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Cozart, Deanna L.; Horan, Erin M.; Frome, Gavin – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2021
As college costs have continued to rise, textbooks now average more than $1,200 per student per academic year as of 2020. Traditional textbooks are not only expensive, but also have fixed and frequently outdated content. In this study, we compared pre-service teacher-student outcomes and perceptions of a traditional textbook versus no-cost, online…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Open Educational Resources, Electronic Learning, Cost Effectiveness
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Sadeghi, Forough; Sadighi, Firooz; Bagheri, Mohammad Sadegh – Cogent Education, 2020
Second language learning is the long-term time process of commitment to seeking a high degree of success. In this manner, the majority of learners get more experience of success than failure. However, a small number of learners involve a string of repeated failures arising from the lack of self-confidence and a feeling of hopelessness. Thus, the…
Descriptors: Correlation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Beliefs
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Mensah, Christopher; Azila-Gbettor, Edem M. – International Journal of Educational Management, 2018
Purpose: Academic misconduct has become an albatross on the management of higher education institutions with long-term ramification on developmental agenda of countries. The purpose of this paper is to examine the association between religiousness of students and examination cheating tendencies. Further, this paper explored the cheating methods,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religion, Religious Factors, Cheating
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Dündar, Sefa – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2015
Using multiple representations of a problem can reveal the relationship between complex concepts by expressing the same mathematical condition differently and can contribute to the meaningful learning of mathematical concepts. The purpose of this study is to assess the performances of mathematics teacher-candidates on trigonometry problems…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Problem Solving
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Pinxten, Maarten; De Fraine, Bieke; Van Den Noortgate, Wim; Van Damme, Jan; Boonen, Tinneke; Vanlaar, Gudrun – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
This study examines the choice of a university major with a special focus on the type of major chosen in the first year and success/failure at the end of this first year, using a sample of 2284 students in Flanders, Belgium. Extending previous research, the effects of prior subject uptake, occupational interests, prior mathematics and Dutch…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Socioeconomic Status, Regression (Statistics), Academic Failure