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Development and Construct Validation of the Mentor Behavior Scale
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Brodeur, Pascale; Larose, Simon; Tarabulsy, George; Feng, Bei; Forget-Dubois, Nadine – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2015
Researchers suggest that certain supportive behaviors of mentors could increase the benefits of school-based mentoring for youth. However, the literature contains few validated instruments to measure these behaviors. In our present study, we aimed to construct and validate a tool to measure the supportive behaviors of mentors participating in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mentors, Motivation, College Students
Conflicts in Higher Education and Perceived Quality of Education: Empirical Evidence from Pakistan
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Mukhtar, Uzma; Islam, Zohurul; Siengthai, Sununta – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2011
Both public and private universities in Pakistan are playing vital role in developing human resources as per sectoral demand. It is observed that conflict in the public universities occur more frequently than in the past and as a result, has an impact on educational outcomes in terms of qualified potential human resources. This is a study of some…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Quality, Public Colleges
Improving Statistics Education through Simulations: The Case of the Sampling Distribution.
Earley, Mark A. – 2001
This paper presents a summary of action research investigating statistics students' understandings of the sampling distribution of the mean. With four sections of an introductory Statistics in Education course (n=98 students), a computer simulation activity (R. delMas, J. Garfield, and B. Chance, 1999) was implemented and evaluated to show…
Descriptors: Action Research, College Students, Computer Simulation, Higher Education