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Yu Xia; Stephanie Cutler; Ibukun Osunbunmi; Sarah E. Zappe; Esther W. Gomez; Stephanie Velegol; Minkyung Lee – Advances in Engineering Education, 2024
Integrating humanities and arts into STEM has been suggested to better prepare students for the workforce. Studies have shown that improvisation (abbreviated as improv), an educational program from humanities and arts, can potentially improve engineering pedagogy and learning. However, little is known about improv's impact on developing…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Professional Development
Joshua N. Hook; Don E. Davis; Daryl R. Van Tongeren – APA Books, 2023
Chapters cover the essential character traits and skills that are necessary to become an effective researcher, walk through the main steps for completing a research project from start to finish, and discuss considerations when building a career and research program. Rather than the nitty-gritty of research methods, authors Joshua N. Hook, Don E.…
Descriptors: Researchers, Guides, College Faculty, Graduate Students
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Solop, Frederic I.; Anderson, Haley N.; Barsky, Christina; Schnurr, Emily; Witlacil, Mary – Journal of Political Science Education, 2022
Client-Focused Research (CFR) offers an approach to teaching research methods that brings classes into a professional environment by working directly with nonprofit or public sector clients. Students work with clients to define the scope of the research project, design the research methodology, create data collection instruments, gather and…
Descriptors: Political Science, Teaching Methods, Models, Educational Benefits
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Becker, Megan – Journal of Political Science Education, 2020
Undergraduate research experiences (UREs) have been identified as High-Impact Practices that increase understanding of complex concepts, foster independent inquiry, and improve educational outcomes, such as student retention and graduation rates. This article argues that in order to make the URE truly "high-impact," the laboratory model…
Descriptors: Student Research, Undergraduate Students, Mentors, Laboratories
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Gueorguieva, Petia; Ghosh, Sayantani; Martini, Ashlie; Lu, Jennifer – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2020
With support from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Merced Anomaterials Center for Energy and Sensing (MACES) was launched in the summer of 2015 at the University of California Merced (UC Merced). MACES is a research and education center, focused on creating innovative materials-enabled solutions for energy and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Fellowships, Aerospace Education
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Slaughter, Yvette; Choi, Julie; Nunan, David; Black, Hayley; Grimaud, Rebecca; Trinh, Hân – TESOL in Context, 2020
The diversity of learning needs within the TESOL field creates inherent tensions between the need for targeted professional learning for TESOL teachers, the more generalist nature of tertiary TESOL courses, and the varied research interests of teacher educators. This article describes a collaborative research project between university-based…
Descriptors: Affordances, Barriers, Classroom Research, English (Second Language)
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Pereira, Íris Susana Pires; Doecke, Brenton – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2016
This essay explores the role that storytelling can play in teachers' learning. Walter Benjamin's "The Storyteller" provides a theoretical framework that enables us to highlight the complexity of the professional learning of teachers when they share stories about their everyday lives. We develop our argument by presenting two instances of…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Research Projects
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Gynther, Karsten – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2016
The research project has developed a design framework for an adaptive MOOC that complements the MOOC format with blended learning. The design framework consists of a design model and a series of learning design principles which can be used to design in-service courses for teacher professional development. The framework has been evaluated by…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Blended Learning, Professional Development, Research Projects
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Bedi, Shailoo; Waldie, Christine – College & Research Libraries, 2017
Academic librarians have always played an important role in providing research services and research-skills development to faculty in higher education. But that role is evolving to include the academic librarian as a unique and necessary research partner, practitioner, and participant in collaborative, grant-funded research projects. This article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Libraries, Librarians, Library Role
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Bidyuk, Natalya – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2014
The problem of the professional development of young researchers in terms of Master's training has been analyzed. The analysis of the literature references, documental and other sources gave grounds to state that the basic principle of Master's professional training is a research-oriented paradigm. The necessity of using the innovative ideas of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Masters Programs, Student Research
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Brown, Christopher P.; Weber, Natalie Babiak – Action in Teacher Education, 2016
The public education system in the United States continues to struggle in educating children of diverse backgrounds. Many have addressed this issue by documenting how certain practices teach children particular types of knowledge and skills. This developmental focus on what should be happening to children of diverse backgrounds tends to ignore the…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Public Education, Professional Development, Qualitative Research
Luera, Gail; Murray, Kent – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2016
A mixed methods research approach was used to investigate the impact of a geosciences research institute upon 62 science teachers' knowledge, beliefs, and teaching practices related to teaching the geosciences. Pre- and postinstitute quantitative and qualitative assessments revealed mixed results. Results of a quantitative measure found a…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Instruction, Science Teachers, Earth Science
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van Schalkwyk, Susan; Cilliers, Francois; Adendorff, Hanelie; Cattell, Karin; Herman, Nicoline – International Journal for Academic Development, 2013
This article foregrounds the iterative journey of a group of educational development (ED) practitioners at a research-led university towards an enhanced understanding of the ED opportunities we offer. Reflecting on the intention of our interventions to facilitate academics' professional learning, we developed a framework within which the range of…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Professional Development, Intervention, Foreign Countries
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MacPhail, Ann; Patton, Kevin; Parker, Melissa; Tannehill, Deborah – Quest, 2014
There has been a limited interest in examining physical education teacher educators' role and practices in embedding professional responsibility and commitment to continued professional learning for both teacher educators and pre-service teachers in a physical education teacher education (PETE) program (MacPhail, 2011) Directed by a landscape…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Role Models, Teacher Educators, Professional Development
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Dumanis, Sonya B.; Ullrich, Lauren; Washington, Patricia M.; Forcelli, Patrick A. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2013
Grantsmanship is an integral component of surviving and thriving in academic science, especially in the current funding climate. Therefore, any additional opportunities to write, read, and review grants during graduate school may have lasting benefits on one's career. We present here our experience with a small, student-run grant program at…
Descriptors: Grantsmanship, Graduate Students, Medical Research, Student Research
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