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Direct linkDouglas E. Bell – Multilingual Matters, 2024
Since its inception in the 1960s, the field of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) has enjoyed a period of almost continual expansion and growth and now represents a multi-million dollar industry worldwide. This book provides readers with a critical and comprehensive overview of EAP's birth, its historical development and its ongoing trajectory,…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Privatization
Peer reviewedBevins, Stuart, Ed.; Lehane, Louise, Ed.; Booth, Josephine, Ed. – IGI Global, 2019
The core practice of professional scientists is inquiry, often referred to as research. If educators are to prepare students for a role in the professional scientific and technological community, exposing them to inquiry-based learning is essential. Despite this, inquiry-based teaching and learning (IBTL) remains relatively rare, possibly due to…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Science Education, Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences
Download full textZelazo, Philip David; Blair, Clancy B.; Willoughby, Michael T. – National Center for Education Research, 2016
Executive function (EF) skills are the attention-regulation skills that make it possible to sustain attention, keep goals and information in mind, refrain from responding immediately, resist distraction, tolerate frustration, consider the consequences of different behaviors, reflect on past experiences, and plan for the future. As EF research…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Attention Control, Educational Research, Learning Processes
Ballard, Heidi L.; Belsky, Jill M. – Environmental Education Research, 2010
How can a participatory approach to research promote environmental learning and enhance social-ecological systems resilience? Participatory action research (PAR) is an approach to research that its' supporters claim can foster new knowledge, learning, and action to support positive social and environmental change through reorienting the standard…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Action Research, Self Efficacy, Disadvantaged
McQueen, Hilary; Webber, John – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2009
The research reported in this article is part of ongoing research exploring the development of teaching and learning in one further education college. This first stage aimed to investigate 16- to 19-year-old students' views of a teaching and learning model. A total of 374 sixth-form students individually sorted 21 statements derived from the model…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Interviews, College Students, Teaching Models
Cortes, Anibal; Kavafian, Nelly – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2006
Our study concerns the analysis of teacher and student activities. Secondary school 6th grade students were confronted, for the first time, with solving equations. We used our cognitive models of students and experts (in algebraic calculations) for analyzing the teaching process and the cognitive functioning of students. Our model led us to…
Descriptors: Equations (Mathematics), Grade 6, Algebra, Problem Solving
Woodward, Helen; Nanlohy, Philip – Assessment in Education Principles Policy and Practice, 2004
With the pre-service student portfolio process and product well in hand in a paper-based format, in the Bachelor of Education (Primary) (B.Ed. Primary) at University of Western Sydney (UWS), new horizons have presented themselves. These new possibilities are facilitated but not driven by developments in Information and Communication Technology…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Preservice Teacher Education, Portfolio Assessment, Foreign Countries
Wright, Robert E. – College Student Journal, 2006
Student evaluations of instruction have long been used to evaluate the teaching performance of instructors. However, despite the widespread use of data from student evaluations for the purpose of determining faculty teaching effectiveness, a review of the literature in the area indicates that issues concerning the validity and usefulness of such…
Descriptors: Validity, College Students, College Faculty, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance
Richardson, John T. E. – Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 2005
This paper reviews the research evidence concerning the use of formal instruments to measure students' evaluations of their teachers, students' satisfaction with their programmes and students' perceptions of the quality of their programmes. These questionnaires can provide important evidence for assessing the quality of teaching, for supporting…
Descriptors: Feedback, Student Attitudes, Measures (Individuals), Evaluation Methods
Struyven, Katrien; Dochy, Filip; Janssens, Steven – Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 2005
In educational contexts, understanding the student's learning must take account of the student's construction of reality. Reality as experienced by the student has an important additional value. This assumption also applies to a student's perception of evaluation and assessment. Students' study behaviour is not only determined by the examination…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation, Student Attitudes
