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Wang, Renfeng; De Donder, Liesbeth; De Backer, Free; Triquet, Karen; Shihua, Li; Honghui, Pan; Thomas, Valerie; Lombaerts, Koen – Educational Gerontology, 2018
The study aims to investigate the association of learning participation with the quality of life (QoL) in older Chinese adults, verifying how the differing types of learning activity participation may influence their QoL. We conducted two studies to gain a better understanding of learning participation and QoL among adults over 55 years of age. In…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Quality of Life, Older Adults, Asians
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Kittelsen Røberg, Karl Ingar; Helland, Håvard – Journal of Education and Work, 2017
This paper examines the effects of grades from higher education on labour market outcomes. Economic theory predicts that grades are rewarded in the labour market because employers regard them as an expression of valuable skills or a signal of other sought after attributes. Social closure, however, may give reason to expect no effects. Whether good…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Higher Education, Grades (Scholastic), Recognition (Achievement)
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Carter, Robert E. – Journal of Marketing Education, 2016
Conventional wisdom holds that research-productive faculty are also the finest instructors. But, is this commonly held belief correct? In the current study, the notion that faculty scholarship exhibits a positive association with teaching evaluations is investigated. Reflecting the data structure of faculty nested within university, the current…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Scholarship, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Correlation