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Kember, David; Ho, Amaly; Leung, Doris Y. P. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2016
There is a need for a questionnaire designed specifically to evaluate taught postgraduate (TPg) awards for quality assurance or enhancement purposes. Comparison of undergraduate and TPg awards suggests that as the former have broadened their ambit to better nurture generic graduate attributes, TPg awards have concentrated on advanced specialised…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Questionnaires, Student Attitudes
Kember, David; Hong, Celina; Ho, Amber – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2008
Background: Consideration of motivation in higher education has often been drawn upon theories and research that were based upon school or workplace studies. Aims: This paper reports an open naturalistic study to better characterize the motivational orientation of students in higher education. Method: Open semi-structured individual interviews…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Motivation, Objectives, Foreign Countries
Kember, David; Ho, Amber; Hong, Celina – Learning Environments Research, 2010
This study investigated facets of the teaching and learning environment which motivate student learning. Interviews were conducted with 36 students from nine representative undergraduate degree programs in Hong Kong. The interviewees were asked to describe teaching approaches and learning activities typical of their program. They were asked about…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Student Attitudes, Learning Activities, Motivation
Kember, David; Ho, Amber; Hong, Celina – Studies in Higher Education, 2010
Governments are aiming to expand the intake to higher education, so it is important to understand what motivates students to enter university and choose a particular programme. The aim of this study was to see whether a motivational orientation framework, developed to explain motivation to study, could also be applied to motivation to enrol in a…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Undergraduate Students, Goal Orientation, Student Motivation
Kember, David – 1995
This book, which is intended for distance educators and students of the theoretical foundations of distance education, offers a conceptual model of distance education and recommendations for policy and practice that link the principles of instructional design and the provision of learner support. Discussed in the first four chapters are the…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students