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Michelle L. Ackerman; Bettina Shapira; Joel B. Goodin; Sunilda A. Andriotis – Online Learning, 2025
Research suggests that supportive programmatic structure can assist online doctoral student success, including time to complete the dissertation. However, completely online doctoral students have unique characteristics and needs and are underrepresented in the research literature; therefore, research exploring programmatic factors as related to…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Doctoral Students, Distance Education, Psychology
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Fan Zhang; Heather Erwin; Aaron Beighle – Journal of School Health, 2025
Background: This study offers a comprehensive review of academic performance measurement instruments in physical activity and education settings, aiming to provide a comprehensive list of tools used for measuring academic performance in relation to variables associated with physical activity. Methods: Academic performance outcomes, including…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Physical Activities, Measurement Techniques, Thinking Skills
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María Evelia Emerson – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2025
Diversity audits are frequently used as an assessment method to measure the diversity of a library collection. Yet, there is not frequent research on the aftermath of diversity audits, especially in the context of comparing data from several audits to assess the difference in the makeup of a library collection. In this article, the author…
Descriptors: Library Materials, Library Services, Evaluation Methods, Diversity
Dongmei Li; Shalini Kapoor; Ann Arthur; Chi-Yu Huang; YoungWoo Cho; Chen Qiu; Hongling Wang – ACT Education Corp., 2025
Starting in April 2025, ACT will introduce enhanced forms of the ACT® test for national online testing, with a full rollout to all paper and online test takers in national, state and district, and international test administrations by Spring 2026. ACT introduced major updates by changing the test lengths and testing times, providing more time per…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Testing, Change, Scoring
Igor Chirikov; John Aubrey Douglass; Gregg Thomson – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2025
American higher education is under increasing pressure to demonstrate its effectiveness in enhancing student success and employability. Traditional metrics used by researchers and policymakers--such as time to degree completion, postgraduate employment, and income--have predominantly overlooked the diversity of student pathways during and after…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Success, Employment Potential, Organizational Effectiveness
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Irene Guevara-Herrero; José Manuel Pérez-Martín; Beatriz Bravo-Torija – Environmental Education Research, 2025
Recent educational reforms demand a transformative Environmental Education (EE), so teachers should be able to design activities that promote students' critical thinking and informed problem-solving. Given that educators' perceptions can determine their way of teaching, this paper analyzes 249 Spanish teachers' responses to 10 questions in a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Environmental Education, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Qualifications
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Nikolaos Ath. Stamos – Journal of Visual Literacy, 2025
This study includes the educational utilization of Visual-culture digital-products, such as a documentary film, photographs, and historical texts. The research aim was for the students to develop visual literacy and enhance historical understanding through critical thinking by using products of visual-digital culture. Through the research…
Descriptors: Immigration, United States History, Visual Literacy, Time Perspective
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Kristin L. Fitzsimmons – Communication Teacher, 2025
This activity challenges students to establish media usage rules for a 30-day digital declutter, during which time they challenge themselves to disengage from distracting digital media. Students write self-assessments about their media habits and relationship to media before beginning the declutter and after they have finished the 30-day…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, Digital Literacy, Learning Activities, Mass Media Use
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Mohamed A. Mekheimer; A. I. Fageeh – Discover Education, 2025
This study investigated the impact of information density on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) listening comprehension, testing the hypothesis that listeners prioritize message understanding in information-rich discourse over grammar-focused analysis in rhetorical discourse. A quasi-experimental design was employed with 26 EFL college students,…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Nick Henry – Language Teaching Research, 2025
This study investigates the effects of Processing Instruction (PI) on the acquisition of grammatical gender and gender-marked pronouns in German. PI was compared to Traditional Instruction, i.e. a traditional, vocabulary-oriented approach using color cues (TI) and a Categorization and Memorization task (CM). The results of an immediate posttest…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, German
Edgar I. Sanchez – ACT, Inc., 2025
Developmental education courses have been designed to support underprepared students, as they attempt to bridge the gap in academic knowledge among students who enter postsecondary education underprepared for college-level coursework. The effectiveness of these programs, however, particularly in terms of promoting degree attainment, remains an…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Majors (Students), Nonmajors, Remedial Instruction
Ross J. Benbow; Xin Xie; You-Geon Lee – Wisconsin Center for Education Research, 2025
Student service members/veterans (SSM/Vs)--defined as undergraduates in the U.S. military or who have military experience--have been an emergent group of adult learners in American 4-year universities. Because SSM/Vs diversify universities and are supported by significant public investments, their success is critical. Little quantitative research,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Veterans, Student Characteristics, Student Diversity