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British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2013
Thanks to the Student Transitions Project (STP) there is a wealth of data on student mobility in BC's post-secondary system; however, these data do not explain why students are moving, and how their educational goals are being supported. In early 2012, the BC Council on Admissions and Transfer commissioned BC Stats to survey over 1,600 students…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Student Mobility, Research Universities, Attribution Theory
File, Carter L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study was undertaken to understand whether a community or technical college chief business officer's career line influenced the lived experience of job satisfaction. This mixed method study was conducted in a two-phase approach using the Explanatory Design: Participant Selection Model variant. An initial quantitative survey was conducted from…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Technical Institutes, Administrators, Job Satisfaction
O'Connor, Matthew S. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The introduction of the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS), a family of survey instruments designed to capture and report people's experiences obtaining health care could soon add satisfaction as a consistent dimension of quality that skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) are required to assess and report. The SNF setting…
Descriptors: Nursing Homes, Health Services, Surveys, Family Attitudes
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Kalsbeek, David H. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2013
At every college and university, students enroll with expectations and aspirations about the kind of experience and the kind of outcomes that the institution delivers. When those expectations are met and exceeded, students are satisfied and likely to remain committed to their college choice. When their experience falls short of their expectations,…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, College Administration, Student Recruitment, Undergraduate Students
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Strom, Robert D.; Strom, Paris S. – Educational Gerontology, 2017
People are living longer so expectations of grandparents should be redefined. Learning for them should focus on fulfilling family and community roles to retain a sense of purpose. Grandparent education requires a willingness to learn from the observations of younger family members. The intergenerational perceptions of American grandparents were…
Descriptors: Grandparents, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Cultural Differences
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Benoliel, Pascale; Barth, Anat – Journal of Educational Administration, 2017
Purpose: As a result of continuous reforms, increased emphasis has been placed on participative leadership as a means to improving school and teacher outcomes. However, along with the benefits of participative leadership comes the potential for strain and burnout, which stem from work intensification. Applying the implicit leadership theory and…
Descriptors: Participative Decision Making, Transformational Leadership, School Culture, Teacher Burnout
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Jones, Janine; Lee, Lisa; Zigarelli, Julia; Nakagawa, Yoko – Contemporary School Psychology, 2017
This study expands the literature on multicultural counseling competencies (MCCs) in school psychology by outlining the relationship between client satisfaction, treatment approaches, and critical clinician variables such as clinician MCC. With growing emphasis on the integration of cultural considerations in evidence-based treatments (EBTs), this…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, School Counseling, School Counselors, Culturally Relevant Education
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Alemdag, Ecenaz; Erdem, Mukaddes – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2017
In this collaborative research, we designed an e-mentoring program for novice teachers and explored online interactions between mentors and mentees, participant satisfaction, and the perceived benefits of the program for mentees and mentors. Our study included 14 mentees, 14 mentors, and 6 teacher educators. Data were gathered through online…
Descriptors: Program Design, Mentors, Beginning Teacher Induction, Incidence
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Zamberlan, Lisa; Wilson, Stephanie E. – Journal of Peer Learning, 2017
This paper reports on an action research project involving the redesign, implementation and evaluation of a peer tutor program in a first year design studio in higher education. The effectiveness of the revised program, particularly its capacity to support learning for commencing students in the environment of a creative studio, is examined…
Descriptors: Action Research, Peer Teaching, Tutoring, Design
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Carlisle, Shauna K.; Gourd, Karen; Rajkhan, Safaa; Nitta, Keith – Journal of Service-Learning in Higher Education, 2017
Community-based learning (CBL) integrates problem-based service-learning, volunteerism, and experiential learning across a variety of disciplines. The Community-Based Learning Impact Scale is an instrument developed to measure the impact on a liberal arts university campus. Scale items were generated from focus groups, literature, and existing…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Problem Based Learning, Service Learning, Volunteers
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Gok, Tolga; Gok, Ozge – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2017
Many qualitative and quantitative studies performed on peer instruction based on interactive engagement method used in many different disciplines and courses were reviewed in the present study. The researchers examined the effects of peer instruction on students' cognitive skills (conceptual learning, problem solving, reasoning ability, etc.) and…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Cooperative Learning, Learning Processes, Problem Solving
Dunagan, Cori – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this qualitative dissertation is to explore the lived experience of online students. This study provided real-world accounts of students who graduated from graduate programs offered at both online non-profit and for-profit institutions. The grand research question is "What are the lived experiences of successful graduate…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Learning Experience, Electronic Learning, Graduate Students
Alnemary, Fahad – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Awareness of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is relatively new in Saudi Arabia and systematic information about existing services is lacking. A convenience sample of 293 parents of children with ASD completed an online survey about their experiences and opinions attaining the ASD diagnosis for their children as well as the use of early intervention…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Foreign Countries, Parents
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Powers, Jeanne M. – National Education Policy Center, 2017
In this report, a school choice advocacy group presents results from its survey of K-12 parents within and across the public and private sectors. They report that parents are highly satisfied with voucher and tax credit scholarship programs and suggest that the findings support the expansion of school choice programs. However, these and other…
Descriptors: School Choice, Advocacy, Parent Attitudes, Parent Surveys
Smith, Erica; Smith, Andy; Tuck, Jacqueline; Callan, Victor – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2017
A number of factors influence the motivations of employers to train their workforce and the ways in which they engage with the training system. This study combines a national survey and interviews with Australian employers and registered training organisations (RTOs) to provide a comprehensive picture of the way in which employers navigate the…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Cooperative Education, School Business Relationship, National Surveys
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