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Emmalee A. Ford; Catherine Chojenta; Tanmay Bagade; Sally Sweeney; Jessie M. Sutherland – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2024
Fertility information is an important component of comprehensive sexuality education, but the extent to which adolescents are taught or informed about fertility is unknown in Australia. This study examined knowledge of fertility using an anonymous, online survey of > 2,600 adolescents aged 15-18 across Australia. Respondents represented diverse…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Sex Education, Pregnancy, Knowledge Level
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Rajabifard, Abbas; Kahalimoghadam, Masoud; Lumantarna, Elisa; Herath, Nilupa; Hui, Felix Kin Peng; Assarkhaniki, Zahra – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: The achievement of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) for all communities and jurisdictions require a comprehensive roadmap that encompasses all dimensions of data infrastructure, social, economic, environmental and governance ecosystems. With this in mind, this paper aims to establish the link between the curriculum and intended…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Higher Education, Sustainable Development, Curriculum Development
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Whittle, Rachael J.; Benson, Amanda C.; Ullah, Shahid; Telford, Amanda – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2017
Background: Senior secondary physical education courses for certification continue to evolve with curricula reform occurring to ensure content is contemporary, student learning outcomes are maximised and assessment practices are valid for determining certification of students. The content of examinable senior secondary physical education courses…
Descriptors: Physical Education, High Stakes Tests, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries
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Leslie, Celine; Hutchinson, Amanda D. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2018
This observational, cross-sectional study examined students' retrospective recall of emotional distress when studying sensitive topics in psychology, and whether hardiness had a mediated pathway to emotional distress through a mental health condition (MHC). Psychology undergraduates (155 women, 34 men) from South Australian universities completed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Stress Variables, Psychological Patterns
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Spittle, Michael; Spittle, Sharna – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
This study explored the perceptions of university physical education students of the importance of physical education curriculum content areas and how those perceptions related to the reasons for course choice and motivation. Physical education degree students (n = 188) completed measures of their perceptions of physical education content areas,…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Curriculum, Physical Education, Undergraduate Students, Preservice Teachers
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Kinoshita, Timothy J.; Knight, David B.; Gibbes, Badin – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2017
Burgeoning college enrolments and insufficient funding to higher education have expanded the use of large lecture courses. As this trend continues, it is important to ensure that students can still learn in those challenging learning environments. Within education broadly and undergraduate engineering specifically, active learning pedagogies have…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Engineering Education, Lecture Method, Undergraduate Students
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Hammond, Jennifer – Research Papers in Education, 2016
The aim of this article is to foster dialogue between proponents of Alexander's notion of dialogic teaching and those working with educational linguistics--in particular those working with systemic functional theory. To this end, the article begins by highlighting important points of alignment between dialogic teaching and systemic theory: their…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Isac, Maria Magdalena; Maslowski, Ralf; Creemers, Bert; van der Werf, Greetje – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2014
This article uses an educational effectiveness approach to model the impact of student, school, and educational system characteristics on several cognitive and non-cognitive student outcomes related to citizenship education. Using multivariate multilevel analysis, data from the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Multivariate Analysis, Secondary School Students