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Margaret Byrns – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Research has indicated that undergraduate students struggle with conceptual understanding of confidence intervals, negatively impacting statistical literacy skills, and advocates have suggested the flipped classroom pedagogy as a potential solution. The purpose of this nonequivalent control group quasi-experimental study was to determine if a…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, Statistics Education, Teaching Methods, Introductory Courses
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Jennifer Redmann – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2024
Genre, defined as a "staged goal-oriented social process" (Martin, 2009), has long stood as a key principle in second-language writing instruction. This article presents the principles underpinning genre theory as it relates to the language curriculum and the five phases of genre-based L2 writing pedagogy. This pedagogy provides the…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Technology Uses in Education, German
Tres Loch – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this qualitative comparative case study is to explore the similarities and differences of the lived experiences and satisfaction of undergraduate business management majors attending a small, private, liberal arts institution and those attending a large, public, research university. Through the utilization of document analysis and…
Descriptors: Student Satisfaction, Business Administration Education, Majors (Students), Small Colleges
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Davis, Eric J.; Breno, Kerry L.; Ojennus, Deanna Dahlke; Russell, Trisha A.; Stevens, Karen E.; Wheeler, Kraig – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the mass shutdown of universities across the United States in the spring of 2020. As the pandemic progressed, regional regulations resulted in a broad range of teaching modalities for the 2020-2021 academic year. While some regions remained tightly locked down (resulting in online-only instruction), others allowed…
Descriptors: Laboratory Experiments, Science Instruction, COVID-19, Pandemics
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O'Keefe, Paul A.; Horberg, E. J.; Dweck, Carol S.; Walton, Gregory M. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
College students are often urged to "find their passion," but if students believe that passions or interests are fixed, they may not develop interest in fields beyond the academic identity with which they enter college. Can a brief intervention that portrays interests as developable, not fixed, boost interest, and even grades, in…
Descriptors: Liberal Arts, Student Interests, Undergraduate Students, Career Choice
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Barth, Eric; Higginbottom, Ryan S. – PRIMUS, 2021
Gateway testing is an important pedagogic tool employed by many university mathematics departments in calculus and precalculus courses. With a goal of ensuring that students attain needed basic skills in courses with a conceptual "reform" orientation, these tests provide an efficient means of assessing a large volume of student work,…
Descriptors: Calculus, Mathematics Instruction, Educational Practices, Mathematics Tests