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Li Zhang; Yujia Liu; Youtian Wu – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2024
As one of the most literary and transdisciplinary cultural practices, speculative design has become one of the best mediums for discussing emerging technologies, the Anthropocene and the ecological crisis. When design history is merely perceived as established knowledge about the past and fails to engage in dialogue with reality or individual…
Descriptors: Historiography, Gender Differences, Comprehension, Creative Thinking
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Foli, Jessie Yao; Awaah, Fred; Solomon, Yeboah – International Journal of Educational Management, 2023
Purpose: Corporate governance and its training in universities have become an essential addition to the educational curriculum. Despite its expansion, students still need help to grasp some concepts, affecting their academic performance. This paper examines the expected influence of gender and school libraries on comprehending corporate governance…
Descriptors: Corporations, Governance, Undergraduate Students, Academic Libraries
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da Rosa, Jennifer A. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2022
This survey study evaluated the relationship between cultural worldview and the occurrence of climate science misconceptions among 688 undergraduates at five colleges in the United States. The Worldview, Misconceptions, and Cognitive Reflection instrument was employed to measure respondents' cultural worldview, climate science misconceptions using…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Climate, Misconceptions, World Views
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Johnson, Eric M.; Morgan, Shae D.; Ferguson, Sarah Hargus – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: This preliminary investigation compared effects of time compression on intelligibility for male versus female talkers. We hypothesized that time compression would have a greater effect for female talkers. Method: Sentence materials from four talkers (two males) were time compressed, and original-speed and time-compressed speech materials…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Time, Speech Communication, Comprehension
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Lois George – Electronic Journal for Research in Science & Mathematics Education, 2023
A key component of student mathematics achievement relates to the cognitive domains. This paper examines student mathematics achievement in three cognitive domains (knowledge, comprehension, reasoning) as per different achievement grades, across four years (2015, 2016, 2018, 2019), and by gender. This study used the Caribbean Secondary Education…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, High School Students, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries
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Roel van Steensel; Brenda Gouw; Saskia Liefers; Tessa van Aspert – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2024
Although research on the home literacy environment and its impact on early literacy has long focused on mothers, the past decade has seen a shift in scholarly attention to the role of fathers. Building on this shift, we examined whether the nature of parent-child interactions during shared storybook reading varies with parent gender, child gender…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Instruction, Parent Child Relationship, Parents
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Harara, Nour Mohammad – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
The present study endeavors to investigate the learning of the comprehension of semantic interpretation of metaphor in the expository writing by EFL learners at Albalqa Applied University, Jordan. Moreover, the study attempts to see the role of mother tongue influences in the learning and comprehension of semantic interpretation of metaphor in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Semantics
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Bower, Corinne A.; Foster, Lindsey; Zimmermann, Laura; Verdine, Brian N.; Marzouk, Maya; Islam, Siffat; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Early spatial skills predict the development of later spatial and mathematical skills. Yet, it is unclear how comprehension of the words that capture spatial relations, words like behind and under, might be associated with children's early spatial and mathematics skills. The current study addressed this question by conducting a moderated mediation…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Gender Differences, Socioeconomic Status, Mathematics Skills
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Rivière, Elora; Champagne-Lavau, Maud – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
The present study in French sought to investigate which factors predict irony perception most efficiently. An experiment was developed following three steps. The first two steps focused on the creation of stimuli to be evaluated in the third step. In this last step, participants, whose sociocultural characteristics (gender, age, and level of…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, College Students, Foreign Countries, French
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Tulviste, Tiia; Tamm, Anni – First Language, 2022
This study explored associations between mothers' language teaching practices and children's language skills concurrently and longitudinally, while also taking into account the children's sex and mothers' education. Estonian mothers of 76 children reported their language teaching practices at child ages 3;0 and 4;0. Children's language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Child Language, Language Skills
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Kaur, Tejinder; Blair, David; Stannard, Warren; Treagust, David; Venville, Grady; Zadnik, Marjan; Mathews, Warwick; Perks, Dana – Research in Science Education, 2020
The modern Einsteinian conception of space, time, matter and radiation represents a radical paradigm shift compared with the traditional Newtonian physics that underpins most primary and secondary school science. It is increasingly recognised that school education should encompass this modern paradigm to allow a seamless progression of learning…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Scientific Literacy, Scientific Concepts, Physics
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Boote, Stacy K.; Boote, David N.; Williamson, Steven – Cogent Education, 2021
Several decades of research suggesting differences in test performance across paper-based and computer-based assessments have been largely ameliorated through attention to test presentation equivalence, though no studies to date have focused on graph comprehension items. Test items requiring graph comprehension are increasingly common but may be…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Business Administration Education, Graphs
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Nancy Ku Bradt – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2024
An increasing number of K-12 schools and educational organizations in the U.S. emphasize Global Citizenship Education (GCE) in their curricula. As a kind of social studies education, GCE is often marketed as an effective means to provide students with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to succeed in our unpredictable, challenging future.…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Global Approach, Citizenship, Social Studies
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Michelle Jeffries; Nerida Spina; Elizabeth Briant; Annetta Cayas – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2025
Globally, schooling continues to be a precarious space for gender and sexuality diverse (GSD) youth, where students are more likely to experience transphobic and homophobic violence at school than at home or in the general community. While there have been moves to provide learning about GSD in preservice teacher education, limited attention has…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Education Majors, Foreign Countries, Transformative Learning
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Caroline Cobb; Jianling Xie; Katarzyna Gallo; Marlon Boyd; Margaret Wilkins; Madison Wadsworth; Lucy Brake – American Journal of Distance Education, 2024
We sought to examine the potential environmental protective factors contributing to academic resilience among college students during emergency distance education. Data were collected from a sample of undergraduate students (n = 195) representing various majors and academic classifications. Our study results revealed that students perceived their…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Resilience (Psychology), COVID-19, Pandemics
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