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Nurturing Cooperative Learning Pedagogies in Higher Education Classrooms: Evidence of Instructional Reform and Potential Challenges
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Tadesse, Tefera; Gillies, Robyn M. – Current Issues in Education, 2015
This article presents a pilot study that examined instructional practices and student outcomes of two courses designed using cooperative learning (CL) pedagogies in Ethiopian university context. The participants included 58 undergraduates and two teachers. The quantitative results showed that four inter-correlated pedagogical factors: Cooperative…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Student Participation, Undergraduate Students, Higher Education
An Analysis of Teacher Efficacy and Perspectives about Elementary Literacy Instruction
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Abernathy-Dyer, Joy; Ortlieb, Evan; Cheek, Earl H., Jr. – Current Issues in Education, 2013
At the core of every teacher is a set of beliefs and knowledge regarding teaching and learning. As a teacher develops her expertise, curricular practices are refined and self-efficacy is enhanced. Teachers possess varying degrees of efficacy and perceptions that impact literacy instruction within their classrooms. Yet, often times they are…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Case Studies, Qualitative Research
Examining the Support of Modern Athletic Reform Proposals Developed by the Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics in Response to Higher Education Athletic Reform: A Case Study
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Zimmerman, Wade W.; Wickersham, Leah E. – Current Issues in Education, 2012
This study was conducted to determine the success for the diffusion of the Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics (COIA) white paper Framing the Future: Reforming Intercollegiate Athletics. The Stages of Concern Questionnaire (SoCQ) and personal interviews were utilized to collect data and purposeful sampling was used to identify one NCAA Division…
Descriptors: Evidence, Physical Activities, College Athletics, Program Proposals
The Ideological Dilemma in Teaching Literature: Moral Conflicts in a Diversified Society--An Israeli Teacher Case Study
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Baratz, Lea; Reingold, Roni – Current Issues in Education, 2010
The current study examines the implications of literary teaching material in a national diversified society in which the governmental educational policy separates between two national educational systems, and controls both of these separate systems. We set out to examine whether, in such realty, teachers are willing to teach texts, not formally…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Jews, Instructional Materials, Ideology