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Noe Alexander Turcios – ProQuest LLC, 2024
American Sign Language (ASL) courses in U.S. higher education often inadequately incorporate multicultural content, with many educators lacking knowledge of multiculturalism and relevant cultural resources. The purpose of this study was the exploration of ASL educators' perspectives on the incorporation of multicultural content in ASL classrooms…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Language Teachers, Higher Education, Cultural Awareness
Fiona A. E. McQuarrie – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2024
The purpose of this report is to examine and compare course outlines at BC Transfer System member institutions, and to provide recommendations for course outline content and format to facilitate request for transfer credit. This project examined course outlines and/or syllabi from 36 BC Transfer System member institutions, along with each…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Transfer Policy, Educational Policy, Institutional Cooperation
Emma Mary Klugman – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Statistics & data science are growing, rapidly evolving, and increasingly important for an informed citizenry in a data-saturated world. In this dissertation, I address two central questions: (1) who is taking statistics? and (2) what are statistics courses teaching? I estimate that 920,000 US students take statistics in high school each year,…
Descriptors: Data Science, Statistics Education, High School Students, Profiles
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Ali Altikulaç – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2024
The aim of this study is to reveal the literacy levels and metaphors of Social Studies teacher candidates regarding the concepts of war and peace taught in secondary school. The research may be important in terms of revealing how Social Studies teacher candidates interpret the concepts of war and peace and how they perceive these concepts…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Universities, College Seniors, War
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Takako Nomi; Stephen Raudenbush – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background/Context: As part of a national movement to eliminate a global tracking system that disproportionately assigned underserved students to low-level math classes, the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) mandated academic algebra for all students entering high school in 1997. The results were disappointing: low-skill students experienced elevated…
Descriptors: High School Students, Mathematics Instruction, Time Factors (Learning), Course Content
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An, Sohyun – Multicultural Perspectives, 2022
What should U.S. schools teach about U.S. actions abroad when students in the classroom have varied or conflicting memories, ideas, and experiences? Should schools teach the dominant narrative of U.S. benevolence and innocence in world affairs so as to instill patriotism in children? What kind of patriotism are we concerned with here? Or should…
Descriptors: Asian American Students, Elementary School Students, United States History, Educational Practices
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Slonka, Kevin; Bhatnagar, Neelima – Information Systems Education Journal, 2022
The introductory Information Systems (IS) course is a critical course at the beginning of every IS/IT major's degree. While many textbooks exist that are focused solely on this course, they all vary in the covered topics and the depth of material. This research examined most major textbooks focused on the introductory course and, through…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Information Systems, Information Technology, Majors (Students)
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Upegui, David; Coiro, Julie; Battle, Stefan; Kraus, Rudolf; Fastovsky, David – Science & Education, 2022
Systemic oppression includes inequitable education that historically does not fully prepare students for comprehensive participation in society. The tools of science education, however, uniquely enable students to explore social inequities as well as the natural world. Thus, a role of education can be to embed social justice in science curricula.…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Biology, Science Instruction, Science Curriculum
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Halabi, Rabah – Curriculum Journal, 2022
The goal of this research is to gain an understanding of how Arab civics teachers in Israel teach material that is inconsistent with their beliefs and aspirations. To this end, I conducted qualitative research employing interpretative phenomenological analysis. The findings show that different teachers find different ways to deal with the…
Descriptors: Civics, Arabs, Ethics, Ideology
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Wang, Changzhao; Shen, Ji; Chao, Jie – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2022
Research focusing on the integration of computational thinking (CT) into science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education started to emerge. We conducted a semi-systematic literature review on 55 empirical studies on this topic. Our findings include: (a) the majority of the studies adopted domain-general definitions of CT and a…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Problem Solving, Computation, STEM Education
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Lewis, Bonnie; Darolia, Laura H. – Social Education, 2022
The public debate regarding problematic ideas and personal autonomy has cascaded into classrooms over the last two years, as families and politicians demand more control over what youth are learning. One approach to limiting exposure to perceived harmful or controversial content has been to remove it completely. In this paper, the authors present…
Descriptors: Censorship, Books, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Social Studies
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Lawrence, Andy – Teaching History, 2022
In this article, Andy Lawrence returns to arguments made in "Teaching History 153" about the importance of teaching young people about other modern genocides in addition to the Holocaust. Building on those arguments with his own rationale, Lawrence also acknowledges the constraints on curriculum time that compel all departments to make…
Descriptors: Death, History Instruction, Grade 9, Curriculum Development
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Gunn, Laura H.; Ghosh, Subhanwita; ter Horst, Enrique; Markossian, Talar W.; Molina, German – College Teaching, 2022
In a polarized society, it is a university's responsibility to offer courses that explore highly controversial issues. Traditional forms of debate may create barriers to knowledge and entrenchment of perspectives, with students self-limiting their ability to develop informed opinions. We describe an active learning, double-blinded approach to…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Debate, Discussion, Public Health
Fields, Takara V. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Since its inception, schools' primary function has been to educate youth and adolescents to encourage a prosperous society. Educational institutions serve as an immediate community where leaders foster and nurture principles of standard behavior. The notion of these practices served as the framework for academic institutions and complemented…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Literacy Education, Diversity, Equal Education
Katherine Zaharchuk – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The responsibility for educating U.S. nursing students on end-of-life (EOL) care concepts lies with prelicensure nursing programs; however, the majority of all prelicensure nursing programs offer only a few lectures, and only a small percentage offer EOL and palliative care courses. The lack of education on EOL care results in greater stress for…
Descriptors: Nursing Students, Nursing Education, Death, Associate Degrees
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