Slow Shift—Developing Provisions for Talented Students in Scandinavian Higher Education

Learning by Doing: Action Research to Evaluate Provisions for Gifted and Talented Students

Between 2006 and 2008 the Ministry of Education funded the evaluation of three Talent Development Initiatives for gifted and talented students. The methodology employed was one of participatory action research, a process of evaluation that enables learning by doing, as researchers and practitioners work alongside one another. Through the process of evaluating the three programmes, the researche...

Hispanic Students in Higher Education

This project looked at the experiences of Hispanic college students at a private university in the Midwest. The literature review guided the interview protocol questions to better determine what experiences impact the retention of Hispanic college students. The use of interviews helped gather qualitative data that touched upon support services, social and academic influences, campus climate, se...

Gifted and talented students

Assessing Higher Education Students’ Ethicality

In higher educational institutions, ethics is the very core of the people that institutions are trying to morally shape. In a few years’ time, these students will be assigned to some work place where they will be forced to make decisions which can affect businesses and more importantly – human lives. In that respect, what seems like a simple doubt about right or wrong, becomes alarmingly signif...

Students’ Profile in Higher Education in Italy

The aim of the present paper is to show the results of the analysis of the graduates’ evaluation questionnaires about the social profile of the students in higher education in Italy. A factor analysis has been carried on a national basis from 75,000 questionnaires administered to students representing 10 degrees. The factor analysis indicates the close proximity of responses between Statistics ...