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Blaauw-Hara, Mark – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
Community colleges are experiencing growing numbers of student veterans. Unfortunately, much training for faculty and staff tends to stem from a deficit mindset: the focus is on remediating what student veterans lack rather than building on their unique strengths. Training programs, courses, and college interventions that acknowledge and build on…
Descriptors: Veterans, Community Colleges, Intervention, College Students
Hora, Matthew Tadashi – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Research suggests that the pedagogical thoughts of postsecondary teachers exist on a continuum from student-centered to teaching-centered orientations, the latter of which are more pedagogically effective than the former. However, this body of literature has been critiqued for insufficient conceptualization of psychological constructs and the lack…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty, Teaching Methods, Thematic Approach
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Hickie, James – Industry and Higher Education, 2011
This paper provides insights into the human capital development of a group of young entrepreneurs, all of whom have built growth businesses with turnovers of between 1M British Pounds and 90M British Pounds. Their development of knowledge and skills was investigated before and during the creation of their first main ventures. This is significant…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Business, Entrepreneurship, Prior Learning
Last, David A.; O'Donnell, Angela M.; Kelly, Anthony E. – 1998
The influences of a student's prior knowledge and desired goal on the difficulties and benefits associated with using hypertext were examined in this study. Participants, 12 students from an undergraduate course in educational psychology, were assigned to either the low or high prior knowledge category. Within these two groups, subjects were…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Attitudes, Goal Orientation