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Matthew McGrievy – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this descriptive research study was to evaluate the web-based practice experience tracking system at a school of public health (SPH) at a large southeastern university. Applied practice experiences (APEs) are a key component of public health education, and schools and programs of public health in the United States must provide…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Public Health, Health Education
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Moyne, Martina M.; Herman, Maxwell; Gajos, Krzysztof Z.; Walsh, Conor J.; Holland, Donal P. – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2018
This article describes the development of the Design Evaluation and Feedback Tool (DEFT), a custom-built web-based system that collects and reports data to support teaching, learning, and research in project-based engineering design education. The DEFT system collects data through short weekly questionnaires for students and instructors in…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Design, Active Learning, Student Projects
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Aranha, Solange; Leone, Paola – Research-publishing.net, 2016
This contribution aims at (1) discussing the characteristics of collecting, filing and storing data to have a databank of oral interactions between university students whose main objective is the learning of a second language through teletandem; and (2) defining the steps for further collections and storage. Our data are Skype sessions of foreign…
Descriptors: Databases, Data Collection, College Students, Speech Communication
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Tsai, Yea-Ru; Ouyang, Chen-Sen; Chang, Yukon – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2016
The purpose of this study is to propose a diagnostic approach to identify engineering students' English reading comprehension errors. Student data were collected during the process of reading texts of English for science and technology on a web-based cumulative sentence analysis system. For the analysis, the association-rule, data mining technique…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, English (Second Language), Reading Comprehension, Language Proficiency
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Chou, Jyh Rong – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2016
The touch mouse is a new type of computer mouse that provides users with a new way of touch-based environment to interact with computers. For more than a decade, user experience (UX) has grown into a core concept of human-computer interaction (HCI), describing a user's perceptions and responses that result from the use of a product in a particular…
Descriptors: Computer Peripherals, Computer Uses in Education, Handheld Devices, Educational Technology
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Yang, Fang; Wang, Shudong – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2014
This research investigates East Asian students' perceptions towards e-learning privacy. The survey was first carried out in Japan (N1 = 255) and China (N2 = 307) in 2009. In 2012 the same survey was conducted again in these two countries but with different participants (N3 = 175, N4 = 63). To survey in different countries is to verify whether…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Educational Technology, Electronic Learning
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Castaño, Jonatan; Duart, Josep M.; Sancho-Vinuesa, Teresa – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2015
The use of the Internet in higher education teaching can facilitate the interactive learning process and thus improve educational outcomes. The aim of the study presented here is to explore which variables are linked to higher intensity of Internet-based interactive educational practices. The study is based on data obtained from an online survey…
Descriptors: Use Studies, Internet, Higher Education, Educational Practices
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Burton, William B.; Civitano, Adele; Steiner-Grossman, Penny – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2012
This study sought to determine if differences exist in the quantitative and qualitative data collected with paper and online versions of a medical school clerkship evaluation form. Data from six-and-a-half years of clerkship evaluations were used, some collected before and some after the conversion from a paper to an online evaluation system. The…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Medical Schools, Data Collection, Printed Materials
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Terzis, Vasileios; Economides, Anastasios A. – Computers & Education, 2011
The effective development of a computer based assessment (CBA) depends on students' acceptance. The purpose of this study is to build a model that demonstrates the constructs that affect students' behavioral intention to use a CBA. The proposed model, Computer Based Assessment Acceptance Model (CBAAM) is based on previous models of technology…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Uses in Education, Intention
Demski, Jennifer – Campus Technology, 2011
American higher education is suffering from a dropout pandemic. About 30% of freshmen at four-year colleges don't return for their sophomore year, according to a 2010 report by the American Institutes for Research. Such a high failure rate threatens to make a mockery of President Obama's goal for the US to have the highest proportion of college…
Descriptors: Dropouts, College Graduates, Student Attrition, College Students
Cameron, Andrea H.; Bush, Michael H. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The newness of the iPad device creates a phenomenon unique and unstudied in the academic environment. By merging the innovations of electronic text, e-reader, and multi-modal functionality, the iPad tablet device can act as an e-reader providing digital course materials as well as a range of other supplementary academic applications. This…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Pilot Projects, Focus Groups, Student Participation
Flinn, Michael Bradley – ProQuest LLC, 2009
With privacy concerns growing on a daily basis, it is important to understand how college students guard their personally identifiable information. Despite the students' perceived readiness and several studies on the topic, it is not fully understood what personally identifiable information college students are sharing via online social networks…
Descriptors: College Students, Internet, Social Networks, Grade Point Average
DesRoches, David; Hall, John; Santos, Betsy – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2009
In an effort to better understand the factors associated with college persistence and attrition, the Survey Research Center at Princeton University, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is conducting the College Student Attrition Project. As part of that project, Mathematica Policy Research conducted the College Experiences Survey.…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Academic Persistence, Data Collection, Student Attrition
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Penner, Nikolai; Schulze, Mathias – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2010
This paper addresses several components of successful language-learning methodologies--group work, task-based instruction, and wireless computer technologies--and examines how the interplay of these three was perceived by students in a second-year university foreign-language course. The technology component of our learning design plays a central…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Group Activities, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
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Jager, Sake, Ed.; Kurek, Malgorzata, Ed.; O'Rourke, Breffni, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2016
Trinity College Dublin was proud to host, in April 2016, the Second International Conference on Telecollaboration in Higher Education, with the theme "New Directions in Telecollaborative Research and Practice." Over two and a half days, 150 participants offered 95 research presentations, posters, and "problem shared" sessions.…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Cooperation, Higher Education, Educational Research
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