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Direct linkStaff, Toby; Gobet, Fernand; Parton, Andrew – Journal of Motor Learning and Development, 2021
The aim of this study was to compare two methodologies employed by the British Cycling talent identification program. Specifically, the authors investigated cyclists selected to represent GB cycling team at the London 2012 Olympics using (a) a traditional talent identification methodology (British Cycling Olympic Development Program), where…
Descriptors: Talent Identification, Comparative Analysis, Athletics, Foreign Countries
Francisco David Guillén-Gámez; Ernesto Colomo-Magaña; Julio Ruiz-Palmero; Lukasz Tomczyk – Journal of Research in Innovative Teaching & Learning, 2025
Purpose: To know the digital competence of rural teachers to carry out the tutoring process with members of the educational community through digital resources (teacher-student, teacher-families and teacher-teaching team). As specific objectives, gender, teaching specialties, interaction between gender*teaching speciality, and significant…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Elementary School Teachers, Digital Literacy, Teacher Competencies
Flavin, Michael; Zhou Chen, Ting; Quintero, Valentina – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2020
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have mission statements as a matter of course. This article analyses 127 mission statements from UK HEIs, comprising 76.048% of the mainstream UK higher education sector. The statements were divided into the categories of Russell Group; Other; and Specialist Institution. A mixed methods research approach was…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Position Papers, Institutional Mission, Language Usage
Kovacevic, Milan – Curriculum Journal, 2022
Whether a broad undergraduate curriculum prepares students well for academic and professional specialization is a much-debated question. This discussion is particularly relevant in the context of European liberal arts bachelor's programmes, which recently re-emerged as an exception to the continental norm of specialized undergraduate curricula.…
Descriptors: Liberal Arts, Masters Programs, Graduate Students, Dropout Rate
Download full textNdungo, Issa; Mugizi, Moses – Online Submission, 2019
Mathematics is key during teaching and school management; the relevance of teaching introductory mathematics to the pre-service teachers at universities was investigated. A random sample of 80 pre-service teachers and a quantitative experimental design were adopted. The results indicated that there was a significant difference at 0.05 level…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Specialization, Introductory Courses
Evers, Arne; McCormick, Carina M.; Hawley, Leslie R.; Muñiz, José; Balboni, Giulia; Bartram, Dave; Boben, Dusica; Egeland, Jens; El-Hassan, Karma; Fernández-Hermida, José R.; Fine, Saul; Frans, Örjan; Gintiliené, Grazina; Hagemeister, Carmen; Halama, Peter; Iliescu, Dragos; Jaworowska, Aleksandra; Jiménez, Paul; Manthouli, Marina; Matesic, Krunoslav; Michaelsen, Lars; Mogaji, Andrew; Morley-Kirk, James; Rózsa, Sándor; Rowlands, Lorraine; Schittekatte, Mark; Sümer, H. Canan; Suwartono, Tono; Urbánek, Tomáš; Wechsler, Solange; Zelenevska, Tamara; Zanev, Svetoslav; Zhang, Jianxin – International Journal of Testing, 2017
On behalf of the International Test Commission and the European Federation of Psychologists' Associations a world-wide survey on the opinions of professional psychologists on testing practices was carried out. The main objective of this study was to collect data for a better understanding of the state of psychological testing worldwide. These data…
Descriptors: Testing, Attitudes, Surveys, Psychologists
Blazhenkova, Olesya; Kozhevnikov, Maria – Creativity Research Journal, 2016
This research is the first to examine different types of creativity dimensions in relation to different types of visualization on a team level, by comparing adolescences' teams of different specialization (visual artist, scientists, and humanities) during a complex creative task in an ecologically valid educational setting First, the difference…
Descriptors: Creativity, Visualization, Specialization, Comparative Analysis
Haroun, Ramzi F.; Ng, Dicky; Abdelfattah, Faisal A.; AlSalouli, Misfer S. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2016
This study examines gender differences of teachers on their mathematical knowledge for teaching in the context of single-sex classrooms in Saudi Arabia. A translated version of the Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching (MKT) instrument (Learning Mathematics for Teaching [LMT], 2008) in Number and Operation Content Knowledge (CK) and Knowledge of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction
Yildiz, Cemalettin – Online Submission, 2016
The aim of this study is to compare the mathematical thinking experiences of fourth grade students at faculty of education and faculty of arts and sciences in the stages of specializing, generalizing, conjecturing, and proving. The study was conducted with 72 fourth grade students in the spring term of the academic year of 2015-2016. While 36 were…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disciplines, Science Education, Art Education, Schools of Education
Tuan, Vu Van – English Language Teaching, 2017
This study on level of communicative competence covering linguistic/grammatical and discourse has aimed at constructing a proposed English language program for 5 key universities in Vietnam. The descriptive method utilized was scientifically employed with comparative techniques and correlational analysis. The researcher treated the surveyed data…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), College Seniors, Program Proposals, Correlation
Amasuomo, Japo Oweikeye – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2015
The study examined the academic performance of students in the compulsory courses in technical education during the transition period of first and second years of three years Nigeria Certificate in Education (NCE) Technical programme before choosing their disciplines in the third year. The study comprised of 237 students that consisted of…
Descriptors: Technical Education, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Metallurgy
Iserbyt, Peter; Ward, Phillip; Li, Weidong – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2017
Background: Pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) is an interaction of several knowledge bases upon which the teacher makes decisions about what and how to teach. To date, there are no studies in physical education directly documenting relationships between specialized content knowledge (SCK) and PCK. Such relationships have not been empirically…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Physical Education, Knowledge Level, Specialization
Stozhko, Natalia; Bortnik, Boris; Mironova, Ludmila; Tchernysheva, Albina; Podshivalova, Ekaterina – Research in Learning Technology, 2015
The article studies a way of enhancing student cognition by using interdisciplinary project-based learning (IPBL) in a higher education institution. IPBL is a creative pedagogic approach allowing students of one area of specialisation to develop projects for students with different academic profiles. The application of this approach in the Ural…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Active Learning, Student Projects, Information Technology
Zhang, Huirong; Xiong, Jianjie; Song, Naiqing – Chinese Education and Society, 2013
This article describes Southwest University's no-fee teacher education internship models in terms of their organization, content, requirements, and quality assurance. It further introduces the quality assurance system, which comprises building a teaching internship system, establishing internship sites, guiding teacher training, and processing…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Educational Innovation, Fees, Paying for College
OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2011
The OECD Secretariat, at the invitation of the AHELO Group of National Experts, contracted the Tuning Association to undertake initial development work on learning outcomes to be used for valid and reliable assessments of students from diverse institutions and countries. The two disciplines selected for the AEHLO Feasibility Study are engineering…
Descriptors: Expertise, Occupations, Feasibility Studies, Civil Engineering
