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Hokayem, Hayat; Jin, Hui; Yamaguchi, Etsuji – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2020
Feedback loop reasoning is an important stepping-stone toward systems thinking. To date, studies on feedback loop reasoning in ecology have focused on college students, while only a limited effort has been made to investigate a more general systems thinking of students at the lower elementary level. The goal of this study is to investigate how…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Thinking Skills, Feedback (Response), Learning Processes
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Meyer, Melanie S.; Cranmore, Jeff – Psychology in the Schools, 2020
For academically advanced college-bound students, decisions about where to apply, and ultimately, where to enroll are influenced by a wide range of factors. One key factor in the decision-making process is access to quality information about universities. This qualitative descriptive study used semistructured interviews with 10 high school seniors…
Descriptors: Information Seeking, College Bound Students, High School Seniors, Advanced Students
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Nikolic, Vesna; Vukic, Tamara; Maletaski, Tatjana; Andevski, Milica – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine university students' attitudes towards the concept of sustainable development and towards the need for the implementation of education for sustainable development into the higher education system. To that end, the paper explores in a process-oriented focus which drivers and barriers are experienced…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Sustainable Development, College Students
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Esomonu, Nkechi Patricia-Mary; Esomonu, Martins Ndibem; Eleje, Lydia Ijeoma – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2020
As a result of increasing complexity of assessing all aspects of human behaviours, a lot of data are generated on individual learner and from teachers and the system. What qualifies as big data in assessment in Nigeria? This research identifies the sources of assessment big data in Nigeria, investigates how the big data are generated and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Expertise, Learning Analytics, Student Evaluation
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Onoyase, Anna – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
This research was embarked upon to find out about knowledge of HIV/AIDS, its sources and behaviour change of undergraduate university students of Ekiti State University, South west Nigeria: Implications for counselling. In order to carry out the investigation, the researcher formulated three research questions and one hypothesis to guide the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Behavior Change, Student Behavior
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Cardoso, P. S. S.; Nunes, M. C. S.; Silva, G. P. S.; Braghittoni, L. S.; Trindade, N. M. – Physics Education, 2020
This research aimed to investigate the misconceptions on nuclear physics topics. Misconceptions are defined as ideas whose meaning departs from what is commonly accepted by scientific consensus. A total of 34 high school students of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Sao Paulo (IFSP), Brazil, answered a questionnaire on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Scientific Concepts, Misconceptions
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Jones, Rose; Hussain, Nazia; Spiewak, Mike – Journal of Museum Education, 2020
Climate change is one of the most complex and polarizing topics to recently emerge in museum education. It is also a topic that has emerged at the precise time that museums are undergoing great transition, moving away from an authoritarian framework toward a democratic one that seeks to integrate diverse audiences and multiple perspectives.…
Descriptors: Museums, Climate, Teaching Methods, Public Education
Majid, Ishfaq; Lakshmi, Y. Vijaya – Online Submission, 2020
Web based resources are playing an important place in the academic life of the students in our country. The students use the website for getting the primary information with regard to any educational institution. University websites are the gateways for the students. The students are empowered to get the information virtually without visiting the…
Descriptors: Universities, Web Sites, Content Analysis, Information Sources
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Topal, Arzu Deveci; Budak, Esra Çoban – Journal of Learning and Teaching in Digital Age, 2019
In information society, the individuals have to constantly renew their knowledge to develop their information and skills so as to perform their work better. In order to be able to achieve this, the individual must be information literate to access to information and know how to apply this information. Within this context, concepts of information…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Social Work, Professional Education, College Students
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Matsumoto, David; Hwang, Hyisung C. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2019
This study examined the effect of a principle of social influence--authority--on the informational elements in an investigative interview. Community participants told the truth or lied about a mock crime in a high or low authority context. Informational elements were coded from their oral responses in the interviews and written responses in a…
Descriptors: Social Influences, Interviews, Ethics, Deception
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Competente, Ronnel Joseph T. – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2019
Findings from the study of pre-service teachers' (PSTs) attitudes to climate change education, knowledge of climate change and potential inclusion in their future teachings are reported in this paper. Using adopted and self-made questionnaire, a sample of 180 pre-service teachers participated in a survey study in the College of Education,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Climate, Environmental Education
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Rosenzweig, James W.; Thill, Mary; Lambert, Frank – College & Research Libraries, 2019
Using bibliometric data and a faceted taxonomy first published by Leeder, Markey, and Yakel, this pilot study examines student constructions of authority generated from a sample of 60 research papers by students in a freshman-level English composition course. The taxonomy classifies each source using subfacet attributes of author identity,…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Taxonomy, Freshman Composition, College Freshmen
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Arendt, Julie; Peacemaker, Bettina; Miller, Hillary – College & Research Libraries, 2019
To examine changes in the open access landscape over time, this study partially replicated Kristin Antelman's 2004 study of open access citation advantage. Results indicated open access articles still have a citation advantage. For three of the four disciplines examined, the most common sites hosting freely available articles were independent…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Citations (References), Replication (Evaluation), Journal Articles
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Teniell L. Trolian – Educational Researcher, 2024
This study considers whether participation in several out-of-class high school experiences increased the odds that a student would aspire to earn a bachelor's degree, whether these relationships were moderated by the student's race/ethnicity or socioeconomic status, and whether these experiences, considered together, had a cumulative influence on…
Descriptors: High School Students, Educational Experience, Academic Aspiration, Correlation
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Mary Opio-Göres; Ingo Kollar; Birgit Dorner – Journal of Social Work Education, 2024
Assessing cases of child welfare requires the ability to engage with different sources of information systematically. This study examined how case-based learning (CBL) can be used to support social work students (N = 104) acquire knowledge crucial to assessing cases of child welfare and whether benefits of CBL could be maximized by structuring the…
Descriptors: Social Work, Counselor Training, Metacognition, Concept Formation
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