Higher Education Research Proposals Samples For Students

CHALLENGES AND BARRIERS THAT IMPACT WOMEN PARTICIPATING IN CONTINUING HIGHER EDUCATION.

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Introduction
Pursuant of further education is the key to succeeding in the competitive job and business market (Jean-Marie and Lloyd-Jones, 2011).Research has shown that chief executive offices of top companies hold more than just a basic degree. Post-secondary education also gives people a chance to develop skills in area of their interest and hence increase satisfaction in one’s life. Inequalities have been seen to exist in the participation in post compulsory education that is usually sponsored by the federal government. These disparities are largely visible in pursuant of higher education. These inequalities have been seen ...

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Distance learning or distance education is education from a distance. It is a method of instructing students, who are not physically present in a classroom. According to Honeyman & Miller (1993), distance learning is defined as “access to learning when the source of information and the learners are separated by time and distance, or both." (Honeyman & Miller, 1993). The later part of the 19th century and the early 20th century witnessed the first form of distance learning by correspondence course. By the year, 1920 more American students were studying through correspondence than through regular college. (Saettler, 1968). By the end of ...

MOOCs standing for Massive Open Online Courses happen to be a new educational tool for transformation in the education sector. MOOCs have created and generated lots of excitement in the recent years among majority in the world. MOOCs seems so promising the main target being students who are signing up for them in large numbers. In the advent of technology and online communication platforms, MOOCs are gaining ground by the day.
However, these MOOCs have raised controversies there are several problems being imposed by this type of courses. Nevertheless students still enroll for these courses with the hope of ...

The economic strain on the society makes higher education a dream for many students in today’s society. More often than not, parents have to shatter their children’s dreams because they are unable to afford tuition fees. Government scholarships or bursaries cannot meet the needs of the overall fees. In many instances, these government aided grants carry the weight of maintaining a high academic average, and students who need help cannot maintain such average. As a result, the students turn to various lending agency that offer loans at a high interest rate. However, with the current economic crisis, many parents and students ...

Abstract

This proposal examines the possibility of using Lego Serious Play (LSP) as an aid to enhancing career development training programmes. To this end, the proposal evaluates and examines the means through which the Taiwanese educational system can be enhanced and enriched by this. The paper identifies that the best way of doing this is to utilise a case study to examine two scenarios to identify the importance and criticality of using LSP to promote teaching and learning experience in career development. This will include the examination of a case where career development is taught in Taiwan using traditional generally ...

Introduction and Background:

In this contemporary world the concept of psychological contract is now emerging within the western region. It has received increased attention by the employers and employees for increasing the reciprocity. As, it is referred to the beliefs of an individual pertaining to the terms and conditions of the exchange relationship with another party, it is important to understand its significance in order to maintain a positive and healthy relationship. This concept is based on broader social exchange theories; proposing that the social relationships entails implicit and explicit expectations and obligations. The influence of culture and religion will be also be ...

The impact of Affirmative Action on public- sector employment rate of African American in the State of California

My research topic will be ‘Comparing the periods 10 years before and 10 years after affirmative actions on the State of California on Higher education, Navy and California Labor and Workforce development Agency’.
Affirmatives actions led to changes in the State of California structure, this includes Higher Education, Navy and California Labor and Workforce development Agency as compared to the periods before the affirmative action, 1950s. In my research am going to show that these changes actually took place comparing the three industries before and after affirmative actions
Affirmative action’s also known as positive discriminations refer ...

Increasing Student Involvement on Campus

Increasing Student Involvement on Campus

Executive Summary

The ability of the students to get involved depends on the efforts in awareness of the program, the benefits of the program and the tendency to get the students involved. It means that there should be awareness of the program, the best practices that involve the existence of the program and even the ability of the teachers to handle the program in a more engaging way. This means that the way the program is carried out determines its success. Therefore there is need to draft ways and best practices that will guarantee active participation ...

The trend of changes in education raises the issue of partnership in the field of education, the creation of a special creative environment of educational institution. Therefore, this paper presents an analysis of works that focus on the educational aspect such as the elaboration of recommendations for teachers and parents, the administration of educational institutions for partnership organizations to overcome the main barriers that violate the effective interaction. This paper presents a review of scientific articles on the theory and methodology of professional education, pre-school child development, humanities, theory and methodology of education. The article reveals the possible solutions ...

International Student Retention in American Universities

Methodology
The study aims to investigate the international student retention in American universities. Initially the preferred research design was constructed from the assumption that the necessary data for this study can be obtained from the central data system containing historical surveys pertaining to international student retention in American higher education. However, the historical data may not be able to sustain the validity and accuracy requirement of this study (Mathiyazhagan and Nandan, 2010). Therefore, it is necessary to instead to collect data using a survey. This approach uses a qualitative method that includes sampling, instrumentation, selection of participants, administration of survey ...

1. Quantitative – What effect did the faculty development program (fdp) have on teachers' teaching approaches?
2. Qualitative– How did the teachers' teaching methods alter in answer to the FDP?
2. In a climate where faculty liability is greatly needed on study and research, enhancement in the eminence of instruction is a mounting issue. The progress of high-quality practice of teaching is vitally significant. Teachers at research rigorous schools frequently should bargain on clashing probabilities about method of teaching and conducting research: universities might seem to openly acclaim good teaching, but clandestinely assess good research, principally in verdicts of support ...

Chapter One: Introduction3

Background of the Research6
Statement of the Problem7
Purpose of the Study 7
Research Questions..7

Definition of Terms .7

Limitations ..7

Significance of the Study7

Organization of the Study7
Chapter Two: Review of Literature 7
Introduction..7
Spady’s (1970) Theory of Student Departure16
Tinto’s (1975) Student Integration Theory19
Pascarella’s (1980) Attrition Theory 24
Astin’s (1984) Student Involvement Theory26
Bean and Metzner’s (1985) Student Attrition Theory28
Cabrera’s (1992) Integrated Retention Theory7

Criticism of the theories.7

Conclusion 7
Chapter Three: Method .7
Introduction 5
Research Paradigm.7
Research Questions7
Research Design.7
Participants7
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Understanding the Doctoral Research Process

- Introduction- Apart from finishing college and obtaining a degree, students are aiming for a much higher educational attainment by finishing graduate studies to further their expertise in a particular area of expertise. However, finishing a graduate course would require a comprehensive research that will prove the student’s established knowledge in the discipline (Blanton-Kent et al., 2010). Doctoral research is one way for graduate students to prove their specialization in the particular field of study. In lieu to that requirement, a research about student success and retention in both public and for-profit universities and colleges will be measured to identify which of the two ...

Introduction

The manual is meant to help trainees become competent facilitators of distance learning. It takes into account that none of the facilitators have experience in distance learning and therefore, will focus on all the aspects of distance learning.

Part 1: Vital Information in the Facilitator Training

Audience
The program targets individuals already serving in the mentioned capacity of learning instructors. The instructors must also be successful traditional classroom instruction methods. Therefore, the trainees are expected to be knowledgeable in instruction methods, student assessment, course and curriculum design, adult learning among other learning and teaching aspects. Moreover, the trainees must have taught at a diploma or higher level. ...

Introduction

Africa has been and remains the subject of debate and controversy of large countries. Over the years, the composition of the global players and their methods change, but the price of “African cake” only increases. The last 15 years for many African countries have been marked by the strengthening of trade relations with China, which has today become a major investor. Unlike European countries, which, guided by a complex of guilt for a colonial past of the continent, has long been focused on humanitarian aid and the reduction of African debt, China immediately made an emphasis on trade and ...

Globalization and Inequality

- Justification for the topic
Globalization and inequality is a significant topic among the international community because inequality is brought by injustice, unequal opportunity and privilege. Some of these negative elements of globalization bring about deterioration in a county’s economy. When a country has slow economic growth because of inefficient government, poverty crawls into the country making people’s standards of living lower. According to the economic theory, it blames the social institutions such as the government for the inequality for the society. For example, lack of proper distribution of income and resources, the lower working class do not have a ...

Application Week 8 Problem Statement

Background
In December 2001, American Energy multinational-Enron collapsed leaving more than 20,000 employees stranded! The company, which, had more than $100 billion in annual revenue collapsed not largely due to the financial scandals that came to the surface, but due to lack of proper crisis management tactics (Hodak, 2007). Enron led a horde of other big companies in poor crisis management, which led many companies to institute crisis management plans. However, many companies are still getting it wrong when into comes to crisis management as witnessed by the recent global financial crisis of 2008-2009 when several companies suffered ...

Application Draft Mixed Methods Proposal

Introduction
This paper proposes a draft mixed methods proposal for a study on crisis management in companies. The study will select and justify one research method. It will then describe a survey, explain the rationale for the study, evaluate data collection methods, choose a sample size, evaluate some survey instruments, evaluate some research variables and lastly check on the data analysis and its interpretation.

This study shall combine qualitative and quantitative research design aspects. A previous study by Wooten and James (2008) studied the impacts of human resources on crisis management using mixed methods. The study identified the desired characteristics of human ...

Application Draft Qualitative Proposal

Introduction
This paper purposes to propose a draft qualitative proposal for a study into crisis management. The paper will have a selection and justification of one research method. It will then a) describe a survey, b) explain the rationale for the study, c) evaluate data collection methods, d) choose a sample size, e) evaluate some survey instruments, f) evaluate some research variables and then check on the data analysis and its interpretation in a qualitative manner.

This being a qualitative study will be modeled along some previous qualitative studies. For instance, Wooten and James’s study (2008) evaluated the role or the characteristics of human resources on ...

When it comes to receiving a higher education, some still look down on community colleges, believing they are the lowest of the low. They do not see that community colleges can offer almost everything that a four-year university can offer in the way of education, as well as experience. Community colleges are also a cheaper alternative to four-year schools, given today’s economy. However, some areas that community colleges are lacking have become surprisingly crucial for students’ college experience. Many do not believe cafeterias are necessary on community college campuses; this is a problem. Cafeterias provide a central meeting place that allows students to ...

Introduction

The education system in America has over the years been faced with a recurrent and never ending problem that has compromised the quality of education and subsequently impact ted negatively on the future of the young generation. Teacher turnover is a problem that has remained persistent yet too little has been done to curb the ever rising rates of attrition. Teacher attrition or turnover is the tendency to resign from all duties within the education sector and pursue other sectors of the economy due to reasons other than retirement or health issues (Wushishi, 2013). The elementary education forms the foundation upon ...

Funding is requested from the National Science Foundation in order to carry out proposed research based on the calorimetric study of enthalpy, Gibb’s energy, and entropy. The technique of calorimetric experimentation has changed a great deal from the early 1960s when studies of the heat ionization of water were conducted. The first adiabatic bomb calorimeters were very simple and controlling the difference in temperature between the inside and outside jackets was hard to control. The difference in temperature needs to be as small as possible, close to an infinitesimal amount. Technology has developed to sophisticated levels. The automatic capabilities ...

The High Cost of College Education

Introduction
Colleges are making the headlines a lot these days, with much of the publicity becoming clearly unfavorable. Despite the negative aspects exhibited in colleges, for instance riots, drinking, various scandals, and remedial courses frequently taught in the institutions, the central topic has been the steady rise in the costs of college education. College education has become unaffordable to most of the students or for those who are planning to join, attributed to the high cost of living and high rates of inflation (Martin, 2005). Similarly, the tuition fee is increasing faster than the rate of inflation, or even ...

Introduction

Preparation of the students for their future career roles is increasingly becoming an important role for the teachers and their counselors. Design and technology is a technical course that requires massive attention if the overall achievement in the student is to be enhanced (Paul, 2005). Hopefully, as a teacher and mentor, the highest inspiration will be to develop students that are full societal contributors coupled with providing the best learning opportunity that will enable them to live a productive life in design and technology career.
This article investigates the importance of design and technology course in preparing the student for their ...

Research question

What are Factors of E-learning influencing Students Knowledge?

Aims and objectives

The major aim of this study will be to determine E-Learning factors that influence the knowledge of students as far as management information systems and information technology is concerned. In order to realize this aim, the study will be aimed at achieving the following specific objectives:

• To determine E-Learning factors that affects students
• To establish the connection between student knowledge and E-Learning
• To determine how E-Learning factors affect student knowledge.
• To determine how negative E-Learning factors could be improved to facilitate student knowledge.
• To determine how positive E-Learning factors could be ...
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