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Lundgren, Henriette; Kroon, Brigitte; Poell, Rob F. – European Journal of Training and Development, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore how and why personality tests are used in workplace training. This research paper is guided by three research questions that inquire about the role of external and internal stakeholders, the value of psychometric and practical considerations in test selection, and the purpose of personality test use…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Human Resources, Foreign Countries, Personality Measures
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Bronkhorst, Larike H.; de Kleijn, Renske A. M. – Frontline Learning Research, 2016
Educational design research (EDR) is described as a complex research approach. The challenges resulting from this complexity are typically described as procedural, whereas EDR might also be challenging for different reasons, specifically for early career researchers. Yet, challenging experiences may be noteworthy in the process of learning to do…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Doctoral Programs, Research Methodology, Instructional Design
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Maessen, K. M. H. – Higher Education Policy, 2012
The article entitled "The selection of scientific talent in the allocation of research grants" by van Arensbergen and van den Besselaar published in "Higher Education Policy" 25/3 (2012) is based on research that both researchers carried out on behalf of The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. In this comment, we…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Grants, Resource Allocation, Interviews
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Verhoeff, Roald P.; Waarlo, Arend Jan – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2013
Science communication has shifted considerably in Europe over the last decades. In the theoretical realm, one-way information has been replaced by models of science communication that stress public engagement and public participation in science and technology. Dialogue seems to have become a communication target on its own, beside such things as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cancer, Genetics, Communication (Thought Transfer)
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van Lacum, Edwin; Ossevoort, Miriam; Buikema, Hendrik; Goedhart, Martin – International Journal of Science Education, 2012
Learning to read and understand research articles (primary literature) is an important step in the enculturation of higher education students into the scientific community. We presume, based on ideas from the field of genre analysis, that it is important for the development of reading skills to become conscious of the rhetorical structures in…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Science, Biomedicine, Content Area Reading
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Kwiek, Marek – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
This paper focuses on a generational change taking place in the Polish academic profession: a change in behaviors and attitudes between two groups of academics. One was socialized to academia under the communist regime (1945-1989) and the other entered the profession in the post-1989 transition period. Academics of all age groups are beginning to…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Productivity, Teacher Attitudes, Social Systems