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Heffernan, Troy – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2022
This paper analyses the current research regarding student evaluations of courses and teaching. The article argues that student evaluations are influenced by racist, sexist and homophobic prejudices, and are biased against discipline and subject area. This paper's findings are relevant to policymakers and academics as student evaluations are…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Racial Bias, Social Bias, LGBTQ People
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Parker, Carolyn; Morrell, Claudia; Morrell, Christopher; Chang, Lillian – Journal of Faculty Development, 2016
The purpose of this article is to present the results of a study that examined the influence of a multi-stage, equity-focused professional development program on the beliefs and understandings about issues of equity and classroom practices among 28 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) community college faculty members. The…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, STEM Education, College Faculty, Community Colleges
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Jafari, Esmaeil; Vajarah, Kourosh Fathi; Arefi, Mahboobeh; Rezaeizadeh, Morteza – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2018
The aim of this study is to validate MOOC-based curriculum in higher education in Iran. The research method is mixed and of exploratory type. Method of grounded theory is used in the qualitative section and the Validation Test Pattern among the faculties and PhD students of Tehran's Universities is considered in the quantitative part. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Courses, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
Huang, Xiangyun – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Social media has been increasingly used in education to facilitate innovative instruction. Mainland Chinese people could not use popular social media platforms such as Facebook™ because the government blocked them. Little research studied social media use by Mainland Chinese students and teachers in the isolated network environment. This…
Descriptors: Social Media, College Faculty, Instructional Innovation, Statistical Analysis
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Royston, Natalie Steele; Springer, D. Gregory – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2017
The purpose of this study was to examine the beliefs of applied music faculty on desirable traits of prospective music education majors. Respondents (N = 326), who were sampled from 73 National Association of Schools of Music-accredited institutions in the United States, completed a survey instrument developed to determine the characteristics of…
Descriptors: Music Education, Majors (Students), Music Teachers, Personality Traits
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Karaferye, Figen; Agaoglu, Esmahan – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
This study aims to analyze how the middle management at university handle with the order versus freedom dilemma--bureaucratic discipline, professional expertise; coordination, communication; managerial planning and individual initiative by giving a university case. A survey was applied on two different sample groups. 607 middle managers and…
Descriptors: Middle Management, College Administration, Discipline, Expertise
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Al-Asfour, Ahmed; Young, Suzanne – Journal of Faculty Development, 2017
Professional development needs of faculty who are teaching at Tribal Colleges and Universities were examined in this survey research study. The majority of 126 respondents to the online survey reported that they were full-time faculty members, female, not tribal members, and had taught five or less years. Respondents reported that the two greatest…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, College Faculty, Tribally Controlled Education, Online Surveys
Cote, Denise – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this sequential explanatory mixed methods study situated at a large community college in the midwestern United States was to examine faculty attitudes, knowledge, and use of open educational resources (OER) and to identify institutional initiatives that would support OER adoption. The goal of the first, quantitative phase of this…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Resources, Shared Resources and Services
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Gamage, Kusali; McFadden, Rory R.; Macdonald, R. Heather – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2021
Community colleges are a major entry point for many students to post-secondary education, particularly for minority, first-generation, low-income, and older students. A range of factors including transfer-readiness, curricular alignment, financial barriers, and transfer guidance, influence successful transfer between two-year colleges (2YCs) and…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Earth Science, Science Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
Gwon, Seok Hyun; Cho, Youngjoo; Laestadius, Linna I.; Wang, Yang; Lee, Han-Joo – Metropolitan Universities, 2021
Objective: To assess the characteristics of campus populations who were opposed to a vape-free campus policy and examine factors associated with opposition to a vape-free campus policy among those who indicated support for a tobacco-free policy. Participants: Faculty, staff, and students (N=2210) in a Midwestern university participated. Methods:…
Descriptors: Smoking, Campuses, School Surveys, Individual Characteristics
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Torres-Simón, Ester; Pieta, Hanna; Bueno Maia, Rita; Xavier, Catarina – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2021
In order to translate and be translated, low-diffusion languages often use strategies that differ from those used by widely spoken languages and therefore create particular challenges for translators. One such strategy is indirect translation (including also relay interpreting). Since there are conflicting opinions about this practice within the…
Descriptors: Translation, Teaching Methods, Language Processing, Uncommonly Taught Languages
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Ion, Michael; Herbst, Patricio; Margolis, Claudine; Milewski, Amanda; Ko, Inah – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2019
This paper reports on an ongoing project aimed at developing an inter-institutional system of professional support for the improvement of the Geometry for Teachers (GeT) courses that mathematics departments teach to preservice secondary teachers. In alignment with the literature on improvement science (see Bryk et al., 2015; Lewis, 2015), it is…
Descriptors: Geometry, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, High School Teachers
Cerna, Oscar; Plancarte, Vivianna; Raufman, Julia; Mahecha-Rodriguez, Jorge – Center for the Analysis of Postsecondary Readiness, 2023
Corequisite remediation involves placing students who have been designated as underprepared directly into college-level courses with concurrent supports--such as in-class tutoring, online learning labs, or a supplemental class--rather than making them take non-credit-bearing developmental courses first. There are multiple corequisite course…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Surveys, Remedial Instruction, Models
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Crimmins, Gail; Nash, Gregory; Oprescu, Florin; Liebergreen, Marama; Turley, Janet; Bond, Richard; Dayton, Jeanne – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2016
In response to the shortcomings of current assessment feedback practice, this paper presents the results of a study designed to examine students' and teachers' experience of engaging in a written, reflective and dialogic feedback (WRDF) strategy. The strategy was designed to enhance the learning experience of students undertaking a large…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Feedback (Response), College Freshmen, College Faculty
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Hundermark, Genevieve – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2018
Do we really know who our students are as they enter university? This was the question that the Faculty of Humanities at the University of the Witwatersrand was grappling with. In response, the Humanities' Teaching and Learning Unit compiled a registration survey for first-year students to complete that gives an overview of who our incoming…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, At Risk Students, Humanities, Student Surveys
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