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Lieselotte Postmes; Renske de Kleijn; Rianne Bouwmeester; Marieke van der Schaaf – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2025
Students are increasingly expected to take up proactive roles in feedback processes. While most feedback research focuses on asking, receiving, and engaging with feedback, some suggest that students must also proactively shape their feedback environment. This study explored graduate life science master's students' first impressions of a dialogue…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Educational Environment, Feedback (Response), Graduate Students
RP Group, 2024
The California Community Colleges (CCC) College Attendance Survey was designed to understand the factors influencing prospective and previously enrolled community college students' decisions to attend a California community college in fall of 2023. This report summarizes the second administration of this survey in late summer/early fall 2023 and…
Descriptors: Community College Students, College Attendance, Community Colleges, College Choice
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Soto-Jurado, Jacqueline; Garcia-Ponce, Edgar Emmanuell – MEXTESOL Journal, 2021
Recent communicative teaching approaches view learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL) as involving more than knowledge of grammar structures. Students are expected to develop communicative skills which allow them to interact inside and outside the language classroom. To this end, learning idioms plays a significant role because these…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Tunison, Scott – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2020
Given the pace of their work, school administrators often find it difficult to sift through the massive volume of primary academic research produced each year to find specific pieces that might be useful to inform their practice. In response to this issue, the author developed and implemented a strategy to filter research for local relevance and…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Utilization, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
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Ntow, Forster D.; Covington Clarkson, Lesa M.; Chidthachack, Sousada; Crotty, Elizabeth A. – The Mathematics Educator, 2017
This paper draws on self-determination theory (SDT) to explore reasons for college students' decisions to either continue or change directions (and hence their persistence) from their STEM-intending majors. We therefore sought to gain insight into why some college students persisted in their STEM-intending degree programs while others, faced with…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics, Academic Persistence, Self Determination
Darren Cambridge – Office of Educational Technology, US Department of Education, 2014
The 2010 National Educational Technology Plan argued that online communities of practice should be an integral component of the future of professional learning for educators. Building on at least two decades of existing scholarship, this report summarizes three years of exploratory research conducted by the Connected Educators project and…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Communities of Practice, Outcomes of Education, Barriers
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Gibbons, Melinda M.; Woodside, Marianne; Hannon, Christine; Sweeney, Jeffrey R.; Davison, John – Career Development Quarterly, 2011
There is a dearth of research exploring the career and work development of adults and the influence of family of origin on that development. In this qualitative study, the authors used a phenomenological approach to examine the career and work experiences of women whose parents have no education beyond high school and the influences of family on…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Career Development, Adults, Females