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Xiujuan Sun – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
Drawing upon the mutually constitutive notions of possible selves and agency, this study illuminates how maintaining a future orientation in doctoral education acts to supply candidates with a pivotal sense of direction and drive their experimentation with disparate pathways to realise their academic career aspirations. In-depth analysis of two…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Guided Pathways, Occupational Aspiration, Personal Autonomy
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Juuso Henrik Nieminen – Studies in Higher Education, 2025
Assessment of student learning is commonly understood as a seemingly objective measurement of learning outcomes. It is seen as fair that assessment targets students' abilities -- not their identities or personalities. This idea fails to acknowledge how assessment transforms its object, the students, often in unintended ways. While higher education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Evaluation, Self Concept
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Helen Donaghue; Gill Adams – Studies in Continuing Education, 2025
It is widely recognised that an important aspect of doctoral study is the development of a researcher identity. However, little is known about how to support this. Although previous research has highlighted the importance of discursive engagement for researcher identity development, no studies examine talk or discuss how identities are constructed…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Self Concept, Student Research, Student Development
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Alexandra Maftei; Tina Vrabie – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2025
The present cross-sectional study examined some of the factors associated with psychological distress among students enrolled in Bachelor's and Master's programs. We investigated the roles of age, academic performance, creativity, cognitive flexibility, educational mattering, and anti-mattering and their roles when discussing participants'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Masters Programs