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Van der Klink, Marcel; Kools, Quinta; Avissar, Gilada; White, Simone; Sakata, Tetsuhito – Professional Development in Education, 2017
The attention being devoted to teacher educators as professionals and their professional development is unquestionably increasing. Whilst much of that attention is being directed at teacher educators in different countries, international comparisons have been quite rare to date. The research question addressed in this study was: "Do…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Educators, International Studies, Comparative Analysis
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Mampaey, Jelle – Studies in Higher Education, 2018
In the higher education literature, there seems to be a growing consensus that contemporary higher education institutions (HEIs) are trapped in conformity. From a new institutional perspective, higher education scholars argue that HEIs tend to comply with widely endorsed institutionalized values (e.g. academic excellence) and this widespread…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Colleges, Social Behavior
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Ylonen, Annamari; Gillespie, Helena; Green, Adam – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2018
This article argues that differing disciplinary assessment cultures are likely to be an important factor in explaining differences in student marks and grades both within and between higher education institutions. Using institution-wide data on undergraduate student marks over the last five years in one UK higher education institution we…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Summative Evaluation
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Heinrich, Eva – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
Using a case-study approach, the structures, interactions and cultures in four teaching groups at a New Zealand university are explored. The aim of the research is to better understand the potential of teaching groups for assisting academic development. To contextualize this work, the case-study outcomes are compared to research on microcultures.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Teacher Collaboration, Subcultures
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Jones, Sara K. – Music Education Research, 2018
The purpose of this comparative case study was to examine the motivation for participation in traditional and non-traditional vocal ensembles by students who are not pursuing a career in music and the perceived benefits of this participation. Participants were selected from a traditional mixed choral ensemble and a student-run a cappella ensemble.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Case Studies, Music Education, Singing
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Özdas, Faysal – Journal of Education and Learning, 2018
Teaching-learning process has a great important medium where pre-service teachers develop experiences and competences. Pre-service teachers are introduced to this process in a professional sense through the school experience course in teacher training. In this process, it is crucial to identify the encountered difficulties and matters. For this…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Qualitative Research, Learning Processes
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Graf, Lukas; Powell, Justin J. W.; Fortwengel, Johann; Bernhard, Nadine – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2017
Dual study programs are hybrid forms of work-based higher education that have expanded very rapidly in Germany--a country traditionally considered a key model in both higher education (HE) and vocational education and training (VET). The continued expansion of these hybrid programs increasingly raises questions if, how, and why they may be…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Student Mobility, Foreign Students
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Tulgar, Aysegül Takkaç – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
Foreign language learning has always been a process carried out with the help of dictionaries which are both in target language and from native language to target language/from target language to native language. Dictionary use is an especially delicate issue for students in foreign language departments because students in those departments are…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Dictionaries
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Yilmaz, Ramazan – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2017
The need for distance education is increasing due to such reasons as keeping up with the changing social conditions, meeting the learning needs of the individuals and enabling them to be lifelong learners. In addition to many advantages distance education provides, it also has certain restrictions. One of these restrictions is the problems…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Case Studies, Student Evaluation, Success
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King, Russell; Sondhi, Gunjan – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2018
This paper breaks new ground in its comparative analysis of two international student migration (ISM) streams, one from the Global South to the Global North (India to developed Anglophone countries), and the other within the Global North (UK to North America, Europe and Australia). These two ISM movements reflect different positionalities within…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Mobility, Study Abroad, Comparative Analysis
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Aguilar, Stephen J. – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2018
This qualitative study focuses on capturing students' understanding two visualizations often utilized by learning analytics-based educational technologies: bar graphs, and line graphs. It is framed by Achievement Goal Theory--a prominent theory of students' academic motivation--and utilizes interviews (n = 60) to investigate how students at risk…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Visualization, At Risk Students, College Students
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Ho, Amaly; Kember, David – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2018
Interviews were conducted with 29 part-time taught postgraduate (TPg) students to determine forms of teaching and curriculum which motivated their learning. The study was conducted in an open exploratory manner to investigate the aspects of pedagogy or curriculum design which particularly motivated the TPg students which were in any way distinct…
Descriptors: Part Time Students, Graduate Students, Learning Motivation, Student Motivation
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Deering, Darren; Sá, Creso – Tertiary Education and Management, 2018
The use of corporate management tools in universities has been widely critiqued in recent decades, as it is viewed as undermining academic goals and promoting marketization and corporatization. Responsibility center budgeting (RCB) is one popular management tool that has been decried as promoting market logics, internal competition and…
Descriptors: Administration, Corporations, Colleges, Educational Administration
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Kumar, Swapna; Ritzhaupt, Albert – International Journal on E-Learning, 2017
What do instructional designers in higher education really do? With the rise in online courses and programs in higher education, this question is especially important. We interviewed eight instructional designers from across the United States using a semi-structured interview protocol. The results were analyzed using the constant comparative…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Instructional Design, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Plasencia-Romero, Ana Isabel – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The United States' Latino population has been expanding in recent decades becoming California's largest ethnic group in 2014 (Pew Research Center, 2016). It is crucial to provide a solid structure within which members of this minority group will be able to succeed. Higher education is particularly important in order to ensure that Latinos will be…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Qualitative Research, Social Change, Semi Structured Interviews
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