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Kovacevic, Milan – Curriculum Journal, 2022
Whether a broad undergraduate curriculum prepares students well for academic and professional specialization is a much-debated question. This discussion is particularly relevant in the context of European liberal arts bachelor's programmes, which recently re-emerged as an exception to the continental norm of specialized undergraduate curricula.…
Descriptors: Liberal Arts, Masters Programs, Graduate Students, Dropout Rate
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Lieselotte Postmes; Renske de Kleijn; Rianne Bouwmeester; Marieke van der Schaaf – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2025
Students are increasingly expected to take up proactive roles in feedback processes. While most feedback research focuses on asking, receiving, and engaging with feedback, some suggest that students must also proactively shape their feedback environment. This study explored graduate life science master's students' first impressions of a dialogue…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Educational Environment, Feedback (Response), Graduate Students
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Wolbert, Lynne; Ünlüsoy, Asli – Ethics and Education, 2023
This article describes the experience of two educators in a master program in Pedagogy in the Netherlands. Their experience is of an online gathering with students and educators that took place during the COVID-19 pandemic. Students and educators were not allowed to meet face-to-face, thus resorted to online education. What happened at that online…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Masters Programs, Teachers, Teacher Education
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Martinetti, Alberto – Education Sciences, 2020
Our ever-changing and developing society constantly requires professions that did not exist 20 years ago. Students have to become professionals capable of steering their own career development and controlling their own learning process, at university and in their future profession. In order to reach these goals, lecturers have to understand the…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Masters Programs, Graduate Students, Foreign Countries
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Lugthart, Sarah; van Dartel, Michel – European Journal of STEM Education, 2021
Situated learning could benefit STEAM education because both aim to develop skills that can deal with complex real-life situations. Although ample research has been conducted into situated learning within higher vocational education in general, there exists little research on the implementation of the educational approach in STEAM education…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Art Education, Situated Learning, Authentic Learning
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Grooters, Saskia; Zaal, Emma L.; Gerkema, Menno P. – Tuning Journal for Higher Education, 2021
A strong theoretical approach with a specific focus on disciplinary research characterizes the common science master's education in the Netherlands. However, a work-based learning (WBL) approach may as well be expedient and suitable for science education at master's level. In this paper, a case study is presented of a WBL-program designed for an…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Science Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Masters Programs
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Nguyen, Ha; Gijlers, Hannie; Pisoni, Galena – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of the study is to determine how students perceive groupwork and identify patterns of less successful groups in online challenge-based learning. Design/methodology/approach: This study involved 29 university students working in nine teams in an online challenge-based course. The authors applied Volet's (2001) Student Appraisal…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Electronic Learning, Problem Based Learning, Online Courses
Graduate Management Admission Council, 2021
Each month, the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) surveys a random sample of individuals who three months prior registered on mba.com--the GMAC™ website for prospective graduate business students. Their survey responses provide an inside look into the decision-making process of people currently considering applying to a graduate…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Graduate Study, Business Administration Education, Administrator Education
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Radovic, Slaviša; Firssova, Olga; Hummel, Hans G. K.; Vermeulen, Marjan – Studies in Continuing Education, 2023
Although reflection has been characterised as a personal process, increased attention has been given to how the social context can enhance it. The present article examines how different levels of collaborative reflection influence learning processes and outcomes in higher education. We used a triangulation of quantitative and qualitative research…
Descriptors: Reflection, Cooperation, Computer Mediated Communication, Educational Technology
Graduate Management Admission Council, 2019
Each month, the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) surveys a random sample of individuals who three months prior registered on mba.com--the GMAC™ website for prospective graduate business students. Their survey responses provide an inside look into the decision-making process of people currently considering applying to a graduate…
Descriptors: Occupational Aspiration, Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Business Administration Education
Graduate Management Admission Council, 2020
Each month, the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) surveys a random sample of individuals who three months prior registered on mba.com--the GMAC™ website for prospective graduate business students. Their survey responses provide an inside look into the decision-making process of people currently considering applying to a graduate…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Graduate Study, Business Administration Education, Administrator Education
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Steur, Jessica; Jansen, Ellen; Hofman, Adriaan – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2016
Our research aims to contribute to the body of knowledge on graduateness by proposing a model that explicates the expected level performance of graduates. In this study, the model is elaborated for 3 graduateness domains: reflective thinking, scholarship, and moral citizenship. We used data on students' perceived abilities in these domains that…
Descriptors: Intellectual Development, Masters Programs, Graduate Students, Academic Achievement
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van Dooren, Elise; Boshuizen, Els; van Merriënboer, Jeroen; Asselbergs, Thijs; van Dorst, Machiel – Design and Technology Education, 2020
The aim of design education is that students learn to think and act like designers. However, the focus in the design studio is mainly on the design product, whereas the 'why and how' of the design process are barely addressed. A risk of learning by performing real-life tasks without addressing the skills involved, that is, without receiving…
Descriptors: Design, Case Studies, Teaching Methods, Guidelines
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van Heijst, Hennie; de Jong, Frank P. C. M.; Van Aalst, Jan; De Hoog, Natascha; Kirschner, Paul A. – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2019
This study describes the socio-cognitive dynamics of collaborative online knowledge-building discourse among Dutch Master of Education students from the perspective of openness. A socio-cognitive openness framework consisting of four social and four cognitive components was used to analyze contributions to online collective knowledge building…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cooperative Learning, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Kurysheva, Anastasia; van Rijen, Harold V. M.; Dilaver, Gönül – Tertiary Education and Management, 2019
In this study, we investigated the currently applied selective admission criteria and tools of the two-year research master's programs of both the Graduate Schools of Life Sciences and Natural Sciences of Utrecht University (the Netherlands). In addition, we evaluated their transparency to applicants. Both admissions staff members and applicants…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, Admission Criteria, Masters Programs, Graduate Study
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