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Vuori, Johanna – Teaching in Higher Education, 2021
Research on student engagement, study engagement and academic entitlement has followed separate paths. This research examined how the concepts relate to each other among traditional and non-traditional Finnish business students (N = 476). A cluster analysis indicated that students form two clusters. Part-time students, students over the age of 25,…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Learner Engagement, Student Attitudes, Student Characteristics
Hoover, Calla – Utah System of Higher Education, 2022
Federal financial aid was established under the Higher Education Act of 1965. Since then, changes to the act have increased funding and expanded eligibility for students accessing federal financial aid. While the distribution of federal financial aid has expanded over the last 60 years, untapped financial resources remain every year because…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Student Financial Aid, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation
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Vella, Elizabeth J.; Turesky, Elizabeth F.; Hebert, Jenni – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to use a heutagogical approach to determine whether students enrolled in blended courses achieve higher grades relative to those enrolled in completely online courses, in addition to identifying demographic predictors of academic success in college courses involving Web-based modes of instruction.…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Grade Point Average, Gender Differences, Blended Learning
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Mukeredzi, Tabitha Grace; Sibanda, Doras – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
The purpose of this study was to understand the nature and extent of subject content and curriculum knowledge that part-time Post Graduate Certificate in Education students in one South African university, brought to the classroom, and the kind and level of knowledge that they expected and sought from the programme. The study employed a…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Graduate Students, Foreign Countries
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Taher, Adahi Moulaye M'Hamed; Jin, Chen – Educational Research and Reviews, 2011
This study empirically investigated learning approaches of management graduate students in China. The representative sample consisted of 208 MBA students in a professional accreditation business program in careers, namely the part-time MBA program, provided by Zhejiang University (ZJU) during the 2010/2011 academic year. The instrument used to…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Graduate Students, Criticism, Questionnaires
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Cohen, Marian A. O.; Greenberg, Scott – Continuing Higher Education Review, 2011
Studies of student persistence at the undergraduate level are numerous and well known to those in the field, but at the graduate level, they are far more limited. The latter generally focus on doctoral candidates or those enrolled in professional programs. Master's-degree candidates, especially those who pursue a degree on a part-time basis at a…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Students, Educational Experience, Graduate Students
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Restubog, Simon Lloyd D.; Scott, Kristin L.; Zagenczyk, Thomas J. – Journal of Applied Psychology, 2011
We developed a model of the relationships among aggressive norms, abusive supervision, psychological distress, family undermining, and supervisor-directed deviance. We tested the model in 2 studies using multisource data: a 3-wave investigation of 184 full-time employees (Study 1) and a 2-wave investigation of 188 restaurant workers (Study 2).…
Descriptors: Employees, Help Seeking, Context Effect, Emotional Disturbances