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Roger Boshier
Researcher at University of British Columbia
Publications - 63
Citations - 1325
Roger Boshier is an academic researcher from University of British Columbia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Adult education & Lifelong learning. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 63 publications receiving 1287 citations.
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Why is the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning such a hard sell
TL;DR: In this paper, Boyer's definition of teaching and learning is criticised for being anti-intellectual and located in a narrow neoliberalism, and there is uncritical over-reliance on peer review as the mechanism for measuring scholarship.
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Motivational Orientations Re-Visited: Life-Space Motives and the Education Participation Scale
TL;DR: A line of motivational research that flows from Houle's three factor typology, a model which describes adult edu cation participants as life-chance (deficiency) or life-space (growth) or... as mentioned in this paper.
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Psychometric Properties of the Alternative Form of the Education Participation Scale
TL;DR: The Education Participation Scale (EPS) (A-form) measures motivational orientations and consists of seven 6-item factors comprised of items inductively derived from adult education participants as discussed by the authors.
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Best and worst dressed web courses: Strutting into the 21st century in comfort and style
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employed a 43 item coding schedule to examine the accessibility, opportunities for interaction and attractiveness of 127 courses on the web and identified relationships between the 43 variables and issues pertaining to accessibility, interaction, and attractiveness with the aid of SPSS.
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Factor Analysts At Large: a Critical Review of the Motivational Orientation Literature
TL;DR: The methodology employed in fourteen motivational orienta tion studies is reviewed in this article, where all studies used either the Education Participation Scale, the Continuing Learning Orientation Index or the Reaso...