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Matabane, Mogalatjane Edward; Machaba, France Masilo – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2023
This qualitative case study analyzed how first year university mathematics students used words, images, and symbols to convey the same mathematical ideas. The study was located within the interpretivist paradigm and took naturalistic methodology. Twenty-six first year students were purposefully selected to participate in the study. Data was…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Language Usage, Symbols (Mathematics), Mathematics Education
Leighton, Jaylyn; Kurta, Taylor; Dupuis, Sherry L. – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2023
This paper explores an inter-learning teaching method designed and utilized by the authors in the Winter 2021 term for first- and upper-year therapeutic recreation (TR) students in an online platform. This collaborative teaching method sought to make intentional space for upper-year students to take the lead on and facilitate seminars for…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Cooperative Learning, Therapeutic Recreation, College Freshmen
Swanson, Nathan W. – Honors in Practice, 2022
A series of courses on the Evolution of Ideas introduces interdisciplinary study, develops collaborative discourse, and promotes a sense of community among first-year honors students. The curriculum encourages faculty to use a range of strategies to help students understand an idea and its history while also fostering awareness as to its social,…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Interdisciplinary Approach, Cooperative Learning, Cartography
Holden, T.; Burazin, A. – PRIMUS, 2023
Homework completion and self-regulatory ability have both been extensively studied to examine their impact on learning achievement. Moreover, the reciprocal nature of how these two qualities affect one another is also an area of research. While evidence shows that voluntary completion of assigned homework predicts self-regulation in students, a…
Descriptors: Assignments, Academic Achievement, College Mathematics, College Freshmen
Lim, Kieran Fergus – Physics Education, 2022
Undergraduate first-year courses are often mandatory for students in a variety of majors and degrees. Many students view these core courses as of little interest and relevance, which is associated with lack of motivation for study and can lead to cheating. Contract cheating in text-based is difficult to detect and prove. Contract cheating in…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Contracts, Cheating, Assignments
Dinçer, Pinar; Yavuz, Handan – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Owing to the fact that all educational activities have been moved to an online setting due to restrictions to control the spread of the Corona Virus, the realm of education has been subject to unprecedented changes. Therefore, this research aims to investigate the perspectives of freshman English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students and their…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Adele J. Doyle – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study explores how the construct of interest may influence first-year community college students' willingness to engage with academic text assignments. Research on interest theory as presented by Renninger (2009) suggests that students, even those with low self-efficacy or regulation, are more likely to make gains in engagement and/or…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Community College Students, Student Attitudes, Reading Materials
Durandt, Rina; Herbst, Sheldon; Seloane, Majane – Perspectives in Education, 2022
This article reports on the empirical results and practical aspects concerning the teaching and learning of first-year engineering mathematics at a distance. The investigation over two consecutive years (2020 and 2021) is meant to yield prospects and contribute to the development of suitable pedagogies for online mathematics teaching and learning…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Engineering Education, Mathematics Education, Distance Education
Beltran-Sellitti, Elaine; Shayan, Tahmina – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2022
Public art is placed in relation to its surroundings, conveying messages that are open to interpretation and thus proposing conversations between art/aesthetics, geography, histories and the subjectivity of the viewer. As such, it can engender possibilities to 'politicize our relations with place'. Embracing the vision of a multidisciplinary…
Descriptors: Art, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, College Freshmen
Mona Asbjørnslett; Helen Bull; Gry Mørk; Tore Bonsaksen – Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, 2022
When students enter a bachelor program in occupational therapy, they engage in a variety of learning activities. To explore students' perceptions of learning activities, this qualitative study investigated the experiences of six first year students participating in an occupational therapy study program at a Norwegian university. The students took…
Descriptors: Occupational Therapy, Allied Health Occupations Education, Learner Engagement, Learning Activities
Minor, Jesse; McCourt, Matt – Geography Teacher, 2021
Field trips, field courses, and other forms of field-based pedagogy have a long and storied history in geography and are frequently described as essential components of geographic education at the college, secondary, and primary levels. A recent and expanding literature on best practices for field-based geographical education provides instructors…
Descriptors: Role, Assignments, Learner Engagement, Geography Instruction
Bettin, Briana; Jarvie-Eggart, Michelle; Steelman, Kelly S.; Wallace, Charles – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2022
In the wake of the so-called fourth industrial revolution, computer programming has become a foundational competency across engineering disciplines. Yet engineering students often resist the notion that computer programming is a skill relevant to their future profession. Here are presented two activities aimed at supporting the early development…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Engineering Education, Programming, Coding
Bidwell, Deborah; Smirnoff, Dimitri – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2022
University students crave immersive, collaborative, interdisciplinary, applied learning contextualized to real world sustainability challenges. Liberal arts and sciences institutions are particularly well positioned to respond. Here we report on our high impact, cross-disciplinary, biomimicry-themed firstyear experience (FYE) curricula. Biomimicry…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, First Year Seminars, Liberal Arts, Interdisciplinary Approach
Werth, Eric; Williams, Katherine – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2021
Open pedagogy is growing in popularity as an instructional method to decentralize classroom power dynamics, engage students, and provide greater meaning to student work. To investigate the impact of open pedagogy on motivation, interviews were conducted with first-year college students at a four-year liberal arts college after completing a…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Open Educational Resources, Open Education, Personal Autonomy
Karama, Muneer Jebreel – Online Submission, 2021
The aim of this research was to study and investigate first year university calculus students' misconceptions about how to use the definition of limit to find the first derivative of functions and then remediate these misconceptions by using APOS theory (Action, Process, Object, and Schema). Students (n = 82 female and male) were selected based on…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Mathematics, Calculus, Student Attitudes