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Bain, Kinsey; Towns, Marcy H. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2018
The concept of energy is of central significance, as it is a core disciplinary idea in chemistry and a cross-cutting concept in the sciences. This study sought to investigate student understanding of energetics and associated thermodynamic functions in chemical reactions and processes across a sample of introductory-level undergraduate chemistry…
Descriptors: College Students, Chemistry, Knowledge Level, Thermodynamics
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Diamond, Aurel H.; Stylianides, Andreas J. – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2017
In this exploratory study, we investigated the personal epistemologies of statisticians in academia with the aim of offering some insight into what might be an availing epistemology for learning statistics. Findings from in-depth, semi-structured interviews with six academics in the UK currently researching within the field of statistics showed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Faculty, Statistics
Sluis, Kimberly A. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Students and families, lawmakers, and the general public have become increasingly concerned about the quality of U.S. higher education. Given the competitive higher education landscape, private, tuition-driven colleges and universities are particularly vulnerable to concerns about quality. This study investigates how faculty and administrative…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Private Colleges, Educational Improvement, Case Studies
Usta, Ertugrul – Online Submission, 2017
The purpose of this research is to examine the views of university students on the presence and exposure of cyber bully behavior. The research study group consists of 10 male students who are higher education students. One of the qualitative research methods is "case study". In this direction, a "semi-structured interview form"…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication
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Nghia, Tran Le Huu – Journal of Education and Work, 2018
External stakeholders have increasingly participated in instructional and training activities in higher education; however, their contribution has not yet been adequately documented, especially in non-Western university contexts. This article reports a study that examined external stakeholders' roles and factors influencing their participation in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Stakeholders, Skill Development, Role
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Kramer-Simpson, Elisabeth – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2018
Documenting and characterizing interactions between student interns and their mentors in the workplace offers perspective on student learning and enculturation that can help us introduce these ways of learning to students in the technical communication classroom, even before the internship. Three student intern conversations in the internship…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Mentors, Feedback (Response), Discourse Analysis
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Brzeski, Angela – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2017
This article explores the relationship between the identities and engagement in literacy practices across the home and college domains through case studies of two contrasting students studying on a childcare course at a further education (FE) college in the United Kingdom. The data are drawn from classroom observations, analysis of artefacts and…
Descriptors: College Students, Case Studies, Child Care, Adult Education
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Burns, Katharine E. – L2 Journal, 2018
The United States is one of the world's most populous Hispanophone countries, with over 35 million Spanish-speakers. In addition, Spanish is the most widely taught foreign language in the United States, with more students enrolled in Spanish at the higher-education level than in all other modern languages combined. How, then, is the United States'…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Variation
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Nghia, Tran Le Huu – Educational Studies, 2018
Contributing to a lack of studies related to generic skills (GS) assessment, especially in non-Western university contexts, this article reports a study that explored practices and challenges of assessing students' GS in the Business Administration programmes in six Vietnamese universities. Content analysis of interviews with 41 teachers of skills…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation, Skills, Business Administration Education
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Erdem, Aliye – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
Mind map, which was developed by Tony Buzan as a note-taking technique, is an application which has the power of uncovering the thoughts which the brain has about a subject from different viewpoints and which activate the right and left lobes of the brain together as an alternative to linear thought. It is known that mind maps have benefits such…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Concept Mapping, Learning Strategies, Lifelong Learning
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van Ommen, Merel; Daalmans, Serena; Weijers, Addy; Eden, Allison; de Leeuw, Rebecca N. H.; Buijzen, Moniek – Journal of Moral Education, 2017
This study aims to inform the discussion over the proposed merit of morally ambiguous dramas as a tool in moral education in the professional domain, by providing insight into student groups' moral evaluations of "Dexter." In-depth interviews (N = 61) were conducted among a diverse sample of law and (developmental) psychology students.…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Values Education, Law Related Education, College Students
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Apaydinli, Köksal – Educational Research and Reviews, 2016
It is known that many choirs in European countries perform different styles of traditional songs in different languages in their repertoire. However, Turkish contemporary polyphonic choral works which have specific harmony and timbres effected by "makam" may not be known as the others. In this context, the main aim of this study is to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Singing, Student Attitudes, Educational Experience
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Tarhan, Sinem; Ünal, Fatma; Köksal, Eda Çürükvelioglu – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
While the biological differences accepted by the individuals themselves are seen as sex differences, at the point of socializing the society culture, the differences in the ways of behavior, emotion, and role which are taught are seen as "acceptable" according to the sex are seen as gender role differences. This study aimed to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Semi Structured Interviews, Gender Discrimination
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Fallin-Bennett, Amanda; Roditis, Maria; Glantz, Stanton A. – Journal of American College Health, 2017
Objective: Tobacco-free policies are being rapidly adopted nationwide, yet compliance with these policies remains a challenge. This study explored college campus key informants' experiences with tobacco policies, and their perceived benefits, drawbacks, and outcomes. Participants: The sample for this study was 68 key informants representing 16…
Descriptors: Smoking, School Policy, Compliance (Psychology), College Students
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Yu, Mong-lin; Brown, Ted; Etherington, Jamie – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2018
This study investigated occupational therapy students' experiences of their alternative fieldwork placement at one childcare center where there was no established occupational therapy service. A semi-structured focus group interview explored four students' placement experiences. The interview was audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim, and content…
Descriptors: Occupational Therapy, Student Placement, Semi Structured Interviews, Focus Groups
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