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Pittman, Amanda Jo; Boyles, John H. – Religious Education, 2019
In this article, we offer analysis of and propose means of resistance to White Jesus in undergraduate Bible survey courses. White Jesus functions as a proxy for the operation of white normativity in contexts of religious education. Research on a cohort of first-year undergraduate students demonstrates the durability of race as a factor in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Biblical Literature, Religious Education, Intervention
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Hartell, Eva; Strimel, Greg J. – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2019
This article examines content validity in teacher made tests in elementary technology education--an interdisciplinary subject mandatory for all pupils in compulsory school in Sweden. The context of teacher-based assessments relies heavily on trust for teachers to cope with demands. Even though the system is challenged and preconditions for…
Descriptors: Teacher Made Tests, Test Items, Test Construction, Content Validity
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Caldis, Susan; Kleeman, Grant – Geographical Education, 2019
This paper forms part of the response by the Australian Geography Teachers Association (AGTA) to two school education related recommendations put forward in "Geography: Shaping Australia's Future" (National Committee for Geographical Sciences, 2018). The recommendations are: The National Committee for Geographical Sciences and AGTA write…
Descriptors: Teacher Qualifications, Teacher Certification, Geography Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Stringer, Elizabeth I.; Hendrix, Jasmine D.; Swortzel, Kirk A.; Williams, J. Byron; Schilling, M. Wes – Journal of Food Science Education, 2019
Historically, high school chemistry has been the predominate venue for the introduction of food science curriculum to students. With the current decline in chemistry as a required course for graduation, the possibility of exposure to food science in high school could equally decline. The purpose of this research was to determine if high school…
Descriptors: Foods Instruction, Chemistry, High School Students, Science Instruction
Hesse, Douglas – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2019
Although writing is well established as a high-impact educational practice, scaling that practice is challenging. Writing is a mode of engaged learning, and teaching it requires providing careful attention informed by expertise. These conditions are labor-intensive and expensive, even as public universities are hardly awash in funds. Writing…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Public Colleges, Writing Strategies, Writing Across the Curriculum
Pippins, Theo; Belfield, Clive R.; Bailey, Thomas – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2019
This short report provides a systematic accounting of the provision of humanities and liberal arts education at public colleges in the United States, including community colleges. Key findings: (1) Humanities and liberal arts education in America's colleges is not in decline. Across the nation's community colleges, the number and share of…
Descriptors: Humanities, Liberal Arts, Public Colleges, Community Colleges
Hart, Cassandra M. D.; Berger, Dan; Jacob, Brian; Loeb, Susanna; Hill, Michael – Grantee Submission, 2019
This article uses fixed effects models to estimate differences in contemporaneous and downstream academic outcomes for students who take courses virtually and face-to-face--both for initial attempts and for credit recovery. We find that while contemporaneous outcomes are positive for virtual students in both settings, downstream outcomes vary by…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Academic Achievement, Outcomes of Education
McQuarrie, Fiona – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2019
Flexible pre-major agreements (FPMs) have been a feature of the British Columbia (BC) Transfer System since the early 2000s. A flexible pre-major is a discipline-specific transfer agreement whose content and structure is developed by an articulation committee and accepted by participating institutions. FPMs consist of "a set of flexible…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Associate Degrees, Higher Education, Institutional Cooperation
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Low, Piyada – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2020
The research study aims to investigate English usage in careers of graduates with business administration degree in seven fields of study: Finance, Management, Marketing, International Business, Hotel and Tourism Management, Managerial Accounting, and Logistics Management. Google apps, Facebook, and LINE were the main instruments to collect the…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, College Graduates
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Tican Basaran, Semra; Aykaç, Necdet – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2020
This study aims to examine the characteristics of the Turkish Early Childhood Teacher Education Curriculum updated in 2018 and reveal the views of university lecturers as its end users. In the first stage of the study, previous and updated curricula were examined in order to reveal the characteristics of the latter, in the second stage, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Teacher Education Curriculum, Teacher Education Programs
Avci, Ümmühan; Oruç, Orçun – Online Submission, 2020
The aim of this study is to examine the views of students about the procedure, content and benefits of the computer literacy course conducted by distance education in terms of active and passive participants and non-participating students. Sixty-one faculty of education students, who had taken the Computer Literacy course at a private university,…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Distance Education, Course Content, Required Courses
Desruisseaux, Tara-Marie; Quinn, David M.; Nkansah-Amankra, Akua – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2020
We use data from the 2020 PACE/USC Rossier annual voter poll to report on California voters' attitudes towards educational equity policy initiatives, specifically: (a) increasing the number of public school teachers of color in California and (b) requiring all high school students in California to complete an ethnic studies course. A majority of…
Descriptors: Voting, Attitudes, Equal Education, Educational Policy
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Brown, S. J.; White, S.; Bowmar, A.; Power, N. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2017
Appropriate instruments are required to determine student engagement on an undergraduate course, and in this study we evaluated a 23 item Student Course Engagement Questionnaire (SCEQ) administered to undergraduate students studying a Bachelor of Sport and Recreation degree. These students were in the first semester of a 3 year degree, and were…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Introductory Courses, Required Courses, Undergraduate Students
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Brown, Charles Allen – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2022
This project addressed the role of foreign language (FL) classes in a successful first-year student experience at one Japanese university. I assessed six dimensions of this experience: Match between high school FL classes and university FL classes, role of first-year FL course grades for academic progress, role of first-year FL classes in later…
Descriptors: Required Courses, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Students
Serverance, Mary – Public Policy Institute of California, 2022
This policy brief was adapted from "English as a Second Language at California's Community Colleges: An Early Examination of AB 705 Reforms." In Fall 2021, colleges began implementing reforms to English as a Second Language (ESL) that were mandated by Assembly Bill 705 (AB 705). In recognition of the need for effective and equitable ESL…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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