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Kimencu, L. (2011). Leadership Orientations and Conflict Management Styles of Academic Deans in Masters Degree Institutions. ProQuest LLC. 789 East Eisenhower Parkway, PO Box 1346, Ann Arbor, MI 48106.
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Mellors-Bourne, R., Hooley, T. and Marriott, J. (2014). Understanding how people choose to pursue taught postgraduate study. Bristol: HEFCE.
Mishra, S. (2010). Rethinking Professional Training of Distance Educators at Masters Level. Indian Journal of Open Learning (ISSN: 0971-2690), 17(3), 235-253.
Minas, J. and Shimeld, S. (2013). “How would that change if…?”: The use of interviews to assess international Masters students. In 2013 RMIT Accounting Educators Conference (pp. 1-18).
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O’Donnell, V.L., Tobbell, J., Lawthom, R. and Zammit, M. (2009) ‘Transition to
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Roets, L. and Botma, Y. (2012). Cyclic efforts to improve completion rates of masters' degree students in nursing: original research. Curationis, 35(1), 1-7.
Sin, C. (2012). Loose policy and local adaptation: a comparative study of masters degrees in the context of the bologna process (Doctoral dissertation, Lancaster University).
Sin, C. (2013) ‘The devil in the detail: Contradictory national requirements and Bologna master degrees’, Tertiary Education and Management, 19: 1, 16–31.
van der Steeg, M., van der Wiel, K. and Wouterse, B. (2014). Individual Returns to a PhD Education in the Netherlands: Income Differences between Masters and PhDs (No. 276). CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis.
Stoian, E., Dinu, T.A. and Vlad, I.M. (2015). The Quality of the Educational Programs in Romania. A Case Study of Masters Degree in Agriculture. Agriculture and Agricultural Science Procedia, 6, 696-703.
Thomas, L.S. (2012). A Masters level teaching profession: a study of the rationale for the Masters level Postgraduate Certificate in Education, a Masters level teaching profession and the Masters in Teaching and Learning and the perceptions of key stakeholders in the English West Midlands (Doctoral dissertation, University of Birmingham).
Tuaoi, L.A., Cashin, A., Hutchinson, M. and Graham, I. (2011). Nurse Practitioner preparation: Is it time to move beyond masters level entry in Australia?. Nurse Education Today, 31(8), 738-742.
Watt, C., Angelis, J. and Chapman, D. (2012). Customer Value and Lean Operations in Masters Education. DS 74 Proceedings of EandPDE 2012.
Whitfield, M. and Fehrsen, S. (2011). Why do students not complete a Masters in Family Medicine Degree?. South African Family Practice, 23(3).
Zhao, X.L., Mou, S Y., Chen, Y.H. and Zhu, W.F. (2014). Investigation of the teaching cognition and capabilities of clinical advisers for masters degree level nursing specialty graduate students. International Journal of Nursing Sciences, 1(1), 107-109.
Staff and Student Experiences
Aitken, E. (2014). Masters Degree in Veterinary Nursing–a student's view. Veterinary Nursing Journal, 29(6), 213-214.
Anderson, J. and Gristy, C. (2013). Coaching of staff in schools: what can we learn from the new role of the Masters in Teaching and Learning in-school coach for schools and the higher education tutors working alongside them?. Journal of Education for Teaching, 39(1), 107-122.
Athanasou, J.A. (1997) ‘Teaching and Learning at Master’s Level: An Australian Perspective on Adult Education’ in P.T. Knight(ed.) Learning, Teaching and Curriculum in Taught Master’s Degrees (London: Cassell Education), pp. 39-52.
Bakkabulindi, F. E. K. and Kabasiita, J. (2012). Change Agents, Training and Age as Correlates of Use of Computers among Masters Students in Makerere University School of Education. Business Journal, 145.
Bakkabulindi, F.E.K. and Ssempebwa, J. (2011). Readines for knowledge creation and sharing in the university of the future by masters students in two schools in Makerere university. Journal of Educational Review, 4(4).
Barros, C.M.E., Júnior, L.C.L., Colauto, R.D. and Voese, S.B. (2012). Interdisciplinarity in management accounting and cost accounting in masters programs: perceptions of teachers and students. Revista de Contabilidade e Organizações, 6(14), 163.
Bigirimana, S., Jagero, N. and Chinzvende, J. (2014). Perceptions of Students, Lecturers and Administrators of the Administration of the Executive Masters of Business Administration (EMBA) Programme at Africa University, Mutare, Zimbabwe. Research in Business and Management, 2(1), pp-79.
Bond, M.L., Jones, M.E., Barr, W.J., Carr, G.F., Williams, S.J. and Baxley, S. (2012). Hardiness, Perceived Social Support, Perceived Institutional Support, and Progression of Minority Students in a Masters of Nursing Program. Hispanic Health Care International, 10(3), 109-117.
Brown, R. (2015). Professional Entry Level Masters Athletic Trainnig Programs Versus Bachelors of Science Athletic Training Programs: Comparing Preparedness and Emotional Intelligence. Journal of Sports Medicine and Allied Health Sciences: Official Journal of the Ohio Athletic Trainers Association, 1(1), 3.
Carpenter, H.L. and Krist, P. (2011). Practice makes perfect: A Study of the Impact and Use of Nonprofit Masters Students’ Applied Projects on Nonprofit Organizations in the San Diego Region. Journal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership, 1(2), 3.
Conneeley, A.L. (2005) ‘Study at master’s level: A qualitative study exploring the experience of students’, British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 68: 3, 104–09.
Curtin, N., Stewart, A.J. and Ostrove, J.M. (2012) ‘Fostering academic self-concept: Advisor support and sense of belonging among international and domestic graduate students’, American Educational Research Journal, 50: 1, 108–37.
Della Corte, F., Hubloue, I., Gallardo, A.R., Ragazzoni, L., Ingrassia, P.L. and Debacker, M. (2014). The European Masters Degree in Disaster Medicine (EMDM): A Decade of Exposure. Frontiers in Public Health, 2.
Duzkantar, A. and Batu, E.S. (2010). Opinions of masters students of special education major about the masters program. Anadolu University Journal of Social Sciences, 10(2), 227-248.
Faro, A. (2013). An explanatory model for subjective well-being: a study with masters and phd students in Brazil. Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 26(4), 654-662.
Frazier, B., Young, C. and Fuller, E. (2012). Nontraditional Adult Masters Degree Students and Their Choice of Program of Study. Academy of Educational Leadership Journal, 16(3), 79.
Gadsby, H. and Cronin, S. (2012). To what extent can reflective journaling help beginning teachers develop Masters level writing skills? Reflective Practice, 13(1), 1-12.
Galway, L.P., Berry, B. and Takaro, T. (2015). Student perceptions and lessons learned from flipping a masters level public health course| Perceptions des étudiants et leçons tirées d’une classe inversée pour un cours de maîtrise en santé environnementale et professionnelle. Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology/La revue canadienne de l’apprentissage et de la technologie, 41(2).
Gerstel, L., Zwanikken, P.A.C., Hoffman, A., Diederichs, C., Borchert, M. and Peterhans, B. (2013). Fifteen years of the tropEd Masters in International Health programme: what has it delivered? Results of an alumni survey of masters students in international health. Tropical Medicine and International Health, 18(3), 377-384.
Gorham, G. (2014). Taught Postgraduate Education in Tourism and Hospitality in an Irish Institute of Technology: Student, Graduate, Educator and Employer Perspectives (Doctoral dissertation, University of Sheffield).
Graham-Matheson, L. (2010). Masters of the game: teacher educators and the M level PGCE. Teacher Advancement Network Journal, 1(1).
Hamid, A. and Noor, M. (2013). How the value of higher education is perceived by students and alumni: the case of the Masters of Business Administration (MBA) (Doctoral dissertation, University of Leeds).
Heider, K. (2010, October). Information Literacy Instruction in the Graduate Classroom: Perceptions of Students Enrolled in a Masters in Education Program. In World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (Vol. 2010, No. 1, pp. 2412-2420).
I-grad (2013) Understanding the Information Needs of Postgraduate Taught Students and How These Can Be Met. Report to HEFCE by i-graduate. Available at http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/rereports/year/2013/pginfoneeds/
Ierardi, F. and Goldberg, E. (2014). Looking back, looking forward: New masters-level creative arts therapists reflect on the professional impact of an interprofessional community health internship. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 41(4), 366-374.
Johnson, M. (2013). Developing a Masters of Fine Arts in Classical Performance for Cincinnati Shakespeare Company: The Transformation of an Education Department Into an Education.
Kelly, M.A. and Fry, M. (2013). Masters Nursing Students' Perceptions of an Innovative Simulation Education Experience. Clinical Simulation in Nursing, 9(4), e127-e133.
Kember, D., Ho, A. and Leung, D.Y. (2014). Evaluating taught postgraduate awards from the student’s perspective. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 1-23.
Kilinc, H.H. (2015). The opinions of Masters students about the learning program in the field of teaching Turkish to foreigners. Educational Research and Reviews, 10(14), 1980-1992.
Kneale, P.E. (2005) ‘Enthusing staff delivering taught masters programmes’, Planet, 14, 13–15. Available at www.gees.ac.uk/pubs/planet/p14/pk.pdf
Knight, P.T. (2006) The Effects of Postgraduate Certificates: A Report to the Project Sponsor and Partners. Available at http://kn.open.ac.uk/public/getfile.cfm?documentfileid=9827.
Jones, L.M. (2010). Knowledge of ADHD among Masters of Social Work and Teaching Credential students (Doctoral dissertation, San Francisco State University).
Leman, J., Turner, G. and Bennett, P. (2013). PTES 2013: Findings from the postgraduate taught experience survey. Higher Education Academy (HEA). York.
Lihua, C. (2010). On the establishment of Masters curriculum for sports training in physical education. Journal of Fujian University of Technology, 5, 029.
Lopresti, J.M. (2010). The process and experience of online group counselling for masters-level counselling students (Doctoral dissertation, Texas AandM University- Corpus Christi).
Mifsud, M.C. (2015). Student Perceptions on the First Masters in Education for Sustainable Development in Malta. In Transformative Approaches to Sustainable Development at Universities (pp. 271-287). Springer International Publishing.
Morgan, M. (2014). Study expectations of 1st/2nd generation STEM postgraduate taught students. Quality Assurance in Education, 22(2), 169-184.
Mujtaba, B. (2011). What Do Online Students Need And Want From Their Masters Of Business Administration Program? Journal of College Teaching and Learning. 2(6).
Munim, F. and Azam, K.M. (2011). Perspectives of e-government Masters' students of Orebro University, towards e-politics. Journal of Global Intelligence and Policy, 4(5).
van Nieuwerburgh, C.J. and Lech, A.M. (2015). Understanding the experiences of positive life changes during postgraduate study on a Masters in Applied Positive Psychology programme: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. International Journal of Wellbeing, 5(3).
Ngwenya, E.B. (2012). The Reflections of Masters Students in Educational Psychology as Presented in Their Portfolios (Doctoral dissertation, University of Johannesburg).
Ona, S. (2012). Graduate students with learning challenges: exploring masters students in early childhood education (Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Northridge).
Osei, C.K. (2010). Perceptions of students towards use of distance learning: The case in an executive masters business program in Ghana. Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 13 (2).
Park, C. (2008) The Taught Postgraduate Student Experience – Overview of a Higher Education Academy Survey (New York: HEA). Available at www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/documents/postgraduate/pgtsurvey.pdf
Parkinson, A., Chew, L. and Miller, R. (2012, April). Student perceptions of e-learning components within a Masters level accounting module. In Consumer Electronics, Communications and Networks (CECNet), 2012 2nd International Conference on (pp. 3517-3521). IEEE.
Pilkington, R. (2013). Enabling pedagogic research: the impact of a masters in education (MEd Professional practice in Education) on the practice of academics. UCLan Journal of Pedagogic Research, 2(1), 13.
Ruggles, T.M. (2012). Masters Level Graduate Student Writing Groups: Exploring Academic Identity (Doctoral dissertation, Arizona State University).
Soilemetzidis, I., Bennett, P. and Leman, J. (2014) The Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey 2014 (New York: Higher Education Academy). Available at https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/sites/default/files/resources/PTES_2014_Report.pdf
Tappert, C. and Stix, A. (2012). Adapting to Change in a Masters-Level Real-World-Projects Capstone Course. Information Systems Education Journal, 10(6), 25.
Williamson, P.J. (2013). The lived experience of masters-prepared academic nurse educators decision-making process for pursuing doctoral education (Doctoral dissertation, Capella University).
Woodbury, J. (2014). Master-ing the profession? The effects of masters level study in a PGCE secondary course on re/shaping trainee teachers' professional identities (Doctoral dissertation, University of the West of England).
Zhang, H.P. and Wu, L. (2014). Masters of Social Work Evaluating the Outcome of their Education. Journal of Guangdong University of Technology (Social Sciences Edition), 1, 013.
Zhang, R. and Zhao, F.Q. (2012). The Cultivation of Masters of Middle-school English Education: Problems and Solutions -Taking Shenyang Normal University for Example. Journal of Shenyang Agricultural University (Social Sciences Edition), 6, 017.
Transition and Induction
Davis, D., DeWitty, V. and Millett, C. (2012). A Seamless Progression: Preparing Accelerated Second Degree Nursing Students for Entry Into Baccalaureate and Masters. Nursing Education. Clinical Scholars Review, 5(1), 6-13.
de Boer, H., Kolster, R. and Vossensteyn, H. (2010). Motives underlying bachelors–masters transitions: The case of Dutch degree stackers. Higher Education Policy, 23(3), 381-396.
Dickerson, J. (2010, February). Mentoring Masters-to-PhD Students: Reflections of the Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters to PhD Bridge Program. In APS April Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 1, p. 3002).
Lovitts, B. (2005) ‘Being a good course-taker is not enough: A theoretical perspective on the transition to independent research’, Studies in Higher Education, 30: 2, 137–54.
Masterman, E. and Shuyska, J.A. (2012). Digitally mastered? Technology and transition in the experience of taught postgraduate students. Learning, Media and Technology, 37(4), 335-354.
Scott, D., Evans, D., Walter, C., Hughes, G., Burke, P.J., Walter, C. and Huttly, S. (2011). Facilitating transitions to masters-level learning: Improving formative assessment and feedback processes. York: The Higher Education Academy.
Stacey, G., Felton, A. and Joynson, K. (2010). Masters at work: a narrative inquiry into the experiences of mental health nurses qualifying with an undergraduate Masters degree. Nurse Education Today, 30(4), 333-337.
Stassun, K. (2011, April). Enhancing Diversity at the PhD Level in Physics: The Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters-to-PhD Bridge Program. In APS April Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 1, p. L5001).
Symons, M. (2001) ‘Starting a coursework postgraduate degree: The neglected transition’ in Changing Identities: Proceedings of the 2001 Australian Language and Academic Skills Conference, University of Wollongong. Available at http://learning.uow.edu.au/LAS2001/unrefereed/symons.pdf
Tobbell, J. and O’Donnell, V.L. (2013a) ‘Transition to postgraduate study: Postgraduate ecological systems and identity’, Cambridge Journal of Education, 43: 1, 123–13.
Tobbell, J. and O’Donnell, V.L. (2013b) ‘Entering postgraduate study: A neglected transition?’, International Journal for Cross-Disciplinary Subjects in Education, 4: 1.
Tobbell, J., O’Donnell, V.L. and Zammit, M. (2008) Exploring Practice and Participation in Transition to Post-graduate Social Science Study: An Ethnographic Study (New York: Higher Education Academy).
Tobbell, J., O’Donnell, V.L. and Zammit, M. (2010) ‘Exploring transition to postgraduate study: Shifting identities in interaction with communities, practice and participation’, British Educational Research Journal, 36: 2, 261–78.
Wells, A., Kline, D., Vetter, R. and Reinicke, B. (2014). A Virtual Machine Self-Service Portal for the UNCW CSIS Masters' Students. Annals of the Master of Science in Computer Science and Information Systems at UNC Wilmington,8(1).
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