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Johnson, Brian – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Emotional intelligence is a relatively new academic discipline that began forming in the early 1990s. Currently, emotional intelligence is used in academia and in business as a new intelligence quotient. This research study investigates how Senior Student Affairs Officers' use their emotional intelligence ability during critical incidents. The…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Emotional Intelligence, Student Personnel Workers, Intelligence Tests
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Stalmeijer, Renée; Whittingham, Jill; de Grave, Willem; Dolmans, Diana – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2016
Student evaluation committees play a crucial role in internal quality assurance processes as representatives of the student body. However, the students on these committees sometimes experience difficulty in providing constructive and structured feedback to faculty in an environment characterised by a strong power differential between student and…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Advisory Committees, Student Participation, Feedback (Response)
Tsai, Tien-I – ProQuest LLC, 2013
First-generation college (FGC) students have been described as an underrepresented group in comparison to their continuing-generation counterparts (non-FGC students). Studying college students' socialization experiences and their use of academic resources can help us understand how to facilitate their academic success. Incorporating…
Descriptors: Socialization, First Generation College Students, Mixed Methods Research, Social Networks
Saracho, Olivia, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2014
The "Handbook of Research Methods in Early Childhood Education" brings together in one source research techniques that researchers can use to collect data for studies that contribute to the knowledge in early childhood education. To conduct valid and reliable studies, researchers need to be knowledgeable about numerous research…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Research Methodology, Educational Research, Qualitative Research
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Smith, Anne M. J.; Campbell, Sonya – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2012
The twenty first century student demands more from universities in terms of engagement that is flexible, accessible and immediate. This means universities revisiting their engagement agenda at a time when financial constraints can least afford expensive technologies and resource dependent engagement solutions. Solutions are likely to be varied…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Access to Information, Socialization, Learner Engagement
Velez-Rubio, Miguel – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Teaching computer programming to freshmen students in Computer Sciences and other Information Technology areas has been identified as a complex activity. Different approaches have been studied looking for the best one that could help to improve this teaching process. A proposed approach was implemented which is based in the language immersion…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Programming, Improvement, Teacher Improvement
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Yariv, Eliezer – World Journal of Education, 2011
Why do teachers become poor performers? In semi-structured interviews, forty elementary school principals in Israel described the personal story of one poor-performing staff member. Half of the problematic teachers were veteran teachers who faced a marked internal and external shift in mid-career. The seeds of their problems were probably planted…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Job Performance, Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries