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Toro Clarke, Jose Antonio – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This research was carried out within a qualitative research paradigm. The objective was to observe, analyze and enrich pedagogical practice through the use of pedagogical learning strategies. The learning strategy was a participative and individualized lab carried out during a research project in a non-Traditional Laboratory (LnT). The primary aim…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Mathematics, Qualitative Research, Mathematics Curriculum
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Baum, Brittany Smith; Rowell, Ginger Holmes; Green, Lisa; Yantz, Jennifer; Beck, Jesse; Cheatham, Thomas; Stephens, D. Christopher; Nelson, Donald – PRIMUS, 2017
As part of Middle Tennessee State University's (MTSU's) initiative to improve retention of at-risk STEM majors, they recruit first-time, full-time freshman STEM majors with mathematics ACT scores of 19 to 23 to participate in MTSU's "Mathematics as a FirstSTEP to Success in STEM" project (FirstSTEP). This article overviews MTSU's…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, STEM Education, Majors (Students), College Freshmen
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Hannah, Mark A.; Arreguin, Alex – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2017
Gaining access to interdisciplinary research sites poses unique research challenges to technical and professional communication scholars and practitioners. Drawing on applied experiences in externally funded interdisciplinary research projects and scholarship about interdisciplinary research, this article describes a training protocol for…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Research, Research Projects, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Parnell, Will; Downs, Christine; Cullen, Julianne – New Educator, 2017
Ecologically minded leaders and early childhood teacher educators offer a culturally significant shiny fish project in their community as a way to launch an environmental-material reuse project. Questioning if environmental collapse is imminent, their project investigation of developing a locally relevant Remida Reggio-inspired center serves as…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Teacher Educators, Culturally Relevant Education, Environmental Education
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Gilman, Sharon L.; Fout, Martha C. – Learning Professional, 2017
The "Next Generation Science Standards" place an emphasis on the practices of science and engineering, where ensuring that students understand and experience how science works is as important as, or maybe more important than, memorizing facts. The idea is that, while some facts may change, the practices will always be applicable, and it…
Descriptors: Scientists, Science Teachers, Teacher Collaboration, Graduate Students
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Lopatto, David – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2017
Given that science and science education are undergoing a climate change, the author suggests a re-envisioning of undergraduate research assessment. He argues that continuation of research into the processes and benefits of undergraduate research opportunities for undergraduates will need to decrease focus on student dispositions and increase…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Research Projects, Educational Environment
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Awada, Ghada; Gutiérrez-Colón, Mar – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2019
This study investigated the effect of cooperative learning and blog instruction in a culturally mixed group on decreasing intercultural communication apprehension. The study was implemented in classrooms that include Lebanese and non-Lebanese participants at two universities in Lebanon. The study used a pretest-posttest experimental design,…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Intercultural Communication, Anxiety, Communication (Thought Transfer)
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Anderson, Patricia F.; Shannon, Carol; Bickett, Skye; Doucette, Joanne; Herring, Pamela; Kepsel, Andrea; Lyons, Tierney; McLachlan, Scott; Wu, Lin – Research Synthesis Methods, 2018
When the Medical Library Association identified questions critical for the future of the profession, it assigned groups to use systematic reviews to find the answers to these questions. Group 6, whose question was on emerging technologies, recognized early on that the systematic review process would not work well for this question, which looks…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Medical Research, Medical Libraries
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Ballam, Nadine; Cosgriff, Marg – Australasian Journal of Gifted Education, 2018
Enabling ability and growing talent is central to our professional work with young people. This paper is a 'think piece' that draws on findings from two research projects from the Aotearoa New Zealand context to highlight elements that appear to be central to enabling ability and growing talent in young people. A dialogic process was used to…
Descriptors: Talent, Foreign Countries, Gifted, Talent Development
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Lun, Man Wai Alice – Educational Gerontology, 2018
Community college students were involved in conducting a research project entitled "Life Stories of Chinese American Family Caregivers." They recruited Chinese American family caregivers and collected their life stories of providing care to family members of old age. Students were asked to provide reflections on their experience with the…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Human Services, Caregivers, Asian Americans
Dutilly, Erik Keith – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The U.S. government, including the National Science Foundation (NSF), makes significant investments in the upcoming generation of scientists and researchers through undergraduate research programs (UR) and internships. These programs are thought to motivate students to finish STEM degrees and provide authentic training under the mentorship of…
Descriptors: Student Recruitment, Admission Criteria, STEM Education, Research Projects
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Klein, Emily J.; Taylor, Monica; Monteiro, Karina; Romney, William; Scipio, Meshelle; Diaz, Alex; Dunn, Barbara; Poole, Suzanne – Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research, 2015
This article explores what happens when school mentors and university faculty co-facilitate a cycle of action research with pre-service science teacher residents in an urban teacher residency. The voices of all three constituents describe the process of doing action research together in community and its impact on their practice. The pre-service…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Teacher Educators, Cooperating Teachers, Action Research
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Gardner, Margery A. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2017
This study featured findings from a three-year National Science Foundation (NSF) funded research project at a STEM focused college. 'Project Synapse' was developed to build relevance between disciplines through authentic collaborations between biology and chemistry content. Integrated science practices were explicitly addressed during…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Undergraduate Study, Majors (Students), Biology
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Turner, Heather Noel; Nguyen, Minh-Tam; Keller, Beth; Sackey, Donnie Johnson; Ridolfo, Jim; Pigg, Stacey; Lauren, Benjamin; Potts, Liza; Hart-Davidson, Bill; Grabill, Jeff – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2017
This article describes graduate mentorship experiences at the Writing, Information, and Digital Experience (WIDE) research center at Michigan State University and offers a stance on graduate student mentorship. It describes WIDE's mentorship model as feminist and inclusive and as a means to invite researchers with different backgrounds to engage…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Graduate Students, Research Skills, Research and Development Centers
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Campbell, Carol; Pollock, Katina; Briscoe, Patricia; Carr-Harris, Shasta; Tuters, Stephanie – Educational Research, 2017
Background: The importance of "evidence-informed practice" has risen dramatically in education and in other public policy areas. This article focuses on the importance of knowledge mobilisation strategies, processes and outputs. It is concerned with how these can support the adaptation and implementation of evidence from research and…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Information Networks, Evidence Based Practice, Case Studies
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