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Hejmadi, Momna V.; Bullock, Kate; Gould, Virginia; Lock, Gary D. – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2012
In the biosciences, a professional placement experience in academia or industry is intended to contribute to a student's personal and professional training. While there is a general acknowledgement that a placement experience is beneficial for students, recent years have seen a decline in the number of students choosing to go on placements. Using…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Research Design, Professional Training, Teacher Attitudes
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Halenko, Nicola; Jones, Christian – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2011
The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of explicit interventional treatment on developing pragmatic awareness and production of spoken requests in an EAP context (taken here to mean those studying/using English for academic purposes in the UK) with Chinese learners of English at a British higher education institution. The study employed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Control Groups, Research Design, English (Second Language)
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Goodyear, Peter; Ellis, R. A. – Distance Education, 2008
In this article, we argue that educational technology research has spent too long trapped in a paradigm of simplistic comparisons, wherein normal science consists of evaluating a technology-based intervention by contrasting it with some established set of educational practices. Our argument is different in significant ways from the claim that…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Educational Technology, College Students, Student Attitudes
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Seal, Alan – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1983
Results of work of Centre for Catalogue Research into usability of library catalogs with different levels of content of entries and users' needs for bibliographic data elements suggest that much information normally included in catalog entry is rarely used, and its inclusion makes catalog use difficult. Twelve references are provided. (EJS)
Descriptors: Cataloging, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Information Needs
National Center on Postsecondary Teaching, Learning, and Assessment, University Park, PA. – 1991
This volume contains 14 papers from international sources that outline fundamental concepts and research interests connected to the measurement of quality in postsecondary education. Some of the papers consist of concept papers and others are more extensive reports of research underway or findings from recently concluded studies. The papers are as…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Classification, College Outcomes Assessment
Nebraska Univ., Lincoln. Dept. of Adult and Continuing Education. – 1982
These proceedings of a conference on research in the field of adult education contain the texts of 40 conference papers and 4 symposia. Included among the areas examined in the individual reports are the following: education participation scale factor structure and correlates for 12,000 learners, a comparative analysis of adult education research…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy