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Savva, Maria, Ed.; Nygaard, Lynn P., Ed. – UCL Press, 2021
"Becoming a Scholar" provides a window into the lives of nine non-traditional doctoral students. As mature, part-time, international students enrolled in a professional doctorate programme, they reflect on the transformation process of becoming scholars, and their narratives provide breadth and depth to themes that represent a diverse…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Student Development, Nontraditional Students, Foreign Students
Carl A. Blunt – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This research study investigates the effects cultural mentoring programs have on African American male college graduates. The objective of the holistic qualitative narrative research study was to understand how participants in the Southwest Youth Leadership Institute (SYLI) (pseudonym), understood their cultural mentoring experiences and describe…
Descriptors: Mentors, Academic Achievement, African American Students, Males
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Durón-Ramos, Maria; Perez, Miguel; Chacón-Andrade, Edgardo René – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
Positive personal characteristics such as happiness or wellbeing can motivate students to elevate their school performance in higher education. Orientation to happiness is a construct that combines three sources of happiness: pleasure, meaning, and engagement, all of which have been identified as a predictor of university students' engagement.…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Psychological Patterns, Cross Cultural Studies, Correlation
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Simon Marginson; Lili Yang; Thomas Brotherhood – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2025
UK higher education is highly internationalised. Two-thirds of science papers with UK authors involve international collaboration, one-quarter of higher education students are international, and their fees constitute more than a fifth of institutional income. What then are the contributions of higher education and research to the global public…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Altruism
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Hong Zhu; Siqi Hu; Zhizai Dai – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
The impact of aggressive humor on workplace dynamics has been extensively examined; however, its implications for university students remain underexplored. Drawing on frustration--aggression theory, this study aims to uncover the consequences of peer-aggressive humor and its relationship with cyberbullying behavior. We employed a 2 (peer…
Descriptors: Bullying, Peer Relationship, Humor, Aggression
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Xiawei Tan; Zhineng Hu; Yongge Niu; Jiuping Xu – SAGE Open, 2024
The "campus loans" crisis has highlighted the importance of financial literacy among Chinese college students. Based on an analysis of 2,266 valid questionnaires, this study utilized survey data and logistic regression to examine the correlations between demographic and behavioral factors and financial literacy among students. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Financial Literacy, Money Management
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Mohsen Asgari; Fong-Chun Tsai; Linda Mannila; Filip Strömbäck; Kazi Masum Sadique – Discover Education, 2024
As programming emerges as a critical skill in the digital age and digital tools continue to evolve, understanding students' perspectives on the integration of such technologies into their education is crucial. This empirical study explores the perspectives of students in Sweden and Taiwan on the use of digital tools in their programming courses.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Student Attitudes, Technology Uses in Education
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Camillo Lento; S. Wick – Accounting Education, 2024
In this study, we explore how accounting doctoral students fared during the pandemic. We survey accounting doctoral students from Canada and the United States and perform quantitative and qualitative analyses of the responses. We situate our research within social cognitive theory, and our findings suggest that accounting doctoral students…
Descriptors: Accounting, Professional Education, Stress Variables, Doctoral Students
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Gutierrez de Blume, Antonio P.; Montoya Londoño, Diana Marcela; Daset, Lilián; Cuadro, Ariel; Molina Delgado, Mauricio; Morán Núñez, Olivia; García de la Cadena, Claudia; Beltrán Navarro, María Beatríz; Arias Trejo, Natalia; Ramirez Balmaceda, Ana; Jiménez Rodríguez, Virginia; Puente Ferreras, Aníbal; Urquijo, Sebastián; Arias, Walter Lizandro; Rivera, Laura Inés; Schulmeyer, Marion; Rivera-Sanchez, Jesus – Metacognition and Learning, 2023
A deeper understanding of what factors influence metacognition has never become more pressing than in today's digital era, in which information flows constantly and quickly. To this end, the present study explored the role of culture in mediating how individuals experience metacognitive phenomena. For this purpose, the International Group on…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Spanish Speaking, Cross Cultural Studies, Measures (Individuals)
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Ashwin, Paul; Blackie, Margaret; Pitterson, Nicole; Smit, Reneé – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2023
Are the ways of engaging with the world that students develop through higher education particular to bodies of knowledge they study? In this article, we examine how students' accounts of the discipline of chemistry in England and South Africa changed over the three years of their undergraduate degrees. Based on a longitudinal phenomenographic…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Knowledge Level, Longitudinal Studies, Molecular Structure
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Alhajeri, Salem; AlTameemy, Farooq Ahmed – International Journal of Educational Management, 2023
Purpose: The quality of higher education has become a topic of increasing interest to researchers in recent decades. This study, therefore, aims to investigate the comparative effectiveness of instructors at higher education institutions in Kuwait and the USA, while also investigating the parallel differences in student culture and gender.…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, College Faculty, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
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Balakrishnan, Balamuralithara; Azman, Mohamed Nor Azhari; Indartono, Setyabudi – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
This investigation addressed the outcomes of a comparative study on attitude towards engineering ethical issues between engineering undergraduates of Malaysia and Indonesia. The study was conducted involving 83 Malaysian and 135 Indonesian undergraduates who pursuing their study in engineering programmes. A quantitative method was used in which a…
Descriptors: Ethics, Engineering Education, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Sporre, Karin; Lotz-Sisitka, Heila; Osbeck, Christina – Ethics and Education, 2022
In this article we argue for the need to take the moral voices of children and youth seriously particularly in times of the Anthropocene. Drawing on theories in ethics by John Wall, moral development according to Mark B. Tappan, and education in line with the works by Vygotsky, we construct a conceptual framework where the notions 'narrative,'…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Climate, Ethics, Learning Theories
Zhang, Guihua; Li, Yuanrong; Zhou, George; Ho, Sonia Wai-Ying – ECNU Review of Education, 2022
The Nature of Science (NOS) is an important component of scientific literacy. Science teachers' Views of the Nature of Science (VNOS) directly affect their teaching behaviors. Therefore, it is of great significance to explore science teachers' VNOS and find ways of improvement. This study was designed to comparatively investigate preservice…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Scientific Principles, Student Attitudes, Scientific Literacy
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Sever, Melih; Ozdemir, Seyhan; Jobson, Kate – Higher Education Research and Development, 2022
The aim of this study is to explore and analyze metaphors constructed around academics, in both the contexts of the UK and Turkey, to see if general opinion on academics seems to be shifting from the well-known 'ivory-tower' reputation, and if the perception differs amongst sub-groups based on their varying amounts of exposure to the reality of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Figurative Language, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
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