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Adieli Laoli; Ellyunus Waruwu; Ayler Berniah Ndraha; Dedi Irawan Zebua – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2023
Gender becomes one of the essential factors that are always considered in the various relationships among variables in the educational field. The purpose of this study is to examine the involvement of gender differences in the enhancement of college students' English achievement using inquiry-based learning. A quasi-experimental two-way factorial…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, College Students
Denaro, Kameryn; Kranzfelder, Petra; Owens, Melinda T.; Sato, Brian; Zuckerman, Austin L.; Hardesty, Rebecca A.; Signorini, Adriana; Aebersold, Andrea; Verma, Mayank; Lo, Stanley M. – International Journal of STEM Education, 2022
Background: The University of California system has a novel tenure-track education-focused faculty position called Lecturer with Security of Employment (working titles: Teaching Professor or Professor of Teaching). We focus on the potential difference in implementation of active-learning strategies by faculty type, including tenure-track…
Descriptors: Active Learning, College Faculty, Tenure, Teacher Characteristics
Hempel, Byron R.; Kiehlbugh, Kasi; Blowers, Paul – Chemical Engineering Education, 2019
A sophomore core chemical engineering course was co-taught by two different 4 instructors in Spring 2016 and Spring 2017 with approximately 90 students both semesters via an 5 active learning environment in a collaborative learning space. Both instructors were present for 6 almost all lectures and each instructor delivered approximately 50% of the…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Active Learning, Science Instruction, Chemical Engineering
Lee, Daniel; Baker, William; Haywood, Nick – Australian Journal of Music Education, 2019
Research suggests graduates from music courses in Australian tertiary institutions typically undertake portfolio careers that include a combination of performing and teaching. Both of these activities could have ongoing artistic ripple effects on the musical communities the graduates inhabit. This paper reports on a qualitative post-graduate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Teaching Methods, Popular Culture
Mark Okpanachi Akubo – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The underrepresentation of women in STEM more generally and in physics specifically has been well established (e.g., Hyater-Adams, Fracchiolla, Finkelstein, & Hinko, 2018; Johnson, Ong, Ko, Smith, & Hodari, (2017); Lock & Hazari, 2016), and the field remains challenged by the negative consequences of this underrepresentation. Women's…
Descriptors: Physics, Student Centered Learning, Active Learning, Undergraduate Students
AbuZayyad-Nuseibeh, Heba – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate faculty perceptions towards the transitioning process from face-to-face to online instruction. This study investigated the overall perceptions towards the transitioning process, the perceived changes in the teaching methods, technical and instructional design skills needed for the process, the change in…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Instructional Design, Online Courses
Landrum, R. Eric; Viskupic, Karen; Shadle, Susan E.; Bullock, Doug – International Journal of STEM Education, 2017
Background: The efficacy of active learning within STEM education is clear, and many institutions are working to help faculty adopt evidence-based instructional practices (EBIPs) which can promote active learning. In order to know the current status of our campus regarding these goals, measures of current instructional climate and the adoption of…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Active Learning, Online Surveys, Evidence Based Practice
Cundiff, Jessica L.; Danube, Cinnamon L.; Zawadzki, Matthew J.; Shields, Stephanie A. – Journal of Higher Education, 2018
Women make up the majority of doctoral degree earners yet remain underrepresented in tenure-track positions within the academy. Gender disparities result in part from the accumulation of subtle, typically unintentional biases that pervade workplace structures, practices, and patterns of interactions that inadvertently favor men. However, the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Gender Bias, College Faculty, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Werner, Jon M.; Scovotti, Carol; Cummings, Richard G.; Bronson, James W. – Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 2018
An action learning process was used at a large Midwestern business college ("LMBC") to promote greater use of active learning approaches in the classroom. At an all-college gathering, faculty received instruction and encouragement in the use of the case method in their respective classes. Faculty were subsequently surveyed about their…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Business Schools, College Faculty, Active Learning
Mystakidis, Stylianos; Berki, Eleni; Valtanen, Juri – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2019
Life-long learning is currently being embraced as a central process that could disrupt traditional educational paths. Apparently, the (ideal) type of learning often promoted is deep and meaningful learning, though it is not always required to be so. Deep learning goes beyond superficial knowledge assimilation of unlinked facts; it aims at…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Distance Education, Quality Assurance, Educational Quality
Anderton, Ryan S.; Chiu, Li Shan; Aulfrey, Susan – International Journal of Higher Education, 2016
Anatomy and physiology teaching has undergone significant changes to keep up with advances in technology and to cater for a wide array of student specific learning approaches. This paper examines perceptions towards a variety of teaching instruments, techniques, and innovations used in the delivery and teaching of anatomy and physiology for health…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, College Faculty, Anatomy, Health Sciences
Khoshlessan, Rezvan – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study was designed to explore the relationships between the perception of professors' instructional practices and international students' study anxiety. The dominant goal of this research was to investigate whether the professors' use of active and collaborative learning techniques reduces the study anxiety of international students. The…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Students, Student Attitudes, College Faculty
Bryant, Christa Michelle – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to determine if faculty teaching behaviors differed as a function of demographic variables including academic discipline, years of experience making accommodations, academic rank, and/or gender. College faculty from three universities completed and submitted the Faculty Inventory, a questionnaire containing seven…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Behavior, State Universities, Demography
Wang, Lihui – International Education Journal, 2007
In this study, the Felder learning styles inventory was administered to students who were non-English majors in a Chinese University. Descriptive statistics identified that participants do vary in their preference for particular learning styles with a great variety of learning style preferences distributed unevenly among the sample population. A…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Cognitive Style, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2017), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Models, Vocational Education, Outcomes of Education