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Wall, Nancy Amanda – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Motivation is an important topic of concern for teachers. A review of motivation research, though, revealed that students have been the focus of motivation research. When teachers have been included in studies, researchers have asked teachers to evaluate specific students, compared teacher and student perception of the same phenomena, or asked…
Descriptors: Investigations, Middle School Teachers, Student Motivation, Teacher Surveys
Goh, Pauline Swee Choo; Wong, Kung Teck; Osman, Rosma; Lin, Chia Yin – Australian Association for Research in Education (NJ1), 2012
The research reported here investigates variation in beginning teachers' early experiences of their own teaching competency. A phenomenographic research approach was used to show the qualitatively different ways teacher competence was understood amongst beginning teachers in Malaysia. Phenomenographic interviews were conducted with 18 beginning…
Descriptors: Competence, Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Investigations
Burgin, Stephen R.; Sadler, Troy D.; Koroly, Mary Jo – Research in Science Education, 2012
Research apprenticeships for secondary students provide authentic contexts for learning science in which students engage in scientific investigations with practicing scientists in working laboratory groups. Student experiences in these research apprenticeships vary depending on the individual nature of the laboratory in which students have been…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Scientific Research, Investigations, Student Attitudes
Lopez-Robertson, Julia – Language Arts, 2012
This teacher research study took place in a bilingual second-grade classroom in the southwestern United States. The study investigates the "cuentos" told during "platicas literarias"/literature discussions and explores how five young Latinas used their cuentos to communicate meaning through intertextual connections. These…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Hispanic American Students, Minority Group Students, Heritage Education
Bruce, Ian – English for Specific Purposes, 2009
This paper reports a genre study of the Results sections of two samples of 20 research-reporting articles from two disciplines: sociology and organic chemistry. Following the proposal of Bhatia (2004) that genre knowledge needs to be investigated from two perspectives, an "ethnographic perspective" and a "textual perspective," the Results sections…
Descriptors: Investigations, Organic Chemistry, Sociology, Epistemology
Kisang, Benjamin – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study is a qualitative investigation of the role that social networks play in the adjustment and academic success of international students. With large numbers of international students enrolled on US campuses, it is important for practitioners to prepare, understand and address their dynamic needs. Based on social network, social capital and…
Descriptors: Interviews, Social Networks, Social Capital, Play
Holmquist, Carol L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Despite the need, persistence in remediation hovers at 50% (NCES, 2002) while nearly one third of community college enrollees arrive under-prepared (Hess, 2009). Persistence is correlated with academic preparation (Nash & Kallenbach, 2009), and barriers to persistence include a number of demographic barriers (Education, 2006; Labaree, 2006).…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Adult Students, Adult Education, Academic Persistence
Fernandez, Jesus – ProQuest LLC, 2011
An increasing number of students are selecting for-profit universities to pursue their education (Snyder, Tan & Hoffman, 2006). Despite this trend, little empirical research attention has focused on these institutions, and the literature that exists has been classified as rudimentary in nature (Tierney & Hentschke, 2007). The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Research Design, Methods Research, Student Attitudes, Persistence
Hong, Huang-Yao; Chen, Fei-Ching; Chai, Ching Sing; Chan, Wen-Ching – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2011
This study investigated the effects of engaging students to collectively learn and work with knowledge in a computer-supported collaborative learning environment called Knowledge Forum on their views about knowledge building theory and practice. Participants were 24 teacher-education students who took a required course titled "Integrating Theory…
Descriptors: Required Courses, Theory Practice Relationship, Cooperative Learning, Computer Assisted Instruction
Culross, Rita; Tarver, Emily – Journal of Research in International Education, 2011
This is the summary of a series of research studies into the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme (DP) in the USA, beginning with the investigation of how the first class of IB DP graduates in an individual school perceived the impacts and benefits of the programme, through further investigations of teacher perceptions of the…
Descriptors: Investigations, Student Attitudes, High School Graduates, Followup Studies
Basbay, Alper – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2014
Multicultural education includes the design of learning environments according to different cultural characteristics and learners' respectful attitudes towards these characteristics. One of the teachers' expected competencies in multicultural education is recognizing learners' cultural characteristics and being respectful of these during the…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Investigations, Case Studies, Qualitative Research
Seng, Ernest Lim Kok – International Education Studies, 2014
Conventional learning is based on low levels of students' participation where students are rarely expected to ask questions or to challenge the theories of the academic. A paradigm shift in curriculum has resulted in implementing student-centred learning (SCL) approach, putting students as the centre of the learning process. This mode of…
Descriptors: Investigations, Student Centered Curriculum, Teacher Attitudes, Learning Strategies
Perry, Justin C.; Calhoun-Butts, Candice – Counseling Psychologist, 2012
Based on a diverse sample of 11 urban Hispanic youth, the career, educational, and cultural domains of developmental adjustment were investigated through a triangulation of interview data and field notes within the context of delivering an after-school program. Consensual qualitative research (CQR) and content analysis were used to explore how…
Descriptors: Educational Development, School Activities, After School Programs, Content Analysis
Laucht, Manfred; Blomeyer, Dorothea; Buchmann, Arlette F.; Treutlein, Jens; Schmidt, Martin H.; Esser, Gunter; Jennen-Steinmetz, Christine; Rietschel, Marcella; Zimmermann, Ulrich S.; Banaschewski, Tobias – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2012
Background: Recently, first evidence has been reported for a gene-parenting interaction (G x E) with regard to adolescent alcohol use. The present investigation set out to extend this research using the catechol-O-methyltransferase ("COMT") "Val[superscript 158]Met" polymorphism as a genetic susceptibility factor. Moreover, the current study…
Descriptors: Evidence, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Drinking
Sandt, Fred-Ole – School Leadership & Management, 2012
This paper outlines the initial findings of an action research project that focuses on the possible contribution of peer observation to a more collaborative environment and teachers' professional growth at The University High School. The research component played a significant part as previous attempts to change the culture at the school were…
Descriptors: Research Projects, Action Research, Observation, Cooperation