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Philip, Thomas M.; Olivares-Pasillas, Maria C.; Rocha, Janet – Cognition and Instruction, 2016
Data visualizations are now commonplace in the public media. The ability to interpret and create such visualizations, as a form of data literacy, is increasingly important for democratic participation. Yet, the cross-disciplinary knowledge and skills needed to produce and use data visualizations and to develop data literacy are not fluidly…
Descriptors: Race, Cultural Literacy, Data, Visualization
Lewis, Anders; Donovan, Bill – Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, 2017
The purpose of this paper is to take a closer look at the states that have designed strong history standards and note what has made them exceptional so other states might do the same. They include Alabama, California, Indiana, Massachusetts, New York, and South Carolina. The report draws on interviews with individuals from each state who sat on…
Descriptors: United States History, History Instruction, State Standards, Advisory Committees
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Carlsen, William – Journal of Classroom Interaction, 2015
This paper describes strategies used by novice biology teachers to exert sociolinguistic control over conversations when teaching unfamiliar subject-matter content. These discourse control strategies were identified in a year-long study of teacher subject-matter knowledge and its effects on teaching, and are illustrated in three lessons taught by…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Teachers, Biology, Sociolinguistics
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Murata, Aki; McGee, Anna; Madkins, Tia C.; Fabrega, Judith; Kim, Hee-Jeong; Gillingham, Denny; Shareff, Becca L. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
This study investigated the learning process of preservice elementary teachers (PSTs) through lesson study in a mathematics teaching methods course. Lesson study meeting data of kindergarten PSTs were analyzed to examine the shifting focus on (1) student collaboration in classroom (vision), (2) teaching practices (making content accessible), and…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Mathematics Instruction, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
Kerr, Deirdre – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2014
Educational video games provide an opportunity for students to interact with and explore complex representations of academic content and allow for the examination of problem-solving strategies and mistakes that can be difficult to capture in more traditional environments. However, data from such games are notoriously difficult to analyze. This…
Descriptors: Identification, Misconceptions, Scoring Rubrics, Educational Games
Bosfield, Saundra – Online Submission, 2013
The purpose of this study was to investigate if there is a significant difference in the following: (a) nurses' likelihood to remain in geriatrics between age groups (those over 40 years of age and those under 40 years of age); (b) nurses' likelihood to remain in geriatrics and personality traits; (c) nurses' likelihood to remain in geriatrics…
Descriptors: Nurses, Older Adults, Geriatrics, Statistical Analysis
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Ulanoff, Sharon H.; Quiocho, Alice M. L.; Riedell, Kate – Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue, 2015
This study explores the development of academic language and discourse by third grade English language learners (ELLs) in the context of inquiry-based lessons taught in Spanish with a focus on student development of questioning skills during content-based instruction (Wadham, 2013). The qualitative, narrative study is guided by the following…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Inquiry, Teaching Methods, Grade 3
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Flores, Gabriel – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2014
Many teachers are interested in having a more inclusive multicultural education that includes lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) themes and gay-themed children's literature; unfortunately, research has found that many teachers do not implement gay themes in their multicultural education curriculum because of fear of criticism from…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Sexual Identity, Sexual Orientation, Parent Teacher Cooperation
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Bersamin, Melina; Zamboanga, Byron L.; Orsak-Neff, Natalie – Psychology Teaching Review, 2013
Using an experimental study design (N = 41), we examined whether participation in an informal writing assignment, specifically writing a letter to a friend about course content, improved exam scores in an undergraduate child development course. Findings indicated that participating in the writing assignment significantly improved scores on an exam…
Descriptors: Letters (Correspondence), Course Content, Assignments, Writing Instruction
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Lombardi, Doug; Seyranian, Viviane; Sinatra, Gale M. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2014
Gaps between what scientists and laypeople find plausible may act as a barrier to learning complex and/or controversial socioscientific concepts. For example, individuals may consider scientific explanations that human activities are causing current climate change as implausible. This plausibility judgment may be due-in part-to individuals'…
Descriptors: Climate, Scientific Research, Credibility, Scientific Concepts
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LaBarbera, Robin – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2013
While many researchers have sought to identify pedagogical strategies to create a sense of connectedness in online courses, few have investigated e-mail correspondence between student and instructor. The current study addressed this issue and found students' sense of connectedness to be strongly correlated to feedback on assignments, instructor…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Student Satisfaction, Online Courses, Electronic Mail
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Powell, Brent; Fletcher, J. Sue – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2013
There has been little research on undergraduate reproductive anatomy education. This pilot study explores knowledge of anatomical reproductive anatomy among university students in a lower division and upper division health course. Using a Qualtrics survey program, a convenience sample of 120 lower division and 157 upper division students for a…
Descriptors: Health Education, Anatomy, Birth, Undergraduate Study
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Meschke, Laurie L.; Peter, Christina R. – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2014
Parents play an important role in the promotion of adolescent sexual health, but little is known about parents' attitudes and beliefs in immigrant families. We examine Hmong American parents' attitudes about adolescent sexual health using survey data from 202 parents of adolescents with attention to parental gender differences. Breaking from…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Parent Role, Adolescents, Sexuality
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Deschamp, Brent; Latulippe, Christine – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2013
First-year experience courses, although common on university campuses, are conducted in a variety of formats. This article outlines strategies and activities used at a large urban commuter campus in a first-year experience sequence run by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics for the College of Science. The course, designed for freshmen…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Majors (Students), First Year Seminars, College Science
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Vecellio, Shawn – Multicultural Perspectives, 2012
The FAIR Education Act (SB 48) was signed into law in California in July of 2011, amending the Education Code by requiring representation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons in the social sciences. In this article, the author uses James Banks' model of the Four Levels of Integration of Multicultural Content to suggest ways in which…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Social Sciences, Homosexuality, State Legislation
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