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Timothy M. Hall – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The field of adult learning theory, or how adults learn, has exploded in recent years yielding increased knowledge and awareness of how adults learn. While preachers do have a wide variety of ages in their congregations, most of the people they preach to are adults. This dissertation looks at preaching and adult learning theory and what the…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Barriers, Theories, Religion
Juan Salinas; Parwinder S. Grewal; Jose J. Gutierrez; Nicolas A. Pereyra; Dagoberto Ramirez; Elizabeth Salinas; Griselda Salinas; Virginia Santanas; Can Saygin – Metropolitan Universities, 2024
Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) are often characterized as Hispanic enrolling (rather than serving) that practice deficit-based systems that continue to marginalize Latinx and other underrepresented students, especially in STEM fields. Extant research on HSIs stresses the importance of investigating the value of grassroots advocacy groups as…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, STEM Education, Hispanic American Students, Minority Serving Institutions
Bridge, Dave – Journal of Political Science Education, 2016
With so many role-playing simulations already in the political science education literature, the recent repeated calls for new games is both timely and appropriate. This article answers and extends those calls by advocating the creation of probabilistic games using Microsoft Excel. I introduce the example of the Stag Hunt Game--a short, effective,…
Descriptors: Spreadsheets, Educational Games, Probability, Role Playing
Brown, Jack; Scott, Joyce A. – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2016
Evolutionary theory is the central unifying theory of the life sciences. However, acceptance and understanding of the theory have been found to be lacking in the general public, high school, and university populations. Prior research has linked low acceptance of the theory to a poor knowledge base in evolution, to the nature of science, and to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Evolution, Biology, College Science
Callahan, Rebecca M.; Obenchain, Kathryn M. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2016
Social studies education is designed to provide a foundation for civic society. In this study we consider immigrant optimism theory within the context of U.S. secondary social studies to examine the civic potential of immigrant youth. Using a mixed-methods approach, we complement analyses of teacher and immigrant young adult interviews with…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Expectation, Civics, Immigrants
Box, Cathy; Skoog, Gerald; Dabbs, Jennifer M. – American Educational Research Journal, 2015
The value and effectiveness of formative assessment in the classroom has gained an increasing amount of attention during the past decade, especially since the publication of seminal work by Black and Wiliam titled "Assessment and Classroom Learning." Since that time, there has been a renewed interest in describing and evaluating teacher…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Formative Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Secondary School Teachers
Ghandour, Louma – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study examines the fit between students' interests and their academic choices at different stages of their college careers. Using image theory (Beach, 1990) as an integrated theory of person-vocation fit, this investigation focuses on the stability of academic fit during college and the relationship between fit with academic choice and fit…
Descriptors: College Students, Majors (Students), Correlation, Theories
Pomerantz, James R.; Portillo, Mary C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
Gestalt phenomena are often so powerful that mere demonstrations can confirm their existence, but Gestalts have proven hard to define and measure. Here we outline a theory of basic Gestalts (TBG) that defines Gestalts as emergent features (EFs). The logic relies on discovering wholes that are more discriminable than are the parts from which they…
Descriptors: Visual Discrimination, Vision, Visual Stimuli, Undergraduate Students
Bussert-Webb, Kathy; Zhang, Zhidong – Reading Psychology, 2016
Through random sampling, we surveyed 2,568 high school students throughout Texas to determine their reading attitudes vis-à-vis individual and school background variables. Sources were the Rhody reading attitude scale and public domain campus summary data; the lenses of attitude theory and social justice informed this study. Significant…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, High School Students, Predictor Variables, Student Attitudes
Firestone, William A. – Educational Researcher, 2014
Current interest in teacher evaluation focuses disproportionately on measurement issues and performance-based pay without an overarching theory of how evaluation works. To develop such a theory, I contrast two motivation theories often used to guide thinking about teacher evaluation. External motivation theory relies on economics and extrinsic…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Educational Policy, Incentives, Professional Autonomy
Macy, Jonathan T.; Middlestadt, Susan E.; Seo, Dong-Chul; Kolbe, Lloyd J.; Jay, Stephen J. – Health Education & Behavior, 2012
Smoke-free air policies have been shown to reduce smoking, but the mechanism of behavior change is not well understood. The authors used structural equation modeling to conduct a theory of planned behavior analysis with data from 395 smokers living in seven Texas cities, three with a comprehensive smoke-free air law and four without a…
Descriptors: Smoking, Structural Equation Models, Behavior Modification, Behavior Change
Kinard, Tim; Gainer, Jesse – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 2015
What is realia and theory-building? Tim Kinard and Jesse Gainer explain that when students explore using "realia," they are not just being exposed to abstract concepts or text on a page, they are using "real-life" objects to build understandings of the natural world while they builds vocabulary about it. Handling and discussing…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, English (Second Language), Preschool Children, Hands on Science
Walijarvi, Corrine M.; Weiss, Ann H.; Weinman, Maxine L. – Death Studies, 2012
This article describes an 8-week, curriculum-based traumatic death support group program that is offered at Bo's Place, a grief and bereavement center in Houston, Texas. The program was implemented in 2006 in an effort to help family members who had experienced a death in the family by suicide, murder, accident, or sudden medical problem. The…
Descriptors: Accidents, Social Support Groups, Grief, Age
Rogers, K. Kaye – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study examined the impact of principals' data-driven decision-making practices on student achievement using the theoretical frame of Dervin's sense-making theory. This study is a quantitative cross-sectional research design where principals' perceptions about data were quantitatively captured at a single point in time. The participants for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness, American Indians, Decision Making
Gilden, David L.; Thornton, Thomas L.; Marusich, Laura R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
The conditions for serial search are described. A multiple target search methodology (Thornton & Gilden, 2007) is used to home in on the simplest target/distractor contrast that effectively mandates a serial scheduling of attentional resources. It is found that serial search is required when (a) targets and distractors are mirror twins, and…
Descriptors: Infants, Attention, Theories, Perception
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