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Wickam, Molly J. – Educational Research Quarterly, 2019
The purpose of this exploratory, descriptive study was to understand what and how students learn about the Holocaust in private Christian/Catholic middle and high schools. Christian schools have been criticized for putting more emphasis on teaching religion than on providing a quality education. A convenience sample of middle and secondary English…
Descriptors: Christianity, Death, Jews, European History
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Loertscher, Jennifer; Green, David; Lewis, Jennifer E.; Lin, Sara; Minderhout, Vicky – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2014
Threshold concepts (TCs) are concepts that, when mastered, represent a transformed understanding of a discipline without which the learner cannot progress. We have undertaken a process involving more than 75 faculty members and 50 undergraduate students to identify a working list of TCs for biochemistry. The process of identifying TCs for…
Descriptors: Biochemistry, Scientific Concepts, Fundamental Concepts, College Faculty
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Kirk, Rachel W. – Hispania, 2013
This study examines the effects of processing instruction (PI) alone versus PI and output (O) on the acquisition of three conjunctional and infinitival phrases in Spanish. Seventy intermediate and advanced-intermediate high school participants received: 1) PI on three consecutive days (PI + PI + PI); 2) PI for two days and meaning-based output…
Descriptors: Spanish, Language Processing, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Stricker, David R. – National Center for Engineering and Technology Education, 2010
This study was conducted to describe a teacher developed high school engineering course, to identify teaching strategies used in the process of delivering math and science literacy through this course, to identify challenges and constraints that occurred during its development and delivery, and to describe the strategies that were used to overcome…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Instructional Materials, Teaching Methods, Engineering