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Ahmet, Kara – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2015
This paper presents a simple model of the provision of higher educational services that considers and exemplifies nonlinear, stochastic, and potentially chaotic processes. I use the methods of system dynamics to simulate these processes in the context of a particular sociologically interesting case, namely that of the Turkish higher education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Computer Simulation, Models, Case Studies
Oja, Sharon Nodie – 2002
This paper describes the collaborative development of an instrument to assess graduates from 1 to 5 years after teacher education program completion. The study shows how a consortium of colleges and universities used the same instrument to gather data for research and program improvement. Examples of research results in the University of New…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Cooperation, Employment Patterns, Graduate Surveys
Griffiths, Jose-Marie; And Others – 1984
This document contains validated activities and competencies needed by librarians working in an academic library. The activities and competencies are organized according to the functions which academic librarians perform: acquisitions; cataloging; circulation and reader services; collection maintenance; interlibrary loan; management; reference;…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Competence, Employment Patterns, Higher Education
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Colarelli, Stephen M.; And Others – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 1991
A study investigated relationships between university characteristics and job offers, employment status, job attitudes, and job performance of newly hired college graduates in accounting. Results indicate little correlation between institutional characteristics and job attitudes or performance, some correlation with number of job offers, more with…
Descriptors: Accountants, College Graduates, Education Work Relationship, Employment Patterns
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Fitzpatrick, Joyce J. – Journal of Professional Nursing, 1986
A study compared the characteristics, job performance, and employment/career patterns of graduates of baccalaureate and doctoral nursing programs one year after graduation and found significant differences in the groups on each set of variables. (MSE)
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Bachelors Degrees, Career Ladders, Comparative Analysis
Griffiths, Jose-Marie; King, Donald W. – 1985
To determine the current and future competencies required by librarians and information professionals, a project was undertaken to meet the following objectives: set forth an idealized framework to be used by the librarian and information professional community; determine a first set of competencies which are validated in the workplace to some…
Descriptors: Competence, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development, Employment Patterns
Bartlett, Bertrice; Barnes, Elizabeth – 1978
Analysis of the search for selecting a president and a dean for a small women's college in the midwest showed how affirmative action goals, coupled with standard career expectations, damage female candidates. Reasons for failure to select a woman for either post included: (1) the tendency to compare women with women and men with men in the early…
Descriptors: Academic Deans, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Selection, Affirmative Action
Golen, Steven; Titkemeyer, M. Agnes – 1984
A study examined the types of office activities performed by graduates of the office systems and administration program from the College of Business Administration at Arizona State University during the years from 1970 to 1982. To gather data for the study, researchers sent questionnaires to 216 graduates. Based on data from the 118 questionnaires…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Business Skills, Competence, Curriculum Development
Redshaw, Margaret; Hart, Bev; Harvey, Merryl; Harris, Anne – 1999
The outcomes of advanced neonatal nurse practitioner (ANNP) programs in the United Kingdom were examined. The different programs of education currently available for nurses wishing to become ANNPs were compared, and the outcomes of ANNP programs, as demonstrated in the levels of performance of practitioners undertaking different programs, were…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Career Choice, Career Development, Change Strategies