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Cuesta Gómez, José Luis; Anuncibay, Raquel de la Fuente; González Bernal, Jerónimo; García Coto, Miguel Angel – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2019
Objective: The evaluation of individual and organizational quality of life through the Guide to Quality-of-Life Indicators and its promotion in English-speaking areas. This guide was initially designed for people living with Autism Spectrum Disorder in specialist autism centers in Spanish and Italian-speaking areas where its effectiveness has been…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Questionnaires
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Bergsmann, Evelyn; Klug, Julia; Burger, Christoph; Först, Nora; Spiel, Christiane – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2018
There is a lively discussion on how to evaluate competence-based higher education in both evaluation and competence research. The instruments used are often limited to course evaluation or specific competences, taking a rather narrow perspective. Furthermore, the instruments often comprise predetermined competences that cannot be adapted to higher…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Minimum Competency Testing, Screening Tests, Higher Education
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Helms, Marilyn M.; Rutti, Raina M.; Hervani, Aref Agahei; LaBonte, Joanne; Sarkarat, Sy – Journal of Education for Business, 2015
As online learning proliferates, professors must adapt traditional projects for an asynchronous environment. Service learning is an effective teaching style fostering interactive learning through integration of classroom activities into communities. While prior studies have documented the appropriateness of service learning in online courses,…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Service Learning, Student Projects, Program Implementation
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Showalter, Daniel A.; Wollett, Chelsie; Reynolds, Sharon – Journal of Research and Practice for Adult Literacy, Secondary, and Basic Education, 2014
This paper reports on the implementation of a high level contextualized mathematics curriculum by 12 adult basic instructors in a midwestern state. The 10-week pilot curriculum embedded high level mathematics in contexts that were familiar to adult learners. Instructors' weekly online posts were coded, and the following themes emerged: (a)…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Mathematics Curriculum, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Moreno-Ger, Pablo; Burgos, Daniel; Torrente, Javier – Simulation & Gaming, 2009
The notion of using games in education is as old as games themselves. In addition, the massive market opened by the digital games industry has caused great interest regarding their specific potential in education. However, this interest is sometimes thwarted by the resistance of traditional educational settings toward technology-enhanced learning…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Electronic Learning, Video Games, Educational Technology
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Lippert, Robert – International Journal of Instructional Media, 2006
This article deals with an on-line soils module project. The two goals for this part of the project were to determine if an on-line soils module could be successfully used for asynchronous instruction of two diverse populations and to determine which demographic factors are related to test performance. The module was presented to an eighth-grade…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Soil Science, Population Groups, Learning Modules