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Anton Hesse; Scott Sheffield; Murray Jensen – HAPS Educator, 2025
This study revises and enhances a guided inquiry activity designed to introduce undergraduate and high school students to the physiological concepts of exercise fatigue during a 400-meter dash. This activity has been employed since 2016 in entry-level human physiology courses at the University of Minnesota and across 30 high schools. Using…
Descriptors: Athletics, Metabolism, High School Students, State Universities
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Janet Spitzig; Blake J. Renner – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2025
This study aimed to examine the relationship between student engagement and student retention of adult learners at community colleges. The relationship between student retention and the five Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) student engagement benchmarks (active and collaborative learning, student effort, academic challenge,…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, School Holding Power, Community Colleges, Community College Students
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Iraya Yánez-Pérez; Radu Bogdan Toma; Jesús Ángel Meneses-Villagrá – School Science and Mathematics, 2025
Teachers often struggle to implement inquiry-based science teaching. To support them, IndagApp--a 3D educational app that offers curriculum-aligned, inquiry-based lesson plans--was designed. The app is rooted in the inquiry phases recommended in best-practices literature, which arguably align with most international standards. This study describes…
Descriptors: Usability, Computer Software, Private Schools, Public Schools
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Moreno, Andreu; Bartolomé, Elena – Education Sciences, 2021
Many active, inquiry-based learning activities nowadays rely upon the students' capacity to perform efficient information research on the Internet. Study and Research Paths (SRPs) have been proposed to model inquiry learning, and successfully used as teaching formats in different areas. In an SRP the search for an answer to a generating question…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Inquiry, Active Learning, Engineering Education
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Ghazzawi, Dina; McKinney, Lyle; Horn, Catherine; Burridge, Andrea Backsheider; Carales, Vincent – Journal of International Students, 2021
International students in the United States have been increasingly attracted to community colleges as a starting point to higher education. Recently, their enrollment has been dropping. Research highlights the importance of student engagement to international students. However, few studies investigate their engagement experiences in community…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Learner Engagement, Student Surveys, Two Year College Students