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Rerke, Viktoriya I.; Belyakova, Natalia V.; Khudyakova, Tatyana L.; Klepach, Yuliya V.; Platonova, Elena V.; Miloradova, Nadezhda G.; Pozdnyakova, Irina R. – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2021
The change in strategic guidelines in Russian education is associated with a revision of the goals of teaching and upbringing. However, the emphasis of reforms has shifted towards the formation of the required professional competences at this stage in the development of the education system of the Russian Federation. We think that it is possible…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Characteristics, Personality Traits
Maratovna, Sovetkanova Damira; Nurlanbekovna, Umirbekova Akerke; Ismailbekovna, Shalabayeva Laura; Askarovna, Butabayeva Laura; Armysovna, Kulmysheva Nazym; Yuryevna, Sarsembayeva Ella – World Journal on Educational Technology: Current Issues, 2021
The source of the prospects for the development of an independent state is the education of younger generation. The globalizing world requires particular attention and responsibility in nurture the young generation. That is why the secularism of the education system is a blessing and a necessity. This article discusses the achievements and new…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students, Masters Programs, Educational Technology
Maya Fujioka; Kristin Reimer; Eisuke Saito – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2024
The decline in foreign language learners in tertiary education is a concern in many countries. While factors influencing students' persistence in second language learning have been explored, there has been limited discussion on the potential of language programmes that develop students' self-formation alongside language learning. This study aimed…
Descriptors: Declining Enrollment, Language Enrollment, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Gordon, Virginia N. – NACADA Journal, 2019
Although developmental advising grew out of the works of many theorists prior to 1972 (Erikson, 1968; Heath, 1964; Neugarten, 1971; Perry, 1970; Super, Starishevsky, Matlin, & Jordaan, 1963), Burns Crookston was responsible for integrating these concepts into conscious thinking about academic advising. Although his landmark article grew out of…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Academic Advising, Educational History, Student Development
Campbell, Rebecca; Blankenship, Benjamin B. – To Improve the Academy, 2020
Colleges and universities have a commitment to improve the student experience, increase persistence, and provide paths to degree completion. Course redesign, focused on student success, is a promising strategy for realizing that commitment. This article examines some of the particulars when course redesign is explicitly linked to student success.…
Descriptors: Courses, Higher Education, Academic Persistence, Learner Engagement
Castro, Diego; Rodríguez-Gómez, David; Gairín, Joaquín – Education and Urban Society, 2017
Access to higher education has increased substantially in Latin America, but inequalities in access to and completion of higher education still remain. In this regard, identifying vulnerable groups and exclusion factors is a priority in Latin America's university systems. The aim of this article is to understand in depth governing board…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Equal Education, Governing Boards
Sabirova, Elvira G. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
Actuality of the studied problem is conditioned by the fact that certain work forms with students represent possibilities for organizing educative activity of more complex level. The article is aimed on revealing educative potentiality of "pedagogical guest room" as one of the forms intended on development of students' pedagogical…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Competence, Observation, Surveys
Elantseva, S. A. – Russian Education & Society, 2014
The education of future teachers requires a an experience that covers not only the subject matter that will be taught and the methods that will be used, but also preparation of their personality and emotional characteristics for effective professional performance and development. [This article was translated by Kim Braithwaite.]
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs, Student Characteristics, Teacher Competencies
Lott, Joe L., II – Journal of College Student Development, 2013
This multilevel study extends the work of Pascarella, Ethington, & Smart (1988) and Rhee and Dey (1996) to investigate how student-level characteristics and organizational characteristics affect college students' civic values. Institutional variables found to impact civic values include institutional selectivity, institutional size, and attending…
Descriptors: College Students, Institutional Characteristics, Student Characteristics, Social Values
Wall, Jan M. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to investigate the integration of contemplative practice into higher education. The intention of such integration would be to facilitate a students' ability to hear and follow an intuitive "call". Intuition was defined as an immediate, unmediated or tacit way of knowing; "calls" or "callings" as inner directives…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Brain, Intuition, Phenomenology
Gayles, Joy Gaston; Hu, Shouping – Journal of Higher Education, 2009
Most of the internal and public scrutiny of college sports involves high profile athletes in sports such as football and men's basketball; yet, recent research on the impact of sport participation on student learning and development has largely focused on comparing all athletes to their non-athlete peers across institutional types. There is a need…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Athletes, Program Effectiveness, Colleges
Baxter Magolda, Marcia B.; King, Patricia M. – ASHE Higher Education Report, 2012
In this monograph, the authors identify milestones in the journey toward self-authorship based on the theoretical work of Kegan (1982, 1994) and Baxter Magolda (2001b, 2008, 2009a), as well as the empirical findings from Baxter Magolda's longitudinal study (2001b, 2009a) and the qualitative longitudinal portion of the Wabash National Study of…
Descriptors: Self Actualization, Liberal Arts, College Students, Student Development
Clark, Burton R.; And Others – 1972
This is a study of differential student recruitment and of changes in student characteristics at 3 highly selective, distinguished liberal arts colleges; 3 church-related colleges; and 2 large public institutions. The findings indicate how students changed from institution to institution in relation to their characteristics at entrance. These…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Student Characteristics

Trent, James W.; Craise, Judith L. – Journal of Social Issues, 1967
The major thesis of this paper is that the intense political activism observed on some campuses is not pervasive and is representative of only a small proportion of college students in the US; and that the great majority of students today largely manifest the apathy and conformity that have characterized students in the past, rather than the kind…
Descriptors: Activism, Environmental Influences, Higher Education, Institutional Role

Toohey, Susan – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2002
Explores the issues that arise when development of personal attributes is identified as one of the goals of a new undergraduate medical program. Concludes that such personal learning should be assessed, but that the purpose should not be to certify competence but to harness the powerful effects of assessment onto an important aspect of practice…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Outcomes of Education, Student Characteristics