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Victor C. Smith – ProQuest LLC, 2024
As the pedagogy of online instruction in higher learning institutions and universities continues to grow, academic leaders must determine the needs and ambitions of online faculty and staff to facilitate workplace satisfaction, personal growth, faculty retention, and professional progress. The problem is that, as the pedagogy of online instruction…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Electronic Learning, Correlation, Preferences
Ladwig, Adam; Berg-Poppe, Patti J.; Ikiugu, Moses; Ness, Brandon M. – Distance Learning, 2022
This study aimed to identify factors that impact graduate health students' preference for synchronous or asynchronous online lecture participation. Constructive factors were proposed and then measured for each participant via the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire scales. It was hypothesized that students ranking lower in the domains…
Descriptors: Influences, Preferences, Online Courses, Graduate Students
Yousef, Darwish Abdulrahman – Education & Training, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to address the use of Honey and Mumford's Learning Styles Questionnaire (LSQ) to investigate the learning style preferences of undergraduate students at the American University of Ras Al Khaimah (AURAK) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) culture. It also investigates whether there are significant differences…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Preferences, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries
Kobra Tavassoli; Zahra Sorat – International Journal of Language Testing, 2023
Despite widespread studies on language assessment literacy (LAL), there are still many unexplored areas about LAL (Gan & Lam, 2022). One of these areas is identifying various aspects of LAL regarding different language skills and scrutinizing the English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers' involvement with these aspects. Accordingly, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Ives, Samantha T.; Parsons, Seth A.; Parsons, Allison Ward; Robertson, Dana A.; Daoud, Nisreen; Young, Chase; Polk, Lisa – Reading Psychology, 2020
This study examines the psychometric properties of a reading motivation measure with a sample of upper elementary students in the United States (n = 195). The research explores upper elementary students' motivation to read, the amount/frequency of their reading in general, and their preferences for different text genres. Factor analyses support…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Student Motivation, Reading Motivation, Literary Genres
Gandolfi, Enrico – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2018
This article investigates the phenomenon of open and participative development (e.g. beta testing, Kickstarter projects)--i.e. extended prototyping--in digital entertainment as a potential source of insights for instructional interventions. Despite the increasing popularity of this practice and the potential implications for educators and…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Instructional Design, Games
Nemati, Majid; Alavi, Sayyed Mohammad; Mohebbi, Hassan; Masjedlou, Ali Panahi – Issues in Educational Research, 2017
To date, L2 researchers have studied the effect of feedback on improving L2 learners' writing from different perspectives. However, there are a lot of aspects which are not comprehensively researched yet, such as L2 learners' and teachers' perceptions and practices about feedback. To close the gap, this study investigates language learners'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing Skills
Trommler, Friederike; Gresch, Helge; Hammann, Marcus – International Journal of Science Education, 2018
The teleological bias, a major learning obstacle, involves explaining biological phenomena in terms of purposes and goals. To probe the teleological bias, researchers have used acceptance judgement tasks and preference judgement tasks. In the present study, such tasks were used with German high school students (N = 353) for 10 phenomena from human…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Etiology, Preferences, High School Students
Jin, Jie; Liu, Hengying; Zhang, Yan – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2015
Increased universities and colleges offer the undergraduates with more follow-up courses with the further reform in college English education in China. An investigation on self-evaluation, difficulty, and willingness of undergraduates in learning English further was made in order to design more appropriate and adaptable follow-up courses. This…
Descriptors: College English, College Curriculum, Needs Assessment, Undergraduate Students
Ní Shé, Caitríona; Mac an Bhaird, Ciarán; Ní Fhloinn, Eabhnat; O'Shea, Ann – Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications, 2017
There is a general agreement that many students struggle with the transition from secondary to higher education, particularly in the context of mathematics modules. Lecturers often suggest or supply supplemental resources to give students the opportunity to overcome their difficulties. In addition, students often seek out resources independently,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Educational Resources, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
Stavans, Anat; Webman Shafran, Ronit – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2018
This study investigated the mode of directness of requests and refusals and the background variables that explain this production in two trilingual populations in Israel (i.e. native speakers of Arabic for whom English is an L3, and Hebrew, an L2, and native speakers of Hebrew for whom English is an L2 and another language is their L3). Data were…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Speech Acts, Second Language Learning, Semitic Languages
Sultana, Sharmin – English Language Teaching, 2018
English as a lingua franca now requires the Bangladeshi people to learn this global language with the current demands of the competitive world. What is widely accepted is that a vast majority of Bangladeshi graduates are neither capable to stand out globally as efficient communicators in English nor accomplished enough to meet the challenges of…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Success, Dialects, Dialect Studies
Guo, Rong; Shen, Yide; Li, Lei – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2018
The lack of effective faculty-student interaction has been identified as a main contributor to the high dropout rate in online education. For this paper, the authors conducted an empirical study using a social networking tool, specifically Facebook, to improve student-instructor communication and student performance in an online learning…
Descriptors: Social Media, Interaction, Teacher Student Relationship, Telecommunications
Rodgers, Wendy – College & Research Libraries, 2018
Libraries offer a mix of options to serve the film studies curriculum: streaming video, DVDs on Reserve, and streaming DVDs through online classrooms. Some professors screen films and lend DVDs to students. But how do students obtain the films required for their courses? How would they prefer to do so? These are among the questions explored using…
Descriptors: Films, Film Study, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Chui, Daniel – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2016
Previous analyses of the Spanish deictic verbs "venir" "to come", "ir" "to go", traer "to bring" and "llevar" "to take" have drawn upon Fillmore's (1975) series of lectures on deixis in noting that speakers of Spanish forbid the use of the verbs "venir" and…
Descriptors: Native Language, Verbs, Language Usage, Second Language Learning