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&quot;The Endless Appetite&quot;: Honors Education and the Spirit of the Humanities
Author: Martino, Andrew
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Honors Curriculum,Humanities,Role of Education,Educational Objectives,Educational Philosophy,Lifelong Learning,Career Readiness,Models,Social Change,Educational Benefits,Higher Education

In a world that no longer privileges thinking, Andrew Martino writes here that we might need to consider what we are asking of our students--and why--when we ask them to think. This article presents a declaration of how Martino thinks honors education can serve as a resistant force against the increasing encroachment of a wholly utilitarian concept of education. With the costs of higher education on the rise, the call to justify getting a college degree has been indissolubly linked to the ability to obtain a job once the student graduates. He points out that what has been lost along the way is the justification of getting an education for the sake of enriching one's life and one's community, a model of education that is increasingly available only to the privileged. He strongly supports the position that the humanities have taken the brunt of criticism aimed at such a justification, but the jobs-based model that so preoccupies social discourse is a misguided objective that will eventually turn our work force into semi-literate specialists whose main task is to keep the economy moving. Martino argues that if we continue to equate education with use value, then we are headed toward an intellectual and creative abyss; by privileging use value in education, we do grave harm to our students and communities. The article closes by saying that we get the society we deserve, and, if we have a society filled with nothing more than skilled workers and middle-managers, then no one will be able to lead us into the future in meaningful and thought-provoking ways.
The Egalitarianism of Honors at a Polytechnic University
Author: Coley, Soraya M.
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Honors Curriculum,Program Descriptions,Institutional Characteristics,Institutional Mission,School Culture,College Programs

The Kellogg Honors College (KHC) is a distinctive community within Cal Poly Pomona (CPP), a public university in Southern California and one of twenty-three universities in the California State University (CSU) system. With over 22,000 students, CPP is the second-largest polytechnic university in the United States. The university's goal is to provide a quality education that is accessible to California's general population. It is known for academic excellence, hands-on education, and affordable fees. Consequently, CPP is a destination for motivated and talented students from a diverse local population. Honors students choose CPP instead of more elite, less accessible schools for a variety of reasons that include strong ties to the region, family responsibilities, and lack of financial resources. They come seeking opportunities and a better life, and they feel comfortable committing to an inclusive, diverse university that they have known about for much of their lives. This article provides a description, of CPP, the values it holds dear, the school motto, and the culture of its honors education program.
An American Honors Program in the Arab Gulf
Author: Yyelland, Byrad
Date: 2012-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,College Programs,Honors Curriculum,Undergraduate Study,Educational Objectives,Student Characteristics,Program Descriptions,Campuses,Institutional Characteristics,Barriers,Success,Educational Practices,Strategic Planning

The first Western honors program to be established in the Arab Gulf is offered in Doha, Qatar, on a small satellite campus of an American university. Doha is the capital city of Qatar, a sovereign Arab state physically located on a small peninsula bordering Saudi Arabia in the south and jutting into the Persian Gulf. With a population of only 1.7 million, roughly 11% of whom are Qatar nationals (according to the 2010 Qatar Census), Qatar &quot;ranks as the world's richest country per capita,&quot; due primarily to wise investment and control of &quot;the third largest reserves of natural gas in the world&quot; (Greenfield). Qatar's ruling monarchy, the Al-Thani family, has strongly supported education and research in the nation by inviting top-ranked institutions from around the world to set up campuses in Qatar. One testament to the success of this initiative is that 70% of Qatar's population had attained a secondary degree by 2010 (Statistics Authority and the Diplomatic Institute). Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of the Arts was the first external institution invited to Qatar due to its ranking as the #1 American public school of art and design. Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar (VCUQatar) became the first Western university to offer an undergraduate honors program in this part of the world.
Honors as Whole-Person Education
Author: Wilson, William M.
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Honors Curriculum,Educational Experience,Student Development,Holistic Approach,College Programs

The Oral Roberts University Honors Program attracts a significant number of students each year, both as incoming freshmen and currently enrolled students, seeking a richer academic experience. While the honors program offers a higher-level academic challenge, its value lies beyond what is simply learned in the classroom. The program contributes to the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of its students, but its greatest value lies in its ability to synthesize these components into a whole-person education that is greater than the sum of its parts.
Advancing Humanity through Honors
Author: Rao, Michael
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Honors Curriculum,Humanities,Higher Education,Role of Education,World Views,Career Readiness,Educational Benefits,Educational Objectives

In February of 1967, newly elected Governor Ronald Reagan delivered a speech about California's austere budget in which he chided the &quot;intellectual luxury&quot; of higher education as something that could lead to &quot;economic ruin&quot; if unchecked. &quot;Taxpayers shouldn't be subsidizing intellectual curiosity,&quot; Gov. Reagan decreed. Thus began in California, and soon the rest of the nation, a historic conversation about the role of higher education: Do we exist to open minds to the world or open doors to a job?
Leveraging Schools Systems as a Locus for Disaster Risk Reduction in Zimbabwe
Author: Mutsau, Shepard
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Risk Management,Natural Disasters,Poverty,At Risk Persons,School Role,School Community Relationship,Curriculum,Elementary Secondary Education,Higher Education

Disasters have become a déjàvu in many societies globally. The interaction between climate change and the ever increasing levels of poverty increase community vulnerability to disasters which weaken community resilience to disaster impacts. Such a scenario demands development practitioners, planners and scholarship to find novel ways of increasing community resilience to the ever increasing threat. This study focused on how school systems as key societal institutions may be maximally utilized to increase disaster risk reduction in communities. Societal institutions are primary influencers of norms, values, and behaviors in people. After family, the school is the second most significant primary socializing institution responsible for the development of people's attitude, knowledge, behaviors specific skills and values to ensure social conformity. This study examined the potential for leveraging school systems as a locus for increasing disaster risk reduction in vulnerable communities in Zimbabwe. The study found that there are many positive outcomes which can be realised if disaster risk reduction is mainstreamed through the education school systems in Zimbabwe. The distribution of schools across Zimbabwe, its ability to target the mass, the improved level of school attendance, the high school -parents interaction and the fact that schools are the primary development focal points in communities in Zimbabwe present opportunities for improving disaster risk reduction through school s in Zimbabwe as it acts as a magnet that pulls the community at one epicenter.
Assessment of Students' Satisfaction of Service Quality in Takoradi Polytechnic: The Students' Perspective
Author: Anwowie, Samuel
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Student Satisfaction,College Students,Expectation,Higher Education,Questionnaires,Reliability,Empathy,Quality Assurance,Educational Quality,Educational Facilities,Statistical Analysis

Higher educational institutions are increasingly placing greater emphasis on meeting students' expectations and needs as student perceptions of higher educational facilities and services are becoming more important. To investigate students' satisfaction of service quality at the Takoradi Polytechnic, a study was conducted using the SERVQUAL instrument for measuring expectations and perceptions according to five quality dimensions. One hundred and eighty-eight students were sampled using the SERVQUAL questionnaire. The study shows that students' perceptions of service quality exceeded their expectations on four service quality dimensions namely tangibility, responsiveness, assurance and empathy, while their expectations for reliability exceeded their perceptions. It is recommended that, the management of Takoradi Polytechnic must maintain or improve if possible their tangibility, assurance, empathy and responsiveness. Nevertheless, the institution must take urgent measures to tactically tackle their reliability dimension.
Developing Quality Assurance Culture for Sustainable University Education in Nigeria
Author: Ibara, Emmanuel Chisa
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Quality Assurance,Educational Quality,Sustainability,Universities,Higher Education,Models,Educational Change,Educational Improvement,Self Evaluation (Groups),Attitude Change,Change Strategies

The relevance of any university education depends on quality parameters that should be specified, adhered to and sustained. The development of quality assurance culture in Nigerian university education is imperative, considering the fact that globalization, mobility of labour, competition and the quest for best practices have subjected universities to international comparison. This article, therefore, examines the various key parameters bothering on developing and sustaining quality assurance culture in Nigerian universities, and explores strategies aimed at improving and sustaining a quality culture at the university level. Furthermore, it proposes a quality assurance model for Nigerian universities, and concludes that institutional paradigm shift towards a quality culture is imperative for sustainable university education in Nigeria.
Organisational Capability in Internalising Quality Culture in Higher Institution
Author: Bello, Muhammad Ibrahim
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Universities,Leadership Role,Organizational Culture,Educational Quality,School Culture,College Faculty,School Personnel,College Students,Multiple Regression Analysis,Strategic Planning,Questionnaires,Statistical Analysis

The study examines the influence of leadership roles related to organisational capability consisting of directing setting, strategic and organisational process, alignment, intervention and strategic capability on depending variable internalising quality culture in IIUM. The study used 100 samples consisting of lecturers, non-academic staff and students drew through purposive sampling in Gombak campus. The study employed descriptive and multiple regression analysis (MRA) in analysing the data. The results revealed that predictors directing setting, strategic and organisational processes and strategic capabilities significantly influenced internalising quality culture in IIUM.
Teachers' Perception and Implementation of Continuous Assessment Practices in Secondary Schools in Ekiti-State, Nigeria
Author: Modup, Ale Veronica
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teacher Attitudes,Educational Assessment,Secondary Schools,Foreign Countries,Secondary School Teachers,Teacher Surveys,Qualitative Research,Statistical Analysis,Computer Software

This study examined the practices and implementation of continuous assessment in Ekiti State Secondary Schools with special interest in Ado Local Government. The population for the study was the whole number of teachers in Ekiti State secondary school and the sample for the study was 160 secondary school teachers who were randomly selected from four secondary schools in Ado-Ekiti. The study used qualitative and quantitative descriptive survey design to collect and analyze the data. The data were collected through the use of questionnaire. The data collected were analyzed through the use of percentages and students t-test using spss version 17. Findings of the study revealed that state of continuous assessment were found to negate the definition of the National Policy of Education which state that learners should be evaluated in the three (3) domains of educational level. It was recommended that Government should organize seminars, conference and workshop for teachers on the correct implementation of continuous assessment in Secondary Schools.
Status of Services Provided to Deaf Woman in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Author: Ali, Ihsan Ighdeifan
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Deafness,Females,Questionnaires,Scores,Access to Health Care,Geographic Location,Access to Education,Social Services,Assistive Technology,Leisure Time,Athletics,Employment,Sign Language,Statistical Analysis

This study aimed at identifying the status of services provided to deaf woman in Jordan. The study was conducted on a sample of (100) deaf women chosen by the intended available method. A researcher self developed questionnaire consisting of (75) items covering seven most important domains representing the most important services that should be provided to deaf women, using yes/ No scale for responses.Results showed that instrument mean score for the scale of effectiveness of services provided to deaf women wan moderate (0.42). Results also showed health care dimension between northern region and the central regions where differences were in favor of central region, between southern and northern regions in furor of northern region, and between central and southern region in favor of central region. Also there were statistically significant differences in the level of effectiveness for sport and entertainment domain between central region, from the one hand and both southern and northern regions from the other, and in favor of central region.
Self-Efficacy and Academic Achievement--A Case from Turkey
Author: Köseoglu, Yaman
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Self Efficacy,Academic Achievement,College Freshmen,Learning Strategies,Questionnaires,Student Motivation,Metacognition,Intelligence,Grade Point Average,Multivariate Analysis,Goal Orientation,Multiple Regression Analysis,Help Seeking,Self Control,Correlation

The issues of motivational inclinations, cognitive and meta-cognitive approaches and resource management abilities of university students are considered in predicting academic achievement. First-year university students filled in the Motivated Strategies Learning Questionnaire, completed the Implicit Theories of Intelligence Scale, answered the Achievement Goal Inventory Scale, and self-reported their grade point averages. A multivariate analysis of co-variance (MANCOVA) indicated that students with low self-efficacy were inclined to believe that intelligence is inherent and cannot be changed. It also indicated that students with high self-efficacy preferred mastery goals, which entailed challenges and new knowledge, as well as performance goals that comprised good grades and surpassing others. Additionally, a hierarchical multiple regression analysis revealed that effort-regulation, self-efficacy, and help-seeking explained 21% of the variance in GPA. It was also found that the relationship between self-efficacy and GPA was partially mediated by effort-regulation. Additionally, on account of the fact that students with self-efficacy were able to analyze and control their impulses and thrive in the face of challenge, they excelled academically. Inferences of these findings for educators who may prefer to focus on the objective of increasing academic achievement by strengthening self-efficacy and effort-regulation are also discussed.
Teachers' and Students' Perception of Instructional Supervision on Capacity Building in Electrical Installation Trade
Author: Eze, Ogwa Christopher
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Teacher Attitudes,Student Attitudes,Teacher Supervision,Capacity Building,Building Trades,Electrical Occupations,Skilled Occupations,Technical Institutes,Partnerships in Education,Trust (Psychology),Feedback (Response),Questionnaires,Hypothesis Testing,Statistical Analysis

This research was conducted to ascertain teachers' and students perception of instructional supervision in relation to capacity building in electrical installation trade in technical colleges. Three research questions and a null hypothesis were employed to guide the study. Descriptive survey was adopted. A 23-item questionnaire was used to elicit responses from the teachers and students made up of 10 and 76 respondents respectively. The research questionnaire items were analyzed through descriptive statistics while the hypothesis was tested with the t-test statistic. Major findings of study revealed discrepancies between teachers and students perception on some vital issues of instructional supervision such as the method of supervision that affect enhancement of capacity building in electrical installation trade. Based on the findings, it was recommended that teachers of electrical installation trade should strive to develop co-operative partnership epitomized in trust and descriptive feedback during instructional supervision for capacity building.
Enhancing Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Nigeria for Sustainable Development: Competency-Based Training (CBT) Approach
Author: Okoye, K. R. E.
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Competency Based Education,Technical Education,Vocational Education,Sustainable Development

This paper attempts to examine the concept of Competency-Based Training (CBT) as a veritable mode of delivery of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and at the same time highlights some of the strengths and weaknesses of implementing competency-base training. The characteristics, principles and benefits of CBT were also x-rayed. It was concluded that CBT mode of delivery is providing the kind of workers industry demands and also is preparing individuals for self-employment.
Skills Required by Agricultural Education Students of Colleges of Education for Employment in Compterized Office of Agribusiness Organizations
Author: Ugwuoke, Cajethan Uche
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Agricultural Education,Job Skills,College Students,Agribusiness,Computer Literacy,Surveys,Questionnaires,Employment,Education Work Relationship,Word Processing,Internet,Databases,College Faculty,Administrators

One of the major concerns of employers of labour in this information age is the recruitment of employees with requisite computerized office skills to fit into the various organization's jobs and positions. In Agricultural education, acquisition of these computerized office skills do not only depends on whether one is able to fulfill the paper requirements of specific jobs but also how one practically stands relative to others within a group of job seekers. In other words, acquisition of computerized office skills describes the possession of the requisite office job performance competencies by Agricultural Education graduates. Thus, the purpose of the study was to find out the computerized office skills required by Agricultural Education students of Colleges of Education for employment in agribusiness organizations in Enugu State. A survey research design was adopted for the study. A total of 176 respondents were studied with no sampling. A structured questionnaire was used for data gathering. The reliability coefficient of the instrument was 0.85 using Cronbach Alpha method while three lecturers carried out face validation of the instrument. Three research questions and three null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Mean statistic was employed to answer the research questions while t-test was used to test the null hypotheses. It was found that Agricultural education students from Colleges of Education in Enugu State require computerized office skills to be employed in contemporary agribusiness offices after graduation. Findings showed that the computerized office skills required by Agricultural Education students of Colleges of Education for employment are word processing skills, database management skills and internet utilization skills. It was recommended among others that the National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) should as a matter of urgency lay emphasis on skills acquisition and introduction of computing and information technology in Agricultural Education curriculum of Colleges of Education.
Analysis on Influencing Factors and Countermeasures for College Students' Network Entertainment
Author: Liu, Xiaohong
Date: 2012-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: College Students,Performance Factors,Questionnaires,Social Media,Mass Media Use,Mass Media Effects,Change Strategies,Social Control,Popular Culture,Influences,Student Surveys,Student Attitudes,Needs Assessment,Information Networks,Internet,Foreign Countries

Informatization, as a trend in the world's development nowadays, has become an important force to promote economic and social reforms. Since 1990s, information technology reforms have advanced dramatically. Along with the constant development of the information industry as well as the popularization of information network, informatization has been viewed as the dominant characteristics for the economic and social development of the whole world. New technologies have spread network entertainment by combining traditional entertainment forms and network. Young people, who value Internet a lot, have accepted network entertainment as an indispensable part in their life. Accordingly, any boycotting attitude toward their network entertainment may exert hindering influences on their development. As a result, it is quite necessary to have an overall understanding on college students' network entertainment activities and raise corresponding countermeasures so as to guide them to be positively affected and to achieve sound development as well. The questionnaire method is adopted in this research to investigate students from 9 classes of 3 different colleges of Changchun University of Science and Technology. Based on relevant data analysis, we put forward some countermeasures based on summarizing the effects of network entertainment.