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Rivière, Elora; Champagne-Lavau, Maud – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
The present study in French sought to investigate which factors predict irony perception most efficiently. An experiment was developed following three steps. The first two steps focused on the creation of stimuli to be evaluated in the third step. In this last step, participants, whose sociocultural characteristics (gender, age, and level of…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, College Students, Foreign Countries, French
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Caroline Cobb; Jianling Xie; Katarzyna Gallo; Marlon Boyd; Margaret Wilkins; Madison Wadsworth; Lucy Brake – American Journal of Distance Education, 2024
We sought to examine the potential environmental protective factors contributing to academic resilience among college students during emergency distance education. Data were collected from a sample of undergraduate students (n = 195) representing various majors and academic classifications. Our study results revealed that students perceived their…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Resilience (Psychology), COVID-19, Pandemics
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Eggenberger, Andrea L. B. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
Current research on employability skills in higher education tends to focus on communication and critical thinking as being key to that success in the classroom and the workforce. The research on active listening, another employability skill, tends to focus on specific college majors. The goal of the present mixed-methods study is to look at how…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Listening Skills, Predictor Variables
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Dorph, Rena; Cannady, Matthew A.; Schunn, Christian – Electronic Journal of Science Education, 2016
Expanding on recent advances in science education, cognitive and social psychology, and sociocultural studies, the paper explores a construct called "science learning activation" and a theoretical framework that describes the characteristics, function, and impact of this construct. Authors define "science learning activation"…
Descriptors: Success, Learner Engagement, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Banus, Abdullahi Audu; Dauda, Bala – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The study assessed the relative effectiveness of understanding the problem statement on students' mathematical behaviours in Borno State Secondary Schools. The study was guided by an objective: to determine the Understanding the problem statement on student's performance in senior secondary school and a null hypothesis: there was no effect of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Quasiexperimental Design, Mathematics Tests