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Wegener, Signy; Wang, Hua-Chen; Beyersmann, Elisabeth; Nation, Kate; Colenbrander, Danielle; Castles, Anne – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2023
Purpose: Readers can draw on their knowledge of sound-to-letter mappings to form expectations about the spellings of known spoken words prior to seeing them in written sentences. The current study asked whether such orthographic expectancies are observed in the absence of contextual support at the point of reading. Method: Seventy-eight adults…
Descriptors: Reading Research, Reading Processes, Word Recognition, Spelling
Sr. Dwayne D. Jones – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation explores the experiences of first-generation, Black male college students in a predominantly white, urban commuter institution in the United States. It focuses on understanding their challenges and developing strategies to enhance their connection to the educational environment of a university. The central research question…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, Urban Universities, Commuter Colleges
Christopher L. Caldwell – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this empirical investigation is to examine the predictability of selected demographic factors on the job satisfaction among faculty and staff employed at an urban university. Specifically, this study examined the predictability of the demographic factors (gender, ethnicity, age, and years of experience) on the general, extrinsic,…
Descriptors: Urban Universities, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Job Satisfaction
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Briceño, Allison; Rodriguez-Mojica, Claudia – Action in Teacher Education, 2022
Drawing on critical literacy as a theoretical framework, this paper explores how a children's book writing assignment designed to center the experiences of underrepresented communities in children's literature contributed to shifts in awareness among predominantly White teacher candidates. The study occurred at a large urban university in…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Literacy Education, Teacher Education Programs, Childrens Literature
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Rupp, Kristie; Schnoll, Roseanne; Zigmont, Victoria A. – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: To examine health behaviors associated with overweight/obesity by race/ethnicity at a diverse urban college. Participants: 270 undergraduates (77.0% female; 26.7% non-Hispanic white) and median body mass index (BMI) of 23.1 kg/m2. Methods: A questionnaire about health-related behaviors as part of the "Get Fruved" project was…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Individual Differences, Body Weight, Obesity
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Trager, Ben – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2020
This qualitative participatory action research project demonstrates how participation in a community-based internship (CBI), a hybridization of service-learning and internship practices, affects undergraduate students, community partners, and the university at a large public university. This article outlines a rationale for the study,…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, School Community Relationship, Service Learning, Undergraduate Students
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Cotton, Kelly; Ricker, Timothy J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2021
Recent research has found that maintaining an item in working memory improves subsequent long-term memory performance. The present study explored the role of working memory consolidation in long-term recognition. Participants completed a stimuli-identification task followed by a surprise delayed recognition task. Participants first identified…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Correlation, Recognition (Psychology), Task Analysis
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Glazier, Rebecca A.; Harris, Heidi Skurat – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2021
Post-COVID-19, many, if not most, college and university instructors teach both online and face-to-face, and, given that online courses historically have higher attrition rates, designing and facilitating effective online courses is key to student retention. Students need online and on-campus courses that are well designed and facilitated, but…
Descriptors: Student Satisfaction, Undergraduate Students, Online Courses, Preferences
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Davis, Alan R.; Jhangiani, Rajiv; Purvey, Diane – On the Horizon, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to describe and illuminate the ways in which Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU)--an urban, undergraduate institution with a strong focus on teaching, learning and related research and scholarship, and a substantial international student population--adapted to pandemic conditions in 2020 in an effort to meet community…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Universities, Undergraduate Study, College Administration
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Cuervo, Hernan – Rural Educator, 2023
Attracting teachers to rural schools continues to be a problem in Australian education. Debates on how to remedy staff shortages are based on a better distribution of financial and material resources. This emphasis on distribution has sidelined the role of recognition theory in understanding the challenges of rural staffing. I draw on the social…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Teacher Recruitment, Guidelines, Foreign Countries
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Possamai, Adam; Possamai-Inesedy, Alphia; Piracha, Awais – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2023
While the preference for university by school leavers has been researched extensively, this article seeks to explore if religious influence might also come to play when selecting a university, with particular reference to Australia, a country whose higher education environment is largely made up of public, secular universities. The data used is…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, College Choice, State Universities, Preferences
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Morrison, Kevin A. – English in Education, 2022
Can verse mediate between the educational institution and the wider community of which it is a part? Utilising a case study of a specific taught module, this essay considers whether the performance of poetry as an experiential learning activity has a role to play in the emerging concept of the university as an anchor institution, a term that…
Descriptors: Poetry, Oral Interpretation, Urban Universities, Experiential Learning
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Boys, Stephanie; Bartholomew, Joseph; Patras, Aimee – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2022
The Policy Field Unit (PFU) is an independently designed practicum placement for School of Social Work (SSW) students at a large, urban Midwestern university. The placement provides students an opportunity to engage with the policy process as macro social work practitioners in a variety of settings. Increasing social work students' efficacy in…
Descriptors: Social Work, Practicums, Counselor Training, Public Policy
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Mason, Jaci; Roberts, Lynne; Flavell, Helen – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2022
Consensus moderation, where collaboration and discussion take place to reach an agreement on mark allocation, is a frequently used approach to quality assurance in higher education. Unit coordinators play a vital role in facilitating consensus moderation, yet limited research has focused on their role in moderation practices. This study explored…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Neoliberalism, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance
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Davies, Joanne; Donnelly, Michael; Sandoval-Hernandez, Andres – British Educational Research Journal, 2021
Based on analysis of an administrative dataset, which includes granular detail on 800,000 English students over a 10-year period, this article identifies an urban 'escalator' effect in entry to elite universities, with disadvantaged youth in the urban centres of England having higher rates of entry than similarly disadvantaged youth located…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Colleges, Urban Universities, College Admission
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