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Andersson, Staffan; Johansson, Anders – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2016
This study of achievement differences, as reflected by course grades, on a third-semester electromagnetism course at a Swedish research university was motivated by instructor concerns about gender inequalities. Quantitative analysis showed a gender gap in course grades between female and male students for the period of fall 2007 to spring 2013.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Magnets, Energy, College Science
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Grahn, Karin – Sport, Education and Society, 2014
This paper is based on analyses of ideas about girls and boys in sports as they are presented in textbooks used in coaching education programmes in Sweden. Specifically, it explores gender in relation to descriptions of girls' and boys' bodies and bodily development during puberty. Texts construct gender differences. Masculinity is shaped around…
Descriptors: Athletes, Athletics, Human Body, Gender Differences
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Lindahl, Mats Gunnar; Folkesson, Anne-Mari – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2016
Students' learning is assumed to be promoted through peer-group discussion. Most studies show the presence of qualitative improvements in either oral or written reasoning as a result of such interactions. However, knowledge on the relationship between talk qualities and text qualities is scarce. We adopt an explorative design using statistical…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Oral Language, Written Language, Correlation
Österholm, Magnus – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2012
This study focuses on a distinction between process- and object-oriented discourses when characterising the discourse of university students' summaries of lectures and examining connections between students' discourse and the discourse of lectures. Results show that students' discourse in general tends to be process-oriented, by their use of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Discourse Analysis, Lecture Method, Comparative Analysis
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Kallkvist, Marie – Modern Language Journal, 2013
This article explores the value of judiciously used first language (L1)-to-second language (L2) translation in meaning-focused, advanced-level academic language education. It examines languaging in the teacher-led discourse (TLD) that arises when translation tasks are used and compares it to languaging during the TLD engendered by 4 other…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Qualitative Research, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Fredriksson, Christine – Research-publishing.net, 2012
In this paper I will show the preliminary findings from my study of the discourse in synchronous written chats performed by students who study modern German literature within their first term of German studies. The focus of the study is on learning strategies and discourse strategies and how the Swedish learners make use of them when chatting with…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, German, Discourse Analysis