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Shao, Zihang – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study attempts to fill the gap in the digital badging literature through uncovering faculty members' perceptions of digital badges designed for professional development purposes. It also explores faculty experiences in a digital badging program offered at a university in the United States and attempts to identify the factors contributing to…
Descriptors: Recognition (Achievement), Faculty Development, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
Kayla Marie Willis – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study explored student perceptions regarding persistence in online coursework at the community college level. Using a case study design and thematic analysis, the researcher conducted focus group interviews and then identified themes related to the academic, economic, and social supports and barriers that impacted student persistence at one…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Community College Students, Online Courses, Student Attitudes
Jennifer L. Cox – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Despite initiatives to support women in STEM, men still outnumber women in math-intensive fields, and women in mathematics express that they are "on the outside looking in." Prior mathematics anxiety research has investigated links to performance, and neuroscientists, psychologists, and educational researchers have found gender…
Descriptors: Mathematics Anxiety, Gender Differences, Social Influences, Student Experience
Leela Velautham – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Although 70% of Americans accept the reality of climate change (Leiserowitz et al., 2021), a lack of concerted societal action has not yet moved the issue to the top tier of the political agenda. This apparent "value-action gap" has been ascribed to, among other factors, maladaptive emotions in response to climate change's threat that…
Descriptors: Climate, Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Conservation (Environment)
Yuqing Liu – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Few studies on teachers' social networks have extended their scopes from schools to online, leaving gaps and the potential to study how school and district colleagues as well as online-only peers can exert a network influence on teachers' online resource curation activities. These studies have underused the relational-event social-influence model…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Internet, Social Networks, Social Influences
Mekbib Gemeda – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The study sought to understand the experiences of faculty engaged in curriculum reform to integrate social determinants of health in medical education. The continuing disparities in health are in part a result of lack of education at U.S. medical schools on social and structural inequities as root causes of health disparities. The study used a…
Descriptors: Social Influences, Health, Medical Education, College Faculty
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Stefani R. Relles; Julia C. Duncheon – Educational Forum, 2025
This study employs the framework of intersectionality to offer a first-person perspective on being an undocumented high school student with college aspirations in the digital age. Using Instagram posts as a data source, the study describes everyday encounters with sexism, racism, classism, and nativism across household, community, and school…
Descriptors: Social Media, Intersectionality, Undocumented Immigrants, High School Students
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Smriti Mathur; Alok Tewari; Sushant Vishnoi; Vaishali Agarwal – Journal of International Education in Business, 2025
Purpose: The online learning environment is a function of dynamic market forces constantly restructuring the e-learning landscape's complete ecosystemcape. This study aims to propose an e-learning framework by integrating the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) to predict students' Online Learning Readiness and…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Student Behavior, Developing Nations, Usability
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Shiya Chen; Lu Huang; Rustam Shadiev; Peiying Hu – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
The introduction of online homework has revolutionized traditional assignment formats, providing students with access to abundant learning resources, a convenient platform for completing assignments, real-time interactive learning opportunities, and accurate feedback. However, there is a paucity of research exploring the perspectives of elementary…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Intention, Electronic Learning
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Oronzo Mazzeo; Lucia Monacis; Paolo Contini – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2025
The study aimed to analyze the influence of such factors, as cognitive engagement, learning strategies and social support on academic success and student satisfaction in online learning environments. Data were collected in a cross-sectional survey carried out in the Winter semester of 2023. Participants were 523 students recruited from…
Descriptors: Success, Student Satisfaction, Online Courses, College Students
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Adam Masri; Tracey Ollis; Russell Tytler – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2025
The gender gap in physics in Australian secondary schools remains a significant issue. This study aims to address this problem by examining how physics teachers perceive girls' participation in physics, and how these perceptions influence their approach to gender issues and their potential impact on girls' physics identity. The study uses a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Secondary School Science, Secondary School Teachers
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Duthoy, Leander – Children's Literature in Education, 2021
YA fiction is well known for a prevalence of narratives that explore identity and identity change. Critics have constructed multiple theoretical frameworks that help put into words the workings of adolescent identity in these novels. This article adds to that discussion by analysing Jacob, the main character of Aidan Chambers' "Postcards from…
Descriptors: Fiction, Adolescent Literature, Identification (Psychology), Adolescents
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Pronovost, Megan A.; Scott, Rose M. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2021
Adults use social-group membership to make inductive inferences about the properties of novel individuals, and this tendency is well established by the preschool years. Recent evidence suggests that infants attend to features associated with social groups and use social-group membership to interpret an agents' actions. The current study sought to…
Descriptors: Social Influences, Inferences, Logical Thinking, Infants
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Arya, Diana J.; Maul, Andrew – Reading Research Quarterly, 2021
Our purpose in this study was to more deeply understand the ways in which text-based, sociohistorically situated narratives can be optimally used for promoting reading comprehension. In particular, we sought to understand the experiences and perspectives of young readers from diverse backgrounds (N = 24) as they engaged with science discovery…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Discovery Learning
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Vanderstraeten, Raf – European Educational Research Journal, 2021
Niklas Luhmann speaks of the function of education in relation to modern society. Only within modern society, he argues, is it possible to speak of the differentiation of a specific function system of education. It is, more particularly, the differentiation of other function systems that leads to the question about the function of education. I…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Social History, Social Influences, Socialization
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