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Determinants of Postgraduate Thesis Completion: Do Academic Stress and Burnout Play a Role?
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Felix Senyametor; Might Kojo Abreh; Vincent Domaley; Clara Araba Mills; John Ahorsu-Walker – Africa Education Review, 2022
Postgraduate students often find work and thesis preparation demands compelling which in turn affect their thesis completion. The authors conducted a descriptive survey with a sample of 161 graduate thesis candidates (representing a 57% data collection return rate) using the census of the target population. Three scales were used to measure…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Burnout, Stress Variables
Metasynthesis of In-Service Professional Development Research: Features Associated with Positive Educator and Student Outcomes
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Dunst, Carl J.; Bruder, Mary Beth; Hamby, Deborah W. – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
Findings from a metasynthesis of 15 research reviews of in service professional development to improve or change teacher content knowledge and practice and student/child knowledge and behavior are described. The research reviews included 550 studies of more than 50,000 early intervention, preschool, elementary, and secondary education teachers,…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Knowledge Level, Correlation
Generating New Knowledge by Retrieving Information.
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Davies, Roy – Journal of Documentation, 1990
Discusses how new knowledge may be generated by information retrieval techniques on bibliographic databases. Examples from medical research are used to illustrate the possibility of making discoveries by synthesizing the literature; hidden correlations between factors are discussed; and the creative use of information retrieval systems is…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Correlation, Information Retrieval, Medical Research
Development of a Core Library Collection for Library Automation.
Dawson, Alma; And Others – 1989
This project was undertaken to develop a methodology for identifying a core literature collection to support a comprehensive, multi-faceted program for the education of library computer systems specialists. The objectives of the study were to create a set of ranked lists of relevant monographs and serials, and to develop a reliable strategy for…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Bibliometrics, Correlation, Higher Education
Semi-Automatic Determination of Citation Relevancy: User Evaluation.
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Huffman, G. David – Information Processing and Management, 1990
Discussion of online bibliographic database searches focuses on a software system, SORT-AID/SABRE, that ranks retrieved citations in terms of relevance. Results of a comprehensive user evaluation of the relevance ranking procedure to determine its effectiveness are presented, and implications for future work are suggested. (10 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Citations (References), Computer Software, Correlation
The Yield of Bibliographic Databases.
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Kowalski, Kazimierz; Hackett, Timothy P. – Library and Information Science Research, 1992
Demonstrates a means for estimating the number of retrieved items using well-established selective dissemination of information (SDI) profiles in the SCI, INSPEC, ISMEC, CAS, and PASCAL databases. A correlation between individual database size and number of retrieved documents in technical fields is also examined. (17 references) (LAE)
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Information Retrieval