Beverley Webster
RMIT University
36 Papers
233 Citations
Beverley Webster is an academic researcher from RMIT University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Small business & The Internet. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 36 publications. Previous affiliations of Beverley Webster include University of Western Australia & RMIT International University.
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Papers
Gender, age and self‐employment: some things change, some stay the same
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated age and gender differences in initial motivations for starting a business and found that self-employment is a reactive rather than proactive decision for both older women and men; however, women were less in...
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Higher Education Student Engagement Scale (HESES): Development and Psychometric Evidence.
TL;DR: Christenson et al. as mentioned in this paper developed the Higher Education Student Engagement Scale (HESES) based on a five-factor model of student engagement, which was evolved from Finn and Zimmer's student engagement model taken into account the distinctive characteristics in higher education.
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Accounting for Variation in Science and Mathematics Achievement: A Multilevel Analysis of Australian Data; Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).
TL;DR: In this paper, the issue of resource availability in rural and urban Australian schools is addressed and students' attitudes towards science and mathematics and career aspirations of these students are investigated. And the analysis includes socioeconomic status and gender of students and investigates how these variables relate to student achievement.
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Gender issues in home‐based businesses
TL;DR: In this paper, the difference between men and women's motivations for going into business and why they choose to operate their business from home was reported, and two focus groups verified the findings of the survey and investigated the home-based business operator's perceptions of the communities attitude towards them.
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Travelling a thousand miles: Hong Kong Chinese students’ study abroad experience
TL;DR: In this paper, an experiential intercultural learning model was proposed to explore Chinese students' goals, experiences, and learning outcomes associated with their participation in study abroad, and the findings suggested interrelatedness of students' study abroad goals, host country experiences and learning outcome.
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