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Exploring Student Perceptions of Ed.D. Program Benefits: A Q Method Examination
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Thomson, Lisa Petty – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Within the field of higher education, Colleges of Education, in conjunction with the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED), are working to distinguish the Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) as a distinct doctoral degree designed for scholar-practitioners. The purpose of this study was to identify the perceptions of current Ed.D. students and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Educational Benefits, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students
Secondary School Students' Perceptions of Their Counselling Needs in an Era of Global Financial Crisis: An Exploratory Study in Greece
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Brouzos, Andreas; Vassilopoulos, Stephanos; Korfiati, Androniki; Baourda, Vasiliki – International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling, 2015
The aim of this study was to examine the counselling needs of a sample of secondary school students in Greece. Moreover, the effect of age, gender, and academic performance on such perceived counselling needs was also investigated. The sample consisted of 931 students (433 girls and 498 boys) aged between 12 and 16 years old. A 70-item…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Interpersonal Relationship, School Counseling
Sociodemographic Diversity and Distance Education: Who Drops out from Academic Programs and Why?
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Stoessel, Katharina; Ihme, Toni A.; Barbarino, Maria-Luisa; Fisseler, Björn; Stürmer, Stefan – Research in Higher Education, 2015
Current higher education is characterized by a proliferation of distance education programs and by an increasing inclusion of nontraditional students. In this study we investigated whether and to what extent nontraditional students are particularly at risk for attrition (vs. graduating) from distance education programs. We conducted a secondary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Distance Education, Nontraditional Students
Constructing the Autonomous Middle-Class Self in Today's China: The Case of Young-Adult Only-Children University Students
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Liu, Fengshu – Journal of Youth Studies, 2008
This paper explores the identity construction of a number of young-adult only-children who were winners in the fierce competition for a seat at university. The purpose is to gain an understanding of the choices and decisions these young people viewed as significant and how, in negotiating these choices and striving for their life goals, a…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Foreign Countries, Cultural Context, Family Structure
Vocational Identity Development: Its Relationship to Other Identity Domains and to Overall Identity Development.
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Skorikov, Vladimir; Vondracek, Fred W. – Journal of Career Assessment, 1998
A cross-sectional study of 1,099 high school students using the Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identify Status showed a developmental progression of vocational identity. Ideological, religious, life-style, and political identity domains were related to but lagged behind vocational identity development. (SK)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Career Development, High School Students, High Schools
Outstanding Teachers' Sense of Teacher Efficacy at Four Stages of Career Development.
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Pigge, Fred L.; Marso, Ronald N. – 1993
A sense of efficacy, the extent to which teachers believe that they have the capacity to affect pupil performance, is related to both teaching behaviors and pupil performance. This study was designed to test the developmental hypothesis that teachers' sense of efficacy would increase during their successful progression through preservice training…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attitude Change, Attitude Measures, Career Development
Rethinking Social Policy for an Aging Workforce and Society: Insights from the Life Course Perspective. CPRN Discussion Paper.
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Marshall, Victor W.; Mueller, Margaret M. – 2002
Canadian population trends were examined from a life course perspective to identify needed social policy changes. First, the following principles underpinning the life course perspective were discussed: (1) aging involves biological, psychological, and social processes; (2) human development and aging are lifelong processes; (3) individuals' and…
Descriptors: Adult Day Care, Age Differences, Age Groups, Aging (Individuals)