Academics believe in a symbiotic relationship between research and teaching, though evidence challenges its existence. Previous studies may have defined these constructs too narrowly to detect the perceived relationships. This study used a qualitative approach to investigate chemistry professors' beliefs…

A public oral defense of the written dissertation is mandatory for completion of the doctorate in most North American universities, yet how students experience it has rarely been documented. This study examined how a group of Canadian education PhD candidates…

This dissertation presents a user-centred, interdisciplinary study on information use strategies. In complex learning contexts such as ill-structured-domains, there are three ways of using information. The first is to make sense of the information fragments to construct a cohesive whole.…