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Rosenbaum, James E.; Becker, Kelly Iwanaga; Cepa, Kennan A.; Zapata-Gietl, Claudia E. – Research in Higher Education, 2016
Research often focuses on how students fail to meet college expectations, but it rarely asks how colleges fail to meet students' expectations. This study examines students' expectations of college and their institutional confidence--their level of certainty that college will meet their expectations. Drawing on 65 pilot interviews and a survey of…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Educational Attitudes, Expectation
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Lu, Yung-Hsiang; Chen, Ku-Hsieh – Research in Higher Education, 2013
This paper aims at appraising the cost efficiency and technology of institutions of higher technological and vocational education. Differing from conventional literature, it considers the potential influence of inherent discrepancies in output quality and characteristics of school systems for institutes of technology (ITs) and universities of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Vocational Education, Technology Education