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Romero-Ivanova, Christina – Higher Education Studies, 2022
This article discusses findings from the qualitative research study which was conducted at a K-12 parochial school in Midwestern city. The study was conducted to understand how first and second graders who were located in one particular educational setting, with reading levels that ranged from low to high in a split classroom, made meanings from…
Descriptors: Religious Schools, Grade 1, Grade 2, Reading Comprehension
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Rizzo, Stephanie; Tribble, Dana J.; Nadelson, Louis S. – Higher Education Studies, 2021
College students' interactions with campus leaders is critical to their success, particularly in situations of distress. Yet, little is known about college students' knowledge, perceptions, and identification of campus administrators, faculty members, and staff as leaders and their interactions with these campus leaders. To fill the gap in the…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Attitudes, College Administration, Leadership Role
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Chen, Sirong; Zhang, Mu – Higher Education Studies, 2020
At present, it is a common phenomenon in colleges and universities all over the world to carry out innovation and entrepreneurship education. This article takes the graduate students of tourism management major as the research object, and explores the theory and practice of cultivating the innovative entrepreneurship consciousness of tourism…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Tourism
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Beggs, Chris; Martin, Barbara N. – Higher Education Studies, 2022
Mental health and attainment gaps comprise crises on university campuses, especially for first-generation and low-income students. Despite the heritage of spirituality and religious foundations of America's colleges, current norms have rendered candid discussions of spirituality to be mostly nonexistent. Despite literature linking spirituality…
Descriptors: Well Being, Academic Achievement, Spiritual Development, Correlation
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Badger, James – Higher Education Studies, 2019
The attention to fostering learners' critical thinking and creativity skills in secondary school and college students is growing in Western and non-Western countries. This study investigated the integration of a creativity and critical thinking course in an Intensive English Programs (IEP) to determine how the same course may contribute to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Foreign Students
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Strygacz, Ivan; Sthub, Avraham – Higher Education Studies, 2018
Every year, countless projects are finished late, go over budget or end up being cancelled, often because their project managers and project teams lack the necessary tools and techniques to support their decision-making. Students of project management courses around the world have difficulty integrating the different knowledge areas of project…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Simulation, Teaching Methods, Decision Making
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From, Jorgen – Higher Education Studies, 2017
The fact that the education provided by universities and university colleges is becoming ever more digitalized has resulted in new challenges for university teachers in providing high-quality teaching and adapting to the needs of changing student populations. Digitalization has increasingly introduced a new dimension in teachers' pedagogical…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Technological Literacy, Teaching Methods
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Lin, Xi – Higher Education Studies, 2016
The present study is a review of the literature concerning the barriers and challenges of female adult students enrolled in colleges and universities in the United States. Findings indicated that the commitments of multiple roles, lower level of self-confidence, and insufficient family and social support were the most significant variables related…
Descriptors: Barriers, Females, Adult Students, Higher Education
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Lea, Baratz; Sara, Hauptman – Higher Education Studies, 2012
The literature on Teacher's Guides combines knowledge of discipline-related content and pedagogy-related content in reference to the objectives and contents of the Ministry of Education curriculum. It serves as a self-study tool that provides guidelines of how to teach in light of the various changing goals and needs of the teacher. The corpus on…
Descriptors: Student Teacher Attitudes, Guidelines, Expectation, Teaching Guides
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Wyatt, Jeannette B.; Bloemker, Geraldine A. – Higher Education Studies, 2013
First year college students are challenged both socially and academically in their transition to college life. The literature suggests that social and emotional competence skills can help with this transition. This article describes the course content for a University freshman seminar that teaches skills in social and emotional competence in order…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Interpersonal Competence, Emotional Development, Social Development
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Chou, Pao-Nan – Higher Education Studies, 2012
In order to promote meaningful learning in the online discussion board, this study attempted to identify key factors that affect the online discussion by a literature review and propose an innovative instructional framework to deal with those factors. Through the literature review, five factors were identified. An innovative instructional…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Strategies, Discussion, Computer Mediated Communication
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de Araujo, Abrahao Andre – Higher Education Studies, 2011
This article is a review of the literature concerning the adjustment issues experienced by international students enrolled in American colleges and universities. Convergent findings indicated that English fluency, social support, length of stay in the U.S., perceived discrimination or prejudice, establishing relationships with Americans, and…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Student Adjustment, Foreign Students, English (Second Language)
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Ali, Holi Ibrahim Holi; Al Ajmi, Ahmed Ali Saleh – Higher Education Studies, 2013
The use of student ratings to measure instructors' teaching performance and effectiveness in tertiary education has been an important but controversial tool in the improvement of teaching quality during the past few decades. This is an attempt to explore non-instructional factors of student evaluations by discussing and reviewing relevant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, College Students, Semi Structured Interviews
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Judson, Kimberly M.; Taylor, Steven A. – Higher Education Studies, 2014
Universities in the United States today often proudly proclaim achievements in student satisfaction across their marketing communications. The marketing promise is that a student will be happy and satisfied upon graduation if tuition dollars are paid to a specific university. Such claims are often supported with promises of greater employability…
Descriptors: Marketing, Higher Education, Salesmanship, Guidelines