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Zhang, Liang – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2018
In this study, I used American Community Survey (ACS) 2005-2015 data to examine the enrollment effect of the Post-9/11 GI Bill; the analysis resulted in three main findings: First, although the New GI Bill has increased overall college enrollment by about 3 percentage points on average, the effect was much larger immediately after the bill's…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Surveys, Enrollment Trends, Access to Education
Ponce, L. Enrique – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The topic of student cheating at higher education has been studied empirically for more than 80 years in the U.S., and has become a subject of concern in the rest of the world, where academic research has spread to other continents. However, institutional research has just begun in South American countries, where studies and surveys conducted in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Cheating, Ethics
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Lima Rodrigues, Lúcia; Pinho, Carlos; Bugarim, Maria Clara; Craig, Russell; Machado, Diego – Accounting Education, 2018
This paper explores factors that have affected the success of candidates in the professional entry exam conducted by Brazil's Federal Council of Accounting. We analyse results of 18,948 candidates who sat for the exam in 2012, using a logistic regression model and the key indicators used by government to monitor the performance of higher education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accounting, Occupational Tests, Success
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Susan L. Robertson – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2024
In this paper, I argue a new politics of ordinal differentiation and its instruments for governing education aims to make invisible a 'low intensity civil war' against the labouring classes. It does this through the elevation and ubiquity of actuarial and quantitative measures aimed at producing a new form of differentiated belonging: that of…
Descriptors: Social Differences, Politics of Education, Citizenship, Personal Autonomy
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Matricano, Diego – Industry and Higher Education, 2017
Despite efforts by European national governments to implement dedicated entrepreneurship training activities and enhance start-up expectations, as established by the Lisbon Strategy (2000), the results achieved have not always been satisfactory. A particularly noteworthy case occurred in Italy in 2008, when there were very few newly created…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Educational Policy, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
Apolot, Harriet Margret; Otaala, Justine; Kamanyire, Venance; Komakech, Robert Agwot – Online Submission, 2018
This study examined the impact of school practice supervision on performance of student teachers in higher institutions of learning in Uganda. Purposive and random samplings were used to select respondents from the two universities. Data was collected using interviews, closed and open-ended questionnaires from a sample of 103 respondents, and 76…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Teachers, Higher Education, Interviews
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Al-Adwan, Ahmad Samed; Al-Madadha, Amr; Zvirzdinaite, Zahra – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018
Mobile devices are increasingly coming to penetrate people's daily lives. Mobile learning (m-learning) is viewed as key to the coming era of electronic learning (e-learning). In the meantime, the use of mobile devices for learning has made a significant contribution to delivering education among higher education students worldwide. However, while…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Handheld Devices, Readiness, Higher Education
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Yang, Jason Cheng-Cheng; Cho, I-Pei – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2017
Higher education in Asia is becoming more prominent according to Western higher education researchers, but it is also being influenced by globalization, resulting in two types of structural inequality in higher education. Organizational justice relates to positive developments of educational organizations. It refers to the sense of fairness and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Organizational Climate, Organizational Culture
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Taie, Soheyla; Goldring, Rebecca – National Center for Education Statistics, 2017
The 2015-16 National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS) is a nationally representative sample survey of public K-12 schools, principals, and teachers in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. This report presents selected findings from the Public School Teacher Data File of NTPS. NTPS is a redesign of the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS).…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, National Surveys
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Oswalt, Sara B.; Wyatt, Tammy J.; Ochoa, Yesenia – Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 2018
With the advent of the "Dear Colleague" letter in 2011, higher education institutions have become focused on sexual assault and related policies, procedures regarding offenses, and prevention education. Institutions should consider using this spotlight on interpersonal dynamics to increase awareness about other types of relationship…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, College Students, Crime, Higher Education
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Hartlep, Nicholas D.; Hensley, Brandon O.; Wells, Kevin E.; Brewer, T. Jameson; Ball, Daisy; McLaren, Peter – Policy Futures in Education, 2017
This study examines select demographics of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Fellows (n = 644), and whether or not the cohorts of AERA Fellows are becoming more diverse in racial and gender terms in relation to the inaugural year of Fellows in 2008. This study tests the mission statement of this exclusive program to "……
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Networks, College Faculty, Position Papers
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Seaman, Jayson; Bell, Brent J.; Trauntvein, Nate – Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership, 2017
In this article, we report on research undertaken in 2016 to assess a number of trends influencing the current status of degree-granting outdoor programs in the United States, including factors that bear on the value of degrees. We analyze data provided by the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard and results of a survey comparing 59…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Trend Analysis, Higher Education, School Size
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Flores, René Pedroza; Monroy, Guadalupe Villalobos; Fabela, Ana María Reyes – Journal of Education and Learning, 2015
This paper presents an estimate of the prevalence of social inequality in accessing higher education among vulnerable groups in Mexico. Estimates were determined from statistical data provided by governmental agencies on the level of poverty among the Mexican population. In Mexico, the conditions of poverty and vulnerability while trying to access…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Policy, Mexicans, Educational Opportunities
Barry, James Patrick, Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study examined physical education teachers' perceptions of their knowledge, skills, and dispositions, who received federal funding and training from the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) in Adapted Physical Education (APE). The OSEP offers grant opportunities to institutions of higher education, non-profits, and other educational…
Descriptors: Adapted Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Knowledge Level
Bingham, Pamela Ann Haynes – ProQuest LLC, 2017
To determine if demography impacted the success of graduate students in the online learning environment, this non-experimental study used age, gender, ethnicity, enrollment status, financial dependency, employment status, program (master's or doctoral), and marital status as the independent variables to determine their impact on four dependent…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Graduate Students, Electronic Learning, Success
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