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Austin, Tori – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Organizations spend millions of dollars training employees in ways to improve their skills--recently through mandatory professional development delivered virtually or through online asynchronous platforms. This research investigated how social exchange theory and self-efficacy theory inform faculty participants' motivation to transfer such…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Required Courses, Online Courses
Roach, William Farris, Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This qualitative study sought to better understand the lived experiences of students, teachers, and administrators with regards to the In-School Suspension program. This study was grounded in a theoretical framework which included basic concepts of behaviorism and social exchange theory. With these theories this research study sought to explain…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Suspension, Social Exchange Theory, Student Behavior
Mastroieni, Anita – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study sought to ascertain the specific motivations behind doctoral alumni giving. Most U.S. colleges and universities depend on alumni giving to supplement revenues from tuition and governmental support; however, relatively little alumni giving is generated from PhD graduates. The result is untapped revenue for doctoral-granting institutions.…
Descriptors: Fund Raising, Undergraduate Study, Donors, Motivation