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One Week, Many Ripples: Measuring the Impacts of the Fall Reading Week on Student Stress
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Poole, Heather; Khan, Ayesha; Agnew, Michael – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2017
More and more Canadian post-secondary institutions are introducing a fall break into their term calendars. In 2015, a full week fall break was introduced at our university in order to enhance academic performance and improve mental health amongst students. Our interdisciplinary team surveyed undergraduate students at our university about their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Undergraduate Students
Use of Feedback-Oriented Online Exercises to Help Physiology Students Construct Well-Organized Answers to Short-Answer Questions
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Carnegie, Jacqueline – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2015
Postsecondary education often requires students to use higher-order cognitive skills (HOCS) such as analysis, evaluation, and creation as they assess situations and apply what they have learned during lecture to the formulation of solutions. Summative assessment of these abilities is often accomplished using short-answer questions (SAQs). Quandary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physiology, Summative Evaluation, Feedback (Response)
Can a Short Intensive Course Affect Entrepreneurial Ability, Knowledge and Intent, or Further Entrepreneurial Study? An Assessment of the SEED Programme, Dunedin, New Zealand
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Cornwall, Jon; Kirkwood, Jodyanne; Clark, Gavin J.; Silvey, Stephen; Appleby, Ruth D.; Wolkenhauer, Svea Mara; Panjabi, Jayashree; Gluyas, Eva; Brain, Chelsea; Abbott, Matthew – Industry and Higher Education, 2015
The SEED (Student Enterprise Experience in Dunedin) programme was developed as a four-week, intensive entrepreneurial "boot camp" to provide a small group of participants with a highly experiential business course. Using pre-course and post-course surveys, the authors measured the entrepreneurial ability, knowledge and intentions of the…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Minicourses, Foreign Countries, Business Administration Education
The Use of a Digital Environment to Improve First Year Science Students' Symbol Sense
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Tacoma, Sietske; Drijvers, Paul; Boon, Peter – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2011
Dutch universities complain that freshmen in studies such as chemistry, physics, economics and mathematics do not master the required algebraic skills. In the worldwide discussions on mathematics education, mastery of algebra is also a prevalent issue. Often a distinction is made between basis procedures and algebraic reasoning, so-called symbol…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education, Chemistry, Algebra
The Effects of a Communication and Conflict Resolution Skill Training Program on Sociotropy Levels of University Students
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Karahan, T. Fikret – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2009
In this study, the effect of a Communication and Conflict Resolution Skill Training Program on sociotropy levels of university students were investigated. The working group was consisted of thirty two voluntary university students. A pre-test and post-test model was used with control group and experimental group, each consisting of sixteen…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Conflict Resolution, Communication Skills
A Multicultural, Multidisciplinary Short Course to Introduce Recently Graduated Engineers to the Global Nature of Professional Practice
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Hazelton, Pam; Malone, Molly; Gardner, Anne – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2009
Since 2001, the International Institute of Women in Engineering (IIWE) at EPF, Ecole d'ingenieurs generaliste, Sceaux, France, has conducted a 3 week short course for culturally and discipline diverse, recently graduated and final year engineering students. The aim of this course is to introduce young engineers to broad global concepts and issues…
Descriptors: Minicourses, Work Experience Programs, Engineering, Foreign Countries
Adaptive and Maladaptive Strategy Use in Computer-Assisted Language Learning Activities for Listening Comprehension
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McBride, Cara – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2008
College students of English as a foreign language (EFL) in Chile participated in an online mini course designed to improve their listening comprehension. There were four experimental conditions: A) one in which participants listened to fast dialogues; B) one in which participants listened to slow dialogues; C) one in which participants were given…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Sentences, Learning Strategies, Pretests Posttests