Sexual Minorities in Faith-Based Higher Education: A National Survey of Attitudes, Milestones, Identity, and Religiosity

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen P. Stratton ◽  
Janet B. Dean ◽  
Mark A. Yarhouse ◽  
Michael D. Lastoria
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Sexual Minorities ◽  
Faith Based

The molding of mediatization: The stratified indispensability of media in close relationships

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
André Jansson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Close Relationships ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Online Chat ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
E Mail

AbstractThis article presents a quantitative analysis of how different socio-cultural factors, including lifestyle, affect the extent to which different media are perceived as indispensable for maintaining close relations with family and friends. Through applying ‘indispensability’ as an indicator of the mediatization of social life, the study provides a concrete illustration of how mediatization is continuously molded through socio-cultural processes in everyday life. The results are based on a national survey conducted in Sweden and show that e-mail and video calls constitute a culturally distinctive ensemble of communication, especially in comparison to online chat functions and Facebook. E-mail is valued especially among people with higher education who lead globally oriented lifestyles thus testifying to the enduring status of text-based communication in the longer format as a cultural marker. The study thus suggests that the modalities of communication that certain media make possible are important to how these media are perceived as

The Use of Computer-Assisted Assessment in Engineering: Some Results from the CAA National Survey Conducted in 1999

2002 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Bull ◽  
Carol Collins
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Objective Tests ◽  
Insight Into

This paper presents a snapshot of the findings from the National Survey (1999) into CAA activity in higher education and gives an overview of the usage of CAA in the engineering sector. It offers an insight into the ways in which technology and objective tests can be used to assess a range of learning outcomes.

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