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Download full textSchmidt, Susanne; Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga; Shavelson, Richard J. – Frontline Learning Research, 2023
Quantitative reasoning is considered a crucial prerequisite for acquiring domain-specific expertise in higher education. To ascertain whether students are developing quantitative reasoning, validly assessing its development over the course of their studies is required. However, when measuring quantitative reasoning in an academic study program, it…
Descriptors: Business Education, Higher Education, Thinking Skills, Problem Solving
Direct linkBäker, Agnes; Muschallik, Julia; Pull, Kerstin – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Mentors in academia may act as teachers, sponsors and/or collaborators. However, so far there was no evidence on which role mentors should enact to best promote their mentees' careers. This paper focuses on mentors in academia who are not the academic advisor. We provide first evidence on the relationship between the perceived role of mentors as…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, Mentors, Cooperation
Gregor Schäfer – Higher Education Quarterly, 2024
The purpose, aim and goals of higher education itself have been discussed and researched in the context of massified and marketised higher education in Germany, with a focus mainly on higher education national policies or the view of faculty staff. By shifting the perspective instead to the students, this article asks what higher education means…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Higher Education
André Coners; Benjamin Matthies; Carolin Vollenberg; Julian Koch – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2025
The proficient handling of data can undoubtedly be regarded as a key skill for the future. However, the need for data competencies is not limited to traditional professions in the information technology environment but is rather necessary across industries and work fields. Consequently, there is a call to integrate such Data Literacy and Data…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Higher Education, Information Science Education, Computer Science Education
Wild, Steffen; Alvarez, Simone – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2020
Students in psychology are often surveyed for personality. Empirical results show relevance of this topic, because personality influences academic success. In contrast, we know much less about the personality of students of cooperative education. So, we collected data from 5,863 students at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University in August…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Personality Traits, Foreign Countries
Alturki, Sarah; Stuckenschmidt, Heiner – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine whether students' self-assessment (SSA) could be used as a significant attribute to predict students' future academic achievement. Design/methodology/approach: The authors address how well students can assess their abilities and study the relationship between this ability and demographic…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Prediction, Academic Achievement
Federiakin, Denis; Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga; Kardanova, Elena; Kühling-Thees, Carla; Reichert-Schlax, Jasmin; Koreshnikova, Yuliya – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2022
In this paper, we present a study, which models and measures the competencies of higher education students in business and economics--within and across countries. To measure student competencies in a valid and reliable way, the Test of Understanding in College Economics was used, which assesses microeconomic and macroeconomic competencies. The…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Undergraduate Students, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries
Harima, Aki; Kroczak, Agnieszka; Repnik, Martina – Education & Training, 2021
Purpose: This study aims to explore expectation gaps concerning the roles between educators and students in the context of venture creation courses at higher education institutions by investigating their mutual perspectives. The authors seek to answer the following research questions: (1) how is the role expectation toward the entrepreneurship…
Descriptors: Role Perception, Ambiguity (Context), Entrepreneurship, Business Administration Education
Jose Ignacio Priego-Quesada; Andresa M. C. Germano; Daniel Schmidt; Alberto Encarnacion-Martínez; Andressa L. Lemos; Carlos Sendra-Perez; Conrado T. Laett; Emmanuel S. da Rocha; Falk Zaumseil; Fran Oficial-Casado; Inaê de Oliveira; Inmaculada Aparicio-Aparicio; Jesús A. Escalona-Navarro; Joaquín Martín Marzano-Felisatti; Marina Gil-Calvo; Ignacio Catalá-Vilaplana; Niclas Masuch; Pedro Pérez-Soriano; Roberto Sanchis-Sanchis; Felipe P. Carpes – Advances in Physiology Education, 2024
Internationalization in higher education is essential, and although active learning methodologies are increasing and allow students to develop transversal skills, most still have a very local scope. In this context, the Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) methodology is an interesting approach to benefit the students' development.…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Science Education, Biomechanics, International Education
Witt, Tobias; Klumpp, Matthias; Beyer, Beatriz – Education Sciences, 2021
Digitalization of teaching, learning, and assessment in higher education has gained increasing attention in research in the recent years. While previous research investigated issues of effectiveness, course attendance, and course evaluation from a long-term perspective, the current COVID-19 pandemic forced higher education institutions to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Electronic Learning, COVID-19
Komárek, Jaroslav; Dockal, Jaroslav; Markovic, Peter; Brezovská, Barbora Novotná; Rigel, Filip – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2017
The current criticism of higher education is that the education offered does not match the needs of practice. In terms of competitiveness, Germany is about the forefront in Europe, and logically the question of whether higher education is the source from which leads to this result. The objective of this paper is to compare the corresponding study…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Competition, Economics Education, Criticism
Gorges, Julia – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019
Self-concepts of ability (SCA) and intrinsic task values (ITV) are key determinants of students' choice of study program and dropout. Both constructs are multidimensional (i.e., specific to curricular learning content) and hierarchically structured (i.e., aggregate into one or more higher-order factors). The present study investigated German…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Dropouts, Business Administration Education, Longitudinal Studies
Bloch, Roland; Mitterle, Alexander – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
This article seeks to shed light on current dynamics of stratification in changing higher education and proposes an analytical perspective to account for these dynamics based on Martin Trow's work on "the analysis of status." In research on higher education, the term "stratification" is generally understood as a metaphor that…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Administrative Organization, Government School Relationship
Baaken, Thomas; Kiel, Bert; Kliewe, Thorsten – International Journal of Higher Education, 2015
The department of business administration of Münster University of Applied Sciences (MUAS) in Germany has a long tradition in realising practice-oriented research projects in cooperation with industry. The objective of these cooperative projects is to offer students real-life experiences and to make the theoretical know-how of university lectures…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, School Business Relationship, Marketing
Cavero Rubio, José Antonio; Mullor, Javier Reig; Martín, Agustín Pérez – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2015
On signing the Bologna declaration in 1999, European countries committed themselves to addressing the reforms necessary for adapting their university education to the European Higher Education Area. This modification process culminated in 2010, and this research aims to analyse the degree of divergence that currently exists in each course subject…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Business Administration Education, Higher Education, Comparative Analysis
