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Chasteen, Stephanie V.; Wilcox, Bethany; Caballero, Marcos D.; Perkins, Katherine K.; Pollock, Steven J.; Wieman, Carl E. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2015
In response to the need for a scalable, institutionally supported model of educational change, the Science Education Initiative (SEI) was created as an experiment in transforming course materials and faculty practices at two institutions--University of Colorado Boulder (CU) and University of British Columbia. We find that this departmentally…
Descriptors: Physics, Advanced Courses, College Science, Foreign Countries
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Milner-Bolotin, Marina; Antimirova, Tetyana; Noack, Andrea; Petrov, Anna – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2011
This paper examines the results of the repeated administration of the Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey (CLASS) in a large introductory physics course at a midsize, metropolitan Canadian university. We compare the results to those obtained previously in comparable courses at the University of British Columbia (Canada) and the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Physics, Foreign Countries, Grade 12
National Survey of Student Engagement, 2010
The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) documents dimensions of quality in undergraduate education and provides information and assistance to colleges, universities, and other organizations to improve student learning. Its primary activity is annually surveying college students to assess the extent to which they engage in educational…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, National Surveys, Student Surveys, Undergraduate Students
McKeown, Karen D. – Heritage Foundation, 2012
With the tuition cost of traditional colleges and universities soaring and education technology advancing, online courses and degree programs are becoming more common. Some critics argue that an online degree cannot provide all the important features of a traditional college education, from extracurricular activities to new professional networks,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Web Based Instruction, Electronic Learning, Online Courses
Archambault, Leanna; Diamond, Daryl; Brown, Regina; Cavanaugh, Cathy; Coffey, Marla; Foures-Aalbu, Denise; Richardson, Jared; Zygouris-Coe, Vassliki – International Association for K-12 Online Learning, 2010
The purpose of this issues brief was to obtain a better understanding of how online programs are dealing with students who have been identified as at-risk. The first section, "Strategies for Working with At-Risk Student Populations in Online Environments," documents a sampling of K-12 online programs currently working with at-risk…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Courses, Web Based Instruction, Electronic Learning
Stahl, Robert J., Ed. – 1974
In response to a need for a systematic national survey of the status of pre-college psychology that would be made available to all interested researchers and teachers, this document presents seven status studies -- one each from Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Montana, Oklahoma, and Ontario. The data most frequently presented in these…
Descriptors: Behavioral Sciences, Comparative Analysis, Educational Research, Educational Status Comparison