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Md. Yunus Naseri; Caitlin Snyder; Katherine X. Perez-Rivera; Sambridhi Bhandari; Habtamu Alemu Workneh; Niroj Aryal; Gautam Biswas; Erin C. Henrick; Erin R. Hotchkiss; Manoj K. Jha; Steven Jiang; Emily C. Kern; Vinod K. Lohani; Landon T. Marston; Christopher P. Vanags; Kang Xia – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2025
Contribution: This article discusses a research-practice partnership (RPP) where instructors from six undergraduate courses in three universities developed data science modules tailored to the needs of their respective disciplines, academic levels, and pedagogies. Background: STEM disciplines at universities are incorporating data science topics…
Descriptors: Data Science, Courses, Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship
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Niamh J. O'Leary – CEA Forum, 2023
The benefits of performance-based classroom approaches to teaching Shakespeare have been well-documented in pedagogical scholarship. This paper is an effort to push beyond the performance-based classroom and begin to incorporate ideas from the field of performance studies into a new pedagogical approach that capitalizes on my institution's…
Descriptors: English Literature, Classics (Literature), Dramatic Play, Teaching Methods
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Sewagegn, Abatihun A.; Diale, Boitumelo M. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2021
The purpose of the study was to investigate the practices and challenges of modular/block teaching in higher education institutions of Ethiopia. A descriptive survey design was used with instructors and students. Questionnaires and semi-structured interviews were used to gather data and analysed quantitatively (descriptive and inferential…
Descriptors: Learning Modules, Block Scheduling, Public Colleges, College Students
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Ong, Tricia; Djajadikerta, Hadrian Geri – Journal of Education for Business, 2019
Today, accounting graduates are expected to possess critical analysis attributes beyond good accounting discipline knowledge. The close-knit relationships among accounting theory, accounting research and accounting practice have also implied that the teaching of accounting theory needs to include the teaching of business research to produce…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Research Skills, Business Skills, Accounting
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Elby, Andrew; Yerdelen-Damar, Sevda – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Curriculum Development: Theory into Design.] In the "standard" physics education research curriculum-development model, researchers are cast primarily as producers of curricula and instructors are cast primarily consumers, i.e., adopters and adapters. We illustrate a complementary model in…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Teachers, Science Curriculum, Educational Researchers
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Sieminski, Sandy; Messenger, Julie; Murphy, Sam – Open Learning, 2016
This case study considers students who achieved "borderline" (40-45%) grades in their first assignment on a module, but went on to markedly improve their grades over the course of the module. The students were studying nursing and social work at the UK Open University, and they were all sponsored by employers. Semi-structured telephone…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Improvement, Student Motivation
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Mucinskas, Daniel; Gardner, Howard – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2013
Launched in 1995, the GoodWork Project is a long-term, multi-site effort to understand the nature of good work across the professional landscape and to promote its achievement by relevant groups of students and professionals. In this essay, the authors review the goals and methods of the initial research project and its most salient findings. They…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Curriculum, Vignettes, High School Students
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Drechsel, Barbara; Breunig, Katharina; Thurn, Daniela; Basten, Johanna – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2014
The report portrays a theory-practice psychology course on reading education in a German teacher education programme. Having completed a theoretical course phase that is largely based on knowledge from cognitive and educational psychology, pre-service student-teachers applied their acquired knowledge by working with a fifth-grader in five…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Instruction, Teacher Education Programs, Higher Education
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Boschen, John F.; Smith, Kimberly J. – American Journal of Business Education, 2012
Business students may dream of receiving pay packages like that of Michael Eisner at Disney. However, many of them will work for the compensation consultant who determines the economics of the pay arrangements, for the valuation consultant who values the different components of the pay arrangements, for the accountant who must audit the financial…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Learning Modules, Accounting, Masters Degrees
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Hindman, Annemarie H.; Snell, Emily K.; Wasik, Barbara A.; Lewis, Kandia N.; Hammer, Carol Scheffner; Iannone-Campbell, Charlene – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2015
This article describes how a research-practice partnership has informed the iterative development of a web-mediated early childhood language and literacy professional development (PD) intervention. Funded through the Investing in Innovation (i3) program, this new PD model is based on an effective in-situ intervention. As we translated the…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Partnerships in Education, Faculty Development, Theory Practice Relationship
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Chu, Sauman; Ramirez, German Mauricio Mejia – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2012
One of the biggest problems for students majoring in pre-graphic design is students' inability to apply their knowledge to different design solutions. The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of interactive learning modules in facilitating knowledge acquisition during the learning process and to create interactive learning modules…
Descriptors: Learning Modules, Problem Solving, Interaction, Theory Practice Relationship
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Jones, Robyn; Morgan, Kevin; Harris, Kerry – Sport, Education and Society, 2012
Despite evidence that experience within practical coaching contexts serves as the principal knowledge source for coaches, academic (and professional) coach education programmes continue to be heavily taught along didactic lines. Such courses are often considered as fine in theory but divorced from the gritty realities of practice. The aim of this…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Evidence, Communities of Practice, Action Research
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Little, Mary; King, Laura – Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 2007
Although research identifies a plethora of evidence-based instructional practices, classroom teachers find research difficult to access, often not implemented due to perceived lack of relevance to classroom practice. Bridging this gap between research and practice requires continued and mediated support as teachers translate and contextualize…
Descriptors: Action Research, Learning Modules, Theory Practice Relationship, Evidence Based Practice