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Ashley, Sue; Schaap, Harmen; Bruijn, Elly de – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
Higher education providers need to deliver graduates with the conceptual understanding required for professional life. Conceptual understanding entails a synthesis of relevant facts, theories and practices that influence occupational performance. To help align curricula with individual student differences, this study investigates differences in…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, International Trade, Concept Formation, Progress Monitoring
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Keuning, Trynke; van Geel, Marieke – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2021
Although many schools in the Netherlands have purchased adaptive learning systems (ALSs) to reduce workload and improve differentiated instruction, the use of ALSs with teacher dashboards in the classroom does not in itself necessarily improve differentiated instruction. The question is, what skills and knowledge do teachers need to provide…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Individualized Instruction, Integrated Learning Systems, Educational Technology
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Schlatter, Erika; Molenaar, Inge; Lazonder, Ard W. – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
Scientific reasoning helps children understand the world around them. Teaching scientific reasoning can be challenging because not all component scientific reasoning skills develop at the same age and not all children learn these skills at the same pace. Adaptive support thus seems called for. We designed two types of adaptive instruction, based…
Descriptors: Science Process Skills, Thinking Skills, Science Instruction, Learning Processes
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Leenknecht, Martijn; Hompus, Priscilla; van der Schaaf, Marieke – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2019
To make sure that feedback fulfils its aspirations, students' active role in feedback should be acknowledged in higher education: It is students' uptake of feedback that determines its effectiveness. In this study, feedback seeking behaviour of students is introduced in order to enrich our knowledge about students' active role in feedback. Goal…
Descriptors: College Students, Help Seeking, Feedback (Response), Goal Orientation
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Thompson, James; Houston, Donald – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2020
The paramedic profession is rapidly evolving and has witnessed significant expansion in the scope of practice and the public expectations of the paramedic role in recent years. Increasing demands for greater knowledge and skills for paramedics has implications for the university programs tasked with their pre-employment training. The certification…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Allied Health Occupations Education, Certification, Evaluation Methods
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Weeldenburg, Gwen; Borghouts, Lars B.; Slingerland, Menno; Vos, Steven – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2021
Framed within achievement goal theory and self-determination theory, the aim of this study was to explore the experiences and motivational needs of students within secondary school Physical Education, attempting to identify their preferred motivational instructional strategies. Nine focus group interviews were conducted comprising 61 students (32…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Student Motivation, Adolescents, Preferences
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Janssen, Jeroen; Vandenbroeck, Michel – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2018
Early childhood education and care (ECEC) provision can have long-lasting positive effects on children's learning and development. A key feature in fostering educational outcomes is the enhancement of parental involvement. This article builds on critical concerns with the emergent 'schoolification' of ECEC and corresponding orientations of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Parent Participation, National Curriculum, Foreign Countries
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van Geel, Marieke; Keuning, Trynke; Frèrejean, Jimmy; Dolmans, Diana; van Merriënboer, Jeroen; Visscher, Adrie J. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2019
Providing differentiated instruction (DI) is considered an important but complex teaching skill which many teachers have not mastered and feel unprepared for. In order to design professional development activities, a thorough description of DI is required. The international literature on assessing teachers' differentiation qualities describes the…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Individualized Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Expertise
European Commission, 2019
The 2nd Survey of Schools: ICT in Education has two objectives: 1) Objective 1: Benchmark progress in ICT in Schools - to provide detailed and up-to-date information related to access, use and attitudes towards the use of technology in education by surveying head teachers, teachers, students and parents covering the EU28, Norway, Iceland and…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Computer Uses in Education, Technology Integration, Access to Computers
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van den Bosch, Roxette M.; Espin, Christine A.; Pat-El, Ron J.; Saab, Nadira – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2019
The authors examined three instructional approaches for improving teachers' curriculum-based measurement (CBM) graph comprehension, each differing in the extent to which reading the data, interpreting the data, and linking the data to instruction were emphasized. Participants were 164 elementary school teachers who were randomly assigned to one of…
Descriptors: Teacher Improvement, Comprehension, Curriculum Based Assessment, Progress Monitoring
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Zhang, Ran; Zwaal, Wichard; Otting, Hans – Studies in Higher Education, 2018
This study assessed the validity and reliability of the Meyer, Shanahan, and Laugksch's Conceptions of Research Inventory using data collected from 227 undergraduate hotel management students in the Netherlands. The results of a series of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses showed substantial empirical support for the five-factor…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Hospitality Occupations, Business Administration Education, Test Reliability
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Abma, Tineke A.; Leyerzapf, Hannah; Landeweer, Elleke – American Journal of Evaluation, 2017
Responsive evaluation honors democratic and participatory values and intends to foster dialogues among stakeholders to include their voices and enhance mutual understandings. The question explored in this article is whether and how responsive evaluation can offer a platform for moral learning ("Bildung") in the interference zone between…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Psychiatry, Medical Services, Privacy
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de Bruin, Anique B. H.; Kok, Ellen M.; Lobbestael, Jill; de Grip, Andries – Metacognition and Learning, 2017
Being overconfident when estimating scores for an upcoming exam is a widespread phenomenon in higher education and presents threats to self-regulated learning and academic performance. The present study sought to investigate how overconfidence and poor monitoring accuracy vary over the length of a college course, and how an intervention consisting…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, College Students, Progress Monitoring, Intervention
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Brouwer, Jasperina; Jansen, Ellen; Hofman, Adriaan; Flache, Andreas – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2016
Two theoretical approaches underlie this investigation of the determinants of early study success among first-year university students. Specifically, to extend Walberg's educational productivity model, this study draws on the expectancy-value theory of achievement motivation in a contemporary university context. The survey data came from 407…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Progress Monitoring, Success, Achievement Need
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Pate, Sandra K. – Journal of International Education and Leadership, 2016
International businesses face a difficult task when trying to decide where to place or expand a business that could be located anywhere in the world. Each country is a complex system of human capabilities, technical systems, [infrastructure bases, laws, cultures and economic systems. How can a company know which country is best for it today, and…
Descriptors: Business, Corporations, International Trade, Site Selection