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McBeth, Mark K.; Blakeman, Jonathan W.L.; Kearsley, Logan; Tyler, Alyson; Villanueva, Emma – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2023
The scholarship of teaching and learning is primarily concerned with improving student learning. Of course, we want our students to learn our disciplines, we want them to become critical thinkers, and we want them learn to write. But this study looks at how learning impacts a student's optimism or pessimism. We believe that it is an important…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Political Science, Team Teaching, Teaching Methods
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Stowell, Jeffrey R.; Addison, William E.; Clay, Samuel L. – College Teaching, 2018
The technology policies included on instructors' syllabi vary greatly and, in some cases, may unfavorably influence students' perceptions of the instructor. To examine this hypothesis, we randomly assigned college students enrolled in psychology courses at two different institutions (N = 163) to groups in which they viewed different syllabi for a…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Student Attitudes, Policy, Randomized Controlled Trials
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Fryar, Ben; Wilcox, Brad; Hilton, John, III; Rich, Peter J. – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2018
This research examined the phenomenon of spiritual growth in students taking an online religious education course at Brigham Young University-Idaho. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 students who reported positive gains in spirituality as a result of the course. Students described their experience in the online course and the…
Descriptors: Spiritual Development, Online Courses, Course Descriptions, Teacher Role