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Pawan, Faridah; Sankaranarayanan, Rajagopal; Myers, Rodney; Miao, Dorcas – Online Learning, 2021
Besides teaching the way they were taught, teachers teach the way they learned (Oleson & Hora, 2014). Thus, if teachers are to be guided to teach online effectively, their learning experiences and the ways they learn online need to be understood. This study focused on second/foreign language and literacy teachers' (LLTs) Learning Presence (LP)…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Literacy Education, Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development
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Vekkaila, Jenna; Pyhältö, Kirsi – International Journal of Higher Education, 2016
Doctoral studies are about learning to create new knowledge and to become a researcher. Yet surprisingly little is known about the individual learning patterns of doctoral students. The study aims to explore learning patterns among natural science doctoral students. The participants included 19 doctoral students from a top-level natural science…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Natural Sciences, Interviews
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Kheirzadeh, Shiela; Marandi, S. Susan; Tavakoli, Mansoor – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2019
To investigate the congruence between the requisite postgraduate academic language skills and the language skills measured by the General English section of the Iranian National PhD Entrance exam, field specialist informants, language-specialist informants and post-graduate students were questioned. The informants' data were collected through…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, College Entrance Examinations, Doctoral Programs
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Lim, Janine; Hall, Barbara M.; Jeong, Allan C.; Freed, Shirley – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2017
This study explores the combination of course structure, prompt type, and characteristics of discussion posts and their relationships with intersubjectivity. A content analysis measured the intersubjectivity of peer responses by analyzing the interaction analysis model (IAM) phase of each post and comparing with the IAM phase of the previous post.…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Content Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Statistical Analysis
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Ma, Wen; Wang, Chuang – Journal of Research in Education, 2012
International students in the United States often employ culture-specific learning strategies to help them improve their proficiency in English. This study explored the use of self-regulated strategies by 49 Chinese graduate students from 24 fields of study at three universities in the Northeast. The research used the mixed survey method to…
Descriptors: Metacognition, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Learning Strategies
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Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey; Zambo, Debby; Moore, David W.; Buss, Ray R.; Perry, Nancy J.; Painter, Suzanne R.; Carlson, David L.; Foulger, Teresa S.; Olson, Kate; Puckett, Kathleen S. – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2012
Dispute about professional doctoral programs in education has increased, with much hinging on the design of educational doctorate (EdD) programs. In this study, the first cohort of graduates responded to a new, innovative EdD program designed to develop them as leaders, scholars, and practitioners. Twenty graduates completed an exit survey, and a…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Dissertations, Content Analysis