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Anaïs Glorieux; Bram Spruyt; Petrus te Braak; Joeri Minnen; Theun Pieter van Tienoven – SAGE Open, 2024
This study investigates how graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) differ from regular graduates in terms of input characteristics (i.e., who they are), process characteristics (i.e., how they experience the PhD trajectory), and the self-estimated likelihood of successfully completing the PhD. Additionally, it assesses to what extent and how the…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Educational Attainment, Teaching Assistants, Graduate Students
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Lin, Ching-Hui; Chen, Jyun-Hong; Lin, Eric S.; Lo, C. Owen – SAGE Open, 2022
The expansion of higher education in Taiwan has significantly increased the number of college students, including substantial growth of those studying at the master's degree level. While prior research indicates that the quality of institutions affects students' achievements, there have been no empirical investigations of how college experiences…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Student Experience, Graduate Students, Foreign Countries
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Linfeng Zhang; Qingyun Li; Peter Duffy; Zhongyang Zhang; Junyi Xu; Jingming Cai – SAGE Open, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic has left a profound impact on higher education, prompting the need to assess its effects and provide guidance for future pandemics or disasters. While previous research has often focused on individual courses and short-term consequences, there is a limited understanding of the broader college experience. This study conducts a…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Learning Experience, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Muhammad Zaka Asif; Chaitya Jain; Erin L. Dolan – SAGE Open, 2024
International students comprise over 50% of the graduate student population in the life sciences in the US, over 70% of whom are Asian. Research that aims to understand international students' experiences has often treated Asian students as a monolith, discounting significant cultural and historical differences between regions in Asia that may…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Asians, Graduate Students
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Amani, Jaquiline; Myeya, Helena; Mhewa, Mariana – SAGE Open, 2022
This article is a product of a study that deployed a qualitative research approach to examine what motivates students in Tanzania to undertake postgraduate studies, and the causes of late completion of such studies. A total of 47 participants were involved in this study through focused group discussions and semi-structured interviews. The results…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Student Motivation
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Scheitle, Christopher P.; Dabbs, Ellory; Darragh, Riley – SAGE Open, 2021
Research examining high school and undergraduate students has demonstrated the importance of identity formation for students' confidence, retention, and aspirations in science. While we know some of the key predictors of science identity formation among these populations, relatively little work has looked at these issues among graduate students.…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Identification (Psychology), Professional Identity, Self Concept