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The learning climate of chartered quantity surveying practices

Construction Economics and Building

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Title The learning climate of chartered quantity surveying practices
 
Creator Lowe, David
Skitmore, Martin
 
Subject Education
Learning organization, experiential learning, learning styles, practitioners, quantity surveying
Further education
 
Description This paper reports on a fully structured interview survey investigating the relationship between the learning climate of chartered quantity surveying practices and individual learning styles, approaches to learning, ability, measures of length of service and the size of the quantity surveying organisation. The results indicate that the learning environment is generally supportive in terms of human support, but less supportive in terms of staff development systems; as individuals rise in the hierarchy of an organisation, their perception of its ability to provide an appropriate learning environment increases. Likewise, perceptions of human support and working practices within organisations increase significantly with length of time in the profession; larger organisations have more advanced staff development systems but provide less human support; and the learning environment both overall and in terms of working practices correlates positively with learning styles and approaches to learning.
 
Publisher UTS ePRESS
 
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Date 2011-12-09
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Survey/Interview
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/AJCEB/article/view/2238
10.5130/AJCEB.v11i4.2238
 
Source Construction Economics and Building; Vol 11, No 4 (2011): AJCEB; 1-20
2204-9029
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/AJCEB/article/view/2238/2658
 
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QS Professionals
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2011 David Lowe, Martin Skitmore
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0