research assistants in their dual role as both employees and trainees, when they were employed in a complex, mixed-methods, Canadian study on the everyday experience of living with and managing a chronic condition. A total of 13 research assistants participated in one or more components of this study: a survey (n…
Descriptors: Mentors, Research Assistants, Mixed Methods Research, Foreign Countries
British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2012
This report presents the results of an analysis of admissions and transfer data from the 2011 BC Diploma, Associate Degree, and Certificate Student Outcomes (DACSO) Survey (formerly the BC College and Institute Student Outcomes Survey). This province-wide survey contacted former students 9 to 20 months after they completed all, or a significant…
Descriptors: College Credits, Foreign Countries, College Transfer Students, Associate Degrees
British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2012
Recent figures show that each year over 22,000 students move between institutions in BC's geographically dispersed network of public colleges, institutes, teaching-intensive universities, and research-intensive universities. The ability of students to move easily through the system, accessing the institutions, programs of study, and courses that…
Descriptors: Credentials, College Credits, Foreign Countries, College Transfer Students
Fahy, Patrick J.; Spencer, Bob; Koole-Ady, Marguerite – Online Submission, 2010
The purpose of this study was to determine, through a survey of students registered in the first three cohorts (consisting of 40 students) of Athabasca University's Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) program, the perceived prospects and career and personal plans of students. As they began the program, but before any program interaction had occurred,…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Writing Skills, Questionnaires, Distance Education
Levin, Benjamin – 1983
The first round of a study of what happens to students after they leave Peel County (Ontario) secondary schools includes data from students who were in grade 11 in 1977-78 and 1979-80. A 10 percent sample (approximately 750 students in each group) was drawn from school records. Of these, 1,072 people (75 percent) were interviewed by telephone.…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Career Choice, Cohort Analysis, Educational Assessment