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Alyssa S. Freeman; Tina B. Carter; Angela N. Google; Zhigang Jia; Anna S. Grinath – Science Education, 2025
Given the potential impact of introductory science laboratories on postsecondary students' science learning, careful thinking is needed about how to support teaching assistants (TAs) to create opportunities for their students to reason about science. Research suggests that teachers are best positioned to improve their teaching practices when they…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Science Education, Science Instruction, Teaching Assistants
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Claudia H. Sánchez-Gutiérrez; Pablo Robles-García; Mercedes Pérez Serrano – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Studies on teachers' beliefs about vocabulary learning and teaching have focused, so far, on English as a second language (L2), or foreign language (FL), in different contexts but little attention has been given to other L2s and FLs. In this study, 15 Spanish L2 instructors at large universities were interviewed in order to better understand where…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Attitudes
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Li-Na Ma; Rui Peng; Jing-Ji Xu; Qing-Ling Yang; A-Ceng Li; Ye Han; Lei Yuan; Fan Shen; Dan-Qing Yin; Min-Wen Zheng; Ya-Yu Huang; Jing Ren – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2025
The traditional approach of using PowerPoint (PPT) presentations in medical imaging theory classes hinders the spatial thinking ability of most students. Consequently, the learning outcomes are often unsatisfactory. This article proposes a naked eye three-dimensional (3D) medical imaging teaching assistant app based on augmented reality (AR)…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Theories, Courses, Medical Services
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Kayla Vieno-Corbett; Andrew M. Deweyert – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2025
Drawing is a teaching tool that provides numerous benefits to student learning, including enhanced knowledge retention, improved observation skills, and increased engagement with course content. However, these exercises also place high cognitive demands on students and require a considerable time commitment. To acknowledge and celebrate the effort…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Undergraduate Students, Courses, Teaching Methods
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Cornelis J. C. Vertegaal; Cecilia Martinez; Ramiro Serra; Prem Sundaramoorthy; Mark J. Bentum – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2025
Contribution: This study identifies the types of interaction that contribute to student learning with student-led tutorials (SLTs). The quality of these interactions include peer discussion, student tutor presentation, joint reasoning, and constructive feedback. Background: The introduction of SLTs in an advanced electromagnetics bachelor course…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Physics, Science Curriculum, Science Instruction
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Heesun Chang; Amin Raeisi-Vanani – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
The purpose of this study is to analyze the grammatical complexity features of international teaching assistants' (ITAs) mock-teaching presentations and to compare the distributions of these features to those found in the Oral English Proficiency Test (a local ITA assessment), university classroom teaching, conversation, and academic writing. The…
Descriptors: Grammar, Teaching Assistants, Oral Language, Language Proficiency