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Liu, Xin – Journal of Education for Business, 2018
The purpose of the present study was to explore whether professional skepticism can be learned in a classroom setting, an issue that has received scant attention in the prior literature. A questionnaire was administered to students enrolled either in the accounting program or in the business administration program of a large college in China. The…
Descriptors: Accounting, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Business Administration Education
Harrington, Irronda M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Service learning has grown in popularity within higher education as a teaching pedagogy shown to foster student engagement as well as strengthen the relationships between the community and community college. Research has demonstrated that service learning places a focus on students gaining the hands-on experience tied closely to course objectives…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Liberal Arts, Service Learning
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Wilkins, Jesse L. M. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2016
Quantitative literacy (QLT) represents an underlying higher-order construct that accounts for a person's willingness to engage in quantitative situations in everyday life. The purpose of this study is to retest the construct validity of a model of quantitative literacy (Wilkins, 2010). In this model, QLT represents a second-order factor that…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Numeracy, Construct Validity, Models
Lange, Tyana – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Institutions of higher education (IHEs) are competing to recruit students in a crowded market with the number of colleges on the increase and the number of high school seniors declining. IHEs are looking for effective ways to recruit students and increase retention and graduation rates. Relationship marketing (RM) is an approach from business that…
Descriptors: Role, Marketing, Higher Education, Student Recruitment
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Bowers, K. Westmoreland – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2014
The purpose of this study was to identify constructivist concepts that are important to student-perceived learning outcomes in college courses that use a virtual world, such as Second Life, as an educational tool. Identification of these concepts will help instructors to make the best use of their course design efforts in mediated environments.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Constructivism (Learning), Student Responsibility, Computer Simulation
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Zhan, Ginny Q.; Moodie, Douglas R.; Sun, Yanmin; Wang, Bailing – Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 2013
This research project explores learning styles of college students in the US and China. The Grasha-Reichmann Student Learning Style Scale, designed to measure how college students view their learning, was used as the main instrument for the current study. A total of 511 college students, 274 from the US and 237 from China, participated in this…
Descriptors: College Students, Cognitive Style, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences
Mackie, Michele Matteo – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to develop a portrait of students with psychological conditions, to determine the predictors of sense of belonging for these students, and to draw comparisons between the collegiate experiences of students with, and those without, psychological conditions. Using data from the 2009 Multi-Institutional Study of…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Mental Disorders, Educational Experience, College Students
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Levine, Mark F.; Guy, Paul W. – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2007
The present study investigates pre-business students' reaction to Activity Based Learning in a lower division core required course entitled Introduction to Global Business in the business curriculum at California State University Chico. The study investigates students' preference for Activity Based Learning in comparison to a more traditional…
Descriptors: Required Courses, Business Education, Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods
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Brown, Ulysses J. III; Jara, Ursula; Braxton, Erika – College Student Journal, 2005
This paper examined the attitudes and perceptions of urban college students regarding Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) awareness and prevention. AIDS has devastated the lives of citizens in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that the AIDS incidence rate for young Americans between the ages of 13 to…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Prevention, Disease Control, College Students