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Steven B. Davis; John Hinck – Journal of Faculty Development, 2024
Scholarship on life cycles of teacher development posits that teachers progress through specific stages with specific developmental needs. However, this scholarship rests on studies over traditional ten-month, semester, or quarterly education cycles and does not accommodate alternative teaching frequencies or durations. This study applies this…
Descriptors: Military Training, Faculty Development, Minicourses, Teacher Effectiveness
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Joshua A. Price – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2024
As universities seek to innovate to meet the needs of students, compressed courses are becoming more prevalent. This study compares a compressed-format course to a traditional format course in economics that were each taught in the summer. Results indicate that student performance in a compressed course differs in meaningful ways. Effort-based…
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Online Courses, Undergraduate Students, Minicourses
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Sonia Santoveña-Casal; Javier Gil-Quintana; José Javier Hueso-Romero – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2024
Purpose: Microteaching is a teacher training method based on microclasses (groups of four or five students) and microlessons lasting no more than 5-20 min. Since it was first explored in the late 20th century in experiments at Stanford University, microteaching has evolved at the interdisciplinary level. The purpose of this paper is to examine the…
Descriptors: Microteaching, Networks, Higher Education, Electronic Learning
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Xinnan Zhao; Fengnian Wang – Discover Education, 2024
Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) is a theoretical framework used to assess information teaching. However, its application and popularity in practice is limited due to usability and accuracy issues. This study presents a quantitative model called TPACK-Venn, which is based on the graphical calculation of a Venn diagram determined…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Visual Aids, Computation
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Richard Chinn; Melissa Lamb – TESOL Journal, 2024
This article suggests ways in which teacher supervisors and trainers on short courses can reposition their role by making the feedback conference more collaborative and trainee-led. The authors argue that by taking a more dialogic approach and exploring critical incidents, trainee teachers can develop reflective skills and take more ownership of…
Descriptors: Teacher Supervision, Supervisors, Role, Feedback (Response)
Josh Freeman – Higher Education Policy Institute, 2024
Short, preparatory 'foundation year' courses have exploded in popularity in recent years, but they have drawn criticism from policymakers. Like Access diplomas, they serve to support people from all backgrounds to enter higher education. This HEPI Report asks whether foundation years are effective tools for widening access -- or whether, when it…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Minicourses, College Preparation, Access to Education
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Fulya Kula; Nelly Litvak; Tracy S. Craig – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2024
The sample mean in statistics is a concept of great importance, with its properties being extensively utilized in other areas, such as computer science. This research centers on the concept of the sample mean and its characteristics in a cohort of computer engineering students undertaking a required course in statistics at a university in the…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Engineering Education, Learning Processes, Statistics
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Yves Furer; Maik Philipp – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2024
Successful writing requires self-regulated writing because of the complex and demanding nature of writing. Self-regulated writing is based on the interplay of metacognition and motivation. In order to enable students to become better self-regulated writers, certain metacognitive and motivational characteristics such as metacognitive strategy…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Minicourses, Metacognition
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Andrew J. Collins; Brandon M. Butler; James F. Leathrum; Christopher J. Lynch – Studying Teacher Education, 2024
As the COVID-19 pandemic caused severe disruption to education enterprises throughout the world, the main response by educational institutions was to move to online learning environments. The purpose of this study was to understand better how instructors could improve online learning for a professional-level week-long short course in a highly…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Engineering Education, Electronic Learning
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Nicola Savvides; Tristan Bunnell – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2024
The arena of international schools is continuously growing. One under-researched 'traditional' grouping is the United World College (UWC) movement. Its idealistic long-term mission to facilitate global peace and sustainability by 'sparking change' in young peoples' lives represents an important area of study. As well as preparing young people for…
Descriptors: International Schools, International Organizations, Social Change, Experiential Learning
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Ashley N. Walker; Bradley R. Collins; Daniel Topping; Kevin Pierre; Abheek G. Raviprasad; Venkatesh Nonabur; David King; Kyle E. Rarey – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2024
The topic of vertical integration of the basic and clinical sciences is an area of great concern and active investigation in medical education. To explore the feasibility of integrating basic sciences into the clinical phase of medical education, gross anatomy was selected as an appropriate discipline. Anatomy faculty, clerkship directors, medical…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Anatomy, Clinical Teaching (Health Professions), Minicourses
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Kayli Elaine Burnside; Cristina Wildermuth; Maria Rohach – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2024
This study explores the experiences of short-term study abroad faculty at a liberal arts university in the Midwestern United States. We distributed a qualitative survey to all faculty who taught short-term study abroad courses at the institution, interviewed four short-term study abroad leaders, two short-term study abroad co-leaders, and reviewed…
Descriptors: College Faculty, International Educational Exchange, Teacher Exchange Programs, Faculty Development
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Pamela Snow; Tanya Serry; Eamon Charles; Joanna Barbousas – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2024
Coverage of reading and reading instruction in initial teacher education is highly contested, with the "reading wars" representing decades of debate concerning approaches that should be promoted to teachers-in-training. Empirical evidence strongly endorses explicit and systematic teaching of code-based skills as a starting point,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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Rachel Baker; Eric Bettinger; Madison Dell; Gus Gluek; Kaylee Matheny; Hidahis Mesa; Alex Monday – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background: Condensed courses, as opposed to semester-long courses, are an increasingly popular strategy to improve equity in higher education. With condensed courses, students focus on a smaller number of courses during seven- to ten-week terms (Gullatt, 2006; Zepeda & Mayers, 2006). Historically marginalized students may benefit because the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, College Faculty, Minicourses
Hannah Atchison – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study builds on education abroad, global citizenship, and short-term travel programs literature by examining students' experiences traveling on short-term programs overseas in the Global Majority. The term Global Majority, in this study, is defined as regions worldwide that have historically seen low student participation rates for academic…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Global Approach, Minicourses, Travel
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