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Siyu Zhu; Yuan Yao; Shui-Duen Chan; Xinhua Zhu – Early Education and Development, 2024
Reading self-beliefs, comprising self-concept and self-efficacy, play a pivotal role in shaping students' learning engagement and learning outcomes. However, existing literature on the self-beliefs of school-entry students primarily originates from Western contexts, and the exploration of differences in self-beliefs, engagement in learning, and…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Self Efficacy, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Nsor-Ambala, Randolph – Accounting Education, 2022
The study explores how collaborative based exams (CLBE) affect specified learning outcomes in an Accounting Theory course for final year 'accounting major' students. The study proposes Accounting Theory as an avenue to improve the qualitative and problem-solving skills of accounting students and collaborative learning (CL) as a mechanism to…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Accounting, Teaching Methods, Tests
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Ray, Brian D.; Shakeel, M. Danish; Worth, Fred; Bryant, Valerie – Journal of School Choice, 2021
Homeschooling has witnessed an upsurge in the United States since the movement for school choice gained momentum in the 1990s. Most research on homeschooling has been on non-representative samples of median-income white Americans, making it difficult for policymakers to accept its reliability. In addition, homeschoolers now include other ethnic…
Descriptors: Barriers, Home Schooling, Family Income, School Choice
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Grohman, Magdalena G.; Gans, Nicholas; Lee, Eun Ah; Tacca, Marco; Brown, Matthew J. – Advances in Engineering Education, 2020
Engineering ethics education typically focuses on decisions by individual engineers and case studies of disasters. This does not reflect the everyday decisions that practicing engineers must make, and neglects the fact that most engineers work on teams rather than alone. The focus on safety and disaster prevention leaves little time for discussing…
Descriptors: Ethics, Engineering Education, Decision Making, Safety
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van Stee, Elena G.; Cadge, Wendy; Barton, Rebecca – Journal of College and Character, 2021
This article examines institutional approaches to multifaith chaplaincy across private institutions of higher education. Based on a pilot study of eight nonreligious colleges and universities, the authors identify a continuum of models for multifaith chaplaincy. At one end of this continuum, universities facilitate access for chaplaincy affiliates…
Descriptors: Clergy, Private Colleges, Models, Cultural Pluralism
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Arshavskaya, Ekaterina – Teaching Education, 2018
To meet the demands of contemporary society, students need to develop the ability to interact effectively with people from different cultures. To advance this goal, a project involving ethnographic interviews was introduced to an intercultural communication course. Participating students' attitudes toward other cultures were measured on a Likert…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Likert Scales, Student Attitudes, Intercultural Communication
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Phillips, Kaela L.; Wildermuth, Cristina de-Mello-e-Souza – Journal of Academic Ethics, 2019
The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to explore students' reactions to a case involving peer rating. We asked undergraduate and graduate students at a Midwestern liberal arts university to rate the performance of a close friend. To explore how role might impact the students' decisions, we randomly assigned participants to one of two rating…
Descriptors: Ethics, Student Attitudes, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Peer Evaluation
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Bachelor, Jeremy W.; Barros García, María Jesús – Online Submission, 2019
The present study sought to evaluate the pragmatic competence of heritage learners of Spanish in regard to compliment sequences and the impact that pragmatic lessons would have on these students. To this end, pre and post tests to assess pragmatic recognition in regard to Spanish compliments were designed by the researchers and completed by the…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish
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Khuzwayo, Mamsi Ethel – South African Journal of Education, 2018
This study records findings of a study carried out in a group of 100 students at a South African university. This study examines the group's assignments as a way of gathering evidence about pre-service teachers' achievements in the process of education and training. The empirical study was based on comparative analysis of scores obtained by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teacher Education
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Adair, Desmond; Jaeger, Martin; Price, Owen M. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2018
The use of a portfolio curriculum approach, when teaching a university introductory statistics and probability course to engineering students, is developed and evaluated. The portfolio curriculum approach, so called, as the students need to keep extensive records both as hard copies and digitally of reading materials, interactions with faculty,…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Introductory Courses, Statistics, Probability
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Zamora, Ángela; Suárez, José Manuel; Ardura, Diego – Journal of Educational Research, 2018
The authors' objective was to study the role of error detection and retroactive self-regulation as determinants of performance in secondary education students. A total of 198 students participated in the quasiexperimental study, which involved a control group and two experimental groups. This enabled the authors to analyze the effects of both…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Secondary School Students, Correlation, Error Patterns
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Rico Putra Pradana; Ave Adriana Pinem; Putu Wuri Handayani – Journal of Educators Online, 2024
This study uses self-determination theory to examine the effect of gamification on the students' behavioral, emotional, and cognitive engagement in online discussion forums by providing more instructor badges than automatic badges and using a quasi-experimental one-group pretest-posttest design. Behavioral engagement was measured using the number…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Game Based Learning, Scoring Rubrics, Comparative Analysis
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Jardine, Spencer; Shropshire, Sandra; Koury, Regina – College & Research Libraries, 2018
This article identifies variations that are within the credit-bearing information literacy (IL) programs of a group of similar libraries: Idaho State University's peer institutions that have been formally designated by the Idaho State Board of Education. This group of institutions shares two common characteristics, i.e., they are public and are…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Academic Libraries, Library Instruction, Comparative Analysis
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Dean, Jessica; Pascoe, Michelle; le Roux, Jane – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2021
Information and communication technology (ICT)-based reading interventions have potential to help children with reading difficulties, especially those in resource-constrained environments who otherwise might not have access to support. This pilot study aimed to describe the impact of an online, partner-supported reading intervention designed for…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Intervention, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension
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Jackson, Nykela; Wake, Donna – Research Issues in Contemporary Education, 2022
This study investigated the impact of a Grow-Your-Own (GYO) program on high school students' interests in teaching. Participants included 173 GYO students in a concurrent enrollment introductory education course. To explore the GYO's impact, survey results were compared to a sample of 297 traditional college students in a parallel curriculum. A…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Interests, Vocational Interests, Teaching (Occupation)
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