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Palmer, Bryan – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2022
This paper summarises the exploratory quantitative analysis undertaken to investigate how vocational education and training (VET) students cluster and segment in the Australian VET market. This analysis is outlined in three sections. The first section focuses on 'clustering' as a technique for grouping data and the three clustering algorithms…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Multivariate Analysis
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Cantwell, Robert H.; Bourke, Sid F.; Scevak, Jill J.; Holbrook, Allyson P.; Budd, Janene – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
A national cohort of doctoral students (n = 1390) completed a suite of metacognitive questionnaires indicating management of affective, intellectual and contingency demands in learning. Responses to the questionnaires were analysed for evidence of individual differences in reported metacognitive behaviours. Three patterns of metacognitive response…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Metacognition
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Elphinstone, Brad; Tinker, Sean – Journal of College Student Development, 2017
The Motivation and Engagement Scale-University/College (MES-UC) was used to identify student typologies on the basis of adaptive and maladaptive academic cognitions and behaviours. The sample comprised first-year (n = 390), second-year (n = 300), and third-year (n = 251) undergraduate students with 4 student typologies identified: high…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Undergraduate Students, Likert Scales, Cohort Analysis
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Zimmer-Gembeck, Melanie J.; Skinner, Ellen A.; Morris, Helen; Thomas, Rae – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2013
The same stressor can evoke different emotions across individuals, and emotions can prompt certain coping responses. Responding to four videotaped interpersonal stressors, adolescents ("N" = 230, the average values of "X"[subscript age] = 10 years) reported their sadness, fear "and" anger, and 12 coping strategies.…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Coping, Adolescents, Psychological Patterns
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Mazzarol, Timothy W.; Soutar, Geoffrey N. – International Journal of Educational Management, 2008
Purpose: The global market for international students have become highly competitive and many institutions, particularly higher education institutions, rely heavily on fee income from overseas students. This study aims to examine the countries from which Australian education institutions draw such students and used this information to better…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Multivariate Analysis, Foreign Countries, Student Recruitment