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Jeton McClinton Ed.; Mark A. Melton Ed.; Caesar R. Jackson Ed.; Kimarie Engerman Ed. – Diversity in Higher Education, 2015
Undergraduate Research (UGR) is any creative effort undertaken by an undergraduate that advances the knowledge of the student in an academic discipline and leads to new scholarly insights or the creation of new knowledge that adds to the wealth of the discipline. Undergraduate research is valued and encouraged at several HBCUs; however, the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Student Research, Black Colleges, Scholarship
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Magolda, Marcia B. Baxter, Ed. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2000
This volume offers an alternative diagnosis of the expectations gap that exists between students and professors. Professors' expectations often go far beyond students' assumptions about the nature of knowledge. It is not what students think but rather how they think that is important in the learning process. How students make meaning mediates how…
Descriptors: Black Students, Educational Environment, Higher Education, Interpersonal Relationship
Harnsten, Gunilla – 1994
The research circle is a form of cooperation between trade unions and researchers that is spreading all over Sweden and beyond its national borders. The research circles described in this book were arranged jointly by SKAF (Swedish Municipal Workers' Union) and the Uppsala University Department of Education. A research circle is a study circle in…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Creative Thinking, Foreign Countries, Knowledge Level
Gopnik, Alison; Meltzoff, Andrew N. – 1997
This book articulates and defends the "theory theory" of cognitive and semantic development: the idea that very young children just beginning to talk are engaged in profound restructurings of several domains of their knowledge. These restructurings are analogous to theory changes. The children's early semantic development is closely tied…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Child Development, Children, Classification