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Kelly, Jonathan W.; McNamara, Timothy P.; Bodenheimer, Bobby; Carr, Thomas H.; Rieser, John J. – Cognition, 2008
The role of environmental geometry in maintaining spatial orientation was measured in immersive virtual reality using a spatial updating task (requiring maintenance of orientation during locomotion) within rooms varying in rotational symmetry (the number of room orientations providing the same perspective). Spatial updating was equally good in…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Geometric Concepts, Geometry, Maintenance
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Pulinkala, Ivan – Research in Dance Education, 2014
This case study evaluated the long-term viability of the community partnerships within the Program in Dance at Kennesaw State University (KSU). Data gathered from more than 40 university and community stakeholders was synthesized to gain an understanding of how these partnerships can be developed and sustained in the future. Strategic…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Dance Education, Dance, Higher Education
Robertson, Thomas A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Higher education in the United States is facing a potential leadership crisis. With the average age of campus presidents now surpassing 60 years, many senior level administrators will be expected to retire in the near future, creating a large wave of vacancies (Stripling, 2011). University and college boards are faced with the dilemma of fewer…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Preferences, Career Choice, Student Personnel Services
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Kallison, James M., Jr.; Stader, David L. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2012
An alarmingly high percentage of recent high school graduates are not prepared to succeed in college-level courses, and the impact of this educational shortcoming is substantial. Underprepared college students incur a monetary cost of enrolling in remedial courses, and states and taxpayers subsidize much of the overall cost of developmental…
Descriptors: Summative Evaluation, Community Colleges, Bus Transportation, Achievement Gains
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Schonwetter, Dieter J.; Nazarko, Orla – Journal of Faculty Development, 2009
Newly-hired faculty and their needs have been studied in various arenas in higher education. However, there is limited research documenting current newly-hired faculty programming in Canadian institutions of higher education. The present study is the second in a series that attempts to capture the various types of professional development programs…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Higher Education, Professional Development
Schwartz, Mary Beth McJunkin – ProQuest LLC, 2010
In recent years, community colleges have garnered national attention in terms of their potential to produce graduates and assist in the revitalization of the national economy. This has resulted in an increased need for both community college researchers and practitioners to understand more fully the factors that influence student persistence. The…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Academic Persistence, Academic Advising, College Students
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Shih, Chih-Ming; Chao, Hsin-Yi – British Journal of Visual Impairment, 2010
Five children with visual impairments received instruction in drawing, using ink and wash painting and calligraphy techniques. A special system developed by a blind Taiwanese Chinese calligrapher, Tsann-Cherng Liaw, was used to help the children orient and refine their work. Children's performance on simple drawing tasks was compared before and…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Children, Painting (Visual Arts), Handwriting
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Wright, Tessa; Harris, Beth; Sticken, Eric – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2010
A review of the literature from 1965 to 2008 on tactile maps and models in orientation and mobility yielded four pre-experimental and three experimental articles. The articles were analyzed via best-evidence synthesis--a combined narrative and statistical approach--allowing for recommendations for the most effective use of tactile maps and models.…
Descriptors: Maps, Literature Reviews, Tactile Adaptation, Evidence
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Ellis, Martha M. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2013
The community college as the entranceway into the baccalaureate degree is becoming a prevalent choice for students. This study was a qualitative approach to understanding attitudes, behaviors, and knowledge acquisition by successful community college transfer students. University students who transferred from a community college and were making…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Students, College Transfer Students, Student Attitudes
Ives, Sujata Kolhatkar – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The imposter phenomenon (IP), defined as the fear that others may perceive one to be an intellectual "phony", and its association to one's self-efficacy (SE) and anxiety, requires further research. This dissertation investigates the IP, SE, and anxiety and their interrelationships at the beginning and at the end of an orientation program…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Pretests Posttests, Measures (Individuals), Multiple Regression Analysis
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Wolf, Amanda – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2010
Universities confront many challenges in their efforts to manage staff activity with the aid of workload assessment and allocation systems. This article sets out fresh perspectives from an exploratory study designed to uncover patterns of subjective views about various aspects of workloads. Using Q methodology, academic staff in a single…
Descriptors: Q Methodology, Factor Analysis, Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Workload
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Stull, Andrew T.; Hegarty, Mary; Mayer, Richard E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2009
In 2 experiments, participants learned bone anatomy by using a handheld controller to rotate an on-screen 3-dimensional bone model. The on-screen bone either included orientation references, which consisted of visible lines marking its axes (orientation reference condition), or did not include such references (no-orientation reference condition).…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Computer Simulation, Spatial Ability, Low Achievement
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Ching, Teresa Y. C.; O'Brien, Anna; Dillon, Harvey; Chalupper, Josef; Hartley, Lisa; Hartley, David; Raicevich, George; Hain, Jens – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2009
Purpose: This study examined the head orientation of young children in naturalistic settings and the acoustics of their everyday environments for quantifying the potential effects of directionality. Method: Twenty-seven children (11 with normal hearing, 16 with impaired hearing) between 11 and 78 months of age were video recorded in naturalistic…
Descriptors: Infants, Young Children, Human Body, Orientation
Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 2011
The long history of volunteerism in America has its roots in colonial religious and educational enterprises. From the beginning, colleges and universities have been independently governed rather than subject to national or state control. This autonomy is a uniquely American tradition. Over the centuries, the work of academic governing…
Descriptors: Governing Boards, Colleges, Accountability, Governance
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Coe, Neil M.; Smyth, Fiona M. – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2010
This paper introduces and details an innovative mode of fieldcourse assessment in which students take on the role of tour guides to offer their lecturer and peers a themed, theoretically informed journey through the urban landscape of Havana, Cuba. Informed by notions of student-centered learning and mobile methods, the tour offers an enjoyable,…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation, Program Evaluation
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