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Online Reviews Are Leading Indicators of Changes in K-12 School Attributes
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Linsen Li; Aron Culotta; Douglas N. Harris; Nicholas Mattei – Grantee Submission, 2023
School rating websites are increasingly used by parents to assess the quality and fit of U.S. K-12 schools for their children. These online reviews often contain detailed descriptions of a school's strengths and weaknesses, which both reflect and inform perceptions of a school. Existing work on these text reviews has focused on finding words or…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, Secondary Schools, Educational Change
Association between Literacy Skills, Language Use, and Online Health Information Seeking among Hispanic Americans
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Millar, Roberto J.; Sahoo, Shalini; Yamashita, Takashi; Cummins, Phyllis A. – Grantee Submission, 2020
Online health information is underutilized among Hispanics with low English proficiency in the U.S. This study examines the association between a unique measure of general English literacy, language use, and online health information seeking among Hispanic adults. Data for Hispanics ages 25 to 65 (N = 700) come from the 2012/2014 Program for…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Information Seeking, Literacy, Language Usage
Mendeleev Eponyms in the Epoch of Educational Ethnocentrism
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Slabin, Uladzimir – International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education, 2023
Eponymous terms play an important role in STEM education. This research focuses on the current state of Mendeleev eponyms in the context of education and ethnocentrism, addressing their usage in various languages, their educational value, cases of questioned priority and copyright violation in Mendeleev major eponyms--periodic table and periodic…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Ethnocentrism, Language Usage, Copyrights
ESL Learners' Online Research and Comprehension Strategies
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Sain, Noridah; Bown, Andy; Fluck, Andrew; Kebble, Paul – Research-publishing.net, 2017
In order to enhance second language (L2) acquisition, English as a Second Language (ESL) students are encouraged to exploit the abundant information and opportunities for authentic language use afforded by the Internet. This study investigated the online research and comprehension strategies employed by ESL learners in a public university in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Undergraduate Students
Communicating Grammatically: Evaluating a Learner Strategy Website for Spanish Grammar
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Cohen, Andrew D.; Pinilla-Herrera, Angela; Thompson, Jonathan R.; Witzig, Lance E. – CALICO Journal, 2011
After a brief introduction to language learner strategies and grammar strategies as a subcategory, it is pointed out that research on the use of grammar strategies by learners of a second language (L2) has been limited. The article then describes the construction of a website with strategies for learning and performing Spanish grammar, with a…
Descriptors: Grammar, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Gender Differences: An Examination of Computer-Mediated Communication.
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Gregory, Mona Y. – 1997
Computer-mediated communication (CMC) is a pervasive means of communicating in work place, education, and home settings. Males currently occupy approximately 69% of all jobs in the computer industry and only 10% of upper-level positions are occupied by females. Stereotypical perceptions and gendered occupations contribute to the lack of females in…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Discussion Groups, Gender Issues, Internet