Given the critical role of National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy (NBCOT) certification in occupational therapy (OT) practice, this study examined predictors of NBCOT examination success to inform program improvement. Analyzing data from 59 Master of Science in Occupational Therapy (MSOT) graduates at a single institution over…

This study explores how predictive different indicators are for high school graduation, college enrollment, and degree completion for different groups of English Learners. Using these indicators can improve schools' ability to understand the needs of English Learners, enabling them to provide better support and increase students' educational…

California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB) successfully completed a six-year initiative (including a no-cost extension in its final year) funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Promoting Post-Baccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans (PPOHA) program (Award No. P031M190029; $2.99 million). The project aimed to expand graduate…

Every year, the Student Transitions Project (STP) collects post-secondary enrolment and credential completion data from the twenty-five British Columbia (B.C.) public post-secondary institutions and links this data to secondary school enrolment information via encrypted personal education numbers (PENs). Now comprising 22 complete academic years…

Effective teamwork is a crucial transferrable skill for students' learning experience during their studies and future careers. Understanding the making of effective teams, how teams differ from mere groups of individuals, and the potential value and challenges of diversity for team performance is essential for students as current and future team…

There is currently little physics education literature examining thinking and learning in graduate education and even less literature characterizing problem solving among physics graduate students despite this being an essential professional skill for physicists. Given reports of discrepancies between physics problem solving in the undergraduate…

This paper uses the framework of transition as "becoming" to explore what young people learned from participating in a post-secondary transition program that was co-designed by young people. The 9-week youth participatory action research (YPAR) involved six staff collaborators (SCs) and seven youth collaborators (YCs). Data comprised…

The Black Lives Matter movement broke open new spaces to interrogate racism and coloniality in the international aid sector and reinvigorated antiracist and decolonial scholarship in higher education. In this essay, we trace connections between mounting critiques of international aid and the comparative and international higher education programs…

This study examines the prevailing debates surrounding pre-graduation publishing and investigates the frequency of graduates including previously published material in a thesis or dissertation at one university. The goal of the study was to ascertain where library services outreach could best be targeted to help thesis and dissertation writing…

This article explores the concept of university success from the perspective of 95 Spanish graduates (62.1% women and 37.9% men) with different types of disabilities, identifying situations in which the participants felt that they were successful at university. The data of this qualitative study were gathered through a semi-structured interview…

Enrollment management (EM) was established as an area of study about 50 years ago, yet the first definition of graduate enrollment management (GEM) only emerged in 2014. In the past decade, despite pressure to increase graduate enrollments to address institutions' budget challenges and impending undergraduate enrollment declines, few empirical…

This work focuses on the teacher training case-based for preventing the refugee students' marginalisation. Some key-elements in prevention of marginalisation in school are presented in the first part: the holistic descriptive model and the difficulty in resorting to practical-based strategies for teachers training. A professional research study…

Background: Individuals with intellectual disability in the United States have historically been underemployed due to societally constructed barriers. Recently, more individuals with intellectual disability have been attending Inclusive Postsecondary Education (IPSE) programmes, which have contributed to improving their employment outcomes.…

Purpose: The construction industry commonly experiences scheduling problems that lead to costly delays, rework, and other negative outcomes. While construction scheduling is a core subject in higher education, recent graduates often struggle to grasp the complexities of scheduling processes. This paper aims to identify specific construction…

A master's thesis is a unique blend of independent work and shared responsibility between the supervisor and the student. While the crucial roles of thesis supervisors and institutional environments are widely acknowledged, it is the students' proactive behaviours and actions that hold the key to shaping the level of support they receive and the…