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Tkach, Rochelle; Gallagher, Tiffany L. – Reading Horizons, 2020
Research on this intervention program aimed to address whether digital technology (i.e., apps on tablets) contributes to struggling early readers' (4-6 years old) on-task behavior and level of engagement while learning prerequisite emergent literacy skills (e.g., phonemic awareness, phonics, word recognition and decoding). The research also…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Handheld Devices, Technology Integration, Multimedia Instruction
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Rawlusyk, P. E. – Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, 2018
This research addressed ongoing academic concerns about whether assessment practices in higher education support student learning. Authors state that examinations have become the focus of assessment, which adversely affect learning. Effective assessment for learning promotes the active engagement of students. A web-based survey gathered…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Learner Engagement
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Areepattamannil, Shaljan; Freeman, John G.; Klinger, Don A. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2018
Although a growing body of quantitative research has examined the non-cognitive factors affecting the school engagement and performance of adolescents across cultures, there is relatively sparse qualitative research investigating the perceptions of adolescents regarding the factors influencing their engagement and performance in school. This focus…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Immigrants, Academic Achievement, Self Determination
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Comber, Scott; Durier-Copp, Martine; Gruzd, Anstoliy – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2018
This study seeks to understand instructors' perceptions of social network analysis (SNA) and network visualizations as learning analytics (LA) tools for generating useful insights about student online interactions in their class. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected from three graduate courses taught at a Canadian university at the end…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Social Networks, Network Analysis, Graduate Study
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Lee, Nicole E. – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2018
Part-time learners have had a history of campus isolation, fewer opportunities to engage on campus, and much higher attrition rates than their full-time peers (Jacoby, 2015; Rajasekhara & Hirsch, 2000). As a result, this study sought to uncover effective ways of enhancing the academic and social experiences of part-time learners and, in turn,…
Descriptors: Part Time Students, Student Experience, Learner Engagement, Student Attitudes
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Burgoyne, Stephanie; Eaton, Judy – Teaching of Psychology, 2018
Flipped classrooms are gaining popularity, especially in psychology statistics courses. However, not all courses lend themselves to a fully flipped design, and some instructors might not want to commit to flipping every class. We tested the effectiveness of flipping just one component (a module on junk science) of a large methods course. We…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Active Learning, College Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
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Lane, Kathleen; Teng, Minnie Y.; Barnes, Steven J.; Moore, Katherine; Smith, Karen; Lee, Michael – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2018
Appreciative inquiry (a research approach comprising four stages: Discovery, Dream, Design, and Destiny) was used at a research-intensive university to investigate which teaching practices positively influence student well-being (i.e., their health and quality of life). In a survey, undergraduate students were asked to select the teaching…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Teaching Methods, Well Being, Research Universities
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Lodewyk, Ken R. – International Journal of Kinesiology in Higher Education, 2019
The HEXACO dimensions of personality traits (honesty--humility, emotionality, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience) have been linked to many adaptive outcomes in physical education-related (PE) settings; yet, little is known about the relationship between personality traits and motivation in students of school…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Majors (Students), Kinetics, Physical Education
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Dénommé-Welch, Spy; Rowsell, Jennifer – Brock Education: A Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2017
This paper engages some of the philosophical and epistemological underpinnings of silence, and its implications for teaching and learning both within and beyond educational settings. In this exploration, the authors draw on self-reflexive observations, woven throughout the paper as a series of vignettes, to explore questions of silence and its…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Epistemology, Reflection, Vignettes
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Cairney, Kristen; Breen, Andrea V. – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2017
Experiential community-based learning is used for academic purposes, as well as to promote students' civic education, moral development, and the development of identity. Recent advancements in narrative identity theory may have important implications for enriching our understanding of how learning occurs in the context of community-based learning.…
Descriptors: Listening, Undergraduate Students, Practicums, Reflection
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Marquis, Elizabeth – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2017
Undergraduate research and inquiry and student-staff partnerships in teaching and learning have much in common, although their connections are not often discussed explicitly. Partnership initiatives--particularly those that engage students in collaborating with faculty/staff on disciplinary research or the scholarship of teaching and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Partnerships in Education, Scholarship
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Irvine, Jeff – Journal of Education and Learning, 2020
Student engagement in their own learning of mathematics, and student attitudes towards mathematics are key dimensions of learning. This mixed methods study examined the impact of a classroom intervention based on the principles of reform mathematics (i.e., active student involvement, hands-on, real-world connections, use of manipulatives and…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Student Attitudes, Intervention, Instructional Effectiveness
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Lockhart, Wallace; Wuetherick, Brad; Joorisity, Nola – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2018
This paper presents perspectives and outcomes from a multi-stage research project focused on improving understandings of foundations for student success. The research has shifted from a focus on the phenomenon (developing an understanding of student diversity and its impacts on student success), to experimental research (studying the impact or…
Descriptors: Success, Research Projects, Business Administration Education, Student Diversity
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Trottier-Scully, Taylor; Ritchie, Kerry – Papers on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching, 2019
Through a previous review of high impact practices at our institution, we identified that health science students have very few opportunities to engage in experiential learning (EL) in the current curriculum. This paper describes our work to transform an existing volunteer opportunity at an allied health clinic, into a meaningful, student-driven,…
Descriptors: Student Volunteers, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Teaching Assistants
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Breunig, Mary; Russell, Constance – Environmental Education Research, 2020
A survey of alumni of two longstanding interdisciplinary secondary school environmental studies programs revealed that the vast majority of alumni reported being engaged in pro-environmental behaviours, which they attributed to participation in the programs five to twenty-three years prior. That finding in itself is worth sharing. Digging deeper,…
Descriptors: Feminism, Environmental Education, Rural Schools, Neoliberalism
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