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Rossman, Allan; Afriyie, Prince – Journal of Statistics Education, 2020
This is an interview with Prince Afriyie. He is an Assistant Professor, General Faculty, in the Department of Statistics at the University of Virginia. This interview took place via email on May 30-July 1, 2020. He speaks about his education in Ghana, education in the United States, teaching statistics and data science, and racial injustice in the…
Descriptors: Interviews, Statistics, Intellectual Disciplines, College Faculty
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Jessup-Anger, Jody E. – Journal of College Student Development, 2008
Increasingly, global understanding is part of the core mission of institutions of higher education. Many colleges and universities recognize the need for globally literate citizens to meet the demands of an increasingly interdependent world and see study abroad as a way to develop students' cross-cultural skills. The focus of this study is on…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Undergraduate Students, Sexual Identity, Sex Role
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Landsberger, Joe – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2006
This article presents an interview with Mark Ashwill, Director of the Institute of International Education-Vietnam in Ha Noi, Vietnam, a branch of the Institute of International Education (IIE). In this interview, Ashwill talks about his work as Director of the Institute of International Education-Vietnam, the role that communications technology…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Administrators, Interviews, International Educational Exchange
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Milleret, Margo – ADFL Bulletin, 1991
Discusses the use of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Oral Proficiency Interview for assessing the effect of study abroad on foreign language learning, and provides a detailed account of the use of the Portuguese Speaking Test as a means of assessing participants of a summer program in Brazil. (15 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Interviews, Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Oral Language
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Archangeli, Melanie – Foreign Language Annals, 1999
Describes a 10-week study abroad program in Salzburg, Austria, where students were required to interview native speakers. Students prepared a written protocol of the interview and gave an oral presentation of the results. Out-of-class contact with native speakers, such as the interviews described, has a positive effect on students' self-confidence…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, German, Higher Education
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Byram, Michael; And Others – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1996
Argues that the ethnographic interview gives teachers an insider's understanding of an aspect of a foreign culture and endows them with the insight to interpret the insider account from an observer's perspective. The article describes materials developed for inservice training and a pilot course that tested them with Irish teachers preparing to…
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Class Activities, Course Content, Ethnography