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Tucker, Jan P.; YoungGonzaga, Stephanie; Krause, Jaclyn – International Journal of Higher Education, 2014
Discussion forums are often utilized in the online classroom to build a sense of community, encourage collaboration and exchange, and measure time on task. A review of the literature revealed that there is little research that examines the role of the online discussion forum as a mechanism for knowledge transfer. Researchers reviewed 21 course…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Discussion Groups, Transfer of Training, Knowledge Management
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Marušic, Mirko; Sliško, Josip – European Journal of Physics Education, 2014
This study is based on two exploratory questions with the aim of determining the relative effectiveness of two different student activities, called "Reading, Presenting and Questioning" (RPQ) and "Experimenting and Discussing" (ED), in changing students' perceptions and attitudes about the impact of physics learning on the…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Learning Activities
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Klepper, Adam – Social Studies, 2014
Despite 9/11, the seemingly endless Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the possibility of Iran developing nuclear weapons capabilities, and the Arab Spring and its aftermath, the social studies curricula of high schools throughout the nation generally put little emphasis on the Middle East and Islam as the foundation for understanding vital issues that…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Islam, Islamic Culture
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Mulder, Raoul; Baik, Chi; Naylor, Ryan; Pearce, Jon – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2014
Involving students in peer review has many pedagogical benefits, but few studies have explicitly investigated relationships between the content of peer reviews, student perceptions and assessment outcomes. We conducted a case study of peer review within a third-year undergraduate subject at a research-intensive Australian university, in which we…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Peer Evaluation, Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students
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Hughes, Elizabeth M.; Hunt-Barron, Sarah; Wagner, Jennifer Young; Evering, Lea Calvert – Teacher Educator, 2014
This promising practice explores the use of young adult literature as a supplement to texts in an undergraduate introduction to a special education course. Literature portraying adolescent characters with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) were used to build schema of preservice teachers. Participants' knowledge and attitudes about ASD were examined…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Study, Preservice Teachers
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Han, Heejeong Sophia; Damjanovic, Victoria – Teacher Educator, 2014
This study is an examination of early childhood preservice teachers' kindergarten internship experiences to identify the supportive and challenging conditions for their learning and explore in what ways those conditions are productive or unproductive for them, based on ecological perspective as a theoretical framework. Qualitative data were…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Kindergarten, Internship Programs, Early Childhood Education
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Hansen, Jane – Middle School Journal, 2014
A successful middle school team of teachers employed effective middle level philosophy to structure a curriculum around themes that were relevant, challenging, integrative, and engaging for their particular students and community. Realizing that their young adolescents were involved in tough, delicate issues in their out-of-school lives, the…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Middle School Students, Learner Engagement, Urban Schools
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Cheng, Liang; Zhang, Wen; Wang, Jiechen; Li, Manchun; Zhong, Lishan – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2014
Geographic information science (GIS) features a wide range of disciplines and has broad applicability. Challenges associated with rapidly developing GIS technology and the currently limited teaching and practice materials hinder universities from cultivating highly skilled GIS graduates. Based on the idea of "small core, big network," a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography, Geography Instruction, Geographic Information Systems
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Cho, Byeong-Young – Cognition and Instruction, 2014
The purpose of this study was to investigate the type, pattern, and complexity of Internet reading strategies used by seven accomplished high school readers. Individual participants performed an academic Internet reading task with the goal of developing critical questions about their chosen controversial topic. Strategies for Internet reading were…
Descriptors: Internet, Reading Strategies, High School Students, Reading Assignments
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Hoffstaedter, Petra; Kohn, Kurt – Research-publishing.net, 2014
Our contribution focuses on synchronous oral telecollaboration in secondary schools. With reference to the EU project TILA, aspects of task design and implementation are discussed against the backdrop of issues of technological quality in connection with class organisation in computer labs. Case study evidence is provided in favour of the…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Centers
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Schaeffer-Lacroix, Eva – Language Awareness, 2016
Johns reports in his text "Kibbitzing one-to-ones" (1997) that corpus-informed metatalk with a foreign language expert helps apprentice writers to make progress in independent text revision. Expecting this progress to be based on the development of expert-like ways to observe language features, I integrated Johns' so-called kibbitzing…
Descriptors: German, Form Classes (Languages), Qualitative Research, Statistical Analysis
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Mendoza-Gonzalez, Ricardo, Ed. – IGI Global, 2016
In today's society, educational opportunities have evolved beyond the traditional classroom setting. Most universities have implemented virtual learning environments in an effort to provide more opportunities for potential or current students seeking alternative and more affordable learning solutions. "User-Centered Design Strategies for…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Curriculum Design, Virtual Classrooms, Best Practices
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Flynn, Alison B. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2015
Organic chemistry is a traditionally difficult subject with high failure & withdrawal rates and many areas of conceptual difficulty for students. To promote student learning and success, four undergraduate organic chemistry and spectroscopy courses at the first to third year level (17-420 students) were "flipped" in 2013-2014. In the…
Descriptors: Spectroscopy, Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Course Evaluation
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Olson, Joel D.; Ringhand, Darlene G.; Kalinski, Ray C.; Ziegler, James G. – American Journal of Business Education, 2015
What is the best way to assign graduate business students to online team-based projects? Team assignments are frequently made on the basis of alphabet, time zones or previous performance. This study reviews personality as an indicator of student online team performance. The personality assessment IDE (Insights Discovery Evaluator) was administered…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Student Projects
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Sharma, Bal Krishna – Classroom Discourse, 2012
Using conversation analysis as a methodological and analytical framework, this study presents a sequential analysis of disagreement episodes in small group interactions in an advanced academic writing class. Closer scrutiny of the sequences reveals that in order to bring disagreements to a close, participants make use of an array of interactional…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Content Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Collaborative Writing
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