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Corbett, Frank, Jr.; Paquette, Kelli R. – Education, 2011
This quantitative study was designed to examine the beliefs of faculty mentors and their Teaching Associates and Graduate Assistants. A myriad of academic researchers have consistently suggested that 'mentoring' is not only complex but also a time-consuming activity that contributes to the learning process (Gaskin, Lumpkin, & Tennant, 2003;…
Descriptors: Mentors, College Faculty, Teaching Assistants, Graduate Students
Erginer, Ergin – Education, 2011
In recent years, with the influence of the constructivist perspective, the examination of students' own attitudes to learning processes have become important. Students' perception of the world, and their explanation of their learning experiences shapes their learning needs in the future. Therefore, it will be helpful for instructors to learn how…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Learning Processes, Opinions, Visual Aids
Guyette, Roger; Piotrowski, Chris – Education, 2010
Business ethics is presently a major component of the business school curriculum. Although there has been much attention focused on the impact of such coursework on instilling ethical decision-making (Nguyen et al., 2008), there is sparse research on how business students view the major ethical principles that serve as the foundation of business…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Ethics, Educational Principles, Business Education
Celikoz, Nadir – Education, 2010
The purpose of this study is to investigate some personal and familial factors that affect overall academic motivation levels of candidate preschool teachers. The study group of this research consists of 285 students attending the child development and preschool education department at Selcuk University Faculty of Vocational Education in the…
Descriptors: Siblings, Preschool Education, Incentives, Job Search Methods
Lei, Simon A. – Education, 2010
The physical design of classrooms, including studios, laboratories, auditoriums, and other indoor environments, can have a profound impact on student learning and subsequent overall ratings (student evaluations) of college instructors. Many college classrooms have been conventionally designed in the shape of a square or a rectangle, with…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Laboratories, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Classroom Design
Thompson, Franklin T.; Austin, William P. – Education, 2010
This study utilized a data set of categorical responses measuring the gender role views of students (N = 701) from a prestigious, Midwestern, all-male, Catholic high school. Incongruence between student self-perceptions and the realities of gender role miseducation and the embracement of sexist ideology were readily apparent. Findings suggest that…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Catholic Schools, Sex Role, Males
Oguz-Duran, Nagihan; Yuksel, Asuman – Education, 2010
The purpose of this study was to investigate the roles of coping humour and gender in the college adjustment of Turkish freshmen. Considering greater happiness and academic achievement as predictors of initial college adjustment, data were gathered from a sample of 574 students using the Subjective Well-Being Scale (SWS) and the Coping Humour…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Student Adjustment, Coping, Measures (Individuals)
Oguz-Duran, Nagihan – Education, 2010
Considering the coping effect and health connections of diary-keeping behaviour, the purpose of the present study was to investigate diary-keeping in relation to happiness and gender among Turkish teacher trainees. A sample of 417 teacher trainees between the ages of 18 and 29 was surveyed. Happiness was considered as consisting of positive and…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Females, Males, Gender Differences
Mills, Roxanne – Education, 2010
This study investigated the impact of an Internet based program designed to improve basic writing skills on grammar and punctuation scores on an English Competency Test. Three groups in a small Midwestern university's freshmen composition class were tested: a control group (Test Group 1), which did not use the program; and two treatment groups:…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Freshman Composition, Basic Writing, Punctuation
Ofoegbu, Felicia I. – Education, 2009
The formal school system is bedeviled with many problems some of which have defied satisfactory solutions. One major problem plaguing the Nigerian education system is large scale examination malpractice. The aim of the study is to find out the role of parents in academia in perpetrating and perpetuating examination malpractice. The population of…
Descriptors: Parent Role, Integrity, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries
Aydogan, Ismail – Education, 2009
The problem of the study centers on determining the level to which such latent functions of education are materialized for university graduates. The study was conducted on a total of 231 graduate students undertaking a thesis or non-thesis Master's degree at Erciyes University School of Social Sciences. Data was collected by using a questionnaire…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Questionnaires, Social Status
Somunoglu, Sinem; Unalan, Demet; Dikmetas, Elif; Erdem, Ramazan – Education, 2009
Aim: This survey was led to image the education, student profiles and perspectives of the jobs of students who were trained in the programming of Medical Documentation and Secretaryship (MDS) and Medical Laboratory Technician (MLT) under the four different universities' departments of Health Services Vocational College (HSVC) in Turkey the during…
Descriptors: Health Services, Multidimensional Scaling, Foreign Countries, Profiles
Akinoglu, Orhan – Education, 2009
The purpose of this study is to investigate history teacher trainees' views and perceptions of the functions of history education. 36 teacher trainees participated in the study. All of the participants were registered to the History Education masters degree (without dissertation), within the Secondary Education Social Sciences discipline at…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Educational Objectives, Preservice Teachers, Graduate Students
Caliskan, Nihat – Education, 2009
The perception form of the body language behaviours of the session chairs by disputants affects the efficiency of the process. Therefore, it is important to determine the effects of the mimic, gesture, physical appearance and tonality and accent of the chairs on disputants. That research was conducted to clarify how the disputants perceive the…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Debate, Administrators, Gender Differences
Yoo, Seung-Yoeun – Education, 2009
This study has identified the effectiveness of using portfolios for the prospective teachers as a tool of an explicit, reflective, and instructional approach in science education. Early childhood science method courses in a college for unskilled early childhood teachers influence their theory and practice toward science teaching. It describes…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Portfolios (Background Materials), Preservice Teachers, Early Childhood Education