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Cheong, Kee-Cheok; Hill, Christopher; Leong, Yin-Ching; Zhang, Chen – Studies in Higher Education, 2018
As human capital came to the fore in the discourse on economic growth, so too has the concepts of employment prospects and employability attributes as students transit to the labor market. This paper examines three issues in this transition in the context of Malaysia. These are, first, how important is employment prospects a consideration when…
Descriptors: Employment, Employers, Foreign Countries, Case Studies
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Nabi, G.; Walmsley, A.; Holden, R. – Journal of Education and Work, 2015
The study explores the nature and mixture of push--pull factors in the journey from higher education into graduate entrepreneurship. Using longitudinal data from 15 graduates of a British university, it compares graduates who started their own business with graduates that did not. Importantly, both groups had initially indicated a strong desire to…
Descriptors: Career Development, Entrepreneurship, Business, Career Choice
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Cavusoglu, Muhittin; White, Williemae; James, Waynne B.; Cobanoglu, Cihan – Commission for International Adult Education, 2016
The purpose of this study was to identify differences that impact international graduate student performance in the first semester compared to the subsequent semesters. This study was a qualitative study focused on the factors associated with international graduate student academic performance between the first semester and their subsequent…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Graduate Students, Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis
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Hoskins, Bryony; Leonard, Pauline; Wilde, Rachel J. – British Educational Research Journal, 2018
Higher education is commonly understood as the gateway to better, higher-paying jobs. This paper draws on longitudinal survey and interview data to explore how different groups of young people, those who left school at 18 and those graduating from higher education, negotiated pathways into employment or otherwise during the recent economic…
Descriptors: Youth, Higher Education, Employment Potential, Interviews
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Hordósy, Rita – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2017
This paper analyses how three European countries produce and use data within a specific educational policy field, that of school leaving and graduation. It compares how stakeholders in England, Finland and the Netherlands know what happens to the leavers from schools and universities. Through gathering evidence about the methodological…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Stakeholders, Information Systems, Data
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Carmona Marques, P. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2017
This paper reports the results of a study of engineering students' approaches to an open-ended design problem. To carry out this, sketches and interviews were collected from 9 freshmen (first year) and 10 doctoral engineering students, when they designed solutions for orange squeezers. Sketches and interviews were analysed and mapped with a…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, College Freshmen, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students
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Sawyer, R. Keith – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2018
This paper reports on an interview study with MFA students in two different full-time MFA degree programs in painting. The interviews were conducted as part of two ethnographic studies, each one academic year in length, of art and design schools at two U.S. universities. The goal was to explore the extended process whereby MFA student artists, in…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Fine Arts, Artists, Art Education
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Wilner, Molly; Kerr, Bradley; Moreno, Megan – College Student Journal, 2018
Background: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between Facebook age presentation, Facebook alcohol displays, and alcohol related risk factors among college students. Methods: Students from two universities in the United States enrolled and accepted a researcher's Facebook friend request. Participant's Facebook profiles were evaluated…
Descriptors: Social Media, Drinking, Alcohol Abuse, Age
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Galloway, Kelli R.; Leung, Min Wah; Flynn, Alison B. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2018
To explore the differences between how organic chemistry students and organic chemistry professors think about organic chemistry reactions, we administered a card sort task to participants with a range of knowledge and experience levels. Beginning students created a variety of categories ranging from structural similarities to process oriented…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Science Instruction, College Science, Graduate Students
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Maries, Alexandru; Lin, Shih-Yin; Singh, Chandralekha – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2017
Prior research suggests that introductory physics students have difficulty with graphing and interpreting graphs. Here, we discuss an investigation of student difficulties in translating between mathematical and graphical representations for a problem in electrostatics and the effect of increasing levels of scaffolding on students'…
Descriptors: Physics, Introductory Courses, Science Instruction, Problem Solving
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Jankowska, Dorota – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2017
The presented text discusses the problems of academic and teacher education under conditions of consumption culture and neoliberal ideology development at the beginning of the 21st century in Poland. The article puts the thesis that neo-liberalism, manifested by economic phenomena, permeates all spheres of social life, enhancing the…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Neoliberalism, Interviews, Graduate Students
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Timotheou, Maria Mama – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2017
This paper presents the main findings of a UK study exploring graduate students' perceptions of web-based education, with a specific focus on their change over time, throughout an asynchronous course. Data were collected through online messages and interviews, and analyzed qualitatively, following content and thematic analyses. Participant pre-…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Web Based Instruction, Asynchronous Communication
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Chaffer, Caroline; Webb, Jill – Accounting Education, 2017
Studies consistently report that accounting graduates and graduates more generally do not have the generic skills expected by employers. This study considers the perspective of UK graduates and non-graduates training for the Certified Institute of Management Accounting professional accountancy qualification. The study uses questionnaire and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accounting, Student Attitudes, Job Skills
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Angra, Aakanksha; Gardner, Stephanie M. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2017
Undergraduate biology education reform aims to engage students in scientific practices such as experimental design, experimentation, and data analysis and communication. Graphs are ubiquitous in the biological sciences, and creating effective graphical representations involves quantitative and disciplinary concepts and skills. Past studies…
Descriptors: Graphs, Biology, Science Instruction, College Science
Price, Jenifer Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Recent studies indicate a positive correlation between academic performance and metacognitive self-regulation (MSR) and effort regulation (ER). This relationship was explored across performance (e.g., higher and lower) and satisfaction (e.g., satisfied and dissatisfied) levels to help identify which self-regulated learning (SRL) skills were most…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Correlation, High School Graduates, Learning Strategies
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