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XIAN Huihui
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8072/2018.08.006
Shandong University, Weihai, China
The purpose of this study is to (a) examine graduate students to see whether the syllabus of a research course is more important to male or female students and (b) determine whether graduate students who prefer educational work settings rate the usefulness of a research course higher than those who prefer non-educational work settings. Data were collected from a survey that was distributed to the subjects. These subjects included 57 graduate students enrolled in four classes of the same research course and all of them responded. The findings indicated that female graduate students considered the syllabus of this research course more important than the male graduate students did (p < 0.5). The study also found that there was not a significant difference (p > 0.05) between graduate students who prefer to work in the educational settings and those who prefer non-educational work settings rating the usefulness of a research course.
attitude, research course syllabus, Chinese graduate students
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