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1. The Impact of Higher Education on Adult Students in Australia. Part 2. The Person. (EJ395371)
Author(s):
West, Leo H. T.; Hore, Terry
Source:
Higher Education, v18 n4 p473-83 1989
Pub Date:
1989-00-00
Pub Type(s):
Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Peer-Reviewed:
N/A
Descriptors: Achievement Rating; Adult Students; Educational Benefits; Employment Patterns; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Individual Development; Social Change; Social Values; Student Attitudes
Abstract: A portion of a study of the impact of higher education on over-25-year-old students enrolling in higher education in Australia in 1978 is presented. It assessed the impact of the educational experience on personal development (including attitude and values changes), individual abilities, and leisure time and marital relations. (MSE)
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2. The Impact of Higher Education on Adult Students in Australia: Part 1. Employment. (EJ393818)
Higher Education, v18 n3 p341-52 1989
Descriptors: Adult Students; Education Work Relationship; Educational Benefits; Employment; Employment Opportunities; Females; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Outcomes of Education; Sex Differences
Abstract: The occupational level, job satisfaction, perception of career prospects, value of study in obtaining employment, usefulness of skills/knowledge gained in carrying out job, and relatedness of job to major field of study were studied in relation to adult students who enrolled in higher education in Australia in 1978. (Author/MLW)
3. Conceptual Understanding and Science Learning: An Interpretation of Research within a Sources-of-Knowledge Framework. (EJ341902)
Pines, A. Leon; West, Leo H. T.
Science Education, v70 n5 p583-604 Oct 1986
1986-00-00
Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Descriptive
Descriptors: Cognitive Development; Cognitive Structures; Concept Formation; Concept Teaching; Elementary Education; Elementary School Science; Elementary Secondary Education; Experiential Learning; Science Education; Science Instruction; Scientific Concepts; Secondary Education; Secondary School Science
Abstract: Proposes a framework for interpreting current research in science education. Presents four prototypes for describing research which are derived from comparisons and combinations of "spontaneous" and "formal" knowledge. Discusses possible applications of the use of the framework in science education. (TW)
4. The Impact of Higher Education on Mature Age Students. (ED273181)
West, Leo H. T.; And Others
1986-06-00
Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
Descriptors: Adult Students; Bachelors Degrees; College Students; Education Work Relationship; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Individual Development; Outcomes of Education; Questionnaires; Student Employment; Student Experience
Abstract: Changes in the working and personal lives of adults as a result of completing a bachelor's degree as a mature-age student were studied in Australia. Also considered were students' progress through the degree, patterns of employment while enrolled, and additional formal higher education after completing (or withdrawing from) the program. The study population consisted of people aged 25 or over who began a bachelor's degree in 1978. Information was obtained on: areas of study, enrollment patterns, external students, part-time study, self-report of academic performance, relationship between education and job, occupational level, job prospect, job satisfaction, unemployment, changes in personal development, changes in abilities, leisure time activities, and impact on marital relations. Appendices include: the questionnaire and index of aspects of study variables, a comparison of age subsamples, and a comparison of first-year withdrawers and graduate subsamples. Microfiche of the data (representing 208 pages of computer printouts) were enclosed with the report but are not included in ERIC. (SW) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract
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5. Differential Prediction of First Year University Performance for Students from Different Social Backgrounds. (EJ328334)
West, Leo H. T.
Australian Journal of Education, v29 n2 p175-87 Aug 1985
1985-00-00
Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Descriptors: Academic Achievement; Admission Criteria; College Admission; College Freshmen; Ethnic Groups; Foreign Countries; Postsecondary Education; Predictor Variables; Social Background; Social Differences; Standardized Tests; Student Characteristics; Test Reliability
Abstract: A study of the reliability of Australia's standardized Higher School Certificate as a predictor of freshman performance found it to be biased with respect to the type of secondary school attended, but not the father's occupational status or the student's country of birth. (MSE)
6. How "Rational" is Rationality? (EJ273475)
West, Leo H. T.; Pines, A. Leon
Science Education, v67 n1 p37-39 Jan 1983
1983-01-00
Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Descriptors: Change; Cognitive Processes; Concept Formation; Epistemology; Learning; Science Education
Abstract: Argues that there is a strong nonrational component in conceptual change, analyzing aspects of the nonrational or aesthetic that are part of the conceptual change process. Shows that the results of Posner et. al. ("Science Education" 66: 211-27, 1982) support this thesis. (Author/JN)
7. The Meaningful Learning of Intellectual Skills: An Application of Ausubel's Subsumption Theory to the Domain of Intellectual Skills Learning. (EJ244628)
West, Leo H. T.; Kellett, Natalie C.
Science Education, v65 n2 p207-19 Apr 1981
1981-04-00
Descriptors: Advance Organizers; Chemistry; Cognitive Processes; Learning Processes; Learning Theories; Problem Solving; Science Education; Science Instruction; Secondary Education; Secondary School Science; Skill Development
Abstract: Tests the applicability of Ausubel's theory to the meaningful learning of intellectual skills. Results of three studies of high school students indicate that advance organizers enhance learning of skills related to solubility product problems. This effect was removed if prior teaching in relevant background knowledge was included. (Author/WB)
8. ATI with a Large Set of Nonorthogonal Attribute Variables: A Multiple Regression Solution. (ED206657)
West, Leo H. T.; Theobald, John H.
Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Descriptors: Academic Achievement; Aptitude Treatment Interaction; Biology; Foreign Countries; High Schools; Mathematical Models; Multiple Regression Analysis; Research Problems; Student Characteristics; Teaching Styles
Abstract: This paper describes an analytical solution to a common problem in aptitude-treatment interaction (ATI). The researcher is often interested in the comparison between treatments for a large set of attributes. If this set is large, the chance of non-orthogonality is correspondingly large. In these circumstances the analysis and interpretation becomes equivocal. Using data from a study of contrasting teaching approaches in high school biology and thirteen attributes, a regression approach to the analysis is demonstrated. The redefinition of a new set of orthogonal variables is made on rational grounds rather than allowed to happen by default. (Author/BW) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract
9. Publication Rates and Research Productivity. (EJ240775)
Vestes, v23 n2 p32-37 1980
1980-00-00
Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
Descriptors: Accountability; College Faculty; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Mathematical Formulas; Productivity; Publications; Research Projects; Scholarship
Abstract: As time spent in academic research becomes more controversial, it is proposed that a quantitative measure of research productivity be applied to faculty efforts. The formula takes into account single- and multiple-author publication rates and appropriate types of publication. The validity of a publication rate index is discussed. (MSE)
10. Comment on "The Proper Experimental Unit: Comparative Analyses of Empirical Data" (EJ160928)
Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 14, 2, 163-166, Mar 77
1977-00-00
Descriptors: Educational Research; Experimental Groups; Opinions; Periodicals; Research Methodology; Research Problems; Science Education; Statistical Analysis
Abstract: Comments on a journal article that suggests that educational statistics may be compared even in cases where different experimental units are used in the analyses. (MLH)
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