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Taylor, Z. W.; Bicak, Ibrahim – College Student Affairs Journal, 2020
This study assessed prospective first-generation college students' knowledge of federal student aid. The research team surveyed 752 prospective first-generation college students to assess what financial aid jargon terms were unfamiliar. Students often reported "FAFSA," "master promissory note," "entrance counseling,"…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Student Financial Aid, Knowledge Level, Jargon
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Venugopal, Pingali; Kour, Harwinder – Industry and Higher Education, 2021
Human production and consumption activities are depleting the earth's resources faster than they are being replenished. The Global Footprint network estimates "Earth Overshoot Day 2020" (the day the use of natural resources during the year crosses the regeneration capacity for the year) to be 22 August. A shift from linear to circular…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Natural Resources
Russo, Lisa J. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study used a mixed methods research design to examine teachers' perceptions of and knowledge about Universal Design for Learning (UDL). It specifically investigated whether participant teachers viewed the UDL instructional model as one that has the potential to improve student outcomes and whether the training in UDL was sufficient to allow…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Knowledge Level, Access to Education, Students with Disabilities
Keily, Holly – ProQuest LLC, 2017
A number of theories exist to explain why people gesture when speaking, when they produce gesture, and the origin of their gestures. This dissertation focuses on four individual variables that can influence gesture: (i) familiarity, (ii) imageability, (iii) codability, and (iv) motor experience. Four experiments were designed to determine how each…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Familiarity, Motor Reactions, Observation
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Slocum, Jeremy Y.; Merriman, William E. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2018
From an early age, children show a tendency to map novel labels onto unfamiliar rather than familiar kinds of objects. Accounts of this tendency have not addressed whether children develop a metacognitive representation of what they are doing. In 3 experiments (each N = 48), preschoolers received a test of the "metacognitive disambiguation…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Preschool Children, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Familiarity
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Dai, Rui; Fritchman, Joseph C.; Liu, Qiaoyi; Xiao, Yang; Yu, Haibo; Bao, Lei – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2019
Light interference is an essential topic for understanding the wavelike nature of light, however, there are limited studies on modeling and assessing students' misconceptions and learning difficulties in this area. Based on the knowledge integration modeling approach, a conceptual framework for light interference is developed and used to model…
Descriptors: Light, Comprehension, Scientific Concepts, Physics
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McKenna, Kelly; Altringer, Levi – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the Colorado state university (CSU) MOVES online, transportation module, which was implemented for the dual purpose of promoting alternative modes of transportation and while providing students with the information and skills necessary to comfortably and safely commute on and around campus without a personal…
Descriptors: Student Transportation, Commuting Students, Innovation, Learning Modules
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Rahimi, Regina; liston, delores d.; Adkins, Amee; Nourzad, Jamie – Georgia Educational Researcher, 2021
While the concept of trauma-informed care has been developed in other fields, its development within the field of Education is relatively new (Thomas, Crosby, & Vanderhaar, 2019), However, as the educational field is becoming more and more aware of this approach, we recognize there is a critical need for teachers and other educational…
Descriptors: Trauma, Educational Practices, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Geographic Regions
Shakeel, M. Danish; Henderson, Michael – Program on Education Policy and Governance, 2019
The role of political factors, specifically of public opinion, in the relatively low penetration of charter schools into rural America remains unclear. We use eight years of national survey data to demonstrate that rural residents express less support for charter schools than residents of other locales do. We attribute this gap to differences in…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, School Choice, Charter Schools, School Districts
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Wachob, David; Pesci, Louis J. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2017
In order to best respond to an emergency situation, professionals need to have an understanding about Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and techniques that will ensure proper care. The purpose of this study was to determine the knowledge and confidence of EMS personnel on interacting and treating an individual with ASD. Emergency Medical Technicians…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Knowledge Level, Self Esteem
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Demirel, Ihsan Nuri – International Journal of Higher Education, 2018
The purpose of this study is to determine the opinions of administrators of National Education Directiorate, School Directors and Vice-school Directors about the in-service activities and the system of in-service training programs related to work security. Moreover, it is investigated the level of the knowledge whether in-service training ignores…
Descriptors: Inservice Education, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Surveys, Interviews
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Czepil, Marija; Karpenko, Oresta; Revt, Alla; Istomina, Kateryna – Advanced Education, 2019
Ethnic tolerance is one of key issues of global and national order and is considered to be one of the necessary conditions for effective professional training. The aim of our research was to determine the background factors of students' ethnic tolerance, its components and levels. Using two methods -- Tolerance Index by Soldatova and our own…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Consciousness Raising, Ethnic Groups, Cultural Differences
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Salinger, Rachel – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2020
Stigmatization of students with disabilities relates to adverse long-term effects. Research provides evidence that the majority of students maintain negative cognitive and affective attitudes toward peers with disabilities. As these attitudes begin to develop in childhood and directly affect students in the educational context, schools are…
Descriptors: Social Bias, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Student Attitudes, Students with Disabilities
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Yasmin, Musarat; Sohail, Ayesha – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2018
The idea of learner autonomy (LA) has been widely referred to in the field of English Language Teaching (ELT) for more than three decades. Only limited work has been conducted on the teacher's perception of LA. The present study was conducted to focus on this gap. It investigated Pakistani English university teachers' beliefs about LA.…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Peixoto, José Maria; Mamede, Sílvia; de Faria, Rosa Malena Delbone; Moura, Alexandre Sampaio; Santos, Silvana Maria Elói; Schmidt, Henk G. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2017
Self-explanation while diagnosing clinical cases fosters medical students' diagnostic performance. In previous studies on self-explanation, students were free to self-explain any aspect of the case, and mostly clinical knowledge was used. Elaboration on knowledge of pathophysiological mechanisms of diseases has been largely unexplored in studies…
Descriptors: Pathology, Physiology, Clinical Diagnosis, Medical Students
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