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Loan, Nguyen Thi – Online Submission, 2022
English communication skills are now considered a passport-like requirement for students seeking a secure profession with a higher wage. Additionally, English proficiency is considered one of the variables affecting the success of foreign businesses investing in Vietnam and Vietnamese businesses looking to collaborate internationally to develop…
Descriptors: Nonmajors, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Wampfler, Rafael; Klingler, Severin; Solenthaler, Barbara; Schinazi, Victor R.; Gross, Markus – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The role of affective states in learning has recently attracted considerable attention in education research. The accurate prediction of affective states can help increase the learning gain by incorporating targeted interventions that are capable of adjusting to changes in the individual affective states of students. Until recently, most work on…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Prediction, Problem Solving, Mathematics
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Wampfler, Rafael; Emch, Andreas; Solenthaler, Barbara; Gross, Markus – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2020
Front camera data from tablets used in educational settings offer valuable clues to student behavior, attention, and affective state. Due to the camera's angle of view, the face of the student is partially occluded and skewed. This hinders the ability of experts to adequately capture the learning process and student states. In this paper, we…
Descriptors: Photography, Handheld Devices, Student Behavior, Affective Behavior
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Jelinski, Nicolas A.; Perrone, Sharon V.; Blair, Hava K.; Fabian, Morgan L. – Natural Sciences Education, 2020
Interacting with practitioners and understanding multiple, contradictory, and complex perspectives is an important skill for effectively managing terrestrial resources in the 21st century. Addressing these needs requires innovative approaches in higher education that elevate student learning outcomes and emphasize the affective learning domain…
Descriptors: Soil Science, Course Descriptions, Teaching Methods, Educational Innovation
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Khongput, Somruedee – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2020
This study aimed to investigate EFL students' metastrategies in learning English writing. The participants were 34 undergraduate non-English major students taking a paragraph writing course at a university in southern Thailand during the semester 2/2017. Text analysis method was employed. Students' self-reflection at the end of the course was…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Ward, Kim Y.; Larose, Chantal D. – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2019
Objectives: This study examines the effectiveness of interventions in first-year math courses in higher education. Our goal is to investigate the efficacy of a supplemental support requirement on the passing rates of students in their first-year math courses. Method: We gathered and analyzed data on 3,249 students using descriptive statistics and…
Descriptors: Intervention, Mathematics Instruction, Introductory Courses, Undergraduate Students
Chen, Yuxuan; Bosch, Nigel; D'Mello, Sidney – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2015
The current paper explores possible solutions to the problem of detecting affective states from facial expressions during text/diagram comprehension, a context devoid of interactive events that can be used to infer affect. These data present an interesting challenge for face-based affect detection because likely locations of affective facial…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Nonverbal Communication, Video Technology, Comprehension
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Shchipanova, Dina Ye.; Lebedeva, Ekaterina V.; Sukhinin, Valentin P.; Valieva, Elizaveta N. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The importance of the studied issue is conditioned by the fact that high dynamic of processes in the labour market requires constant work of an individual on self-determination and search for significance of his/her professional activity. The purpose of research is theoretical development and empirical verification of the types of strategies of…
Descriptors: Classification, Self Determination, Personality Traits, Semantics
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Benac, Dustin D. – Christian Higher Education, 2015
The increasingly pronounced distinction between educational institutions that retain their ecclesial identity and those that jettison religious commitments reflects a bifurcated educational landscape in which institutions are characterized either as a "church-related" or a "Christian college and university." This development…
Descriptors: Christianity, Church Related Colleges, Protestants, Religious Education
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Simm, David; Marvell, Alan – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2015
This paper reveals the extent to which undergraduate students demonstrate transformative learning whilst on international fieldwork in Barcelona, Spain. Groups of students create a series of discrete active learning situations that allow them and their peers to engage more fully with their locale and in turn experience a deeper understanding of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Transformative Learning, Field Experience Programs
Wang, Yutao; Heffernan, Neil T.; Heffernan, Cristina – Grantee Submission, 2015
The well-studied Baker et al., affect detectors on boredom, frustration, confusion and engagement concentration with ASSISTments dataset were used to predict state tests scores, college enrollment, and even whether a student majored in a STEM field. In this paper, we present three attempts to improve upon current affect detectors. The first…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Affective Behavior, Psychological Patterns, Predictor Variables
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Goh, Tiong T.; Sun, Pei-Chen – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2015
Unstructured data in social media is as part of the "big data" spectrum. Unstructured data in Social media can provide useful insights into social phenomena and citizen opinions, both of which are critical to government policy and businesses decisions. Teachers of business intelligence and analytics commonly use quantitative data from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Media, Data Analysis, Natural Disasters
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Goodboy, Alan K.; Myers, Scott A. – Communication Education, 2015
Three studies (N = 1119) were conducted to replicate and expand upon Kearney, Plax, Hays, and Ivey's seminal research on instructor misbehaviors. In study 1 (n = 233), a replication of Kearney et al.'s study revealed 43 categories of perceived instructor misbehaviors; 27 of the misbehaviors were originally identified by Kearney et al. and 16 new…
Descriptors: Teacher Behavior, Replication (Evaluation), Behavior Problems, Factor Analysis
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Sottilare, Robert A.; Proctor, Michael – Educational Technology & Society, 2012
It has been long recognized that successful human tutors are capable of adapting instruction to mitigate barriers (e.g., withdrawal or frustration) to learning during the one-to-one tutoring process. A significant part of the success of human tutors is based on their perception of student affect (e.g., mood or emotions). To at least match the…
Descriptors: Tutors, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Tutoring, Psychological Patterns
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Buissink-Smith, Nell; Mann, Samuel; Shephard, Kerry – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2011
Educational outcomes related to sustainability often include affective attributes such as values, attitudes and behaviours. Educators in higher education who attempt to research, monitor, assess or evaluate learning of affective attributes can face a bewildering array of methodologies and approaches and a research literature that spans several…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Objectives, Outcomes of Education, Sustainable Development
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