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Eleni K. Geragosian; Diana Zhu; Marc Skriloff; Ginger V. Shultz – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2024
Chemistry graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) have substantial facetime with undergraduate students at large research institutions where they lead discussion and lab sessions. Emerging research describes GTAs' content and teaching knowledge for introductory chemistry classes, but we need to know more about how GTAs manage their classes in the…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Chemistry, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students
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Arjan J. F. Kok; Lex Bijlsma; Cornelis Huizing; Ruurd Kuiper; Harrie Passier – Informatics in Education, 2024
This paper presents the first experiences of the use of an online open-source repository with programming exercises. The repository is independent of any specific teaching approach. Students can search for and select an exercise that trains the programming concepts that they want to train and that only uses the programming concepts they already…
Descriptors: Programming Languages, Computer Science Education, Open Source Technology, Teaching Methods
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Kirsten Lupinski; Marsha Kaufman; Shelley Armstrong – International Journal on E-Learning, 2024
No previous research has looked at the inclusion of teaching assistants (TAs) in competency-based education (CBE) at an online university to evaluate student satisfaction and success. A 12-month TA pilot program in an online undergraduate program sought to measure the positive impact on students' learning by surveying their satisfaction and…
Descriptors: Virtual Universities, Teaching Assistants, Student Satisfaction, Competency Based Education
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Yan Hua Chen; Kai Zhang – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
The paper investigates the effect of introducing a course in Web Development for Chinese students on their academic achievements and the basic competencies, using traditional and online approaches. For the experimental learning purposes, 300 students were selected from three universities located in China's largest cities: Shanghai, Beijing, and…
Descriptors: Universities, Foreign Countries, Web Sites, Academic Achievement
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Zakery R. Muñoz – College Composition and Communication, 2024
This article shares three focal participant profiles from a national study on graduate student writing pedagogy in rhetoric, composition, and writing studies. Working toward a more linguistically just discipline, this research explores how we might teach graduate students disciplinary genre expectations while centering their embodied ways of…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), Rhetoric
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Nelson, David; Bonem, Emily; FitzSimmons, Jason – Journal of Learning Spaces, 2023
This study analyzes instructor attitudes toward 26 collaborative spaces at a large, R1 university in the United States. The authors conducted 151 interviews with instructors, identifying elements of classroom spaces that helped or hindered teaching and student learning. Approximately 44% of the instructors (n=67) had participated in a professional…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty, Teaching Methods, Active Learning
Jasmine Edwards – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This research highlighted the critical importance of colleges and universities to prioritize the education of diverse students, foster inclusive communities, and cultivate awareness of inclusive learning environments. As higher education continues to evolve with an increasingly diverse student body, a one-size-fits-all institutional model is…
Descriptors: Usability, Teaching Methods, Curriculum Development, Urban Universities
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Noemi Mazzoni; Fabio Filosofi; Helga Ballardini; Angela Pasqualotto; Laura Semenzin; Melanie Cristofolini; Corinna Manzardo; Antonio Milici; Paola Venuti – Computers in the Schools, 2024
The transition to distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic uncovered criticalities in the participation of students with special educational needs. The BESt-DaD project responded to these difficulties by developing a user-friendly online platform aimed at accommodating these students' neurocognitive profiles, ultimately promoting inclusion.…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Technology, Special Needs Students, COVID-19
Ramey, Loretta Jo DeAngelis – ProQuest LLC, 2022
How does leadership emerge and develop among university STEM faculty working to adopt evidence-based teaching practices? This qualitative case study examines academic departments as sites for instructional change, viewing leadership as an emergent property of the relationships within a social system. The researcher adopted a dual lens of McElroy…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, STEM Education, Science Departments, Evidence Based Practice
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Wes Maciejewski; Trisha Bergthold; John Bragelman – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2024
Many students who take a mathematics course as part of their post-secondary education are not enrolled in a mathematically-intensive degree program. This poses a challenge to mathematics departments that, for example, value and privilege more traditional mathematics curriculum: should students in such courses be taught differently than those in…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Instructional Design, Higher Education
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Azadeh Amoozegar; Mohamed Abdelmagid; Temoor Anjum – Open Learning, 2024
Despite the rapid increase of students' enrolment in online courses, higher education institutions in Malaysia face the problem of high dropout rates of students before completing their studies and earning a degree. With a view to addressing the issue, this study focused on critical factors to evaluate the effectiveness of distance learning…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Research Universities, Motivation
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Mauricio Morales-Beltran; Ecenur Kizilörenli; Ceren Duyal – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2024
The prevalence of self-construction practices in Türkiye has resulted in a building stock whose earthquake resilience is highly uncertain. To mitigate the potentially devastating impact of anticipated large earthquakes, one viable approach is to increase earthquake awareness among builders themselves. However, these builders lack formal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Video Technology, Audiences, Seismology
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Christopher Sean Long – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2024
This study examined the impact of action research conducted by five science teaching methods course instructors on their students' perceptions of the classroom learning environments at a large public university in Texas. The study analyzed the results from 133 students who completed two administrations of the What is Happening in this Class…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Instruction, Teacher Education Programs, State Universities
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Shenzhong Yan; Daner Sun; Qing Zhou; Yuqin Yang; Peiyao Tian – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2025
The study of pedagogical design and development for virtual laboratory in science education in higher education is limited. Few tailored pedagogical approaches have been adopted for developing students higher order thinking (i.e. reflective thinking skills) in virtual laboratory enabled learning in the university level. For addressing these, this…
Descriptors: Influence of Technology, Virtual Classrooms, Laboratories, Reflection
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Findley, Kelly – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2022
Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) carry a substantial instructional role in introductory courses for many mathematics and statistics departments. As a result, many GTAs have first-hand influence on the initial statistical impressions of students from a range of disciplines. But as simultaneous learners of the discipline themselves, GTAs in…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Teaching Assistants, Introductory Courses, Statistics Education
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