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LaPiene, Kimberly; Pettijohn, Terry, II; Palm, Linda – College Student Journal, 2022
This study was conducted to analyze first impressions of a professor and student motivation for taking a college course. The researcher hypothesized that a course syllabus with a professor welcome statement would have a more positive effect on first impressions of the professor and student motivation as compared to a course syllabus without a…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, College Students, Teacher Student Relationship, Student Motivation
Annis Lee Adams; Stephanie Alexander; Sharon Radcliff – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
This study was designed to inform the renaming of a credit-bearing information literacy course. Researchers surveyed librarians to gather existing information literacy course titles. They also surveyed and held focus groups with students to learn what students consider when choosing electives, to understand how well the researchers' current…
Descriptors: College Students, Information Literacy, Library Instruction, Library Skills
Nina Lotte Bohm; Renate G. Klaassen; Ellen van Bueren; Perry den Brok – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: In collaboration with their home cities, universities increasingly develop courses in which students investigate urban sustainability challenges. This paper aims to understand how far-reaching the collaboration with urban stakeholders in these courses is and what students are meant to learn from the transdisciplinary pedagogies.…
Descriptors: Universities, Partnerships in Education, Municipalities, Metropolitan Areas
Nevin Farida – Discover Education, 2025
For any educational programme to be successful, it is essential to have a well-planned and comprehensive syllabus that fosters inclusivity and positive motivation. In my paper, I am going to examine the BA syllabi from the inception of the department to the present times, 1921-2023, to trace the inclusion of women writers. To gather information, I…
Descriptors: English Departments, Course Descriptions, Females, Authors
Lane, A. Kelly; Meaders, Clara L.; Shuman, J. Kenny; Stetzer, MacKenzie R.; Vinson, Erin L.; Couch, Brian A.; Smith, Michelle K.; Stains, Marilyne – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2021
Student impressions formed during the first day of class can impact course satisfaction and performance. Despite its potential importance, little is known about how instructors format the first day of class. Here, we report on observations of the first day of class in 23 introductory science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) courses. We…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Introductory Courses, STEM Education, Student Attitudes
Mourey, James A.; Markley, Melissa M.; Koernig, Stephen K. – Journal of Marketing Education, 2022
Research exploring a student's "path to purchase" when considering course selection has revealed a number of influential factors including course content, reputation, and professor style. To date, little is known about the direct (or indirect) influence that course titles and course descriptions have on student interest and enrollment in…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Difficulty Level, Course Selection (Students), Student Attitudes
Aboagye, Divine N.; Hooker, John; Simonds, Cheri J. – Basic Communication Course Annual, 2023
The purpose of this study was to examine teachers' use of mediated immediacy in a syllabus to determine effects on students' communication apprehension with instructors and student out-of-class communication with instructors. Participants viewed either a basic course syllabus with high levels of mediated immediacy or low levels of mediated…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Course Descriptions, Rhetoric, Communication Skills
John F. Hutton – ProQuest LLC, 2022
All engineering careers require some level of programming proficiency. However, beginning programming classes are challenging for many students. Difficulties have been well-documented and contribute to high drop-out rates which prevent students from pursuing engineering. While many approaches have been tried to improve the performance of students…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Engineering Education, Epistemology, Delphi Technique
Merry Sleigh; Donna Nelson; Meridee Ritzer; Alyssa Nelson – Journal of Effective Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
A high percentage of students enter college with prior trauma, and trauma-informed practices are increasingly recognized as valuable in higher education. We examined if the tone of a syllabus would interact with levels of trauma or stress to impact participants' perceptions of the instructor, willingness to seek help, and self-efficacy. We tested…
Descriptors: Trauma, Anxiety, Course Descriptions, Help Seeking
Arzu Saldiray – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2025
Alevi students' longstanding discontentment regarding compulsory religious education has become an important human rights issue in Türkiye. Although many theologists, political scientists, and legal scholars have conducted research on this subject, studies addressing the issue through curriculum and teaching practices are limited. This study seeks…
Descriptors: Ethics, Religion Studies, Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes
Kulkarni, Gauri; Vinuales, Gema – Marketing Education Review, 2020
With growing demand for marketing graduates with quantitative strengths, many universities are developing degree programs and courses that focus on analytical skills. Unfortunately, marketing students are often regarded as having inferior quantitative skills. Thus, marketing departments face the challenge of motivating students to enroll in…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Marketing, Numeracy, Course Selection (Students)
King, Stephen M.; Agyapong, Elijah; Roberts, Gary – Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2021
Extant research has demonstrated a positive effect of ethics education in public affairs and administration programs, yet the same suggests the lack of a unifying framework for teaching ethics in the discipline. Since the ratification of the 2013 revised ASPA Code of Ethics, scholars have called for NASPAA programs to incorporate the Code in their…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Public Affairs Education, Public Administration Education, Student Educational Objectives
Naik, Shefali; Gajjar, Kunjal – Journal of Education, 2023
Ahmedabad University has evolved a framework "ENABLE." Through ENABLE, concepts are taught from the context of real world. Industry projects are assigned to groups of students where they get engaged in real scenarios. Theoretical concepts are introduced as and when needed during the project implementation. Faculty serve as facilitators…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Centered Learning, Active Learning, Student Projects
Donnelly, Julie; Winkelmann, Kurt – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
Students' negative perceptions of physical chemistry courses are well-known and are likely impacting their learning and performance in this upper-division course for majors. The syllabus can be the first interaction students have with a course and instructor and can be central to the expectations student set for the learning experience. While…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, College Students, Student Attitudes, Majors (Students)
Emily Di Zhang; Shulin Yu – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2025
While research on digital multimodal composing (DMC) has been skewed towards the instructional design and affordances of DMC for L2 learners, there is a wider need to develop conceptual models of L2 DMC competence, with which L2 learners can successfully design DMC works and respond to the multimodal reading and writing demands of the digital era.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction, Multiple Literacies