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Justin C. Ortagus; Rodney Hughes; Hope Allchin – American Educational Research Journal, 2024
This study leverages national data and a quasi-experimental design to examine the influence of enrolling in an exclusively online degree program on students' likelihood of completing their degree. We find that enrolling in an exclusively online degree program had a negative influence on students' likelihood of completing their bachelor's degree or…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods
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Sobko, Sophia; Unadkat, Devanshi; Adams, Jessica; Hull, Glynda – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2020
This qualitative study explores networked collaborative learning in the context of an online undergraduate education course, analyzing the talk, thinking, and media that students jointly produced during a discussion hosted via video conference. Our work speaks to recent interest in online instruction, particularly in post-secondary institutions,…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Networks, Online Courses, Undergraduate Students
Alissa J. Mrazek; Michael D. Mrazek; Chelsea S. Brown; Sana S. Karimi; Rosie R. Ji; Joshua R. Ortega; Andrew Maul; Peter C. Carr; Alex M. Delegard; Arianna C. Kirk; Jonathan W. Schooler – Grantee Submission, 2022
Previous research points to digital attention training as a potential remedy for the growing levels of distraction and emotional distress that adolescents experience. However, no studies with a comparison group have been conducted in high school settings to assess the feasibility and efficacy of digital attention training. Using a two-group,…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Intervention, Comparative Analysis, Teaching Methods
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Son, Ji Y.; Blake, Adam B.; Fries, Laura; Stigler, James W. – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2021
Students learn many concepts in the introductory statistics course, but even our most successful students end up with rigid, ritualized knowledge that does not transfer easily to new situations. In this article we describe our attempt to apply theories and findings from learning science to the design of a statistics course that aims to help…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Introductory Courses, Teaching Methods, Data Analysis
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Williams, Janet M.; Pulido, Laurie – American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, 2022
During the COVID-19 pandemic, an adult noncredit program in the California Community College system partnered with Ease Learning to help convert face-to-face courses to an online modality. Subsequent data revealed a misalignment in the courses' Student Learning Outcomes and Instructional Objectives which became a barrier to student success. Wile's…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Teaching Methods, Online Courses, Outcomes of Education
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Ledford, Joel; Keen, Susan; Motika, Meryl; Hou, Xinyl – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2020
We evaluate the effectiveness of companion classes designed to support at-risk first-year students in introductory biology and chemistry within the University of California system. Companion classes (co-classes) are optional classes associated with large, gateway biology and chemistry courses (parent classes) and provide three hours of instruction…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Science Instruction, English Language Learners, Chemistry
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Ruth Jensen; Ann Elisabeth Gunnulfsen – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2024
This study investigates policy work in educational leadership courses at universities. It analyses the types of engagement present in university teachers' policy work and in their interpretations and translations of policy intentions into teaching designs and practices. The study illustrates policy work as a phenomenon and draws on the theory of…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Instructional Leadership, Courses, College Faculty
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Wu, Maryann; Brill, Dabrick A.; Shirodkar, Mrunmayee Prakash; Tan, Jianxuan; Poptani, Mukesh; Wang, Ying; Haworth, Ian S. – International Journal of Educational Management, 2022
Purpose: With a growing need to assess multiple aspects of healthcare education, the goal of this study was to develop an innovative web-based application to streamline assessment processes and meet the increasingly complex role of the educational manager. Design/methodology/approach: AARDVARC (Automated Approach to Reviewing and Developing…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Automation, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development
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Dennis J. Downey; J. Brooke Ernest – Teaching Sociology, 2024
We report on a cross-disciplinary collaboration between sociology and mathematics education to more effectively cultivate quantitative literacy (QL) in the introductory sociology course. Focusing on an instructional unit presenting the Gini coefficient (the most commonly used summary measure of income inequality), we engaged in iterative cycles of…
Descriptors: Numeracy, College Faculty, Undergraduate Students, Sociology
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Kevin M. Wong; Helen Chan Hill; Elizabeth Najera – CATESOL Journal, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has deeply impacted the field of education, shifting instruction from in-person classrooms to virtual learning environments on a global scale. To understand how language teachers engaged in online pedagogy during the pandemic, the current study examines how one expert English Language Development (ELD) teacher, Ms. Anya…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Sperling, Jenny – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2023
Adopting an ethnographic lens, readers are provided a look inside a California high school sexuality education classroom. On this chosen day, two invited guest speakers from an outside company are teaching students about pregnancy prevention, healthy relationships, and risks associated with having sex. Analysis of the guest speakers' pedagogical…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Sexuality, Student Attitudes, Ethnography
Kimberly Rainstar – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Student achievement in online courses is a concern for many higher education institutions, and instructors and course designers are looking for innovative ways to deliver content and improve achievement outcomes in online courses. The problem was the final course grades and pass rates of Pathophysiology 370 and Nursing 120 fell below the…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Teaching Methods, Higher Education, Online Courses
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Claudia H. Sánchez-Gutiérrez; Pablo Robles-García; Mercedes Pérez Serrano – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Studies on teachers' beliefs about vocabulary learning and teaching have focused, so far, on English as a second language (L2), or foreign language (FL), in different contexts but little attention has been given to other L2s and FLs. In this study, 15 Spanish L2 instructors at large universities were interviewed in order to better understand where…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Attitudes
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Tessa Withorn – Communications in Information Literacy, 2023
Although critical information literacy, critical pedagogy, and online library instruction are commonly discussed in the library and information science literature, they are rarely discussed together. This qualitative interview study with academic librarians conducted in 2022 identifies opportunities and challenges of teaching critical information…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Library Instruction, Critical Theory, Electronic Learning
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Franco, Josh – Journal of Political Science Education, 2020
How can we merge the science of politics and the practice of politics into a single course? In a 16-week, upper division course on state politics, I address the need to develop students' social scientific skills and practical skills through journal article analysis (JAA) teams and public policy project (PPP) teams. I use a within-subjects, pretest…
Descriptors: Political Science, Pretests Posttests, Social Sciences, Course Descriptions
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