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Allaire, Anne-Sophie; Labrecque, Michel; Giguere, Anik; Gagnon, Marie-Pierre; Legare, France – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2012
Introduction: Little is known about the factors that influence family physician (FP) participation in continuing professional development (CPD) programs in shared decision making (SDM). We sought to identify the factors that motivate FPs to participate in DECISION+, a CPD program in SDM. Methods: In 2007-2008, we collected data from 39 FPs who…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Professional Continuing Education, Family Practice (Medicine), Decision Making
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McKeon, Michael; Slevin, Eamonn; Taggart, Laurence – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2013
People with intellectual disability (ID) are reported as a sedentary population with increased risks of poor health due to an inactive and sedentary lifestyle. As the benefits of physical activity are acknowledged, measuring physical activity accurately is important to help identify reasons for low and high physical activity in order to assist and…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Surveys, Physical Activities, Intellectual Disability
Oliveira, Lisa C. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Teachers work countless hours preparing instruction for their students with the best intentions in mind. Each day many students enter into these classrooms to experience the delivery of the prepared instruction, yet their perceptions do not always match those of their teachers. The purpose of this research study is to develop and pilot a student…
Descriptors: Instructional Improvement, Student Attitudes, Feedback (Response), Teaching Methods
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Mgombelo, Joyce; Buteau, Chantal – Issues in the Undergraduate Mathematics Preparation of School Teachers, 2012
This paper discusses the results of a pilot study that explored how prospective secondary school teachers are shaped by learning experiences during their undergraduate mathematics education. The collaborative study, which was conducted by a mathematician and a mathematics educator, drew from the experiences of prospective teachers in a…
Descriptors: Testing, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction, Focus Groups
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Wu, Greg Chung-Hsien – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2014
This pilot study aims at integrating a socio-pragmatic concept, Cooperative Principles, into an experimental writing project on the genres of comparison and contrast. It reports on a six-week study of five undergraduates voluntarily recruited in a university located in central Taiwan. In surveying their writing momentum before and after the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Literary Genres, English (Second Language)
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Yomo, Minoru; Uni, Kazuhito; Moore, Danièle; Kiyose, Takashi – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2014
Recently, the use of children's picture books to teach English has been increasing in Japan. An advantage of these books is the high proportion of basic vocabulary they include. Can picture books also be useful for teaching Japanese students Italian and increasing their motivation? The present study analyses the effectiveness of employing a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Picture Books, Childrens Literature
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Khan, Itfaq Khaliq; Behlol, Malik Ghulam – Journal of Education and Educational Development, 2014
The objectives of this study were to assess the impacts of Inclusive Education (IE) Project implemented in government schools of Islamabad and anticipate its practicability for public schools. Quantitative and qualitative methods were applied for data collection. Study instruments were structured interviews, unstructured focus group discussions,…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Mixed Methods Research, Structured Interviews, Pilot Projects
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Mofreh, Samah Ali Mohsen; Ghafar, Mohammed Najib Abdul; Omar, Abdul Hafiz Hj; Mosaku, Monsurat; Ma'ruf, Amar – International Education Studies, 2014
This paper focuses on the psychometric analysis of lecturers' beliefs on teaching function (LBTF) survey using Rasch Model analysis. The sample comprised 34 Community Colleges' lecturers. The Rasch Model is applied to produce specific measurements on the lecturers' beliefs on teaching function in order to generalize results and inferential…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Beliefs, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Surveys
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Emetu, Roberta E.; Marshall, Alexandra; Sanders, Stephanie A.; Yarber, William L.; Milhausen, Robin R.; Crosby, Richard A.; Graham, Cynthia A. – Journal of American College Health, 2014
Objective: This pilot study tested the efficacy of a brief, novel, theory-driven, self-guided, home-based intervention designed to promote condom use among young men who have sex with men (YMSM). Participants: Thirty YMSM were recruited from a large public US midwestern university during spring of 2012. Methods: The intervention was tested using a…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Prevention, Males, Homosexuality
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Tynan, Belinda; James, Rosalind – Open Praxis, 2013
This paper reports in brief the pilot study, Distance Education Regulatory Frameworks, undertaken by the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) in 2010-2012 and the implications for openness for higher education in Southwest Pacific/South East Asia region nations. The project developed a methodological approach to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Readiness, Pilot Projects
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Virtanen, Pasi; Myllarniemi, Jussi; Wallander, Heini – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2013
Purpose: This paper aims to demonstrate how higher education in Finland can benefit from using methods such as Web 2.0 technologies. Design/methodology/approach: The paper describes how different types of learners (auditory, visual, kinaesthetic) benefit from being exposed to new methods and tools in the tuition process (traditional teaching…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Pilot Projects, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
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Li, Jing – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2013
This article addresses the questions of what the current state of environmental education (EE) is in China's College English context and how it can be improved. It does this by examining the perceptions of the College English teachers concerning the practice of linking language and environment learning. A questionnaire survey was conducted with 45…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, College English
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Maloney, Stephen; Storr, Michael; Paynter, Sophie; Morgan, Prue; Ilic, Dragan – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2013
Effective education of practical skills can alter clinician behaviour, positively influence patient outcomes, and reduce the risk of patient harm. This study compares the efficacy of two innovative practical skill teaching methods, against a traditional teaching method. Year three pre-clinical physiotherapy students consented to participate in a…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Innovation, Conventional Instruction
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Garthwait, Abigail – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2014
This case study was conducted in three schools in Maine, United States. The goal of this qualitative research was two-fold: to describe the process used by a small educational consortium as it initiated formal online education, and to view this experience through the lens of students' preferred learning styles. The United States does not have a…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Online Courses, Educational Technology, High School Students
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Boman, Peter; Mergler, Amanda; Furlong, Michael; Caltabiano, Nerina – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2014
This descriptive pilot study examined the cultural differences in the dimensions of self-reported anger in Indigenous and non-Indigenous (Caucasian) students aged 10-13 years in Far North Queensland, Australia. The Multidimensional School Anger Inventory-Revised (MSAI-R) (Boman, Curtis, Furlong, & Smith, 2006) was used to measure affective,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Pilot Projects, Cultural Differences
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