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Ennis, Michael – Online Submission, 2019
Most academics learn how to write research articles informally and implicitly through exposure in academia. This experience with a pilot English for Academic Purposes course suggests that drawing attention to linguistic features can greatly improve the writing of both early career and experienced researchers. ["ESP News" is published by…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, English for Academic Purposes, Foreign Countries, Course Descriptions
Eaton, Sarah Elaine – Online Submission, 2017
This manual is a practical training guide for graduate and undergraduate research assistants (RAs) working in the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary. It may also be applicable to research assistants working in other fields or institutions. The purpose of this manual is to train RAs on how to plan and conduct focus groups for…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Research Assistants, Guides, Training Objectives
Aypay, Ahmet; Aypay, Ayse – Online Submission, 2011
The purpose of this study is to describe teacher characteristics using Twenty Statements Test (TST). Study group includes a total of thirty-five individuals, including teachers, guidance counselors and research assistants. The study used a qualitative approach on teacher identity. TST is one of the qualitative methods that were used to determine…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Self Concept, Professional Identity, Reflection
Silver, Susan L.; Cunningham, Virginia P. – Online Submission, 2008
The Graduate Assistant program at the University of South Florida Tampa Library has been in place since 1976, and has a long tradition of providing graduate students from the School of Library and Information Science at USF, with training and preparation for careers as librarians, by providing pre-professional, broad-based library experience,…
Descriptors: Career Development, Information Science Education, Graduate Students, Research Assistants
Birlik, Nurten; Arikan, Arda – Online Submission, 2009
In this descriptive study, women's professional lives with a focus on what it means to be a woman in Turkish academia and on whether being a woman differs from being a man in an academic context was put under scrutiny. For this purpose, a questionnaire was conducted among 41 women academics currently working at the Faculties of Education in…
Descriptors: Research Assistants, Females, College Faculty, Women Faculty
Kabakci, Isil; Odabasi, H. Ferhan – Online Submission, 2008
The faculty development of research assistants who are at the first step of their academic careers are significant for the employment of faculty members of future and realizing the responsibilities of higher education institutions as to contribute to science and technology. However, there is little research on the features of faculty development…
Descriptors: Instructional Development, Research Assistants, Teacher Improvement, Foreign Countries