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Murray, Mike; Hendry, Gillian; McQuade, Robert – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2020
Vocational disciplines such as engineering provide an ideal opportunity for contextualising the curriculum. The provision of co-curricular activities can stimulate students to assimilate their prior knowledge and skills whilst enhancing employability attributes. Team-based co-curricular activities linked to problem-based learning can offer…
Descriptors: Civil Engineering, Extracurricular Activities, Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education
Terry, Marion; Malik, Amjad; Chohan, Bushra – Online Submission, 2020
In an attempt to investigate concerns expressed by high school counselors, the researchers developed a quantitative Likert-scale questionnaire to assess the relationships among school experiences and video gaming and texting. Questions about video gaming and texting appeared with other questions about social relations, extra-curricular activities,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 9, High School Students, Adolescents
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Ankomah, William S. – World Journal of Education, 2022
This paper focuses on eight conditions that kept international master's students (IMS) in a Southern Ontario university happy and engaged in their studies during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the first phase of the Appreciative Inquiry's (AI) 4-D cycle--i.e., discovery--this doctoral study conducted 14 individual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Masters Programs, Graduate Students, Psychological Patterns
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Wolfgang, Charlton; Snyderman, Daniel – Gifted Education International, 2022
Gifted support services were directly impacted by the COVID-19 shutdown in Spring 2020. This qualitative research study consisting of parents (n = 110) and gifted support teachers (n = 53) explored the impact on gifted students' services and instruction. Utilizing surveys, open-ended response questions, and in-depth interviews, teachers and…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Gifted Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Collins-Nelsen, Rebecca; Koziarz, Frank; Levinson, Beth; Allard, Erin; Verkoeyen, Stephanie; Raha, Sandeep – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2022
Increasingly, employers are seeking candidates with transferable skills in addition to technical and educational requirements. Thus, university students seek opportunities to develop transferrable skills, often through extra and co-curricular programs. With this in mind, our research explores student assessments of their own development of…
Descriptors: Social Environment, Transfer of Training, Skill Development, Experiential Learning
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Li, Hui; Wu, Dandan; Degotardi, Sheila; Chik, Alice – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This study explored the family language policy, parental beliefs, and bilingual parenting in Beijing, a typical monolingual society. Stratified random sampling was conducted to recruit 192 parents of Chinese preschoolers (ages 2.5, 3.5, 4.5, and 5.5 years). They were surveyed with the "Home Language Environment and Practices" (HLEP)…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Family Relationship, Language Usage, Parent Child Relationship
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Pfeiffer, Linda J.; Knobloch, Neil A.; Tucker, Mark A.; Hovey, Monique – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2022
Purpose: Unprecedented global challenges of the twenty-first century have highlighted the need for novel programs to train students in the skills necessary to address increasingly complex controversial science issues. Issues-360[TM] was developed as an innovative year-long co-curricular, issues engagement initiative designed to address this need.…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Undergraduate Students, Transformative Learning, Critical Thinking
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McRee, Michael A.; Haber-Curran, Paige – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2016
In this exploratory, qualitative study, the authors examine practices of high quality facilitators in multi-day co-curricular leadership institute programs for college students. In-depth interviews of 15 high quality lead facilitators resulted in the identification of two key practices describing how facilitators prepare for the leadership…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Leadership Training, Facilitators (Individuals), Qualitative Research
Center on Standards and Assessments Implementation, 2016
With today's greater focus on preparing students for college and careers, the Center on Standards and Assessment Implementation (CSAI) recently conducted a review of the coursework that states are requiring students to complete in order to receive a high school diploma, and of what diploma options are available for students in each state. This…
Descriptors: Required Courses, Graduation Requirements, High Schools, Core Curriculum
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Casey, Samantha Campbell; MacCallum, Janis; Robertson, Lynn; Strachan, Lewis – New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Sciences, 2018
Many employers report that newly qualified graduates lack key skills necessary for success in the workplace. Although variable, many lack general 'transferable' or 'soft' skills including communication and teamworking. Staff at Edinburgh Napier University have sought to address this using the Skills Passport tool. The main element of the Skills…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Knowledge Level, Skill Development
Sosler, Alexander Gabriel – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The intent of this study was to investigate the teleological priorities of Christian higher education. As a sample size, the study drew from the Christian College Consortium that features leading liberal arts institutions. From a review of the literature, four historical epochs emerged with different defining features: the age of faith, the age of…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, Philosophy, Liberal Arts, Christianity
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Lilla, Nanine; Schüpbach, Marianne – International Journal for Research on Extended Education, 2021
All-day schools, the most common school form with extended education offerings in Germany, are expected to complement regular hours of school instruction with a wide array of offers and to compensate for origin-related educational gaps by providing specific offerings for disadvantaged students. Complementation and compensation can only be achieved…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Extended School Day, Extracurricular Activities, Homework
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Ngussa, Baraka Manjale; Fitriyah, Fifi Khoirul; Diningrat, Syaiputra Wahyuda Meisa – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2021
This study was propelled by the COVID 19 Global Pandemic which necessitates online platforms to replace traditional classrooms than ever before. The study investigated on the perception on and interrelationships between Facebook use, mental health and engagement in learning. Using Descriptive Correlational Design, the study used online…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Online Courses
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Venketsamy, Roy; Miller, Denise – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2021
Background: Parents are challenged to choose schools for their Grade 1 learners. They believe that the Department of Education's zoning and admission policy is too restrictive. Schools also do not provide adequate information to allow parents to make their choice. Aim: This article aimed to identify factors that influence parents' choice of…
Descriptors: School Choice, Grade 1, Children, Elementary School Students
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Hansen, William B. – Journal of Character Education, 2021
The goal of this article is to explore relations between adolescent values, interests in activities, and their bonding to school. This article presents survey research findings that examine 1,928 sixth- and seventh-grade students' responses to survey prompts about 15 terminal values adapted from Rokeach's (1973) theory of values, prompts about 11…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Student School Relationship, Extracurricular Activities, Student Attitudes
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