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Instructional Strategies and Adult Learning Theories: An Autoethnographic Study about Teaching Research Methods in a Doctoral Program
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Franco, Myra Suzanne – Education, 2019
For over 25 years, my lecture driven teaching strategies that included passive learning outcomes has prevailed in my K12 and higher education teaching. The requirement to help doctoral students identify and understand their epistemology, ontology and worldview within a research methods class created a dilemma regarding the appropriateness of…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Learning Theories, Experiential Learning, Teaching Methods
A Study on Epistemological Beliefs of Community College Students and Their Self-Efficacy Beliefs Regarding Educational Use of the Internet
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Aktürk, Ahmet Oguz – Education, 2014
This study investigated the relationships between the self-efficacy beliefs of students at community colleges regarding the educational use of the Internet and their epistemological beliefs. Moreover, it is also examined whether the self-efficacy beliefs of the students regarding the educational use of the Internet and their epistemological…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Two Year College Students, Self Efficacy, Educational Technology
Predictors of College Student Achievement in Undergraduate Asynchronous Web-Based Courses
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Bell, Paul D. – Education, 2007
This study examined the effects of self-regulated learning (SRL) and epistemological beliefs (EB) on individual learner levels of academic achievement in Web-based learning environments while holding constant the effect of computer self-efficacy, reason for taking an online course, prior college academic achievement, and parental level of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Grade Point Average, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement