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Evans, Eliza – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This thesis describes how intellectual boundary spanning can be identified in the written ideas of millions of scholars, and finds that such efforts encounter translational problems which can hinder faculty careers. In particular, the work presented develops textual metrics of intellectual boundary spanning (interdisciplinarity) and field…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, College Faculty, Tenure, Career Development
Donlin, Ayla A. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine, from a constructivist career development perspective, the factors of well-being and vocational identity that emerged among a diverse sample of upper-division undergraduate students. This study also examined which factors of vocational identity predicted well-being and which factors of…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Career Development, Well Being, Professional Identity
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Heimler, Ronald; Rosenberg, Stuart; Morote, Elsa-Sofia – Education & Training, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to use the authors' prior findings concerning basic employability skills in order to determine which skills best predict career advancement potential. Design/methodology/approach: Utilizing survey responses of human resource managers, the employability skills showing the largest relationships to career…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Structural Equation Models, Job Performance, Numeracy
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Fiebig, Jennifer Nepper; Braid, Barbara L.; Ross, Patricia A.; Tom, Matthew A.; Prinzo, Cara – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2010
A multiple logistic regression model was used to determine the associations between the role of acculturation, perception of educational barriers, need for family kin support, vocational planning, and expectations for attaining future vocational goals against the demographic variables (gender, age, being the oldest child, the first to attend…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Community Colleges, Acculturation, Hispanic Americans
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Covel, Janice; Ortiz, Flora Ida – Educational Research Quarterly, 1979
From 1870 to 1975, three types of school administrators were identified: the plateau administrators who remained at initial entry level assignments; vertical aspirants who actively sought advancement; and place-holders who began as vertical aspirants but for one reason or another were placed in non-decision-making positions. (Author/GDC)
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Administrators, Career Development