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Loo, Daron Benjamin; Keough, Wendy; Sundaresan, Anita; Thomas, Darrin – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2018
This study examines Thai English majors' perceptions towards engagement. The aim of this study is to be better informed of the English language learning experience of students in an international environment where English is used as a foreign language. A mixed methods approach was employed. A modified version of the National Survey of Student…
Descriptors: International Education, Higher Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Cheng, Albert; Henderson, Michael B.; Peterson, Paul E.; West, Martin R. – Education Economics, 2021
Can information close socioeconomic gaps in parents' postsecondary aspirations for their children? We administer a survey experiment to a nationally representative sample of U.S. parents, who are also asked whether their child is academically prepared for college. We inquire whether parents prefer their child to pursue a four-year degree, two-year…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, College Readiness, Parent Attitudes, Socioeconomic Status
Faculty Survey of Student Engagement, 2015
The Faculty Survey of Student Engagement (FSSE) was designed to complement the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), and is coordinated by the Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research. FSSE (pronounced "fessie") measures faculty members' expectations of student engagement in educational practices that are empirically…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Practices, College Faculty, Learner Engagement
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Netz, Nicolai; Finger, Claudia – Sociology of Education, 2016
On the basis of theories of cultural reproduction and rational choice, we examine whether access to study-abroad opportunities is socially selective and whether this pattern changed during educational expansion. We test our hypotheses for Germany by combining student survey data and administrative data on higher education entry rates. We find that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Equal Education, Study Abroad
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Longerbeam, Susan – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2016
This study used Sanford's (1966) theory of challenge and support to explore the stories of successful college students in transition. Using a mixed-methods design, 709 first-year and senior students and 8 upper-division nontraditional students were interviewed about their college experiences. Quantitative results indicated that supportive campus…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Academic Achievement, Educational Experience, College Freshmen
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Piróg, Danuta – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
The article aims to empirically verify the impact of educational capital on the success or failure of higher education graduates' transitions. The paper uses the example of geography graduates in Poland who took part in a nationwide survey in 2012, six months after their graduation. This allowed the author to collect detailed data on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Labor Market, Academic Degrees
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Skilbred, Dag Tore; Iversen, Anette Christine; Moldestad, Bente – Child Care in Practice, 2017
Children who spend part of their childhood in foster homes have, as a group, lower academic achievement than their peers. However, some of these children do well and succeed in higher education. Resilience is about positive development enhanced by protective factors despite adversity. Protective factors may be both positive qualities in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foster Care, Success, Higher Education
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Harvey, Heather Lea; Parahoo, Sanjai; Santally, Mohammad – Higher Education Quarterly, 2017
The majority of today's students in online higher education are millennials and have grown up using technology. Therefore, there is a need to determine if their expectations from online learning are different from previous contextual studies and whether or not these vary across gender. This study used a mixed method approach, using focus groups,…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Online Courses, Factor Analysis, Higher Education
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Nabaho, Lazarus; Turyasingura, Wilberforce – Tuning Journal for Higher Education, 2019
Quality assurance of African higher education is at the top of the region's development agenda. Prompted by the imperative to enhance the quality of higher education, the Africa Union Commission is implementing the African Quality Rating Mechanism (AQRM). The AQRM is a continental tool that affords higher education institutions an opportunity to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Quality Assurance, Higher Education, Educational Quality
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Smyth, Emer – Oxford Review of Education, 2018
Young people in Irish schools are required to choose whether to sit secondary exam subjects at higher or ordinary level. This paper draws on a mixed methods longitudinal study of students in 12 case-study schools to trace the factors influencing take-up of higher level subjects within lower secondary education. School organisation and process are…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Mixed Methods Research, Middle Class, Working Class
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He, Ye; Hutson, Bryant – Journal of International Students, 2018
This study used an Appreciative Education framework to explore the strengths of Chinese international students and to identify areas where support is needed during their transition to U.S. higher education settings. Using a convergent mixed methods design with data collected from surveys, interviews and focus groups, the complex nature of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Higher Education, Mixed Methods Research
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Chaudhry, Harish; Gupta, Sunil; Nargundkar, Rajendra; Chauhan, Anurag – Journal of Education, 2018
With increasing demand for quality education, it is imperative for universities to attract and retain good faculty. This study explores the effect of demographic and some external factors on faculty satisfaction. The analysis is based on a nationwide survey of full-time faculty across 1,000 colleges and institutes in India. Results show that…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Universities
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Cardoso, Sónia; Rosa, Maria J.; Videira, Pedro – Quality in Higher Education, 2018
Academics' support for quality assurance (QA) depends on several factors, including their sense of ownership, which seems to be influenced by academics' participation in QA's implementation. This paper aims to understand whether this participation is indeed contributing to academics' ownership of QA. Findings from a survey of Portuguese academics'…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Teacher Participation, Program Implementation, Accreditation (Institutions)
Virginia Ndoro – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this multiple case study was to explore whether or not online campus racial climate surveys gather information that will assist institutions of higher education in the United States in identifying the disparate needs of African-American students and Sub-Saharan African students, especially in regard to racial microaggression within…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Higher Education, African American Students, Racism
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Thiel, Jonas – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2020
This paper shows how Karen Barad's "agential realism" provides a powerful analytical framework for assessing higher education accountability. It takes the example of the UK 'National Student Survey' (NSS), a questionnaire, which purports to ascertain student course satisfaction in universities. The paper demonstrates how agential realism…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Higher Education, Realism
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