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Retrospection on a baccalaureate degree in mid-life: What does it mean in a woman's life?
(2002)
A national higher education public policy agenda enmeshed in economic issues threatens to diminish access and disregard the baccalaureate educational needs of women in midlife. The numbers of adult women attaining bachelor's ...
An examination of career longevity, career achievement, and Machiavellian attitudes of engineers and analysts in an international engineering and communications organization.
(2001)
There are implications for research and practice related to the explanations. The results of this study provide researchers with important information concerning the Machiavellian construct and the nature of the relationship ...
Adults returning to college.
(2005)
The purpose of this study was to determine adult student expectations in relationship to educational outcomes and benefits experienced both during the process of and after obtaining the baccalaureate degree. Because of the ...
A study of barriers and facilitators to participation in distance higher education by working engineers.
(1998)
Recommendations: Conduct a study of nonparticipation; incorporate new DE participation barriers and facilitators into revised engineering DE questionnaires. Use refined DF model Z234T with short questionnaire as DE ...
Vestiges of glory: Iraq's universities and female students in the midst of tyranny, sanctions and war.
(2006)
This historical dissertation examines the intersectionality of sanctions, war and autocratic rule as it manifested itself on Iraqi university campuses and, more specifically, the impact on female students. While much has ...
Patterns of change and learning in the practices of selected Oklahoma architects.
(1997)
Implications for educators are that experience serves as the organizing principle for learning in professional practice and that customs and work conditions peculiar to each profession ultimately color the process of change ...
Relationships among self-efficacy, anxiety, perceptions of clinical instructor effectiveness and senior baccalaureate nursing students' perceptions of learning in the clinical environment.
(1997)
Findings. Analyses revealed that the variable most predictive of students' perceptions of learning in the clinical environment were their beliefs of nursing self-efficacy. Significant correlations were also found between ...
Students with learning disabilities in the community college: Their goals, issues, challenges and successes.
(2007)
The LD students related both positive and negative experiences during their education at the community college, and obtaining an Associate's degree was the goal cited most frequently. Overall, the LD students were satisfied ...
Dancing on the edge: International students' transformative journeys in the United States of America.
(2007)
This study explored international students' experiences of studying in the United States, including the motives that brought them to the United States, the challenges they confronted, and the learning and development ...
A framework for learner-instructor interaction in the online, distance education environment.
(2003)
Current literature argues that learner-instructor interaction is important in distance education, but fails to describe this interaction in a way that provides a theoretical or empirical basis for understanding its ...