Context: Professional master's athletic training students are at high risk for changes in mood state and an increase in burnout levels during an academic semester due to stressors including academic workload, clinical expectations, and/or research projects, among other factors. Objective: To determine mood states and burnout levels among…

Online teaching and learning has evolved over the past two decades into a viable and respected means to higher education, with many undergraduate and graduate courses now offered in this format. While the popularity of online coursework has resulted in increased online enrollment and offerings, often the course design, strategy selection, student…

This chapter presents findings from a recently conducted process for obtaining Accounting Advisory Board (AAB) input related to Master of Accountancy curriculum of one university. Board members represent both large and small public accounting firms as well as corporate offices of Fortune 500 companies and non-profit organizations. AAB input…

The hiring of new faculty members in counselor education programs can be complicated by the available pool of qualified graduates with doctoral degrees in counselor education and supervision, as required by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) for core faculty status. A pipeline problem for faculty…

This quantitative portion of a convergent complementarity, mixed-methods, exploratory study describes the design and implementation of a 5-week preservice teacher professional development (PD) experience and the associated Metacognitive Awareness Inventory (MAI) measures before and after the experience. The PD experience was designed to explicitly…

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to better understand the experiences faced by students during the application process for master's degree programs in speech-language pathology. Method: Data were collected through administering an online survey to 365 volunteers who had applied to master's degree programs in speech-language pathology. Survey…

Master's students are expected to be self-regulating and independent learners. Dialogic feedback has been identified as one way of promoting such independence. There continues to be concern about the extent to which master's students are achieving this level of functioning. This study aimed to identify feedback practices and contexts which…

Context: Accreditation competencies have been updated to include interprofessional education (IPE) as a required focus for health care students. While the development and implementation of IPE learning activities have been documented in other professions, there is a dearth of information describing didactic integration of IPE within athletic…

Accurately predicting which students are best suited for graduate programs is beneficial to both students and colleges. In this paper, we propose a quantitative machine learning approach to predict an applicant's potential performance in the graduate program. Our work is based on a real world dataset consisting of MS in CS [Master of Science in…

In order to maintain the integrity of the counseling profession and protect clients from potential harm, counselor educators must engage in appropriate gatekeeping practices. While remediation remains an essential component of counselor educators? gatekeeping responsibilities, counselor education lacks consensus on the best way to approach the…

This qualitative telling case study was situated within a broader project, which explored how the research participants modified their teaching after having completed their master's program. We investigated reflective stance of a teacher-practitioner who was a graduate of a Master's Literacy Specialist program, which promoted reflective teaching…

Objective: To describe the creation of an educational podcast with 'living cases' of older adults to support students' learning on a gerontology course and report on students' evaluation of the project. Setting: Gerontology course in a graduate programme. Method: We developed a podcast series based on interviews with older adults in the community…

Context: Health care education programs require interprofessional education (IPE) as a curricular requirement to prepare students for collaborative practice upon entrance to the field of health care. However, there are still barriers to integrating IPE, and there is a need for more research regarding athletic training student perceptions and…

Purpose: The study aims to explore how the collective representations of stakeholders associated with an Executive MBA (EMBA) apprenticeship are conceptualised, and what value elements are perceived as relevant for personal, professional and organisational development. Design/methodology/approach: Forty stakeholders participated in a mixed…

Personal approaches to learning in Higher Education are acknowledged to offer an engaging and motivating approach to learning. This article argues that they can also enable students to learn more effectively, and apply this learning to their professional lives. Previous research has suggested that three of the most difficult facets of Master's…