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Anael Kuperwajs Cohen; Alannah Oleson; Amy J. Ko – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2024
Collaboration is an important aspect of computing. In a classroom setting, working with others can increase a student's motivation to attempt more challenges, reduce the difficulty of complicated concepts, and bring about greater overall success. Despite extensive research in other domains, there has been minimal exploration within computing on…
Descriptors: College Students, Help Seeking, Student Behavior, Programming
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Rabin, Jeffrey M.; Burgasser, Adam; Bussey, Thomas J.; Eggers, John; Lo, Stanley M.; Seethaler, Sherry; Stevens, Laura; Weizman, Haim – International Journal of STEM Education, 2021
Rate of change concepts from calculus are presented and applied rather differently in college mathematics, physics, biology, and chemistry classes. This is not simply a matter of pedagogical style but reflects real cultural differences between these disciplines. We describe the efforts of our interdisciplinary collaboration to understand and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, College Mathematics, College Science
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Leak, Anne E.; Sciaky, Elizabeth; Lenaburg, Lubella; Bianchini, Julie A.; Scott, Susannah – Journal of Chemical Education, 2018
This study explores how graduate students learn to participate in collaborative international science research. As part of an NSF-funded program, 21 graduate students participated in extended research visits to China, completing surveys before and after traveling, and participating in semistructured interviews upon returning to the U.S. These…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Scientific Research, International Programs, Student Surveys
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Kurtyka, Faith M. – Composition Studies, 2017
This article examines the rhetoric of the conversion narratives told by a group of women joining a new social sorority on campus. I argue that these sorority conversion narratives are of interest to composition scholars because they document the emotional work involved in entering a community in one's first year of college. My close analysis of…
Descriptors: Females, Sororities, Interpersonal Communication, College Freshmen
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De Coninck, Karen; Valcke, Martin; Vanderlinde, Ruben – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2018
This study reports on the design of a video-based instrument to assess student teachers' parent-teacher communication competences (PTCC) in a reliable and valid way. PTCC refer to the competences needed to communicate successfully with parents during conversations such as parent-teacher conferences. Taking into account both conceptual and…
Descriptors: Parent Teacher Cooperation, Interpersonal Communication, Communication Skills, Video Technology
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Knutsen, Dominique; Le Bigot, Ludovic – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
As speakers interact, they add references to their common ground, which they can then reuse to facilitate listener comprehension. However, all references are not equally likely to be reused. The purpose of this study was to shed light on how the speakers' conceptualizations of the referents under discussion affect reuse (along with a generation…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Interpersonal Communication, Memory, Perspective Taking
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Mathrick, Rachel; Meagher, Tina; Norbury, Courtenay Frazier – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2017
Background & Aims: We evaluated a structured intervention programme aimed at preparing adolescents with developmental language disorders for job interviews. Our primary outcome measures included change in ratings of verbal and non-verbal social communication behaviours evident during mock interviews. Methods & Procedures: In study 1, 12…
Descriptors: Intervention, Language Impairments, Employment Interviews, Late Adolescents
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Walker, Ruth V.; Zelin, Alexandra I.; Behrman, Carolyn; Strnad, Rachel – NACADA Journal, 2017
University-based academic advising at a large, Great Lakes state institution was designed to support first-year students' transition to college. We conducted individual interviews and facilitated story circles with 162 students to determine their perceived effectiveness of advising. Analyses revealed four overarching themes: student difficulty…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Attitudes, Academic Advising, Faculty Advisers
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Acuña, Santiago Roger; López-Aymes, Gabriela; Acuña-Castillo, Silvia T. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2018
In this paper we analyze the effects of the type of collaborative task (elaboration of concept map vs elaboration of expository summary) on the performance and on the level of collaboration achieved by Mexican university students in the multimedia learning of a social sciences content (Communication Psychology). Likewise, the processes of social…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Performance, College Students, Social Sciences
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Frazier, Brandy N.; Gelman, Susan A.; Wellman, Henry M. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2016
Research with preschool children has shown that explanations are important to them in that they actively seek explanations in their conversations with adults. But what sorts of explanations do they prefer, and what, if anything, do young children learn from the explanations they receive? Following a preliminary study with adults (N = 67) to…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Epistemology, Concept Formation, Knowledge Level
Plotts, Courtney Suzanne – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Online learning has increased access to higher education for underrepresented ethnic groups. These groups include African American and Latino/a students. Affirmation of ethnicity and culture contribute to positive academic outcomes for African American and Latino/a students. Yet, African American and Latino/a perspectives regarding online social…
Descriptors: African American Students, Hispanic American Students, Online Courses, Student Attitudes
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Vrchota, Denise Ann – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2016
This qualitative study reports the concerns of faculty in one food science department as they integrate communication competencies into their classes. The results of the study prioritized self-reports from faculty regarding the challenges they experienced while integrating communication activities into their classes; the nature of the concerns and…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, College Faculty, Communicative Competence (Languages), Interpersonal Communication
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Roseano, Paolo; González, Montserrat; Borràs-Comes, Joan; Prieto, Pilar – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2016
This study investigates how epistemic stance is encoded and perceived in face-to-face communication when language is regarded as comprised by speech and gesture. Two studies were conducted with this goal in mind. The first study consisted of a production task in which participants performed opinion reports. Results showed that speakers communicate…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Speech Communication, Nonverbal Communication, Verbal Communication
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Zhu, Weihua – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2017
Little research has focused on extended concurrent speech, unexpected floor taking, or topic switching, since it has been deemed rare (Schegloff 2000. "Overlapping talk and the organization of turn-taking for conversation." "Language in Society" 29(1). 1-63.) or inappropriate (Goldberg 1990." Interrupting the discourse on…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Usage, Communities of Practice, Interviews
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Swart, Fenna; de Graaff, Rick; Onstenk, Jeroen; Knèzic, Dubravka – Professional Development in Education, 2018
Sociocultural and dialogic theories of education have identified the need to integrate both pedagogical content and language knowledge into teachers' professional development to promote effective interaction with students about subject content. In this intervention study, a meta-perspective on language was developed to understand how experienced…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Educators, Teacher Attitudes, Experienced Teachers
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