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Conflict in the university setting is an inherent component of academic life. Leaders spend more than 40% of their time managing
conflict. Department heads are in a unique position—they encounter conflict from individuals they manage and from others to
whom they report such as a senior administrator in the position of dean. There are very few studies that seek to ascertain
the conflict management styles of department heads and how these impact leadership and professional development. This qualitative
research study explored the conflict management styles of 20 department heads across a variety of disciplines and with varying
levels of experience at a public research extensive university in the South. Based on an analysis of conflict management styles,
the article offers implications for the professional development of department heads.
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| Christine A. StanleyEmail: |
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Campus-based urban legends have the potential to convey and construct student culture in higher education. Basic qualitative
and humanistic research methods were used to collect, analyze, and interpret legends related to the academic experience of
collegiate life.
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| Claire Howell MajorEmail: |
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William R. Doyle 《Research in higher education》2009,50(1):52-72
The impact of increased academic intensity on transfer rates from community colleges to 4-year institutions has been estimated
only from observational data, with the possibility of selection bias. This study uses matching estimators to overcome possible
selection bias and estimate the causal impact of increased academic intensity on transfer rates. Using student unit record
data from Tennessee for the years 1995 through 2004, I find that taking 12 or more credit hours increases the probability
of transfer from between 11% and 15%.
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| William R. DoyleEmail: |
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Peter Wood 《Academic Questions》2007,20(4):277-294
This essay on the ethical mission of the university explores extremes of anti-social behavior, visiting numerous crime scenes
before concluding that contemporary higher education has lost the capacity—and even the language—for taking character development
seriously. In his attempt to determine whether coincidently traditional-liberationist-diversiphilic-apathetic colleges can
morally improve their charges, Peter Wood collects a wrenching compendium of violent academic mayhem.
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| Peter WoodEmail: |
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Interdisciplinary work within higher education has increased significantly over past decades (Amey 2004; Creamer and Lattuca
2005). However, the professional implications of interdisciplinary research and instruction for the faculty members who engage
in such academic work remain unclear. This study of science educators who hold appointments in two academic departments begins
to address this empirical gap. The outcomes provide insight into the factors that influence the professional lives of these
faculty members. The knowledge gained from the study will provide mentors, colleagues, and administrators insight into the
challenges facing academics undertaking this work. Further, this research seeks to inform policy makers in regard to how tenure
and promotion is determined for jointly appointed faculty in science education and other interdisciplinary fields.
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| Matthew M. MarsEmail: |
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Steve Kogan 《Academic Questions》2007,20(3):219-234
In our summer 2006 issue, we ran a comprehensive overview of how postmodernism has degraded composition on our campuses. Steve
Kogan enlarges that indictment and charges that the movement has deliberately corrupted every area of English instruction—from
the acquisition of skills and knowledge to the more fundamental mission of developing in students the habits of disciplined
learning.
Steve Kogan is a retired professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City University of New York. He continues to write and publish on literary and academic subjects. 相似文献
| Steve KoganEmail: |
Steve Kogan is a retired professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City University of New York. He continues to write and publish on literary and academic subjects. 相似文献
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League tables that rank universities may use reputational measures, performance measures, or both. Each type of measure has
strengths and weaknesses. In this paper, we rank disciplines in Australian universities both by reputation, using an international
survey of senior academics, and with actual performance measures. We then compare the two types of measures to see how closely
they match. The criterion we use for both sets of measures is ‘international academic standing’. We find a high correlation
between the survey results and the various measures of research performance. We also find a correlation between the quality
of student intake and the survey rankings, but the satisfaction levels of recent graduates do not correlate well with the
rankings by academics. We then construct an overall measure of performance, which gives very similar rankings to the survey
results, especially for the top-ranked institutions.
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| Ross WilliamsEmail: |
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Young Park Franziska Zellweger Moser 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2008,17(2):197-207
The goal of this research effort is to provide insights on what core needs and difficulties exist toward the implementation
of ICT in higher education in emerging countries and how a consortium like LINC can best support these efforts. An exploratory
research design combining a survey, on-site interviews, participant observation and document analysis were employed to answer
the research questions. Main challenges in establishing technology- based learning environments were identified in the area
of pedagogies, finances, technological infrastructure, cultural change, organization, and management. LINC, as an non-political
organization embedded in an academic environment, can take an important role in facilitating the dialogue among participants
through various platforms, take an active role in promoting joint programs and assist with efforts to “localize” tools and
practice.
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| Young ParkEmail: |
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Various factors are making faculty leadership challenging including the rise in part-time and non-tenure-track faculty, the
increasing pressure to publish and teach more courses and adopt new technologies and pedagogies, increasing standards for
tenure and promotion, ascension of academic capitalism, and heavy service roles for women and people of color. This article
focuses on describing actions taken by institutional agents and aspects of campus environments which are supportive of grassroots
faculty leadership. While there are many conditions which inhibit faculty leadership (i.e., part-time and contingent faculty
trends, rising publication standards, etc.), our study demonstrated certain campus conditions or characteristics can overcome
the forces of change including counting leadership as service, creating campus networks, addressing dysfunctional department
dynamics, fostering role models, supporting faculty who question or challenge decisions, ensuring flexibility and autonomy,
and altering contingent faculty contracts to include service and leadership.
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| Jaime LesterEmail: |
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Sheau-Wen Lin 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2008,3(1):5-12
This article reviews the work of Jong-Hsiang Yang in science education and his efforts in creating a research culture in Taiwan.
Following in Yang’s footprints, the rebuilding of science education, implementing a new science curriculum, and gaining the
academic status of science education, we go through the important years of the development of science education in Taiwan.
His leadership in introducing interpretive research methods and expanding international studies catalyzed profound changes
to science education research in Taiwan.
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| Sheau-Wen LinEmail: |
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Terry T. Ishitani 《Research in higher education》2008,49(5):403-419
Prompted by the notion of “Transfer Shock”, numerous studies examined academic performance of transfer students at senior
institutions. However, few studies are found that examine how the varying nature of semester GPAs impact subsequent persistence
behavior of transfer students after the initial drop in their college GPAs. Using an institutional data set, this study longitudinally
investigated departure behavior of transfer students at a senior institution. Particular attention was given to how entry
at different times and semester GPAs affected transfer student departure. Results indicate that during their first semester,
sophomore and junior transfer students were 73% less likely to depart than freshman transfer students. After controlling for
explanatory variables, higher semester GPAs were positively associated with higher persistence rates throughout the observation
period.
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| Terry T. IshitaniEmail: |
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Tony Brown 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2008,69(3):249-263
This paper examines a Special Issue of Educational Studies in Mathematics comprising research reports centred on Peircian semiotics in mathematics education, written by some of the major authors
in the area. The paper is targeted at inspecting how subjectivity is understood, or implied, in those reports. It seeks to
delineate how the conceptions of subjectivity suggested are defined as a result of their being a function of the domain within
which the authors reflexively situate themselves. The paper first considers how such understandings shape concepts of mathematics,
students and teachers. It then explores how the research domain is understood by the authors as suggested through their implied
positioning in relation to teachers, teacher educators, researchers and other potential readers.
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| Tony BrownEmail: |
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Heng-Yu Ku Maria K. E. Lahman Hsin-Te Yeh Yi-Chia Cheng 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》2008,56(3):365-377
This qualitative case study was an examination of a team-based faculty/mentor-led International Doctoral Student Support Group
(IDSSG) designed specifically around issues in preparing and mentoring international doctoral students for careers in academia.
Twelve participants were selected to participate in a support/focus group that met twice a month for an academic year to attend
workshops and discuss their lives as doctoral students. The data set was comprised of two pre- and post-surveys and two in-depth
pre- and post-interviews. Findings in the themes of international doctoral students’ graduate school experiences and the impact
of the faculty-led support group are presented and discussed.
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| Yi-Chia ChengEmail: |
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Eileen Carlton Parsons 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2008,3(1):209-216
This article highlights the transformative contributions of Mary Monroe Atwater to the field of science education. Influenced
by worldviews shaped by a segregated macro-society and the privileges of a micro-society, Mary stood against oppression in
the early years of her academic career by desegregating academic settings and being the first and only African American in
varied arenas for many years. As an aspiring academic, Mary challenged dominant paradigms and as an activist academic, she
changed the landscape of science education. She broadened the knowledge base through scholarship and praxis and diversified
the science education community through personal and professional efforts that were pioneering in nature.
Eileen Carlton Parsons is an assistant professor at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The contexts in which the science teaching and learning of African Americans occur constitute the core of her research interests. She examines the educative process with respect to culture and race. 相似文献
| Eileen Carlton ParsonsEmail: |
Eileen Carlton Parsons is an assistant professor at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The contexts in which the science teaching and learning of African Americans occur constitute the core of her research interests. She examines the educative process with respect to culture and race. 相似文献
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Calvin Kalman 《Science & Education》2009,18(1):25-31
The whole mode of Galileo’s discovery of the Law of Inertia is an excellent exemplar of the Nature of Science. The law can,
moreover be shown to be a direct consequence of the hypothesis that space is homogeneous and isotropic and time is homogeneous
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| Calvin KalmanEmail: |
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Legacies, or students with a family member who graduated from the same college or university, have been the source of much
debate. We add to the existing literature by providing a detailed empirical portrait of legacies at a private, selective university
across the college years. We examine how legacies are distinctive in their admissions profiles, within-college achievement
and post-graduation plans, using data from a panel study of students attending Duke University. We find that legacies enter
college with an abundance of economic, cultural and social capital, but also have lower levels of human capital compared to
other students with college graduate parents. Due to this human capital deficit, legacies have lower grades in the first college
year, but show little academic underperformance in subsequent semesters. Additionally, legacies are less likely to plan to
be a medical doctor or engineer and have somewhat lower degree aspirations than other students.
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| Nathan D. MartinEmail: |
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Since many teachers and students recognize other kinds of knowledge (faith) based on other ways of knowing, consideration
of these realities is appropriate for the science education community. Understanding the multitude of ways that clergy view
relationships between science and faith (i.e. alternative ways of knowing) would assist in understanding various ways that
people address complex issues arising from ideas about science and faith. We administered a questionnaire composed of multiple-choice
and short answer items to 63 United Methodist ministers. Findings included (1) that formal, organized faith contexts (e.g.
church services) serve as informal science education opportunities, (2) participants demonstrated considerable diversity regarding
the types of relationships developed between science and faith, and (3) participants recognized a need exists for better understandings
of science and its relationship to faith for them, their colleagues, and their congregations.
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| Daniel L. Dickerson (Corresponding author)Email: |
| Karen R. DawkinsEmail: |
| John E. PenickEmail: |
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Heinke Roebken 《Higher Education》2007,54(1):99-113
By using recruitment data from 60 German departments of business administration, networks are constructed in which the nodes
are departments, and two departments are connected if they have either sent or received a scientist from one another. Different
concepts of social network analysis are applied to answer a series of questions, such as the number of scientists the business
departments produce, to whom they send and from whom they receive their scientists, and which role academic networks play
in the career of young scientists in business administration. Regression analysis revealed that network centrality is a robust
predictor of departmental reputation. The social network approach can be used to assess reputational differences among business
departments, thereby providing an alternative to existing opinion surveys and research rankings.
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| Heinke RoebkenEmail: |
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This article reviews the contributions of Campbell John McRobbie, Cam, to science education scholarship and research within
the Australasian Science Education Research Association (ASERA) and within the broader science education community. Cam provided
strong leadership and vision across many spheres of science education and leaves a legacy to the field that includes, (a)
long term administrative and academic support of ASERA as an organization and for its incorporation, (b) firm establishment
of RISE as an international journal of high quality, and (c) strong collegial approach to supporting the research of his colleagues
including early career researchers and research degree candidates.
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| Keith SkampEmail: |
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Wolff-Michael Roth’s In Search of Meaning and Coherence: A Life in Research, presents a selection of his previously published key works layered with current commentary and analysis. In this book review,
we explore themes that emerge through the text to trace Roth’s development as a theoretician and as a researcher. We recommend
this book for all those who are interested in Wolff-Michael Roth and the trajectory of his career, in particular those who
are just beginning their journey towards academic scholarship.
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| Christina SiryEmail: |