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Andrea Fernández-Sánchez; Juan José Lorenzo-Castiñeiras; Ana Sánchez-Bello – European Journal of Education, 2025
The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies heralds a transformative era in education. This study investigates the integration of AI tools in developing educational assessment rubrics within the 'Curriculum Design Development and Evaluation' course at the University of A Coruña during the 2023-2024 academic year. Employing an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Artificial Intelligence, Technology Integration
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Stella Y. Kim; Florence Martin – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: The current study examined several aspects of validity evidence for the Faculty Readiness to Teaching Online (FRTO) scale. Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected from 307 faculty in higher education. Construct validity was evidenced through an exploratory factor analysis and a reliability coefficient. Differential validity was…
Descriptors: Test Validity, College Faculty, Readiness, Electronic Learning
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Seyed Ehsan Mousavian Rad; Ali Roohani; Azizullah Mirzaei – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Given the significance of boredom and its detrimental effects on the English as a foreign language (EFL) students' academic achievements, this study utilised an exploratory sequential mixed-methods design to initially explore the boredom factors in EFL classes among a sample of 139 university students and then develop and validate the Precursors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Psychological Patterns
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Kopacz, Dawn M.; Handlos, Zachary J. – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2021
General education science courses strive to promote scientific literacy and the development of scientific process skills. However, research shows that many general education courses are still designed to stress content mastery. In this study, the number of topics in five semester-long introductory atmospheric science courses was reduced to…
Descriptors: Science Curriculum, Curriculum Design, Science Process Skills, Scientific Literacy
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Kazemi, Sara; Ashraf, Hamid; Motallebzadeh, Khalil; Zeraatpishe, Mitra – Cogent Education, 2020
Curriculum development has always been dealt as one of the most important areas of language learning and teaching by educational institutions. Null curriculum has been viewed as one of the significant kinds of curriculum types which is important due to its absence, being left out or overlooked but should not be disregarded. For this reason, a…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Design, Questionnaires, 21st Century Skills
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Bowers, Janet; Smith, Wendy; Ren, Lixin; Hanna, Robert – Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 2019
The need to incorporate active learning (AL) in higher education has become a prominent issue discussed by major leadership organizations such as the Conference Board of Mathematical Sciences (CBMS, 2016). These calls for AL are based on a large and growing body of research documenting the correlation between AL use and reduced failure rates,…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Calculus, College Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction
Demiroz, Erdem – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This dissertation consisted of three different, but conceptually related manuscripts. The series of manuscripts examined psychosocial factors of learning including attitude towards mathematics, motivation to learn mathematics, and satisfaction from the mathematics instruction in both redesigned and traditionally- taught college algebra courses at…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Algebra, College Students, Student Attitudes
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Chan, Cecilia K. Y.; Wong, George C. K.; Law, Ada K. H.; Zhang, T.; Au, Francis T. K. – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2017
This study aimed to provide evidence-based conclusions from students concerning a capstone-design course in a civil engineering programme in Hong Kong. The evidence was generated by designing a student-experience questionnaire. The questionnaire instrument was assessed for internal consistency in four scales (curriculum and structure changes;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Civil Engineering, Student Experience, Questionnaires
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Supraja, S.; Hartman, Kevin; Tatinati, Sivanagaraja; Khong, Andy W. H. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2017
Expertise in a domain of knowledge is characterized by a greater fluency for solving problems within that domain and a greater facility for transferring the structure of that knowledge to other domains. Deliberate practice and the feedback that takes place during practice activities serve as gateways for developing domain expertise. However, there…
Descriptors: Test Items, Outcomes of Education, Feedback (Response), Models
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Evans, C.; Kandiko Howson, C.; Forsythe, A. – Higher Education Pedagogies, 2018
Internationally, the political appetite for educational measurement capable of capturing a metric of value for money and effectiveness has momentum. While most would agree with the need to assess costs relevant to quality to help support better governmental policy decisions about public spending, poorly understood measurement comes with unintended…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Achievement Gains, Political Issues, Quality Assurance
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers