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van Zyl, A.; Blaauw, P. – Africa Education Review, 2012
Student academic success is an important issue in South African (SA) higher education (HE). The transition from school to HE is a critical time that a student must successfully negotiate in order ultimately to succeed at university. Tinto (1993) identified the first phase of the transition process as the separation phase during which the student…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Academic Achievement, Feedback (Response), Student Attitudes
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Dunn, Steven; Jasinski, Dale – Journal of Employment Counseling, 2009
A vital component of a firm's human resource management is its new hire orientation (NHO) program. The authors' review of extant literature suggests that NHO programs can be organized based on a reconceptualization of human capital. Using their typology, a firm can organize the role and scope of its NHO program, assign responsibility for the…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Career Counseling, Human Resources, Orientation
Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy, 2015
The potential use of computer-based assessments has raised concerns from educators, policymakers, and parents about information technology infrastructure in school districts and the preparation of staff and students to use new technologies for assessment purposes, and the potential impact of testing activities on core school functions,…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Assessment, School Districts, Case Studies
Domfeh-Boateng, Joseph – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The teaching of the Second Vatican Council on the role of the laity in the Church has re-awakened a renewed participation of the laity in the evangelizing mission of the Church. The lay faithful are now occupying a number of significant positions in the Church and are playing various leadership roles once exclusively played by the clergy and…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Lay People, Principals, Public Schools
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Tas, Murat – Journal of International Education and Leadership, 2013
The number of international students attending U.S. higher learning institutions has decreased over the past decade (excluding students from China and Saudi Arabia) from 40 percent to 30 percent. These students are an important resource for the U.S. and their native countries in terms of education, culture, and economy. Differences between…
Descriptors: Student Recruitment, Foreign Students, Orientation, Student Adjustment
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Otto, Thomas U.; Ogmen, Haluk; Herzog, Michael H. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
The perception of a visual target can be strongly influenced by flanking stimuli. In static displays, performance on the target improves when the distance to the flanking elements increases--presumably because feature pooling and integration vanishes with distance. Here, we studied feature integration with dynamic stimuli. We show that features of…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Stimuli, Sensory Integration, Modeling (Psychology)
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Stoffregen, Thomas A.; Villard, Sebastien; Kim, ChungGon; Ito, Kiyohide; Bardy, Benoit G. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
The authors asked whether standing posture could be controlled relative to audible oscillation of the environment. Blindfolded sighted adults were exposed to acoustic flow in a moving room, and were asked to move so as to maintain a constant distance between their head and the room. Acoustic flow had direct (source) and indirect (reflected)…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Spatial Ability, Auditory Perception, Cues
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Briggs, Connie; Forbes, Salli – Reading Teacher, 2009
This article provides information to support teacher practice of providing thoughtful, individually crafted, book orientations. Supporting emergent and struggling readers to access meaning, structure, and visual information keeps reading work easy, yet provides opportunities for problem solving that allows engagement in independent and successful…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Books, Orientation
Hamilton, Elizabeth Hall – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of the study was to identify superintendent practices and protocols that contribute to the ability of the urban superintendent to establish and sustain a school board focus on student achievement as the highest organizational priority of a school district. The study was conducted utilizing mixed qualitative and quantitative methods. A…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Administrator Role, Boards of Education, Board Administrator Relationship
Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 2013
The challenges facing public higher education are placing new demands and pressures on colleges and universities and those responsible for their governance and leadership. As higher education seeks to negotiate these and other 21st-century changes, the role of its "guardians" in stimulating change, supporting purposeful leadership, and…
Descriptors: Governing Boards, Capacity Building, State Legislation, State Government
Hillman, Jo – Noel-Levitz, Inc, 2010
Are your new campus employees experiencing and acting positively as they assume their new roles? Do they exhibit excitement and anticipation toward their new jobs? Are they enthusiastic about sharing, learning and contributing? Research shows that investing the extra effort, or "onboarding," to capitalize on the enthusiasm of new hires pays…
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Persistence, Work Attitudes, Industrial Psychology
Perry DiCarlo – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The present research was designed to address principals' perceptions of meeting vision and collaboration standards in alternative schools. A multiple case study was used to accomplish the goals of this study. The objective and questions of this research pertains to school leaders' behavior, knowledge, and performance within the context of a school…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Institutional Mission, Standards
Rettew, Jeffrey G. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Occupational engagement, a component of the trilateral model for adaptive career decision, is an important construct for the modern world of work where job change is the norm and career paths are nonlinear. Since institutions of higher education dedicate significant resources to facilitate the career development of their students, it is also…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Career Development, Interviews, Occupational Aspiration
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Liu, Meihua; Cai, Wei – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2013
The study reported in the present paper focused on the expectations of and concerns about the impending semester-long study abroad of students from a prestigious Chinese university. Data were collected via questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. Analyses of 33 questionnaires and 15 semi-structured interviews yielded the following main…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Case Studies, Expectation, Questionnaires
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Bek, Judith; Blades, Mark; Siegal, Michael; Varley, Rosemary – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
Investigating spatial cognition in individuals with acquired language impairments can inform our understanding of how components of language are involved in spatial representation. Using the reorientation paradigm of Hermer-Vazquez, Spelke, and Katsnelson (1999), we examined spatial cue integration (landmark-geometry conjunctions) in individuals…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Aphasia, Language Impairments, Spatial Ability
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