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Grindel, Cecelia Gatson; Bateman, Anne L.; Patsdaughter, Carol A.; Babington, Lynn M.; Medici, Geraldine – Nursing and Health Care Perspectives, 2001
Adult health/medical-surgical nurses (n=54) and mental health/psychiatric nurses (n=54) were surveyed about contributions of nursing students in clinical placements. Students provided clinical staff with opportunities for mentoring, reciprocal learning, and professional development and made direct contributions to patient care. (SK)
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Higher Education, Nursing Education, Professional Development
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Kumpf, Eric P. – Technical Communication Quarterly, 2000
Considers how visual metadiscourse provides design criteria for authors when considering the needs and expectations of readers. Notes the author's discussions of textual metadiscourse in technical writing classes since 1995. Notes an improvement in the cohesion and considerateness of student writing after rethinking their role as writers and the…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Design, Higher Education, Reader Text Relationship
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Hackmann, Donald; Kenworthy, James; Nibbelink, Sharon – Middle School Journal, 1998
Details a student-led conferencing model developed by one middle school faculty that engages students as active participants in facilitating their conferences with parents and teachers. Considers conference goals, preparation, and evaluation. (JPB)
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Middle Schools, Parent Teacher Conferences, Student Participation
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Veerman, Arja; Andriessen, Jerry; Kanselaar, Gellof – Instructional Science, 2002
Describes research that was conducted to discover principles for the design of educational tasks that provoke collaborative argumentation, concentrating on the relationship between question asking and argumentation. Discusses results from experiments with three different collaborative learning tasks involving university students and examines the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Instructional Design, Persuasive Discourse, Questioning Techniques
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Medved, Caryn E.; Heisler, Jennifer – Communication Education, 2002
Explores, using the framework of Negotiated Order Theory, critical interactions between faculty and students when students are experiencing difficulties in managing school and family/work responsibilities. Demonstrates that childcare concerns most often trigger students to initiate negotiations with faculty members. Discusses limitations and…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Communication Research, Higher Education, Parent Role
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Gaitens, Judi – Business Communication Quarterly, 2000
Relates the stages a new intern goes through to become an "insider." Relates the socialization of newcomers to writing and editing internships. Suggests ways in which the socialization of interns can be improved through intervention from academic advisors and an active role on the part of the interns themselves. (SC)
Descriptors: Editing, English Departments, Higher Education, Internship Programs
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Smith, S. Scot – ALAN Review, 1999
Presents three young adult novels by Brock Cole discussing a phenomenological quest for self-identity that breaks the traditional pattern often found in young adult literature. Discusses the novels "The Goats" (1987), "Celine" (1989), and "The Facts Speak for Themselves" (1997) where adolescents show strength,…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Characterization, Novels, Parent Role
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Yanar, Anu – Lifelong Learning in Europe, 2001
Implementation of problem-based learning in an architecture studio illustrates the conditions and assumptions necessary for such learning to be truly student regulated. If the aim is knowledge construction, the questions of whose knowledge is relevant and what are the effects of indoctrination into a profession must be addressed. (SK)
Descriptors: Architecture, Educational Environment, Problem Based Learning, Professional Occupations
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Andrews, Barbara Henriksen – Art Education, 2005
The structure and functioning mechanics of a student-driven art course, "Arts and Ideas" [described in the September 2001 issue of "Art Education" in "Art and Ideas: Reaching Nontraditional Art Students" (Andrews, 2001)] were designed to create a classroom environment that would promote greater student input into learning and the choice of art…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Student Centered Curriculum, School Community Relationship, Teacher Role
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Mitra, Dana L. – Teachers College Record, 2004
The notion of "student voice," or a student role in the decision making and change efforts of schools, has emerged in the new millennium as a potential strategy for improving the success of school reform efforts. Yet few studies have examined this construct either theoretically or empirically. Grounded in a sociocultural perspective, this article…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Student Role, School Restructuring, Youth Programs
Dogru, Mustafa; Kalender, Suna – Online Submission, 2007
In this study our purpose is to determine how the teachers are applying the constructivist approach in their classes by classifying the teachers according to graduated faculty, department and their years in the duty. Besides understanding the difference of the effects of constructivist approach and traditional education method on student success…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Elementary School Science, Grade 6, Science Teachers
Ng, Kwok Chi – Online Submission, 2007
This paper reports on a study which investigates the implementation of a synchronous e-learning system ("Interwise") for online tutorials on an information technology related course offered by the Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK). It examines a set of interview data related to students' and tutors' views on the use of the system.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tutors, Open Universities, Online Courses
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Payne, Mark – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2007
Investigation into pupil voice in educational research has enjoyed a high profile over the last few years. In specific relation to foreign language (FL) research, pupils' views have been sought and studied in terms of, "inter alia," attitudes towards languages; community languages; diversification; A level choices and opting out of FL…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Language Attitudes, Educational Research
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Schwartz, Marc S.; Sadler, Philip M. – International Journal of Science Education, 2007
This study characterizes how learning and teaching differs as the responsibility for choosing curriculum goals and the strategies to reach those goals shifts between teacher and the students. Three different pedagogical approaches were used with 125 seventh-grade and eighth-grade students. All three curricula focus on electromagnetism, and were…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Science Curriculum, Advanced Students, Curriculum Development
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Salonen, Pekka; Lepola, Janne; Vauras, Marja – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2007
In this exploratory study we conceptualized and explored socio-cognitive, emotional and motivational regulatory processes displayed in scaffolding interaction between parents and their non-task and task-oriented children. Based on the dynamic systems view and findings from developmental research, we assumed that parents with non-task oriented and…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Parent Child Relationship, Interaction, Cognitive Processes
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