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Artamonova, Tatiana – Foreign Language Annals, 2020
This article describes the development of a new questionnaire for assessing L2 learners' language attitudes. Drawing on theoretical work in the fields of social psychology and applied linguistics, the author reviewed the concept of (language) attitudes and contrasted them with the concept of (language) motivation. This thorough literature review,…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Language Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Zuk, Piotr; Zuk, Pawel – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2018
The article presents differences in attitudes and the environmental awareness of students of technical sciences and the humanities. The authors defend the thesis that humanistic knowledge is more conducive to environmental sensitivity in Poland. The article raises the questions of what types of knowledge are generated at universities and what the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Sciences, Humanities
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Fawcett, Lee – Journal of Statistics Education, 2018
In this article we discuss our attempt to incorporate research-informed learning and teaching activities into a final year undergraduate Statistics course. We make use of the Shiny web-based application framework for R to develop "Shiny apps" designed to help facilitate student interaction with methods from recently published papers in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries, Statistics, Mathematics Instruction
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Fichten, Catherine; Jorgensen, Mary; Havel, Alice; King, Laura; Lussier, Alex; Asuncion, Jennison; Budd, Jillian; Nguyen, Mai Nhu; Amsel, Rhonda – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
We explored students' perspectives about their professors' use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and compared these to the views of professors deemed by their students to be excellent in their use of ICTs. 311 students completed an online questionnaire and nominated up to three of their professors who used technology in a way…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Student Attitudes, College Students, College Faculty
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Landry, Oriane; Chouinard, Philippe A. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2016
The broader autism phenotype (BAP) is a term applied to individuals with personality and cognitive traits that are similar to but milder than those observed in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Subtle autistic traits in the core diagnostic domains of social communication and rigid behavior were described in family members of people with an ASD even…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Genetics, Personality Traits
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Baker, Ryan; Wang, Feng; Ma, Zhenjun; Ma, Wei; Zheng, Shiyue – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2018
In this paper we evaluate the effectiveness of an adaptive online learning platform, designed to support Chinese students in learning the English language. The adaptive platform is studied in three studies, where the experimental platform is compared to an alternate, non-adaptive platform, with random assignment to conditions (the adaptive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Courses, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Nitchot, Athitaya; Gilbert, Lester – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2015
Web resources allow a learner to have more opportunities for study at any time and any place. It is still difficult, however, for learners to choose the right study materials to match their desired learning. A competence-based system for recommending study materials from the Web (COSREW) is proposed, based on the learner's competences. COSREW…
Descriptors: Internet, Instructional Materials, Competence, Electronic Learning
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Collings, R.; Swanson, V.; Watkins, R. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2014
Peer mentoring is becoming increasingly popular in UK higher education, however, there remains little good quality, theoretically driven and evaluative research. The current study aims to bridge the gap between theory, practice and evaluation by providing a controlled evaluation of a peer mentoring scheme within UK universities. 109 first year…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mentors, Peer Relationship, Well Being
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Booth, Tom; Murray, Aja Louise; McKenzie, Karen; Kuenssberg, Renate; O'Donnell, Michael; Burnett, Hollie – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2013
There is a need for brief screening instruments for autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) that can be used by frontline healthcare professionals to aid in the decision as to whether an individual should be referred for a full diagnostic assessment. In this study we evaluated the ability of a short form of the autism spectrum quotient (AQ)…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Questionnaires
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Tuohilampi, Laura – REDIMAT - Journal of Research in Mathematics Education, 2016
Mathematics related affect turn from positive to negative during comprehensive school years worldwide. There is a clear need to find solutions to the problem. However, some gaps and problems appear in the methodologies and the common approaches used in the field. This article discusses five studies addressing affective development, challenges some…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education
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Jacek, Laura – College and University, 2015
When an institution decides to move to online teaching evaluations, they often face concerns that their response rates will fall with the change. This fear need never come to pass, however. There are many interventions that can raise response rates. Good communication strategies, improved student and faculty engagement, and grade hold are just a…
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Response Rates (Questionnaires), Comparative Analysis, Educational Practices
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Braun, Edith; Woodley, Alan; Richardson, John T. E.; Leidner, Bernhard – Educational Research Review, 2012
This paper provides a theoretical review of self-rated competences questionnaires. This topic is influenced by the ongoing world-wide reform of higher education, which has led to a focus on the learner outcomes of higher education. Consequently, questionnaires on self-rated competences have increasingly been employed. However, self-ratings are…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Questionnaires, Competence, Educational Change
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Ghazarian, Peter G. – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2014
Globalization has driven growth in the market for cross-border students. Mainland China, with a burgeoning economy and the largest national population, has become an important source of cross-border students. This study identifies ideal attraction in mainland China to destinations for cross-border tertiary education, as expressed by ideal first…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Students, Global Approach
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Grayson, J. Paul – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2015
Teaching evaluations have become part of life on Canadian campuses; however, there is no agreement among researchers as to their validity. In this article, comparisons were made between first- and third-year collective evaluations of professors' performance at the University of British Columbia, York University, and McGill University. Overall, it…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Student Behavior, College Students
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Gerritsen, Debby; Maier, Robert – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2012
This article compares the perspectives of young migrants in the Netherlands with the dominant discourse on "migrants" at present. The integration of young "migrants" have been studied in the European research projects TRESEGY and PROFACITY with the help of a number of ethnographic studies and a questionnaire in the Netherlands.…
Descriptors: Migrants, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Realism
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