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Griffiths, Barry J.; Haciomeroglu, Erhan Selcuk – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2014
To ensure the competitiveness of the USA in the global economy, and its role as a leader in science and engineering, it is important to cultivate the next generation of home grown mathematicians. However, while universities across the USA offer calculus classes to thousands of undergraduate students each year, very few of them go on to major in…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Calculus, Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study
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Kyndt, Eva; Berghmans, Inneke; Dochy, Filip; Bulckens, Lydwin – Higher Education Research and Development, 2014
Students' workload has been recognised as a major factor in the teaching and learning environment. This paper starts by structuring the different conceptualisations of workload described in the scientific literature. Besides the traditional distinction between objective and subjective or perceived workload, a distinction between conceptualisations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Time Factors (Learning), Student Responsibility, Student Attitudes
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Bratkovich, Meghan Odsliv – Working Papers in TESOL & Applied Linguistics, 2014
This study investigated the nature of self-assessment and blind peer- and teacher-assessment in L2 writing. The type of feedback students gave to themselves and peers, the type of feedback used in the revision process, and the source of the feedback used were all analyzed. Additionally, student perceptions of self- and peer-assessment, feedback,…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Peer Evaluation
Hepworth, A. J. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this study was to investigate how engagement, mood and number of assignments completed on computerized differentiated homework using an iPad in a one-to-one mobile device environment influenced the growth index and normalized gain in reading literature benchmark assessments of students in grades five, six, and seven. Furthermore,…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Homework, Assignments, Psychological Patterns
Perun, Stefan A. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The primary objective of this dissertation was to help illuminate why most students who enroll in developmental English at community colleges never make it to a college-level course. The extant literature suggests that students' learning experiences in a course largely account for success or failure, yet few studies have uncovered how students…
Descriptors: Remedial Instruction, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Interviews
Saavedra, Anna Rosefsky – RAND Corporation, 2014
Originally founded as a private means for diplomats' children to earn an internationally recognized high school diploma, today the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme (DP) serves students from a variety of backgrounds in 144 countries. The IB mission and Learner Profile--consisting of ten attributes to foster in students--suggest…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Interviews, Coordinators
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Ulloa, Carlos; Rey, Guillermo D.; Sánchez, Ángel; Cancela, Ángeles – Education Sciences, 2012
A WebQuest is an Internet-based and inquiry-oriented learning activity. The aim of this work is to outline the creation of a WebQuest entitled "Power Generation Plants: Steam and Gas Turbines." This is one of the topics covered in the course "Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer," which is offered in the second year of Mechanical…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Internet, Web Sites, Learning Activities
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Todd, Carrie E. Davis; Goeke, Elizabeth R. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2012
Capstone experiences are typically the culmination of an undergraduate program and allow students to integrate their content knowledge with communication and technical skills, many of which are desirable in the job market and graduate school. Learner-centered teaching fits well with a capstone course because it requires students to be more engaged…
Descriptors: Field Trips, Student Centered Learning, Geology, Curriculum
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Mulder, Tom – NADE Digest, 2012
The Silent Socratic Dialogue (SSD) writing warm-up technique places college students in a dialogic setting in which they construct the texts that explore, inform, and challenge each other through a succession of questions and answers. It validates students' voices, ideas, and interactions as worthy of study while engaging them in the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Questioning Techniques, Writing Instruction, College Students
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Lizarazo Jara, Omar Yesid – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2012
Beginner students often have difficulties using adjectives when they write descriptions in English. This article focuses on the procedures used to help my sixth grade students understand and use adjectives in the correct order by using a blog. To achieve the objective of the project I decided to implement an innovation in and out of class…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, English (Second Language)
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Xerri, Daniel – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2012
This paper examines the place of poetry writing in the post-16 English curriculum in Malta. In presenting the results of a small-scale study adopting a mixed methods approach, it explores the views of teachers, students and an influential examiner. The paper proposes that while there seems to be an appreciation of what creative writing can…
Descriptors: Poetry, Foreign Countries, College Students, Writing Skills
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Thomas, Theda – Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects, 2012
This paper provides insight into the way in which distance learning had changed over the past 30 years from the perspective of the author as a distance learning student. The question is then asked as to whether current practice is reducing flexibility for distance learning students? The paper starts with a discussion of flexible learning and the…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Technology, Adjustment (to Environment), Online Courses
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Seror, Jeremie – TESL Canada Journal, 2012
Technology is an ever-increasing part of how teachers and learners work on language and texts. Indeed, computers, the Internet, and Web 2.0 applications are revolutionizing how texts are consumed, discussed, and produced in classrooms. This article focuses on a specific technological innovation emerging from this digital revolution: the use of…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Assignments, Internet, Feedback (Response)
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Jordan, Lindsay – Research in Learning Technology, 2012
This paper discusses the benefits and challenges of video as a tool for supporting and enhancing peer feedback and reflection. The analysis draws on key arguments from relevant literature in combination with the author's own experiences of producing and using video recordings of peer feedback sessions, presentations and personal reflections, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interviews, Computer Literacy, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Commander, Nannette Evans; Ward, Teresa E.; Zabrucky, Karen M. – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2012
This article describes an assignment, titled "Learning in the Real World," designed for graduate students in a learning theory course. Students work in small groups to create high quality audio-visual films that present "real learning" through interviews and/or observations of learners. Students select topics relevant to theories we are discussing…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Feedback (Response), Learning Theories, Interviews
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