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Kaefer, Tanya – Reading Research Quarterly, 2020
Reading science has reached consensus that background knowledge is essential for reading comprehension. What remains an open question for the science of reading, however, is how and when this background knowledge ought to be developed. Teachers often include activities meant to activate background knowledge immediately prior to read-alouds.…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Attention, Reading Comprehension, Knowledge Level
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Wengler, Susan; Wolff-Eisenberg, Christine – College & Research Libraries, 2020
This study explored community college librarians' engagement with the "Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education." A national online survey with 1,201 community college librarian respondents reveals limited familiarity with and integration of the "Framework" into community college instruction to date. Findings…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Academic Libraries, Librarians, Librarian Attitudes
de Struiksma, Cristina Maria Lawrence – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Teachers' perspective on inclusive education is associated with their success in implementing inclusionary strategies in the classroom; however, issues related to implementing inclusive education remains. With one-third of school-age children identified with learning disabilities, teachers continue to be challenged to provide quality instruction…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Students with Disabilities, Inclusion, Beliefs
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Kim, So Yoon; Cheon, Jeong Eun; Gillespie-Lynch, Kristen; Kim, Young-Hoon – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
South Korea, a relatively collectivistic and homogeneous country with heightened cultural tightness, is believed to have particularly high levels of stigma toward autistic individuals, who sometimes engage in behaviors that diverge from social norms. This study investigated cross-cultural differences in autism stigma (assessed with a Social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Social Bias
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Esen, Erol; Soylu, Yagmur; Siyez, Digdem Müge – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2021
This study aims to determine college students' levels of knowledge about sexual harassment and assault, and to identify the predictors of this level of knowledge. Participants have been selected using a multi-stage sampling method and consist of 7,302 college students from a state college in Turkey. The age of participants ranged from 17 years to…
Descriptors: College Students, Knowledge Level, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Abuse
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Hampton, Lauren H.; Sandbank, Micheal P. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
Professionals who primarily deliver services to children on the autism spectrum employ a range of techniques and supports that are colloquially known as applied behavior analysis therapy. The landscape of evidence supporting interventions for children on the autism spectrum has vastly transformed in the last decade. A substantial, relatively…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Intervention, Professional Personnel, Autism
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Ní Chorcora, Eilís; Swords, Lorraine – Irish Educational Studies, 2022
Teachers can play a crucial role in identifying and responding to children's mental health difficulties. This study explored teachers' mental health literacy (MHL) and their help-giving responses, a topic which is relatively unexplored, particularly at primary school level. Primary teachers (N = 356) responded to a questionnaire that followed the…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Knowledge Level, Competence, Helping Relationship
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de Vries, Marieke; Cader, Sabrina; Colleer, Lucy; Batteux, Eleonore; Yasdiman, Meryem Betul; Tan, Yih Jiun; Sheppard, Elizabeth – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2020
Cultural background might influence knowledge and attitudes regarding autism, influencing willingness to interact. We studied whether beliefs, knowledge, contact, and attitude differed between the UK and Malaysia. With mediation analyses, we studied how these factors influenced willingness to interact. Autism was more often linked to food in the…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Cultural Influences, Knowledge Level
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Sitar, Geanina-Magdalena; Rusu, Alina Simona – Journal of Educational Sciences, 2023
The decline of biodiversity and natural habitats, and the lack of progress in society's behaviour towards conservation, has prompted research into effective educational programs. Studies have shown that positive emotions towards nature, particularly in relation to the innate human predisposition towards the natural environment, can encourage…
Descriptors: Biodiversity, Ecology, Conservation (Environment), Environmental Education
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Mahmut Serkan Yazici; Senay Bas – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2023
This research focused on the development of inclusion in teacher education based on the inclusion of teacher candidates with their peers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the university environment. Opinions on inclusion in the university environment were examined in terms of the professional development of teacher candidates, taking into…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Inclusion, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes
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Thripp, Richard – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2019
New teachers are facing lower pay and less generous retirement benefits than the prior generation, yet their financial and retirement knowledge, concerns, and preferences have received little attention. To investigate these areas, the author developed a 39-item survey instrument and administered it to 314 preservice teachers in undergraduate…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Knowledge Level, Investment, Money Management
Thripp, Richard – Online Submission, 2019
New teachers are facing lower pay and less generous retirement benefits than the prior generation, yet their financial and retirement knowledge, concerns, and preferences have received little attention. To investigate these areas, the author developed a 39-item survey instrument and administered it to 314 preservice teachers in undergraduate…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Knowledge Level, Investment, Money Management
Nascimbeni, Fabio; Burgos, Daniel – Online Submission, 2019
The goal of this paper is to advance the understanding of the way university educators currently adopt open educational practices (OEP) by analyzing the relation between the use of open educational resources (OER) and the implementation of open teaching practices. The results are based on data collected through an online survey among 724…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Teaching Methods, College Faculty, Open Education
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Ghrear, Siba; Fung, Klint; Haddock, Taeh; Birch, Susan A. J. – Child Development, 2021
The ability to make inferences about what one's peers know is critical for social interaction and communication. Three experiments (n = 309) examined the curse of knowledge, the tendency to be biased by one's knowledge when reasoning about others' knowledge, in children's estimates of their peers' knowledge. Four- to 7-year-olds were taught the…
Descriptors: Prediction, Peer Relationship, Social Cognition, Interpersonal Competence
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Pereverseff, Rosemary S.; Bodner, Glen E. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
Based on the classic distinction between semantic and episodic memory, people answer general-knowledge questions by querying their semantic memory. And yet, an appeal of trivia games is the variety of memory experiences they arouse--including the recollection of episodic details. We report the first in-depth exploration of the memory states that…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Knowledge Level, Familiarity, Memory
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