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A Reciprocal Test of Perceptions of Teaching Quality and Approaches to Learning: A Longitudinal Examination of Teaching-Learning Connections
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Fryer, Luke K.; Ginns, Paul – Educational Psychology, 2018
Biggs' Presage-Process-Product (3P) model provides a flexible model for testing hypotheses about intra-psychic and contextual effects on student learning processes and outcomes; however, few empirical studies have effectively tested the longitudinal and reciprocal effects implied by the model. The current study provides an empirical test of…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Longitudinal Studies, College Students, Learning Strategies
Does the Use of End of Semester Evaluation Forms Represent Teachers' Views of Teaching in a Tertiary Education Context in Japan?
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Burden, Peter – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2008
This paper considers both how the mandatory introduction of student evaluation of teaching surveys (SETs) fits into the social and political context of tertiary education in Japan, and the assumptions about teaching underlying SETs. Through interviews with English teachers, a technical-rational perspective whereby teaching is a profession only to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Surveys, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Foreign Countries
Japanese Higher-Education Reformers Weigh Elitism, Academic Laxness, and "Exam Hell."
Fararo, Kim – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1987
Reform proposals for Japan's large higher education system include diminishing the trauma of university entrance examinations, strengthening the quality and diversity of undergraduate education, improving graduate school offerings, establishing a lifelong education system, and expanding the scope of international exchange programs. Politics are…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Change Strategies, College Environment, College Students
Student Politics. Perspectives for the Eighties.
Altbach, Philip G., Ed. – 1981
The status of student political activism in the 1970s and 1980s in such nations as the United States, Britain, India, Japan, Italy, Canada, West Germany, Greece, Zambia and Latin America is examined. The volume consists of 13 chapters written by scholars who all agree that student activism is not now at peak levels of the 1960s, yet student…
Descriptors: Activism, College Environment, College Students, Developing Nations