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Aspen Institute, 2020
More than 1 million U.S. high schoolers participate each year in dual enrollment, taking college courses that simultaneously fulfill high school graduation requirements and count toward a postsecondary degree or workforce credential. While most systems still have equity gaps in dual enrollment access, 20 percent do not. In "The Dual…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Equal Education, African American Students, Hispanic American Students
McGovern, Thomas M. – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2012
Veterans play a critical role in the U.S. economy. For many returning veterans, education is the first step to successfully reentering civilian life and the workforce. Since the inception of the first GI Bill (Servicemen's Readjustment Act) in 1944, higher education has been responding to the needs of military students. Veterans are dedicated…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Leadership, Educational Needs, Veterans
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Nepal, Kali Prasad – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2012
This study uses a new approach to assign individual marks from a team mark using individual contributions to a teamwork product. A team member's contribution to a teamwork product, in the form of an individual weighting factor, is calculated using team members' co-assessment. A comparison of the proposed approach with existing methods has been…
Descriptors: Grading, Student Attitudes, Engineering Education, Foreign Countries
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Stevens, Gillian; de Vera, Manuel – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2015
The article describes the experience of forming a set in a higher education institution and offers some observations and insights gained from the perspectives of the role of the set adviser, cultural differences and the challenges of attempting to align theory, practice and experience.
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Cultural Differences, Theory Practice Relationship, Faculty Development
Bollens, Eric; Rocchio, Rosemary A.; Peterson, Jill Eleanor; Pollack, Brett; Tirpak, Lori; Ward, Christopher Matthew – EDUCAUSE, 2014
This paper is a publication of the EDUCAUSE Center for Analysis and Research (ECAR) Mobile Strategy and Application Development (MSAD) Working Group. In higher education, nearly every user interaction that takes place on a desktop or laptop browser is also attempted using phones, tablets, watches, and more. As students, faculty, and staff…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Computer System Design, Higher Education, Handheld Devices
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Awere, E.; Edu-Buandoh, K. B. M.; Dadzie, D. K.; Aboagye, J. A. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
Building Technology graduates from Ghanaian Polytechnics seek employment in the construction industry, yet little information is known as to whether their tertiary education is really related to and meeting the actual needs of their prospective employers in the construction industry. The tracer study was conducted to ascertain the performance of…
Descriptors: Construction Industry, Building Trades, Questionnaires, Classification
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Gabelica, Catherine; Van den Bossche, Piet; Segers, Mien; Gijselaers, Wim – Educational Research Review, 2012
This paper reviews the literature on the effects of feedback provided to teams in higher education or organizational settings. This review (59 empirical articles) showed that most of the feedback applications concerned "knowledge of results" (performance feedback). In contrast, there is a relatively small body of research using feedback…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Higher Education, Organizational Climate, Feedback (Response)
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Navarro, Diego – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2012
Underprepared students come to community colleges and many four-year colleges because they have hope for a better life and the courage to attempt something difficult. But having dreams and aspirations is not enough: Without some sort of intervention and support, a student's chances of completing college are poor. Many challenged students…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Colleges, Higher Education, Social Justice
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Loughry, Misty L.; Ohland, Matthew W.; Woehr, David J. – Journal of Marketing Education, 2014
Colleges of business must meet assurance of learning requirements to gain or maintain AACSB accreditation under the new standards adopted April 8, 2013. Team skills are among the most important skills desired by recruiters, yet employers and scholars perceive that team skills are frequently deficient in college graduates. This article describes…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Business Administration Education, Accreditation (Institutions), Teamwork
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Yang, Keeyung; Chung, Sock H. – International Journal of Educational Management, 2015
Purpose: As universities and colleges face an increasingly global environment, internationalization is viewed as a critical aspect of education, a fact that has significant academic and economic implications for higher educational institutions worldwide which need to be current with cultural education to adapt to change. Learning from other…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Awareness, Outcomes of Education, Educational Change
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Chang, Bo; Kang, Haijun – Distance Education, 2016
Online group work can be complicated because of its asynchronous characteristics and lack of physical presence, and its requirements for skills in handling technology, human relationships, and content-related tasks. This study focuses on the administrative, logistical and relationship-related challenges in online group work. Challenges in areas…
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Distance Education, Electronic Learning, Asynchronous Communication
Issa, Tomayess – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
In the education sector, teamwork assessment and self/peer evaluation are widely applied in higher education nationally and internationally. This assessment is designed to encourage students to promote and improve their skills in teamwork, communication (writing, interpersonal interaction and cultural awareness, and presenting), critical and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Teamwork, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
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Nepal, Kali – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2012
This study presents a comparative evaluation of analytical methods to allocate individual marks from a team mark. Only the methods that use or can be converted into some form of mathematical equations are analysed. Some of these methods focus primarily on the assessment of the quality of teamwork product (product assessment) while the others put…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Equations (Mathematics), Comparative Analysis, Teamwork
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Maloni, Michael; Dembla, Pamila; Swaim, J. Anthony – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2012
Information systems (IS) practitioners must regularly work cross-functionally with business users when implementing enterprise systems. However, most IS higher education is not truly cross-functional in nature with students typically relying on instructors or even themselves to represent user requirements. To address this gap, we describe an…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Information Systems, Student Surveys, Information Technology
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Papatsiba, Vassiliki – Policy Futures in Education, 2013
This conceptual article explores the idea of academic collaboration from a perspective that places knowledge in the centre of the inquiry. It considers the extent to which collaboration maintains its intrinsic salience for the academy, despite the proliferation of external incentives and injunctions. As scientific and socio-economic progress has…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Inquiry, Cooperative Planning, Communities of Practice
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