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Nikula, Pii-Tuulia; Kivistö, Jussi – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2020
This article examines the monitoring of third-party education agents employed in international student recruitment. Agency theory identifies comprehensive monitoring as one way to ensure that agents work in the principal's best interest. By analyzing best practice guidelines, this article investigates the monitoring mechanisms proposed for…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Recruitment, Best Practices, Guidelines
Rajbhandari, Mani Man Singh – International Journal of Psycho-Educational Sciences, 2018
Obstinate actions-oriented behaviour is the study of learning and practicing behaviour theoractively, which is acquired from the content based, process based learning and spawning critical reflexivity to the learnt theoretical phenomena into practical actions. Obstinate actions-oriented behaviour is a multi-faceted behaviour that is generally…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Theory Practice Relationship, Goal Orientation, Learning Processes
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Liu, Wei – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2016
Anyone hoping to understand China and Chinese people's behaviour in the present day must examine China's long history and culture, as these often have crystallized into current behavioural patterns. This paper discusses one important push-out factor for Chinese students' outbound mobility, and an element that is ignored in many futuristic…
Descriptors: Chinese, Asians, Foreign Countries, Student Mobility
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Chung, Gregory K. W. K. – Teachers College Record, 2014
Background: Historically, significant advances in scientific understanding have followed advances in measurement and observation. As the resolving power of an instrument increased, so have gains in the understanding of the phenomena being observed. Modern interactive systems are potentially the new "microscopes" when they are…
Descriptors: Online Systems, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Data Interpretation
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Burgoon, Judee K.; Floyd, Kory – Western Journal of Communication, 2000
Explains the motivation impairment effect (MIE) hypothesis, in which deceivers who are highly motivated to succeed suffer detrimental effects on nonverbal performance yet facilitate effects on verbal performance for less motivated deceivers. Challenges this hypothesis by proposing motivation enhances verbal and nonverbal performance irrespective…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communication Skills, Deception, Higher Education
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Jorgenson, Jane – Management Communication Quarterly, 2002
Employs the concept of discursive positioning to explore the narrative construction of professional identities among women engineers. Provides an analysis of interviews with 15 women engineers which suggested that they adopt a variety of distinct and contradictory positionings to present themselves as qualified professionals. Proposes that…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Engineering, Females, Higher Education
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Dodd, David K. – Teaching of Psychology, 1985
Deindividuation is a complex process in which a series of social conditions lead to changes in perception of self and of other people. Described is a classroom demonstration that illustrates this concept, revealing that even normal, well-adjusted college students are capable of highly inappropriate, antisocial behavior under certain conditions.…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Course Descriptions
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Floyd, Kory; Voloudakis, Michael – Human Communication Research, 1999
Examines how individuals in a dyad where at least one member was recruited from an introductory communication course react to expectancy-violating changes in affectionate behavior. Indicates that unexpected changes in affectionate involvement produce changes in recipients' cognitive assessments and behavior reactions. Suggests that violative…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Standards, Emotional Response
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Tepper, Kelly; Hoyle, Rick H. – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 1996
Confirmatory factor analysis evaluated three a priori latent variable models of responses to the Need for Uniqueness Scale completed by 552 undergraduates. An oblique three-factor model best accounted for item commonality. Additional analysis suggests a model with loadings on four modestly correlated factors to explain the scale's latent…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Behavior Patterns, Estimation (Mathematics), Factor Structure
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Hall, David; Thomas, Harold – Higher Education Policy, 2003
Changes in higher education policy in Mongolia involved an abruptness that both facilitated reform and challenged institutional managers. This article reports on the nature of these changes and their impact on the School of Economic Studies (SES) at the National University. It focuses on the negotiation between the SES, the National University and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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Hardy, Virginia; And Others – Higher Education, 1994
A study investigated the effect of computer-mediated communication, or computer conferencing, on traditional gender-based differences in discussion participation, including patterns in turn-taking, perceptions of the kinds of contributions made by men and women, and actual contributions made. Continued potential for gender imbalance is found. (MSE)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Computer Oriented Programs, Group Dynamics, Higher Education
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Bensimon, Estela Mara – Journal of Education, 1992
Argues that maintaining a distinction between public and private spheres of behavior can obscure the inequities experienced by lesbian and gay persons in the public sphere of academia. How distorted logic supports the public/private dichotomy is demonstrated through interviews of a lesbian faculty member. (SLD)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Faculty, Equal Protection, Females
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Brown, Robert D.; Speth, Carol – Review of Higher Education, 1988
A study of faculty coping strategies at a large public university found that strategies fit into five categories: problem-focused, avoidance-focused, cognitive redefinition, affective regulation, and resigned acceptance. Problem-focused behaviors were the most frequently reported. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Patterns, College Faculty, Coping
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Redford, Maryann – Journal of Dental Education, 1993
Research on women's dental health and on differences between men's and women's dental health issues is reviewed. Factors specifically influencing women's health, including medical, economic, social, psychological, and behavioral factors, are also examined. It is argued that the clustering of risk factors for women indicates a need for more…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Attitudes, Behavior Patterns, Dental Health
Davis, Wanda M. – 1997
Data from campus crime reports and security logs help identify the perpetrators and likely victims of crime on college campuses. The historically black college or university campus is not exempt from physical and verbal acts of violence, and every area of the campus is vulnerable. Although the academy has no duty to protect the community from…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Black Colleges, Black Students, Conflict Resolution
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