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Accountancy Learning Skills and Student Performance in Accounting Education: Evidence from the South African Context
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Papageorgiou, Elmarie; Callaghan, Chris William – Accounting Education, 2020
This paper uses data from 4745 first-year accountancy students of a large South African university, for a 7-year period (2011-2017), to understand how certain skills endowments and individual attributes have changed in their contributions to student's performance over time. To do so, the variance associated with an external shock to the learning…
Descriptors: Accounting, Professional Education, Academic Achievement, Factor Analysis
Asian International Students' College Experiences at Universities in the United States: Relationship between Perceived Quality of Personal Contact and Self-Reported Gains in Learning
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Bista, Krishna K. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study examined associations between Asian international students' perceived quality of contact with faculty, administrative personnel and other students, and self-reported gains in areas identified in "College Students Experience Questionnaire." The sample included 705 Asian students from 25 research universities across the United…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Asians, Teacher Student Relationship, College Faculty
Types, Traits, and Transitions: The Lives of Four-Year College Students.
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Koon, Jeff – 1974
Because the impact of college on students is not uniform, this work uses a typological approach to come to grips more adequately with the question of what happens to students who attend four-year colleges. Change, development, and senior "outcomes" are examined for each of 13 groups. The groupings were devised based on a statistical analysis of…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Classification, College Students, Higher Education
An Early Glimpse: Service Learning from an Adolescent Perspective.
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Terry, Alice W. – Journal of Secondary Gifted Education, 2000
Discussion of service learning for gifted adolescents offers a service learning typology based on degrees of student involvement and reviews the research findings on service learning. Focus group interviews with three gifted adolescent participants highlighted the importance of service learning to them and identified the following themes:…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Classification, Focus Groups, Gifted
Meeting Academic Success Needs of Re-Entry Adults. Final Report.
Mangano, Joseph A.; Corrado, Thomas J. – 1978
To assess the relative importance of selected educational needs for adult students in New York's two-year colleges, samples of faculty/staff, younger (17-24) traditional college students, and older (25+ years) re-entry adult students were administered the Survey of Student Needs, a 75-item questionnaire tapping the following five facets of the…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Ancillary Services, Classification, College Curriculum
Toward a Taxonomy of Adult Two-Year College Student Needs.
Mangano, Joseph A.; Corrado, Thomas J. – 1980
A survey was conducted at six representative New York State two-year colleges to: (1) determine the relative importance of selected educational needs for students and staff in the business, health services, and trade/technology curricula; and (2) taxonomize the needs of re-entry adult students. Survey respondents included 561 traditional students…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Adult Vocational Education, Basic Skills, Classification