In this article, the author highlights the potential role of "futurism" in master of business administration (MBA) curricula and the conceivable offerings of futurism to business planners. This article serves as a corollary to educators in MBA business education and concerns to the nature of futurism, the benefits of futurism to…

The learning experiences questionnaire (LEQ; Schaub & Tokar, 2005) was used to examine learning experiences as they relate to SCCT (Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994) across the Holland (1997) RIASEC typology. In particular, differences in men's and women's career related learning experiences were examined. A sample of 319 undergraduates at a public…

Physical education has the potential to provide students with the means to achieve healthier lifestyles and obtain meaningful learning and social experiences. Unfortunately, not all students participate in physical education on a daily basis (Lowry, Wechsler, Kann, & Collins, 2001). This is due partially to the fact that many physical education…

The purpose of this study was to assess awareness and use of a university recreational trail. The authors used an Internet questionnaire developed by the university's Institutional Research Department, with questions derived from the Environmental Supports for Physical Activity Questionnaire and the National College Health Risk Behavior Survey…

When the AACSB/EBI Undergraduate Business Exit Survey (Survey) is administered to graduating business students, the results tend to be similar for all participating institutions. Of the 14 areas measured through the Survey, "placement and career services" receives the lowest ratings from students. Because the Survey ratings for graduating College…

Community college student characteristics are changing as an increasing number of traditional college students enroll in community colleges with the sole intention of transferring. This trend can place stress on a college, and perhaps the most effective way to manage this change is to study and understand who current students are. The current…

Many school-based research efforts require active parental consent for student participation. Maximizing rates of consent form return and agreement is an important issue, because sample representativeness may be compromised when these rates are low. This article compares two methods for obtaining active parental consent: return of consent forms in…

With the widespread use of web-based learning environments in the tertiary sector it is important to establish the usability of such environments for the target audience and their effectiveness in terms of meeting the educational objectives. However, a search of the literature has shown a scarcity of systematic evaluative studies of web-based…

Investigates the effect of conceptual change instruction on grade 11 students' understanding of respiration. The Respiration Concept Test was developed and used to test students' misconceptions. Results indicate that the conceptual change instruction that explicitly addressed students' misconceptions produced significantly greater achievement in…

Because employers want workers who can successfully run meetings and manage teams with diverse characteristics, conflict management is a skill that every business graduate should possess. The purpose of the study was to identify the most popular and effective ways that students used to manage conflicts when working on team projects. A survey was…

College and university administrators, as well as faculty members, are more likely to take responsibility for student learning if they believe that the assessment data represent their students and suggest specific actions for improvement. This study examined whether it is feasible to develop scalelets (i.e., focused measures, usually consisting of…

This study presents the results of a three-step project designed to: (1) identify what students perceive to be quality service as offered by instructors, (2) relate the dimensions identified to an appropriate survey instrument (the QISS) and pilot-test the instrument, and (3) survey a stratified representative sample of the undergraduate…

It is important to seek learners' own perceptions and preferences related to different least restrictive environment settings. To investigate learners' perceptions, a survey instrument was prepared with items based on literature, which did address learners' perceptions and preferences. Pilot data obtained from university students who had …

In today's Russia, the young people's and children's movement is quite widespread. There are more than 400,000 young people's and children's civic organizations on the different territorial levels. A survey was carried out in the city of Magnitogorsk in 2002 through the efforts of the Young People's Parliament of Leninskii Raion and with the…

In order to understand the current situation of environmental education in the secondary vocational schools in Shanghai, a survey was conducted among 1,495 students in eleven secondary vocational schools in Shanghai, focusing on five aspects, namely environmental awareness, environmental knowledge, environmental attitude, environmental skills, and…