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Cline, Kelly; Huckaby, David A. – PRIMUS, 2021
We recorded the percentage of students voting on each option on every clicker question used in 19 introductory statistics classes. To identify the questions that provide the most useful feedback, we looked for those for which the percentage of students voting correctly varied the most from class to class, producing the largest standard deviations.…
Descriptors: Audience Response Systems, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Statistics
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Padgaonkar, Suyog; Schafer, Emily A. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2021
Many science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) outreach programs focus on children, but relatively few efforts are dedicated to voting-age populations. These groups are important to reach because misinformation about science is widespread and difficult to detect, often interfering with informed voting on science-related issues. Science…
Descriptors: Older Adults, STEM Education, Outreach Programs, Science Activities
Annjanette M. Weaver – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Alternative Breaks are service trips that occur at colleges and universities all around the United States, but little is known of their long-term impact on the participants. This study explored how alumni of Alternative Break programs were civically engaged in their communities post-graduation. The survey instrument, modeled on the Life After…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Alumni, Alumni Associations, Service Learning
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Barnett, Leda – Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 2018
Ample research has noted a positive sense of political efficacy associated with increased civic engagement. In turn, the role of service-learning in boosting students' civic engagement has been well documented. As civic engagement is a desirable goal for strengthening communities and empowering citizens, the role of service-learning in directly…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Teaching Methods, Citizenship Education, Citizen Participation
EdChoice, 2021
This annual publication is designed to be a one-stop shop for all the existing research on private school choice in the United States. This year's edition is updated with the research published since the last edition. Since the first modern-day voucher program launched in Milwaukee in 1990, researchers have studied private school choice programs.…
Descriptors: School Choice, Private Schools, Educational Vouchers, Educational Change
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Masikunas, George; Panayiotidis, Andreas; Burke, Linda – ALT-J: Research in Learning Technology, 2007
This article presents a case study of the impact on student learning of introducing an electronic voting system (EVS) into large-group lectures for first-year undergraduate students undertaking degrees in marketing and business systems. We discuss the potential for using EVS-style interactive lectures in marketing and business programmes. We then…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Voting