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Students' Time Expenditure and Their General Study Conditions 1984, main sample

Students' Time Expenditure and Their General Study Conditions 1984, supplementary sample

Survey of Part-Time Graduate Students, 1977-1978

Study of Postgraduate Education; Survey of Part-Time Graduate Students

Omnibus Survey: Position of the parties on major projects; government policy and working style of the Federal Chancellor; tax reduction; opportunities of the Greens and environmental policy; income redistribution 1984

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Summary information

Study title

Part-Time Management Students Project, 1981-1984

Creator

De Winter Hebron, C. C., Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic
Harris, N. D., Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic

Study number / PID

2102 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-2102-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

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To examine part-time management students' perceptions of and attitudes to their own learning environments and learning process needs; to compare these with a) staff perceptions b) existing theoretical models of management and adult learning; to propose recommendations for changes in part-time management course design and teaching
Main Topics:

Variables
Biographical variables; reasons for enrolling; perceptions of departmental climate; perceptions of roles of 'manager' and `student'; attitudes to education and perceptions of own learning style; perceptions of study problems; course provision preferences.
Self-image; achievement motivation
Measurement Scales
Likert Scale
Semantic Differential (self-image)
Rothman/Ayoade: LEQ (Preece and Flood Page 1970) (MOD 1974)
Kerlinger/Kaya: Educational Attitudes Scale (after Burns 1976)
Oxtoby: Student Behaviour Questionnaire (MOD 1972)
Ryan: Achievement Motivation Scale (in Moser and Kalton 1971)
Burns: Semantic Differential (self) (1976)

Topics

Business/industrial management and organisationHigher and further education

Keywords

HIGHER AND FURTHER EDUCATION TEACHING PERSONNELAGEATTITUDESBUSINESS AND ADMINISTRATION STUDIESCHILDRENEDUCATIONEDUCATIONAL BACKGROUNDEDUCATIONAL FEESEMPLOYMENT HISTORYFATHERSGENDERHUMAN ENVIRONMENT
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Methodology

Data collection period

Not available

Country

England, Hong Kong, Scotland

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Groups
Subnational
Students
Teachers

Universe

Part-time management students studying on long formal courses in institutions of higher education in Glasgow, Tyneside, Birmingham, Coventry and Norwich (pilot) and in the area north of the line Manchester-Doncaster and south of the line Glasgow-Edinburgh (main). Also control groups of full-time management and part-time non-management students. Students at Hong Kong polytechnic formed a comparison group. Also teachers teaching on these courses

Sampling procedure

Stratified sample of complete year groups - stratification by: type of institution; type of course, year of course

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

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Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1986

Terms of data access

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Related publications

  • Hebron, C. (1984) Part-time students and staff development [Research report], Yugoslavia: European Staff Development Workshop.
  • Hebron, C. (1984) 'Some problems and pleasures of teaching part-time management students', Studies in Higher Education, 169-181
  • Hebron, C. (1983) Managers' expectations and learning needs [Research report], : Glasgow University.
  • Hebron, C. (1984) Part-time management students: : needs, problems and perceptions [Research report], : Imperial College London.
  • Hebron, C. (1982) Part-time students - does the cap fit? [Research report], Berlin: IUT.
  • Hebron, C. (1983) 'Some problems of teaching part-timers', Bulletin of Educational Development and Research
  • Hebron, C. (1985) 'Rethinking the design of courses for part-time students of management', 18-26
  • Hebron, C. (1983) Part-time students - have we got it right?, [Discussion paper]..
  • Hebron, C. (1983) The nature of the problem [Research report], : Glasgow University.
  • Hebron, C. (1983) 'Can we make sense of learning theory?', 443-462
  • Hebron, C. (0001) Higher education teachers and part-time students: : a comparison of research results from Britain and Germany [Research report], : DFG Projekt.