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Adanir, Gülgün Afacan – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2017
This case study demonstrates the use of interaction analysis techniques to explore students' knowledge building process evidenced in time-stamped logs of a CSCL environment that consists of chat, shared whiteboard, and wiki features. The study was performed in a graduate level course, which covers online assignments that expect students to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Knowledge Level, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Terrón-López, María-José; Velasco-Quintana, Paloma-Julia; García-García, María-José; Ocampo, Jared R. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2017
A unified academic model based on the project-based learning (PBL) methodology was implemented, in the 2012-2013 period, in the School of Engineering at Universidad Europea de Madrid. The purpose of this paper is to explore whether teachers and students participating in the capstone projects feel that the objectives for which this methodology was…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Active Learning, Student Projects
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Corzo, Josefina Quintero; Castañeda, Yeisson Soto – International Education Studies, 2017
This is a case study report arising from a series of daily observations of the students' behavior made in a primary public school located near to the capital city, Manizales-Colombia, where it was possible to notice the difficulties students had in order to coexist due to the lack of respect with their classmates, in group activities or actually…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Public Schools, Prosocial Behavior
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Esentas, Melike; Özbey, Selhan; Güzel, Pinar – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
This study aims to determine the role of youth camp practices, organised by the Ministry of Youth and Sports, in the development of self-awareness and leadership skills of female students participating in youth camps. As a result of analysis of the data collected with triangulation method--observation, focus group discussions and document…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Females, Foreign Countries, Leadership Qualities
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Turner, Jill; Rafferty, Lisa A.; Sullivan, Ray; Blake, Amy – Preventing School Failure, 2017
In this action research case study, the researchers used a multiple baseline across two student pairs design to investigate the effects of the error self-correction method on the spelling accuracy behaviors for four fifth-grade students who were identified as being at risk for learning disabilities. The dependent variable was the participants'…
Descriptors: Action Research, Spelling, Grade 5, At Risk Students
Mackenzie, Blair Nicole – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This narrative inquiry examined how students developed critical thinking skills for nursing from viewing and discussing a commercially produced film. Community of Inquiry was the theoretical model and demonstrated the development of critical thinking when the teaching presence pulled the social presence (students) into the cognitive presence with…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Nursing Education, Films
Morgan, Rachel C. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This is an exploration of the perceptions and perspectives of early childhood leaders and practitioners with regards to preschool learners with autism engaged in inclusive educational settings. At a time when inclusive education is acknowledged as best practice, there is still a concern that many preschool learners with disabilities are receiving…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Preschool Education, Autism, Learning Theories
Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2017
In 2014-15, the high school graduation rate reached a record high of 83 percent (U.S. Department of Education 2016). Despite the gains, over half a million students still drop out of high school each year (U.S. Department of Education 2015). High schools have adopted various strategies designed to keep students who are at risk of not graduating in…
Descriptors: Teamwork, At Risk Students, High School Students, Dropout Prevention
Grack Nelson, Amy Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Twenty-first century skills are vital for preparing youth for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. STEM out-of-school time (OST) programs play an important role in helping youth develop these skills, particularly the teamwork skills necessary for the growing collaborative nature of STEM jobs. However, there is a…
Descriptors: STEM Education, After School Programs, Program Evaluation, Measures (Individuals)
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Lockwood, Meghan – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
While discussion protocols can provide helpful structures for conversations about data and other collaborative work, some drawbacks have been noted; for example, protocols can preclude discussion about important topics that are not within the scope of the protocol. Prior research has not yet explored how educators' personal identities and…
Descriptors: Data Use, Decision Making, Teacher Attitudes, Gender Differences
Ward, Caryn; Fixsen, Dean; Cusumano, Dale – National Implementation Research Network, 2017
School districts (local education agencies) in the United States are charged with many responsibilities, by law and by custom. The most important is responsibility for assuring schools and teachers have the support they need to provide consistent, high quality, and effective education to promote student learning for all students every year.…
Descriptors: School Districts, Responsibility, Capacity Building, Board of Education Role
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Sharma, Kundan; Xu, He; Zhong, Yuguang; Guo, Xuwei; Zheng, Jinxing; Lui, Xu – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2019
With the diversification of information and the rapid development of information technology, and the arrival of the era of big data, information literacy has become one of the basic qualities that everyone must possess (Galvin and Jeanne 2006). This paper presents information literacy and review writing, data access autonomy and academic exchange…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Comparative Education, Shared Resources and Services, Personal Autonomy
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Borràs, Eulàlia; Moore, Emilee – English Language Teaching, 2019
This paper explores the interactions of a groupwork team composed of both local and exchange students, with heterogeneous competence in English, in an English-medium CLIL context at a technical university in Catalonia. Plurilingual and multimodal conversation analysis is used to trace how the students jointly complete an academic task. The…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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van Mourik, Greg; Wilkin, Carla L. – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2019
Professional accrediting bodies and accounting education reviews have long expressed concerns about student capabilities and learning outcomes, including the ability to apply knowledge and make reasoned judgements. In response, we report on a new design that uses a web of threshold concepts to guide curriculum development. With an associated focus…
Descriptors: Accounting, Curriculum Design, Active Learning, Business Administration Education
Ryan Jackson, K.; Ward, C. – National Implementation Research Network, 2019
The purpose of the brief is to provide examples from two state education agencies in the United States who took a different path to systemic change through the use of the Active Implementation Frameworks (Fixsen et al. 2013a; Metz & Bartley, 2012). Both states received intensive implementation-informed support from the State Implementation and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Change Strategies, Systems Approach, Evidence Based Practice
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