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Cher Hill; Awneet Sivia; Vicki Kelly; Paula Rosehart; Kau’i Keliipio – in education, 2024
As part of our ethical responsibilities as scholar-practitioners and community members living as uninvited guests on Indigenous territories, we engaged in a collaborative inquiry to explore ways in which Indigenous pedagogies and worldviews extend understandings of self within self-study research. Over several years, we engaged in reflective…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Personnel, Indigenous Populations, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
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Dincer, Ali – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
This study aimed to investigate the beliefs of English as foreign language (EFL) learners about speaking in English and being a good speaker of English through metaphor analysis. A phenomenological approach was adopted and 60 EFL learners completed a questionnaire with demographic questions and two prompts focusing on the characteristics of a good…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Figurative Language, Beliefs
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Kimball, Ezekiel – Critical Questions in Education, 2016
This paper utilizes a critical post-pragmatist epistemological lens in tandem with an extended case analysis to explore how student affairs professionals process truth claims related to student experience. Findings from the study, which include the limited usage of formal theory and the iterative reconstruction of informal theory, are used to…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers, Case Studies, Theory Practice Relationship
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Shin, Suhkyung; Song, Hae-Deok – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
This study investigates how scaffolding type and learners' epistemological beliefs influence ill-structured problem solving. The independent variables in this study include the type of scaffolding (task-supported, self-monitoring) and the student's epistemological belief level (more advanced, less advanced). The dependent variables include three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Student Attitudes
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Günes, Erhan; Bahçivan, Eralp – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
Integrating technology into science education provides opportunities to foster students' meaningful learning. This study focused on technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) and its connections to belief system in a science teaching context. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of preservice science teachers' (PST)…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Technological Literacy, Case Studies, Preservice Teachers
Fernandez, Jesus – ProQuest LLC, 2011
An increasing number of students are selecting for-profit universities to pursue their education (Snyder, Tan & Hoffman, 2006). Despite this trend, little empirical research attention has focused on these institutions, and the literature that exists has been classified as rudimentary in nature (Tierney & Hentschke, 2007). The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Research Design, Methods Research, Student Attitudes, Persistence
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Kalman, Calvin S.; Sobhanzadeh, Mandana; Thompson, Robert; Ibrahim, Ahmed; Wang, Xihui – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2015
This study was based on the hypothesis that students' epistemological beliefs could become more expertlike with a combination of appropriate instructional activities: (i) preclass reading with metacognitive reflection, and (ii) in-class active learning that produces cognitive dissonance. This hypothesis was tested through a five-year study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Intervention, Attitude Change
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Lojewski, Renee; Rotunda, Rob J.; Arruda, James E. – Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 2010
Descriptive norms, which are beliefs about the most commonly exhibited behavior in a group, are commonly used in normative interventions to reduce harmful drinking and perceptions about the extent of drinking among peers. The present study examined if interventions utilizing gender personalized normative would decrease subjects' misperceptions and…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Control Groups, Age, Drinking
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Kaplan, Jennifer K. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2009
Psychologists have discovered a phenomenon called "Belief Bias" in which subjects rate the strength of arguments based on the believability of the conclusions. This paper reports the results of a small qualitative pilot study of undergraduate students who had previously taken an algebra-based introduction to statistics class. The subjects in this…
Descriptors: Psychologists, Beliefs, Bias, Evaluative Thinking
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McGregor, Deb; Hooker, Barbara; Wise, David; Devlin, Linda – Professional Development in Education, 2010
The Educational Doctorate (EdD) at the University of Wolverhampton offers educational practitioners the opportunity to design a research enquiry based in, on or around their professional work. The cohort, reported on here, embarked upon their EdD studies during the 2007/08 academic year. This study reports on seven participants' learning…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Research Design, Ethics, Researchers
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Mewborn, Denise S.; Stinson, David W. – Teachers College Record, 2007
Background: Although preservice teachers bring well-established views of teaching to their teacher education programs, Tabachnick and Zeichner (1984) claimed that it is possible to amend preservice teachers' views. They portrayed the learning of teachers as a negotiated and interactive process rather than as one that is predetermined by teachers'…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Research Design, Methods Courses
Tatto, Maria Teresa; Ingvarson, Lawrence; Schwille, John; Peck, Ray; Senk, Sharon L.; Rowley, Glenn – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2008
Over the last 50 years, the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) has conducted more than 23 large-scale comparative studies of student achievement. The work associated with teacher preparation as well as experience gained in many of IEA's studies, such as TIMSS, led to a request from members of the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers