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Albertson, Trinity – Online Submission, 2022
Limited entrepreneurial training programs are offered in higher education that address the hurdles, issues, knowledge, and experiences of female entrepreneurs. In addition, few opportunities are available for the intrapersonal skill and self-efficacy development needed by female entrepreneurs to be successful. Few theoretical studies on female…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Higher Education, Self Efficacy, Females
Mustafa, Rami; Hamdan Alghamdi, Amani K. – Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education, 2020
This qualitative study investigated Saudi women's decision to invest in learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL). This exploratory study collected semi-structured interview data from nine Saudi women of varying ages and educational and professional backgrounds in seven Saudi Arabian cities. A thematic analysis of the data revealed a wide array…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Mayhew, Matthew J.; Rockenbach, Alyssa N.; Bowman, Nicholas A. – Journal of College Student Development, 2016
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between interfaith engagement and self-authored worldview commitment among 13,776 students enrolled at one of 52 institutions. Results indicated an association between formal and informal interfaith engagement and that this relationship was conditioned upon self-identified worldview.…
Descriptors: Intergroup Relations, Religion, Individual Development, Religious Factors
Bridger, Kath – Higher Education Academy, 2015
This research project was commissioned by the UK Higher Education International Unit (IU) and the Higher Education Academy (HEA) in June 2014 to explore academic perspectives on the outcomes of outward mobility at undergraduate, postgraduate and research levels for UK domiciled students, and to consider how best to facilitate the take up as well…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Students, Employment Potential
Hastings, Lindsay J.; Griesen, James V.; Hoover, Richard E.; Creswell, John W.; Dlugosh, Larry L. – Journal of College Student Development, 2015
Preparing college students to be active contributors to the next generation is an important function of higher education. This assumption about generativity forms a cornerstone in this mixed methods study that examined generativity levels among 273 college students at a 4-year public university. MANCOVA results indicated that college students who…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Role of Education, Mixed Methods Research
Woolhouse, Clare; Cochrane, Matt – Improving Schools, 2009
This article reports on the initial findings of research carried out with a cohort of science teachers engaged in a professional development course at a northwest England university. The aim was to investigate how professional development was perceived by participants and explore the experiences of those who undertook the course. Results suggest…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Professional Development, Faculty Development
Lee, Jenny J. – 2001
This study considers student development, focusing on religious change, from social psychological perspectives. The interplay between views of the college environment and the religious self was examined as a way to understand the internal processes of four undergraduate students who underwent a religious change from the Catholic faith. The…
Descriptors: Catholics, College Students, Higher Education, Identification (Psychology)
Joyce, Bruce; Birdsall, Les – 1977
Results of a state survey of inservice teacher education practices and problems in California indicate general dissatifcation with present programs. It was indicated that there is very little job-related or job-embedded inservice education, and most of the important options for providing training are not being utilized. The formal structure of…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Higher Education, Individual Development, Inservice Teacher Education
Soukup, Paul A. – 1999
Incorporating both educational assessment and service-learning prerogatives, a study examined a communications curriculum implementing service-learning to determine if the service-learning method was accomplishing its full potential. Through an evaluation based on six categories of service-learning objectives (intellectual-, skills, and affective…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Educational Assessment, Higher Education, Individual Development
Brown, Judith O. – 2002
This paper explores and explains the validity and value of the experiential learning portfolio as an effective tool for workplace learning and development. Qualitative and survey methods of inquiry were used to produce data on the portfolio in workplace learning. Eight workers who developed experiential learning portfolios as a component of their…
Descriptors: Adults, Employees, Higher Education, Individual Development
Hutchinson, Robert Linton, II – 1983
Research has defined the various adaptive, compensatory and complementary functions of dreams. To investigate the evidence of adaptive functioning in the dream state, 30 medical students (21 males, 9 females) from St. George's University, Grenada, completed personal surveys, a waking psychological profile, and a dreaming psychological profile…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Dreams, Emotional Adjustment, Higher Education
McNeer, Ann; And Others – 1983
The importance of role models for women achieving career success has received increased attention; however, there has been little agreement on a definition of the concept. To determine who college women say their role models are and to determine developmental discontinuities in women's reports of their role models, 377 college women completed two…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Attitude Measures, College Students, Females
Valiga, Michael J. – 1982
The perceived benefits of college as reported by alumni from 55 postsecondary institutions in the United States were surveyed during 1980-1982 using the Alumni Survey of the American College Testing (ACT) Program. Findings were analyzed for the total group of 12,682 and for subgroups based on college size, student sex, student major area, number…
Descriptors: Alumni, College Graduates, Educational Benefits, Graduate Surveys
Falk, C.; And Others – 1988
The development of the Maslowian Scale, a method of revealing a picture of one's needs and concerns based on Abraham Maslow's levels of self-actualization, is described. This paper also explains how the scale is supported by the theories of L. Kohlberg, C. Rogers, and T. Rusk. After a literature search, a list of statements was generated…
Descriptors: College Students, Factor Analysis, Higher Education, Individual Development
West, Leo H. T.; And Others – 1986
Changes in the working and personal lives of adults as a result of completing a bachelor's degree as a mature-age student were studied in Australia. Also considered were students' progress through the degree, patterns of employment while enrolled, and additional formal higher education after completing (or withdrawing from) the program. The study…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Bachelors Degrees, College Students, Education Work Relationship