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Witteveen, Dirk – Sociology of Education, 2021
Existing research generally confirms a countercyclical education enrollment, whereby youths seek shelter in the educational system to avoid hardships in the labor market: the "discouraged worker" thesis. Alternatively, the "encouraged worker" thesis predicts that economic downturns steer individuals away from education because…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Reentry Students, Foreign Countries, Enrollment
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Price, Linda; Svensson, Ingrid; Borell, Jonas; Richardson, John T. E. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2017
Students' ratings of teaching quality on course units in a computer science program and an environmental engineering program at a large Swedish university were obtained using the Course Experience Questionnaire; 8888 sets of ratings were obtained from men and 4280 sets were obtained from women over ten academic years. These student ratings from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Computer Science Education, Engineering Education