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Crawford, Ian; Wang, Zhiqi – Teaching in Higher Education, 2015
The main controversy as a result of the commercialisation of international education markets is that international students especially those from China are unable to perform as well as UK students in UK universities. So far, research has yet to identify the influence of placements on the academic performance of Chinese students from entry to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Academic Achievement, Job Placement
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Broadhead, M. A.; Hockaday, A.; Zahra, M.; Francis, P. J.; Crichton, C. – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2009
Conduct disorder (CD) is one of the most common childhood psychiatric disorders. Some research has focused on reducing conduct difficulties through parent training programmes. However, there has been limited research focusing on early intervention services that deal with emotional and/or conduct problems in a community setting. The aim of this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Clinical Psychology, Emotional Disturbances
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Straw, Christine; Kaye, Mike – Higher Education Review, 1995
Seven methods for measuring and comparing value added in higher education are considered; six are index methods (all found unsatisfactory for lack of empirical support) and a seventh is proposed which calculates value added as the difference between the outcomes achieved and those predicted from national (United Kingdom) data. The advantages of a…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Higher Education