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Ramirez, Gabriel – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this study was to determine what factors were motivating Latino/a students in the southern San Joaquin Valley to pursue STEM degrees and whether these factors were specific to the Latino/a culture. A 12-question survey was administered to STEM majors at California State University, Bakersfield and California State University, Fresno…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, College Students, STEM Education, Academic Degrees
Dehghan, Farzaneh; Razmjoo, Seyyed Ayatollah – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2015
Academic writing at advanced levels is the most important way of demonstrating one's expertise in a discipline. Developing this kind of competence is especially a challenging effort for students in foreign language contexts. Many factors may be involved in determining why some students are more and some are less motivated in writing successful,…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Cummins, Phyllis A. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
Despite the desire of many older adults to remain in the workforce, those without jobs face unprecedented durations of unemployment. Many of the unemployed lack current skills for jobs in demand and need to either upgrade their skills or be trained for a new occupation to become reemployed. An aging workforce, combined with the negative effects of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Role, Older Workers, Career Development
Duberley, Joanne; Cohen, Laurie – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2010
In this article we reflect on the increasingly popular concept of career capital, and apply the concept to data generated with a sample of women scientists. We propose that by examining career capital through a "gendered lens" we can provide insight into structural constraint, often missing in discussions of this concept. Based on the findings…
Descriptors: Women Scientists, Interviews, Career Development, Human Capital
Wellington, Jerry – Studies in Higher Education, 2013
The question of what a doctorate is has been looked at before. The author argues that the issue of "doctorateness" is a recurring debate which needs to kept alive and revisited regularly. The aim of this article is to suggest five different areas or arenas in which the question can be addressed, forming a framework which can perhaps be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Degrees, Creativity
Rossman, Allan; Dietz, E. Jacquelin; Moor, David – Journal of Statistics Education, 2013
David Moore is Professor Emeritus of Statistics at Purdue University. He served as the first President of the International Association for Statistical Education (IASE) from 1993-1995 and as President of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 1998. He is a Fellow of the ASA and of the IMS and was awarded the ASA's Founders Award in…
Descriptors: Interviews, Statistics, Educational Development, Teaching Methods
Werry, John – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2013
John Werry completed training in child and adolescent psychiatry at McGill University in Montreal, and has been a world renowned leader in children's mental health. Drawing on a half century of work in Canada, the United States, and his native New Zealand, he shares his reflections and vision for the future in the interview given for this…
Descriptors: Psychiatry, Psychiatric Services, Mental Health, Child Health
Garnett, James – Music Education Research, 2014
This article reports on a study into factors that contribute to the employability of music graduates as teachers. By considering the results of a survey that covered a range of contexts, as well as interviews with secondary school head teachers, it considers the relationship between self-identity and employability. It finds that, in developing…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Professional Identity, Musicians, Music Teachers
Brandon, Paul R.; Smith, Nick L.; Ofir, Zenda; Noordeloos, Marco – American Journal of Evaluation, 2014
In this Exemplars case, the fifth and final under the direction of the current coeditors, the authors present a reflective account of an ongoing, complex, multiyear, multinational monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system conducted for African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD), an international development program. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Agriculture, Research and Development
Clavert, Maria; Björklund, Tua; Nevgi, Anne – Teaching in Higher Education, 2014
In universities, development as a teacher may be contradicted with developing as a researcher. Most previous studies have investigated pedagogical development merely as a result of pedagogical training and ignored the dual teacher-researcher identity. This study examines what kind of meaningful experiences are perceived to have triggered and…
Descriptors: Career Development, Science Teachers, Teaching (Occupation), Interviews

Collin, Ross – English Journal, 2011
The author conducted a two-year study of the career portfolio programs in place at high schools in two Midwestern communities. By pursuing this research project, the author was able to develop answers to his questions about career portfolios and student differences. More generally, this project allowed him to reflect on the ways all writing…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Writing Assignments, English Instruction, High Schools
Collin, Ross – Curriculum Inquiry, 2011
In this article, I examine two students' experiences with their schools' career portfolio programs. These initiatives call students to assemble papers, projects, and nonacademic items and to present them in ways that chart their personal trajectories into paid work. Shortly before graduation, students present their portfolios to exit interview…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Student Experience, Students, Discourse Analysis
Conway, Katharine Griffin – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Based on interviews with thirty recently tenured professors at two universities, this study examines what "flourishing" might look like in the early faculty career. Drawing on classical philosophical conceptions of eudaimonia as well as professors' own narratives of their careers, the study considers whether the idea of flourishing…
Descriptors: Interviews, Tenure, College Faculty, Personal Narratives
Yancy-Tooks, Barbara J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this qualitative ethnographic study was to explore the experiences of African American women about their perceptions of factors (i.e. senior administrator selection practices, institutional practices, barriers, and coping strategies) that hinder or facilitate advancement in community college administration. The following questions…
Descriptors: African Americans, Women Administrators, College Administration, Community Colleges
Ambrose, Don – Roeper Review, 2012
This article presents an interview with David C. Berliner, a Regents' Professor in the College of Education at Arizona State University. His books include "Educational Psychology," "The Manufactured Crisis," and "The Handbook of Educational Psychology." He has served as president of the American Educational Research Association and of the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Psychology, High Stakes Tests, Behavioral Sciences