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Mubarik, Shujaat; Chandran, V. G. R.; Devadason, Evelyn S. – Learning Organization, 2016
Purpose: This study aims to examine the influence of relational capital quality on client loyalty, comprising both behavioral and attitudinal, in the pharmaceutical industry of Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach: The partial least squares technique is used to test the relationship using a sample of 111 pharmaceutical firms. We applied a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Industry, Pharmacology, Behavior
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Zhu, Yu; Mark Shum, Shiu-Kee; Brian Tse, Shek-Kam; Liu, Jinghui Jack – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2016
A study is reported of the performance and attainment of 32 students from overseas studying elementary Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) in a Chinese university. With an AB-BA design, they were asked to use two forms of writing media to present two essays: one a word-processed essay entitled "My Favourite Female" and the other a…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Instruction, College Students, Foreign Students
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McRoberts, Timothy J.; Miller, Tess – Journal of Academic Administration in Higher Education, 2015
Instruments designed to track student changes in higher education are essential for monitoring program development in competitive higher education markets. As part of a developmental evaluation, a student questionnaire was developed and piloted to examine attrition rates in college programs. The purpose of the questionnaire was to explore factors…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attrition, Withdrawal (Education), Questionnaires
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Bakoban, R. A.; Aljarallah, S. A. – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
Extracurricular activities (ECA) are part of students' everyday life; they play important roles in students' lives. Few studies have addressed the question of how student engagements to ECA affect student's grade point average (GPA). This research was conducted to know whether the students' grade point average in King Abdulaziz University,…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Grade Point Average, Statistical Analysis, Academic Achievement
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Watson, Kevin; Handal, Boris; Maher, Marguerite – Curriculum and Teaching, 2016
A consistent body of research shows that large classes have been perceived by teachers as an obstacle to deliver quality teaching. This large-scale study sought to investigate further those differential effects by asking 1,119 teachers from 321 K-12 schools in New South Wales (Australia) their perceptions of ideal class size for a variety of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Paparistodemou, Efi; Meletiou-Mavrotheris, Maria – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2008
This paper focuses on developing students' informal inference skills, reporting on how a group of third grade students formulated and evaluated data-based inferences using the dynamic statistics data-visualization environment TinkerPlots[TM] (Konold & Miller, 2005), software specifically designed to meet the learning needs of students in the…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Data Analysis, Grade 3, Statistics
Christiadi; Loveridge, Scott – 2000
The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 shifts decision-making authority for funding of local job training programs from the federal government to state and local boards, which will need local decision-making tools to inform policy. One such tool is a method proposed by S. Goetz and D. Debertin to estimate demand for educational attainment at the…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Surveys, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment