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Communities of Practice as a Curriculum Design Theory in an Introductory Physics Class for Engineers
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Irving, Paul W.; McPadden, Daryl; Caballero, Marcos D. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Curriculum Development: Theory into Design.] The communities of practice framework has become an essential framework for understanding identity development both in physics education research (PER) and in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, more broadly. However, the use of communities…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Curriculum Design, Introductory Courses, Physics
Influences on International Student Choice of Study Destination: Evidence from the United States
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Nicholls, Sarah – Journal of International Students, 2018
Competition to attract international students continues to grow and understanding the factors that influence study destination choice is critical to the marketing efforts of nations, states, and institutions. This survey-based study of international students at Michigan State University demonstrates that they appear to choose the country in which…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, College Students, School Choice, School Location
Grammatical Predictions in Spanish-English Bilinguals and Spanish-Language Learners
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de los Santos, Guadalupe; Boland, Julie E.; Lewis, Richard L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
Although bilingual individuals know 2 languages, research suggests that the languages are not separate in the mind. This is especially evident when a bilingual individual switches languages midsentence, indicating that mental representations are, to some degree, overlapping or integrated across the 2 languages. In 2 eye-tracking experiments, we…
Descriptors: Grammar, Predictor Variables, Spanish, Decision Making
Development and Assessment of Intercultural Engagement. TLTC Paper No. 1. CRLT Occasional Paper No. 32
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Kusano, Stephanie M.; Conger, Amy J.; Wright, Mary C. – Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, 2016
Students need to develop a variety of critical thinking and interpersonal skills in order to contribute successfully to today's increasingly globalized world. The Office of the Provost at the University of Michigan has implemented a plan known as Transforming Learning for a Third Century (TLTC) as part of its broader Third Century Initiative. This…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Interpersonal Competence, Skill Development, Creativity
Two-Stage Dynamic Signal Detection: A Theory of Choice, Decision Time, and Confidence
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Pleskac, Timothy J.; Busemeyer, Jerome R. – Psychological Review, 2010
The 3 most often-used performance measures in the cognitive and decision sciences are choice, response or decision time, and confidence. We develop a random walk/diffusion theory--2-stage dynamic signal detection (2DSD) theory--that accounts for all 3 measures using a common underlying process. The model uses a drift diffusion process to account…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Evaluation Methods, Models, Cognitive Processes
Participation In a Career Decision-Making Program: Obtaining Predictors from an Analysis of Readily Available Data.
Buchanan, Lillian; Simutis, Jean
A study was designed to investigate the possibility that college students who participate in career decision-making (CDM) programs differ from the general college population in ways unrelated to their CDM status. This exploratory hypothesis was tested by determining, first, whether a regression equation could be constructed using readily available…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Planning, College Students, Comparative Analysis