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Gresham, Gina – Issues in the Undergraduate Mathematics Preparation of School Teachers, 2010
Fifty-two exceptional education pre-service teachers getting a K-6 endorsement were involved in this study that investigated the changes in levels of mathematics anxiety before and after a mathematics methods course for education majors. The changes were measured with respect to the use of manipulatives and other activities to make mathematics…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Education Majors, Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum
De Smet, Marijke; Van Keer, Hilde; De Wever, Bram; Valcke, Martin – Computers & Education, 2010
This study was conducted in an authentic university setting with fourth-year Educational Sciences' students operating as online peer tutors to facilitate freshman tutees' online collaboration and knowledge construction in a blended "Instructional Sciences" course. Taking into account prior research uncovering weaknesses in online peer tutor…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Self Efficacy, Discussion Groups, Tutor Training
Vivas, Amparo Jimenez – European Journal of Vocational Training, 2009
The aim of the research behind this article is to identify the relationships that must exist between university training and the social and occupational environment. One of the many functions that derive from the university-society relationship is to train students to carry out certain professions. as a result, the analysis of the labour market…
Descriptors: Labor Market, College Graduates, Career Education, Questionnaires
Olson, Michele S.; Esco, Michael R.; Willifo, Hank – Physical Educator, 2009
The purpose of this study was to examine body image concerns in college-aged male physical education majors. Sixty volunteers completed validated body image instruments including two-dimensional figure drawings. In general, the sample reported that they preferred a larger, more muscular physique reflective of male images that currently abound the…
Descriptors: Education Majors, Physical Education, Self Concept, Eating Disorders
Haston, Warren; Russell, Joshua A. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine the occupational identity development of undergraduate music education majors as they participated in a yearlong authentic context learning (ACL) experience situated within a professional development school (PDS). Five undergraduate music education majors enrolled in either a string pedagogy class or an…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, Professional Identity, Undergraduate Study, Education Majors
Richards, Janet C. – Online Submission, 2011
For five years I have supervised a summer literacy camp that connects graduate education majors with students from diverse ethnicities. Each summer I noted I inadequately challenged the education majors to extend their knowledge, examine their attitudes, and expand their abilities to offer culturally responsive literacy instruction to students in…
Descriptors: Education Majors, Graduate Study, Teacher Educators, Ethnic Diversity
Clarke, Tricia A.; Lesh, Jennifer J.; Trocchio, Jennie S.; Wolman, Clara – Educational Psychology, 2010
This study investigated the relationship between two intellectual styles approaches: Sternberg's thinking styles of teachers and Felder and Silverman's learning styles. Ninety-five graduate students majoring in special education, reading, educational leadership and curriculum, and elementary education completed the Thinking Styles in Teaching…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Cognitive Style, Elementary Education
Kimball, Miles S.; Mitchell, Colter M.; Thornton, Arland D.; Young-Demarco, Linda C. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2009
Early life experiences are likely to be important for the formation of preferences. Religiosity is a key dimension of preferences, affecting many economic outcomes. This paper examines the effect of college major on religiosity, and the converse effect of religiosity on college major, using panel data from the Monitoring the Future survey as a way…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Social Sciences, Religious Factors, Humanities
Moos, Daniel C.; Azevedo, Roger – Metacognition and Learning, 2009
While research has documented the key role of monitoring processes during hypermedia learning, limited empirical research has used process data to examine the possibility that these processes mediate the relationship between motivational constructs (such as self-efficacy) and cognitive factors (such as prior domain knowledge) with hypermedia…
Descriptors: Education Majors, Self Efficacy, Protocol Analysis, Hypermedia
Jones, Patrick M. – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2012
Higher education is the linchpin of music education in North America. It is primarily in collegiate institutions that music teachers are educated throughout the life cycles of their careers. This begins with preservice programs, typically at the baccalaureate level, and continues with in-service professional development and graduate degree…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Music Education, School Demography, Attitudes
Miller, Marybeth – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2012
Background: The implementation of service-learning as a teaching and learning method has been well grounded in education, yet the discipline of physical education teacher education (PETE) has been slow to establish itself in this experiential learning paradigm. This study examined the role that service-learning plays in teacher candidates'…
Descriptors: Education Majors, Communication Strategies, Physical Education, Service Learning
Celik, Sabri – Education, 2011
The aim of this survey is to evaluate the reasons behind the demand for postgraduate programs and the relationships between these reasons among disciplines. This survey was administered to 304 students randomly chosen from master with thesis and doctorate programs at the Institute of Sciences and Technology, Institute of Social Sciences and…
Descriptors: Postdoctoral Education, Graduate Students, Educational Demand, Masters Programs
Cassel, Darlinda; Vincent, Daniel – School Science and Mathematics, 2011
Typically, experiences shape one's attitudes toward the "thing" that is being experienced, whether it is a person, pet, movie, etc. Classroom experiences also shape one's attitudes toward a subject, teacher, learning, and so forth. Studies have shown that attitudes become more negative as students move from elementary to secondary schools.…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses, Mathematics Instruction
Martin, Leisa A. – Action in Teacher Education, 2010
Citizenship preparation is recognized as a main goal of education (Parker, 2009); however, some individuals believe that only social studies teachers are required to prepare students for citizenship. At a Southeastern university, 77 teacher education students consisting of 28 men and 49 women from various content areas were interviewed on civic…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Role of Education, Social Studies, Teacher Responsibility
Kablan, Zeynel – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2010
The aim of this study is to define whether using exercise-based games increase the performance of learning. For this reason, two basic questions were tried to be answered in the study. First, is there any difference in learning between the group that was given exercise-based games and the group that was not? Second, is there any difference in…
Descriptors: Education Majors, Learning Processes, Instructional Effectiveness, Teaching Methods