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Huber, Johannes; Traxl, Bernd – Research Papers in Education, 2018
Greater public and scholarly awareness of the educational influence of males (men and fathers) on child development has generated a parallel need for empirical research into the gender-related structure and dynamics of relationships between girls/boys and female/male educators in early childhood education institutions. The Austrian W-INN pilot…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Gender Differences, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries
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Singh, Renu; Mukherjee, Protap – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2018
Using unique panel data from Young Lives study conducted in undivided Andhra Pradesh, India, this mixed-method paper analyses gender differentials in completion of secondary education. Results show biased secondary school completion rates in favor of boys. Probit regression results highlight certain variables such as mothers' education, wealth,…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Case Studies, Housework, Sex Fairness
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Bar-Am, Ran; Arar, Osama – European Journal of Educational Research, 2017
This article deals with the problem of student dropout during the first year in a higher education institution. To date, no model on a budget has been developed and tested to prevent dropout among Engineering Students. This case study was conducted among first-year students taking evening classes in two practical engineering colleges in Israel.…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Dropout Prevention, Budgets, Engineering Education
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Healy, Margaret; Doran, John; McCutcheon, Maeve – Accounting Education, 2018
Studies of cooperative learning have focused largely on specific interventions within individual modules. The aim of this paper is to examine the student perceptions of their cumulative experiences at the end of a four-year undergraduate programme, during which cooperative learning work was implemented in a piecemeal manner, and explore how gender…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Outcomes of Education, Academic Ability, Transfer of Training
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Yurt, Eyüp; Tünkler, Vural – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2016
This study investigated prospective social studies teachers' spatial abilities. It was conducted with 234 prospective teachers attending Social Studies Teaching departments at Education Faculties of two universities in Central and Southern Anatolia. This study, designed according to the explanatory-sequential design, is a mixed research method,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spatial Ability, Social Studies, Preservice Teachers
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Ifegbesan, Ayodeji Peter; Ogunyemi, Biodun; Rampedi, Isaac T. – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2017
Purpose: Waste management is a critical element of the campus sustainability movement in which Nigerian universities are yet to actively participate. The purpose of this study was to investigate prevalent waste management practices and the disposition of undergraduate students in a Nigerian University. Design/methodology/approach: Data collection…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Sanitation, Sustainability
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Malin, Heather; Tirri, Kirsi; Liauw, Indrawati – Journal of Moral Education, 2015
This study explored gender differences in moral motivations and civic engagement among adolescents to add to existing explanations for the gender gap in political engagement in the US. We examined moral motivations for civic engagement in a sample of 1578 high school seniors, using a mixed-methods analysis of survey and interview data. Multiple…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Moral Values, Multiple Regression Analysis, Surveys
Bodenburg, Gary C. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study aims to examine the role athletics plays in academic achievement amongst varsity athletes in a large suburban Long Island school district. The study was motivated by six questions using both a quantitative and qualitative methodology. Those questions aimed to answer the extent (1) the overall grade point average of an athlete compared…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Athletics, Student Participation, Academic Achievement
Anu Vedantham – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
This case study describes the creation process for a mixed methods study from 2009 to 2011, examining for the first time gender differences in how undergraduate students create videos for online platforms such as Facebook and YouTube. I conducted this research for my doctoral dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Data Collection, Video Technology, Creativity
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Kavanoz, Suzan – Online Submission, 2017
Promoting higher communication efficiency among teacher candidates and acting as models are among the main professional responsibilities of teacher educators. This makes the task of teachers even more important in language education classes where students are prospective language teachers and their development as language teachers highly depend on…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Communication (Thought Transfer), Anxiety, Mixed Methods Research
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Narwana, Kamlesh – Policy Futures in Education, 2015
In post-Jomtien phase, community participation in school education management has appeared as one of the most prominent features in all educational development programmes at global level. In line with this trend, India has also placed a significant focus on local communities in school management through various programmes such as LokJumbish,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Community Involvement, School Community Relationship
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Abbas, Andrea; Ashwin, Paul; McLean, Monica – Teaching in Higher Education, 2016
Previous research identifies the importance of feminist knowledge for improving gender equity, economic prosperity and social justice for all. However, there are difficulties in embedding feminist knowledge in higher education curricula. Across England, undergraduate sociology is a key site for acquiring feminist knowledge. In a study of four…
Descriptors: Sociology, Gender Issues, Feminism, Gender Differences
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Wang, Meiping; Liu, Siwei; Belsky, Jay – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
Most family-system research on triangulation processes has been undertaken in the West, with little known about this family dynamic in the East. The present cross-sectional study analysed 1,073 Chinese 3rd-12th-graders' self-reported exposure to three kinds of triangulation--cross-generation coalition, scapegoating, and parentification--in…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Social Adjustment
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Matthews, Nic; Kilgour, Lindsey; Christian, Polly; Mori, Kate; Hill, Denise M. – Youth & Society, 2015
The well-being of young people is of considerable concern with many initiatives targeting the health behaviors of this population. Educators are among the professional groups being challenged to understand, evidence, and enhance childhood well-being. Working with a case study U.K. school adolescent subjective well-being (SWB) was examined through…
Descriptors: Well Being, Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Focus Groups
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Trujeque Moreno, Eva Estefania; Encinas Prudencio, Fátima; Thomas-Ruzic, Maria – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2015
This article presents a multi-theoretical model to address processes of "authorship development" in the English as a foreign language teaching profession. Working within a sociocultural perspective of second-language teacher education, the authors examined six experienced nonnative English-speaking teacher-researchers. Perceptions of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Researchers, English (Second Language), English Teachers
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