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Hirschberg, Joe; Lye, Jenny – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2016
This study attempts to establish the extent to which in-class teaching quality instruments can be used to predict post-graduation survey results. It examines the responses for the Good Teaching Scale of the Course Experience Questionnaire administered to 10,433 students who completed their studies at a major Australian tertiary institution from…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Graduate Surveys, College Students, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance
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Tuner, James A. – American Journal of Business Education, 2016
Many introductory finance texts present information on the capital budgeting process, including estimation of project cash flows. Typically, estimation of project cash flows begins with a calculation of net income. Getting from net income to cash flows requires accounting for non-cash items such as depreciation. Also important is the effect of…
Descriptors: Business Education, Money Management, Budgeting, Budgets
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Wolniak, Gregory C.; Wells, Ryan S.; Engberg, Mark E.; Manly, Catherine A. – Research in Higher Education, 2016
The study provides new information on the relationships between students' socioeconomic backgrounds, utilization of college enhancement strategies, and subsequent 4-year college enrollment. Enhancement strategies represent student behaviors used to bolster the competitiveness of a college application, such as Advanced Placement exams and a variety…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Enrollment, College Applicants, Student Behavior
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Donoff, Susan B.; Rosser, Vicki J. – Journal of Higher Education, 2016
Departmental and programmatic eliminations represent a new paradigm in the history of American higher education. Hastened by a national economic recession and competing state funding priorities, public postsecondary institutions have turned to academic attrition as a solution to continuous budgetary shortfalls. As a means of addressing the lived…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Case Studies, Strategic Planning, College Faculty
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Maier, Mark; Chi, W. Edward – Journal of Economic Education, 2016
The principal investigator of a National Science Foundation project, "Economics at Community Colleges," surveyed community college economics faculty and organized workshops, webinars, and regional meetings to address community college faculty isolation from new ideas in economics and economics instruction. Survey results, combined with…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Community Colleges, College Instruction, College Faculty
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Ofoegbu, Felicia I.; Alonge, Hezekiah O. – Journal of Education and Learning, 2016
The purpose of the study was mainly to identify the major sources and utilization of internally generated financial revenue by Nigerian University administrators. The population of the study consisted of all the 102 university administrators from the seventeen Federal Universities in Southern Nigeria. Descriptive statistics and Pearson Product…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Administration, Income, Educational Finance
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Buchanan, Lisa Brown; Hilburn, Jeremy – Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
In this mixed methods study, we examined the responses of 82 preservice teachers to the acclaimed documentary "Which Way Home", a film that profiles unaccompanied adolescents who hitchhiked the train system of Central America and Mexico en route to the United States. Using pre- and post-surveys (n = 82) and focus group interviews (n =…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Preservice Teachers, Immigration, Adolescents
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Masalimova, Alfiya R.; Benin, Vladislav L. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The urgency of the problem, which is developed in the article enclosed in an emerged reducing tendency, and sometimes a complete rejection of importance of the humanities knowledge at the current stage of scientific development. The article shows that in the context of the overestimation the role of natural and technical education by modern…
Descriptors: Humanities, Cultural Influences, Social Influences, Global Approach
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Rayner, Christopher S.; Swabey, Karen J. – International Journal of Christianity & Education, 2016
School chaplaincy services aim to promote student and school community well-being. Given the community interest in chaplaincy services in government schools, it is important that research inform future developments to maximize the potential benefits of chaplaincy services to schools. In this study, 68 chaplains in the Australian state of Tasmania…
Descriptors: Clergy, Foreign Countries, Well Being, Online Surveys
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Boulton-Lewis, Gillian M.; Tam, M.; Buys, Laurie; Chui, Ernest Wing-tak – Educational Gerontology, 2016
This article reports on the findings of qualitative, semistructured interviews conducted with 40 older Australian participants and 39 participants in Hong Kong who either did or did not engage in organized learning in the last 6 months. Phenomenology was used to guide the interviews and analysis to explore the experiences and perspectives of these…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Older Adults, Qualitative Research, Semi Structured Interviews
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Springer, D. Gregory – International Journal of Music Education, 2016
The purpose of this study was to investigate in-service music teachers' perceptions of popular music in the classroom and to examine their own preparation to teach popular music. A sample of music teachers, drawn from two regional chapters of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association, completed a researcher-designed survey instrument. Results…
Descriptors: Music, Teacher Attitudes, Music Education, Music Teachers
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Eaton, Carrie Diaz; Allen, Deborah; Anderson, Laurel J.; Bowser, Gillian; Pauley, Mark A.; Williams, Kathy S.; Uno, Gordon E. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2016
The first summit of projects funded by the National Science Foundation's Research Coordination Networks for Undergraduate Biology Education (RCN-UBE) program was held January 14-16, 2016, in Washington, DC. Sixty-five scientists and science educators from 38 of the 41 Incubator and Full RCN-UBE awards discussed the value and contributions of RCNs…
Descriptors: College Science, Biology, Undergraduate Study, Educational Change
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Zeivots, Sandris – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2016
Despite knowing that positive emotional experiences tend to be beneficial for adult learning, our incomplete understanding of the emotional system rarely allows us to incorporate emotion adequately in real learning situations. The experience of emotional highs, as observed in adult experiential learning courses, has been selected as the phenomenon…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, Adult Learning
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Crippen, Kent J.; Ellis, Shari; Dunckel, Betty A.; Hendy, Austin J. W.; MacFadden, Bruce J. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2016
This study sought to define the attributes and practices of organized fossil groups (e.g., clubs, paleontological societies) as amateur paleontologists, as well as those of professional paleontologists, and explore the potential for these two groups to work collaboratively as a formalized community. Such an investigation is necessary to develop…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Paleontology, Educational Environment, Electronic Learning
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Dellinger, Theresa A.; Day, Eric R.; Pfeiffer, Douglas G. – Journal of Extension, 2016
Attendees at mid-Atlantic grower meetings were surveyed in 2012 and 2014 regarding their knowledge of the invasive brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB) and its impact. Responses to individual questions were paired and analyzed for independence between survey years. Despite a large-scale effort by Extension to inform growers and others about BMSB,…
Descriptors: Entomology, Agricultural Occupations, Surveys, Economic Impact
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