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Nuy, H. J. P. – Higher Education, 1991
A study in a Dutch law school investigated interactions between students' learning orientation (internalizing/meaning, dependent, minimalistic, achieving/strategic) and appreciation of aspects of structure (content, organization, social) in the educational environment and curriculum. A consistent pattern of student attitudes that varied according…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Students, Curriculum Design, Educational Environment
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Moust, Jos C.; Schmidt, Henk G. – Higher Education, 1994
A study at the University of Maastricht (Netherlands) law school found that students (n=200) tutored by other students showed improved academic achievement as high as those (n=207) taught by staff tutors. Data were gathered from overall assessment of essay question responses and a more elaborate propositional analysis of a sample of responses.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Moust, J. H. C.; And Others – Higher Education, 1989
The relative effectiveness of staff tutors and student tutors in teaching higher level cognitive skills to University of Limburg (Netherlands) law students appears to be similar, but staff tutors are felt to be better because they are experts in their field. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, College Faculty, Foreign Countries
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Moses, Ingrid – Higher Education, 1990
Australian institutions are developing and using performance indicators (number of publications, research grants, and of Ph.D. graduates) to distribute resources. Some of these are disadvantaging the Humanities. This paper addresses differences in chemistry, engineering, English, and law as they are described by other researchers. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Chemistry, Comparative Analysis, English, Faculty Promotion
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Guri-Rozenblit, Sarah – Higher Education, 1993
A discussion of recent changes in Israeli higher education looks at the system's structure, emergence of private law schools, the upgrading of some vocationally oriented postsecondary institutions to academic status, academic tracks of study within regional colleges, and possible future developments. Some comparisons are made with trends in other…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Change Strategies, Comparative Education, Educational Change