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Kristofer Chang Alexander; Luke T. Ingersoll; Cleveland G. Shields; Monica L. Miller; John A. Gipson; Charles A. Calahan; Andrea L. DeMaria; Stewart Chang Alexander – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2022
Some colleges, departments, and study abroad offices have developed cultural development courses and study abroad opportunities designed to help improve students' cultural awareness, knowledge, and skills. Some evidence suggests combining these approaches can be effective at helping students increase their Cultural Intelligence (CQ). This study…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Program Length, Study Abroad, Course Descriptions
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Barczyk, Casimir C.; Duncan, Doris G. – Information Systems Education Journal, 2017
The impact of personality type on students' sense of classroom connectedness was examined in a study of university-level business courses that used Facebook to enhance classroom learning. The study was conducted using an independent measures static group comparison research design. Nearly 600 students registered in six different business courses…
Descriptors: Social Media, Personality Traits, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology
Swanson, Dewey; Gusev, Dmitri A. – Association Supporting Computer Users in Education, 2015
The Computer Information and Technology Department (CIT) program of Purdue University is offered at our regional campus in Columbus, Indiana. Like many programs throughout the country, we face issues in recruiting new students. Over the last seven to eight years, we have faced declining enrollment, even as our main campus at West Lafayette saw…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Student Motivation, Information Technology, Summer Programs
Adefope, Olufunke – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation was conducted in a gendered academy in a low-income community in northern Indiana. The study examined how involvement with inquiry-based mathematical tasks embedded in a curricular unit impacted the geometric reasoning of elementary aged African-American males. The curriculum included activities focused on angles, lines and…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, Elementary School Students, Mathematics Instruction
National Survey of Student Engagement, 2016
The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) and its companion projects serve colleges and universities committed to monitoring and improving the quality of the undergraduate experience. While participating institutions receive detailed customized reports, the "Annual Results" series presents noteworthy aggregate findings from the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, National Surveys, Educational Quality, Student Characteristics
Lawanto, Oenardi; Stewardson, Gary – National Center for Engineering and Technology Education, 2009
The objective of this study was to evaluate grade 9-12 students' motivation while engaged in two different engineering design projects: marble-sorter and bridge designs. The motivation components measured in this study were focused on students' intrinsic (IGO) and extrinsic (EGO) goal orientations, task value (TV), self-efficacy for learning and…
Descriptors: Student Surveys, Questionnaires, Correlation, Student Motivation
Buechler, Mark – 1993
Findings of a study that evaluated both the implementation and the public's reception of the first 2 years (1990-92) of Connecting Learning Assures Successful Students (CLASS), a cooperative learning program in 62 Indiana schools, are presented in this policy bulletin. Data were collected from three participating elementary schools through the…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning, Instructional Effectiveness
Hatfield, William N., Ed.; And Others – 1993
Papers in this volume are: "The Origin, Grittner); "What We Can Learn from Those Who Avoid Us: Why Some Students Do Not Study Foreign Language" (Mary Ann Pederson); "Exploring Student Beliefs about Language Learning" (Christine M. Campbell, and others); "Whole Language and Foreign Language Proficiency: Natural…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, FLES, Global Approach, Instructional Materials