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Viator, Kyle – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The time it takes a student to complete a bachelor's degree in college is ever-changing. The four-year timeframe to finish a degree in the United States has become a dream many will not accomplish for various reasons. Looking to the past, we have seen bachelor's degrees go from a three-year timeframe to a four-year timeframe, college costs have…
Descriptors: Program Length, Undergraduate Students, Case Studies, Alumni
Gabriela Mocanu – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The number of teachers in international schools is constantly increasing, especially in the Middle East where the international school sector is expanding rapidly. However, the complexities of foreign teachers' professional identity development in international schools have not been fully explored. Through a non-experimental, ex-post facto design,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Schools, Foreign Workers, Professional Identity
Weaver, Kari D. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of the study was to examine the impact of short professional development interventions, covering core concepts in teaching and learning, on the self-efficacy of academic librarians in the teaching role. The participants in this study were six academic librarians at a large, research-intensive university in Canada for whom instructional…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Self Efficacy, Teacher Role
Sponseller, Aaron C. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Conventional folk wisdom insists study abroad is an inherently valuable educational experience for young people. While traditional study abroad programs were typically a semester or a full year in duration, short-term study abroad programs of only a couple weeks are now the most common type of sojourn abroad. Problematically, evidence is mounting…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Language Proficiency, Educational Experience, Outcomes of Education
Brown, Jill M. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
There is a paucity of occupational therapy literature related to the professional development process that occurs when students participate in immersive, international servant leadership experiences in developing countries. A scarcity of literature exists on how such culturally rich experiences can influence the development of the participating…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Competence, Critical Thinking, Foreign Countries
Steighner, Tammy Rose – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of the study was to determine nursing students' perceptions of patient safety competencies as it related to Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) competencies and the Safety Competencies Framework developed by The Canadian Patient Safety Institute. The study determined if nursing students knew how to provide safe patient care…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nursing Students, College Students, Student Attitudes