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Zhang, Jizhi; Bohrnstedt, George; Zheng, Xiaying; Bai, Yifan; Yee, Darrick; Broer, Markus – American Institutes for Research, 2021
Filling the STEM pipeline from secondary schools to postsecondary institutions is essential for the nations' competitiveness in the 21st century. It is therefore crucial to motivate more high school students to consider entering one of the STEM fields and to prepare themselves by taking advanced coursework in STEM that will prime them for choosing…
Descriptors: College Students, Majors (Students), Course Selection (Students), STEM Education
Liu, Haiyan; Zhang, Zhiyong – Grantee Submission, 2021
Whether birds of a feather flock together or opposites attract is a classical research question in social and personality psychology. In most existing studies, correlation-based techniques are commonly used to study the similarity/dissimilarity among social entities. Social network data comprises two primary components: actors and the possible…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Friendship, Interpersonal Attraction, Correlation
Nubia Hewitt – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This research study utilized a critical race studies approach to explore the lived experiences of African American women undergraduate students at a predominantly White institution. The purpose of this study is to investigate challenges experienced by African American women at these institutions, and the support they require in order to develop a…
Descriptors: Females, African American Students, Undergraduate Students, Predominantly White Institutions
Shena R. Bowie-Grant – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Based on a need to understand African American women's mentorship experiences in senior leadership positions such as president, vice president, provost, and dean in community college settings, this qualitative descriptive study was conducted to inductively explore African American women's experiences in higher education. The research question was:…
Descriptors: Mentors, Equal Education, Student Diversity, Women Administrators
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Brittany Dees-Leek; Don W. Edgar – Journal of Human Sciences & Extension, 2021
Technology advances occur almost daily, and how information is shared constantly evolves. Educators must understand how their students prefer communicating related to coursework. By mapping social networks present in courses, it may allow educators to determine how students prefer to communicate and also determine if there are constant identities…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Network Analysis, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Colleges
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Chwialkowska, Agnieszka – Journal of Education and Work, 2020
Despite excellent education and a rich working experience in their home countries, skilled expatriates struggle to find employment that matches their qualifications. This article goes beyond the dominant stress and emotions' perspective on underemployment and presents the challenges of skilled migrant labour through the lens of the Common In-group…
Descriptors: Underemployment, Skilled Workers, Foreign Workers, Adjustment (to Environment)
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Dennen, Vanessa P.; Rutledge, Stacey A.; Bagdy, Lauren M. – American Journal of Education, 2020
This study examines the role of six popular social networking sites (SNSs)--Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Pinterest--in a high school setting. Students, teachers, and administrators were interviewed to learn how they use these SNSs to support a variety of functions in the school setting, including professional development,…
Descriptors: Role, Social Networks, Social Media, Independent Study
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Pulgar, Javier; Candia, Cristian; Leonardi, Paul M. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
For several decades, scholars have studied the role of cooperation and its outcomes in educational contexts. Yet we lack a complete understanding of how different instructional strategies impact the relationship between cooperation and learning. In this paper we present results from a field experiment with 82 first-year students in an introductory…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Physics, Problem Solving, College Freshmen
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Hodges, Lynette D.; Martin, Andrew J. – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2020
This paper examines how five students within a Bachelor of Sport and Exercise university WIL course developed learning opportunities that resulted in WIL being moved from the workplace to create authentic online initiatives during the COVID-19 restrictions. This exploratory research provides insights into the students' learning outcomes from…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Electronic Learning, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Pretti, T. Judene; Parrott, Patricia; Hoskyn, Katharine; Fannon, Anne-Marie; Church, Dana; Arsenault, Christine – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2020
This study explored the ways that work-integrated learning (WIL) influences the development of entrepreneurs. Seven alumni from Canada and the United Kingdom, who experienced differing forms of WIL during their degree, participated in qualitative in-depth interviews and provided rich pictures. A "rich picture" is a pictorial…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Entrepreneurship, Alumni, Cross Cultural Studies
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Almeda, Ma. Victoria; Baker, Ryan S. – Journal of Educational Data Mining, 2020
Given the increasing need for skilled workers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), there is a burgeoning interest to encourage young students to pursue a career in STEM fields. Middle school is an opportune time to guide students' interests towards STEM disciplines, as they begin to think about and plan for their career…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Predictor Variables, STEM Education, Science Careers
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Segarra, Verónica A.; Vega, Leticia R.; Primus, Clara; Etson, Candice; Guillory, Ashley N.; Edwards, Ashanti; Flores, Sonia C.; Fry, Catherine; Ingram, Susan L.; Lawson, Mark; McGee, Richard; Paxson, Stephanie; Phelan, Laura; Suggs, Kirsta; Vuong, Elizabeth; Hammonds-Odie, Latanya; Leibowitz, Michael J.; Zavala, MariaElena; Lujan, J. Luis; Ramirez-Alvarado, Marina – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2020
Diversity-focused committees continue to play essential roles in the efforts of professional scientific societies to foster inclusion and facilitate the professional development of underrepresented minority (URM) young scientists in their respective scientific disciplines. Until recently, the efforts of these committees have remained independent…
Descriptors: Professional Associations, Inclusion, Travel, Scientists
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Pérez-Macías, Noemí; Fernández-Fernández, José- Luis; Rúa Vieites, Antonio – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
There is a scarcity of research on the influence of structural -network ties (NT)-, cognitive -shared languages (SL) and shared visions (SV)- social capital (SC) dimensions on online students' entrepreneurial intentions (EI). This paper, drawing on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), examines this influence on a sample of 302 Spanish online…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Social Networks, Computer Mediated Communication, Social Capital
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Caballero, Gloria; Álvarez-González, Paula; López-Miguens, María Jesús – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
One of the challenges that today's universities face is to ensure that their graduates find employment in line with their attributes. University students' employability capital depends on many personal factors in individuals such as human capital, social capital, cultural capital and psychological capital. However, there is no consensus on how to…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Graduate Students, Test Construction, Test Validity
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Gaftandzhieva, Silvia; Doneva, Rositsa – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2020
Nowadays, social networking is becoming a more and more powerful tool for students for communication, sharing of information and discussions on various topics. The study presented in this article investigates the extent to which teachers from different European countries use social networking sites in their teaching practice for different purposes…
Descriptors: Social Networks, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Social Media
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