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Zhan, Min; Xiang, Xiaoling; Elliott, William, III – Educational Policy, 2018
This study examines the association between educational loans and college graduation rates, with a focus on differences by race and ethnicity. Data come from the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Results from the event history analyses indicate that educational loans are positively related to college graduation rates, but only up to a…
Descriptors: Correlation, Student Financial Aid, Debt (Financial), Graduation Rate
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Bartram, Brendan – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2016
This paper considers students' economic motives to attend university. Drawing on selected results from a tri-national survey involving online questionnaires and interviews with students at English, German and Portuguese universities, it examines and compares this particular extrinsic motivational dimension, alongside the influence of the national…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Educational Benefits, Student Educational Objectives, National Surveys
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Saadi, Heshmatollah; Mirzayi, Khalil; Movahedi, Reza – Education and Information Technologies, 2016
Recently, higher education systems seek to use network-based and Internet-based information technologies in education, teaching and learning. E-learning in Iran higher education system has been started since 2003, however, its development has been very slow. The present study is a survey research. The participants of the study are faculty members,…
Descriptors: Barriers, Web Based Instruction, Agricultural Education, Higher Education
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Valeeva, Roza A.; Amirova, Lyudmila A. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
Actual continuity of the problems stated in this article caused by the fact that modern education is directed at the formation of a mobile person of the teacher, who is able to transform the educational reality and himself in accordance with the requirements of a developing society, and to provide not only high-quality mastering studying the…
Descriptors: Supplementary Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Literature Reviews, Teacher Surveys
Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2016
This 2016 report summarizes key findings from a national survey among chief academic officers at Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) member institutions and explores trends in learning outcomes and approaches to assessing them. It documents that many in higher education are moving away from standardized tests and…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Outcomes of Education, National Surveys, Deans
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Gaspar, Drazena; Mabic, Mirela – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2015
The paper presents results of research related to perception of creativity in higher education made by the authors at the University of Mostar from Bosnia and Herzegovina. This research was based on a survey conducted among teachers and students at the University. The authors developed two types of questionnaires, one for teachers and the other…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creativity, Higher Education, College Faculty
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Maggs, Lindsey A. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2014
Feedback has been a major area of dissatisfaction according to the UK National Student Survey in recent years, despite general acceptance of its importance. A feedback strategy was implemented in October 2009 at a small specialised higher education institution (HEI). A case study was carried out to assess how satisfied staff and students are with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Feedback (Response), National Surveys
American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), 2019
The American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) is pleased to partner with National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) in conducting our first admissions practice survey. Admissions practices evolve over time as the profession matures, the recruitment landscape changes, and new technologies…
Descriptors: College Admission, Admission Criteria, Admissions Officers, Educational Practices
Schrader, Angela, Comp. – Linguistic Society of America, 2021
In an effort to document demographic changes in the academic linguistics community, the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) has commissioned an annual report detailing information about job titles, students, degrees awarded, average salaries, and more. The report offers information about trends in student enrollment and employment by industry.…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Higher Education, Databases, Professional Associations
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Chan, Kevin; Cheung, George; Wan, Kelvin; Brown, Ian; Luk, Green – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2015
In understanding how active and blended learning approaches with learning technologies engagement in undergraduate education, current research models tend to undermine the effect of learners' variations, particularly regarding their styles and approaches to learning, on intention and use of learning technologies. This study contributes to further…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Technology Integration, Higher Education, Undergraduate Students
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Safonov, Alexander Sergeevich; Mayakovskaya, Anastasia Vladimirovna – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
The article examines the prospects that open up for the implementation of the educational process in higher educational institutions, as well as the problems faced by the modern higher education system in the context of the transition to distance learning caused by the current epidemiological situation in the post-digital world. On the basis of…
Descriptors: Pandemics, COVID-19, Higher Education, Distance Education
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Bell, Elizabeth – Journal of Higher Education, 2020
As tuition-free college policies spread rapidly across the states, an increasingly important policy debate has emerged regarding the optimal policy design of tuition-free college. However, existing scholarly evidence has focused almost exclusively on student outcomes, leaving the political decision-making processes among the public and…
Descriptors: Tuition, Educational Policy, Higher Education, Grade Point Average
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O'Connor, Henrietta; Bodicoat, Maxine – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2017
Internships are now widely promoted as a valuable means of enhancing graduate employability. However, little is known about student perceptions of internships. Drawing on data from a pre-1992 university, two types of graduate are identified: engagers and disengagers. The engagers valued internship opportunities while the disengagers perceived…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Internship Programs, Employment Potential, Higher Education
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Howard, Christy M.; Adams-Budde, Melissa; Myers, Joy; Jollif, Grant – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2017
The purpose of this study was to examine the ways in which literacy histories and present literacy experiences of doctoral students shaped their literacy identities. Data were collected through surveys, interviews, and visual identity representations. This paper focuses on the literacy stories of two doctoral students with positive literacy…
Descriptors: Literacy, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Socialization
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Barnacle, Robyn; Dall'Alba, Gloria – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
Efforts to evaluate and improve student engagement have been pervasive in higher education over recent years. Critics argue, however, that troubling affinities are evident between student engagement efforts and a neoliberal agenda which emphasises accountability through performativity. Neoliberalism manifests in policies that focus on the economic…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learner Engagement, Neoliberalism, Caring
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