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Tara Coppinger; Con Burns; Mai O'Leary; Louise Fleming; Seán Lacey; Aoife L. McCarthy – Irish Educational Studies, 2024
The International Survey of Children's Wellbeing (ISCWeB) is the most wide-ranging and diverse study ever conducted internationally on children from their own perspective. The aim of this study was to pilot the ISCWeB among primary schoolchildren in Ireland to examine their subjective wellbeing and examine the relationship between subjective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Well Being, Life Satisfaction
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Kalfut, Thamer – English Language Teaching, 2021
A sense of audience is important in the development of student writing (Many & Henderson, 2005). Research shows students need to consider an audience's attitudes, beliefs, and expectations to be effective writers (Midgette, Haria, & MacArthur, 2007). Therefore, students need learning opportunities in L2 classrooms to develop this ability.…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Textbooks, Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation
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Hilton, Charlotte Emma – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2017
The development of questionnaires, surveys and psychometric scales is an iterative research process that includes a number of carefully planned stages. Pretesting is a method of checking that questions work as intended and are understood by those individuals who are likely to respond to them. However, detailed reports of appropriate methods to…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Pretesting, Interviews, Test Construction
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Iuliano, Enzo; Mazzilli, Massimiliano; Zambelli, Stefano; Macaluso, Filippo; Raviolo, Paolo; Picerno, Pietro – Education Sciences, 2021
Laboratory teaching in sport and exercise sciences universities is of fundamental importance as it provides students with the necessary hands-on skills that are indispensable to future kinesiologists. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, students in lockdown missed the opportunity to acquire laboratory skills. Here we report the solutions…
Descriptors: Student Satisfaction, Athletics, Exercise, COVID-19
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Eman Alharbi; Andrew Smith – European Educational Researcher, 2019
Few longitudinal studies have examined the changes over time in international students' wellbeing. This study aimed to explore any change in wellbeing from the beginning of the first semester until the end of the academic year and the impact of using 'wellbeing away' strategies on international students' wellbeing. The survey used the Smith…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Well Being, Barriers, Coping
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Hall, Melinda; Pascoe, Deborah; Charity, Megan – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2017
Exercise and Sports Science (E&SS) programs at Federation University Australia provide work-integrated learning (WIL) opportunities for students to develop, apply and consolidate theoretical knowledge in the workplace. This study aimed to determine the influence of WIL experiences on achieving common graduate attributes for E&SS students.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Exercise, Athletics, Semi Structured Interviews
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Strömmer, Sofia T.; Ingledew, David K.; Markland, David – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2015
There are existing measures of exercise motives (what people want from exercise), but corresponding measures of gains (what people get) are needed, because motives and gains could influence each other and together influence other variables. An exercise motives and gains inventory (EMGI) was developed by creating gains scales to complement existing…
Descriptors: Exercise, Motivation, Measures (Individuals), Test Construction
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Mulrooney, H.M. – New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Sciences, 2017
Co-curricular activities offer an opportunity for students to develop and demonstrate employability skills. Not all students take advantage of activities on offer, while others undertake multiple activities. In this study, second and third year students from two related undergraduate degree courses who had and had not taken up co-curricular…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Undergraduate Students, Extracurricular Activities, Employment Potential
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Salgado, Sofia; Au-Yong-Oliveira, Manuel – Education Sciences, 2021
Burnout is increasingly present in organizations and in the most diverse professions, namely, in university students. Burnout can have negative repercussions on their well-being and can even lead them to abandon their studies. The objective of the study focuses on academic burnout and taking medication as a consequence of the requirements of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Colleges, Stress Variables, Drug Therapy
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Ghahari, Shima; Farokhnia, Farzaneh – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2018
Literature on the learning benefits and interpersonal mechanisms of peer assessment (PA) and teacher assessment (TA) has been inconsistent. As part of a large-scale study, the research reported here has addressed the effect of formative PA on language grammar uptake and complexity, accuracy, and fluency triad scale levels, in comparison both to TA…
Descriptors: Reflection, Formative Evaluation, Peer Evaluation, Grammar
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Nation-Grainger, Stephen – Research Papers in Education, 2017
Motivating adolescents to participate in exercise and physical activity is becoming increasingly important due to a rise in obesity but can be prevented through Physical Education. A quasi-experimental design, grounded in the Self-determination theory, was utilised to assess the impact of an intervention using wrist-worn digital physical activity…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Motivation, Exercise, Physical Education
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Reddan, Gregory – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2017
The notion of employability is gaining importance as an essential outcome of many degrees in institutions of higher education throughout Australia. This paper aims to determine the effects of an Exercise Science course, which includes elements of both career development learning and work-integrated learning, on six dimensions of employability -…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Potential, Undergraduate Students, Exercise
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Archer, S. K.; Wellwood, I.; Smith, C. H.; Newham, D. J. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2013
Background: Dysphagia is common after stroke, leading to adverse outcome. There is a paucity of high-quality evidence for dysphagia therapy, thus making it difficult to determine the best approaches to treatment. Clinical decisions are often based on usual practice, however no formal method of monitoring practice patterns exists. Aims: To…
Descriptors: Speech Language Pathology, Allied Health Personnel, Foreign Countries, Questionnaires
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Albu, Mihai; Atack, Lynda; Srivastava, Ishaan – Health Education Journal, 2015
Objective: Motivating clients to change the health behaviour, and maintaining an interest in exercise programmes, is an ongoing challenge for health educators. With new developments in technology, simulation and gaming are increasingly being considered as ways to motivate users, support learning and promote positive health behaviours. The purpose…
Descriptors: Health Education, Simulation, Usability, Health Behavior
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Mutwarasibo, Faustin – Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, 2013
The study examines how undergraduate university students in Rwanda experience collaborative process writing as an instruction method capable of helping them improve their academic writing abilities in English. It involved 34 second-year students, divided into 12 small working groups. The data were collected by means of group interviews carried out…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Process Approach (Writing), Collaborative Writing, Undergraduate Students
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