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Johnston, Lucy; Schluter, Philip J. – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
With increasing competition for postgraduate research scholarships, awarding processes demand attention and scrutiny. We examine inter-rater reliability for two prestigious New Zealand scholarships, the Shirtcliffe Fellowship and the Gordon Watson Scholarship. For each scholarship, five assessors (three academic; two non-academic) independently…
Descriptors: Interrater Reliability, Scholarships, Academic Achievement, Program Proposals
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Ding, Ning; Bosker, Roel J.; Xu, Xiaoyan; Rugers, Lucie; van Heugten, Petra PAM – Journal of Teaching in International Business, 2015
In business higher education, group project work plays an essential role. The purpose of the present study is to explore the relationship between the group heterogeneity of students' business project groups and their academic achievements at both group and individual levels. The sample consists of 536 freshmen from an International Business School…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Business Administration Education, Higher Education, Student Projects
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Voci, Alberto; Hewstone, Miles; Crisp, Richard J.; Rubin, Mark – Social Psychology Quarterly, 2008
We investigated the effects of gender and group size on perceptions of group variability, using groups of students taking different majors that varied in the proportion of men and women (female-majority, parity, and male-majority). We found that both group size and gender had consistent effects on perceived out-group variability, even when…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Class Size, Females, Familiarity