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Anita Blakstad Bjørnerås; Aud Elisabeth Witsø; Lisbeth Kvam; Arne Henning Eide; Lisbeth Jahren; Sissel Horghagen – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2024
Succeeding at university can be a complex matter, and the barriers are manifold for students with disabilities (SwDs). Accommodations are available for those with needs, but these alone do not meet the political goals of inclusive educations. Student ambassadors act as experienced representatives on campuses, supporting others and gaining…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Barriers, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Inclusion
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Janzen, Troy; Cormier, Damien C.; Hetherington, Jay; Mrazik, Martin; Mousavi, Amin – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2015
The psychometric properties of the Student Motivation and Learning Strategies Inventory (SMALSI) were examined using a sample of 404 Grade 6 students from an urban Canadian school system. Students completed the SMALSI and school factors included final school grades, attendance records, and language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Psychometrics, Factor Analysis, Grade 6
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Brady, Magen; Wong, Rachel; Newton, Genevieve – Education Sciences, 2013
The use of lecture capture in higher education is becoming increasingly widespread, with many instructors now providing digital videos of lecture content that can be used by students as learning resources in a variety of ways, including to catch up on material after a class absence. Despite accumulating research regarding the relationship between…
Descriptors: Attendance, Video Technology, Lecture Method, College Students
Shahzad, Farhat – Canadian Journal of Education, 2011
Students' memories and learning strategies are situated in their social relationships, political orientations, cultural meanings, worldviews, and historical experiences. This study uses qualitative research methods to investigate how Canadian students remember and learn about the War on Terror. It deals with the narratives of ninety-nine students…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Qualitative Research, Urban Universities, Research Methodology
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Stibbards, Adam; Puk, Tom – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2011
The present study aimed to describe and evaluate a transformative, embodied, emergent learning approach to acquiring ecological literacy through higher education. A class of teacher candidates in a bachelor of education program filled out a survey, which had them rate their level of agreement with 15 items related to ecological macro-models.…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Self Efficacy, Ecology
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Duchesne, Stephane; Ratelle, Catherine – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
Recent literature on the determinants of academic motivation has shown that parenting and emotions are central elements in understanding students' achievement goals. The authors of this study set out to examine the predictive relationship between parental behaviors during the last year of elementary school and adolescents' achievement goals at the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Elementary School Students, Emotional Problems, Structural Equation Models
Servage, Laura – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2008
Professional learning communities (PLCs) have been held up as powerful structures for teachers' continuing professional development. In this work, the author has applied transformative learning theory to highlight the psychic risks of collaborative teacher learning, as well as the need for practical efforts to improve student learning--the means…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Critical Theory, Interpersonal Communication, Transformative Learning
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Liljedahl, Peter, Ed.; Nicol, Cynthia, Ed.; Oesterie, Susan, Ed.; Allan, Darien, Ed. – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2014
The theme of the 38th meeting of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME 38) and the 36th meeting of the North American Chapter of the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME-NA 36) was "Mathematics Education at the Edge." Academically, the theme provides opportunities to highlight and examine…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education, Educational Psychology, Educational Research
Namukasa, Immaculate; Simmt, Elaine – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the activities of collective learning structures. Drawing from ecological-complexity theory it elaborates on a theoretical framework for observing and acting upon collective learning. To interpret the relation between individual action, social interaction and the collective cognitive domain we adopt the…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Ecology, Interaction, Educational Environment
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Diffey, Norman – Language Awareness, 1995
Language awareness, integral to language education in Europe, now influences Canadian second-language programs. The General Language Education (GLE) Syllabus of the "National Core French Study" endeavors to foster language proficiency and tolerance of linguistic and cultural diversity and encourages students to develop their own learning…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Cultural Awareness
Welch, Malcolm – 1997
Modeling in all its forms (two-dimensional, three-dimensional, mathematical, and computer) is an essential feature of designing and making. This paper describes how 10 untutored technology education students in grade 7 used three-dimensional modeling while designing and making a solution to a technological problem. This paper is part of a larger…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Design, Design Requirements, Educational Research
Burge, Elizabeth J.; Roberts, Judith M. – 1993
This manual, based on work completed for Francophone distance educators in Ontario, explores the factors and dynamics needed for learning and teaching in new classrooms that are created by the conferencing technologies of audio, audiographic, computer, and compressed video. These classrooms are new in that learners are not gathered physically in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Computer Uses in Education, Context Effect, Cost Effectiveness
Chick, Helen L., Ed.; Vincent, Jill L., Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2005
This document contains the second volume of the proceedings of the 29th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Conference papers are centered around the theme of "Learners and Learning Environments." This volume features 43 research reports by presenters with last names beginning between Adl…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Research Reports, Symbols (Mathematics)