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Kara Dadswell; Stjepan Sambol; Zali Yager; Nina Van Dyke; Michaela Pascoe; Clare Dallat; Claire Brown; Alexandra G. Parker – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2024
Design thinking is often proposed as an educative strategy to enhance growth mindset, problem solving, and creativity, but there are very few evaluations of the impact of experiential design thinking programs. The primary aim of this study was to investigate whether an online design-thinking workshop provided to outdoor education staff could…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Program Evaluation, Teacher Workshops, Faculty Development
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Bazan, Carlos; Shaikh, Arifusalam; Gillespie, Katie; Rushat, Tajrian; Radeef, Yousuf; Yap, Simon; Finn, Chantel – Industry and Higher Education, 2023
This article addresses the following research question: does the "entrepreneurial orientation" of a university influence the "entrepreneurial propensity" of its academics? To answer this question, the authors conducted a two-phase study. First, based on a literature review of the entrepreneurial university and Nelles and…
Descriptors: Universities, Entrepreneurship, College Faculty, Guidelines
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Abdullah Alamer; Ahmed Al Khateeb; Abdulrahman Alshabeb – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2025
This study introduces the first Arabic Vocabulary Levels Test (Arabic-VLT), created for foreign learners of Arabic. We present compelling evidence to substantiate its validity and reliability. The Arabic-VLT was developed according to five levels, beginning with the most frequently used words (Level 1) to the least frequently used ones (Level 5),…
Descriptors: Arabic, Vocabulary Development, Test Construction, Second Language Learning
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Chanpirom, Rames; Lersilp, Suchitporn; Putthinoi, Supawadee; Chaimaha, Napalai – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2022
The purpose of this pilot study was to explore cognitive performance and visual motor integration, and investigate the relationship between them in preschool children in a community. Forty-nine participants were selected by stratified random sampling from a local community school and community child development center in Thailand. The instruments…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Psychomotor Skills, Cognitive Ability, Verbal Ability
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Hughes, Joanne; Loader, Rebecca – Research Papers in Education, 2023
Adopting a social cohesion framework, we consider how the shared education model in Northern Ireland reflects distributive, ideational and relational dimensions of social cohesion, and the processes through which its implementation may be contributing to a more socially cohesive society. We use this case study to reflect on the current…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Guidelines, Social Integration, Foreign Countries
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Wakhata, Robert; Balimuttajjo, Sudi; Mutarutinya, Védaste – Mathematics Teaching Research Journal, 2023
This is an exploratory study considering instructional methods in mathematics education. The study examined misconceptions arising from selected assignments undertaken by sixty-five students. The students were attending a calculus mathematical course unit on limits of functions, in different academic areas offered at selected tertiary institutions…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Misconceptions, Calculus
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Darwin, Stephen; Barahona, Malba – Educational Action Research, 2023
Action research is characteristically used to provide research experience for late-stage, pre-service teachers as a means of breaching the perceived divide between theoretical knowledge and contexts of practice. However, aside from the considerable methodological challenges of enacting action research itself, pre-service teachers also enter…
Descriptors: Action Research, Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness
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Liu, Xianwei; Zou, Yang; Ma, Yonghong; Gao, Wei – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2020
To understand the factors and their influencing mechanisms on PhD students' creativity, we propose an extended scientific and technical human capital (STHC) model to examine the structural relationships among different sources of social capital, psychological capital, and PhD students' creativity and to test the moderating role of gender, industry…
Descriptors: Creativity, Doctoral Students, Foreign Countries, Social Capital
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Lu, Guoqing; Liu, Qingtang; Xie, Kui; Long, Taotao; Zheng, Xinxin – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2023
Technology integration refers to the process of innovation diffusion, from understanding technology knowledge to achieving a high level quality of technology usage. To address the gap in research regarding the critical factors that influence K-12 teachers' practice of technology integration at the initial stage of a massive government-led training…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Technological Literacy, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Educational Quality
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Lysenko, Larysa; Abrami, Philip C.; Wade, C. Anne – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2022
This paper explores factors to increase the likelihood that the implementation of ABRACADABRA, a technology-based approach to teaching and learning literacy, endures and expands beyond the initial research. Started as a pilot study in 12 classrooms, the implementation spread to more than 500 primary classrooms over six years in five areas of…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Intervention, Computer Software, Educational Technology
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Tsortanidou, Xanthippi; Daradoumis, Thanasis; Barberá, Elena – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
The purpose of this preliminary pilot study is to identify how imaginative teaching methods and low-technology prototyping promote social-emotional (SE) skills development in elementary school students. Particularly, two are the objectives of the study, firstly to test the research designs feasibility and validate the research tools and secondly,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Social Emotional Learning, Pilot Projects, Elementary School Students
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Güngör, Burcu; Önder, Alev – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: The aim of this study was to construct and validate "English Picture Vocabulary Test (EPVT)" that aimed to assess the very young learners' (VYLs) receptive and expressive vocabulary knowledge for specific content areas in English as a foreign language (EFL). In this context, EPVT was created in several stages. One of…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Test Construction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Hagos, Tadesse; Andargie, Dereje – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2023
The impacts of a technology-integrated formative assessment technique on students' conceptual and procedural knowledge in studying chemical equilibrium are studied in this study. To attain the purpose, a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest strategy nested with a qualitative study method was adopted. The study has three groups: two experimental and…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Formative Evaluation, Comparative Analysis, Correlation
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Grandahl, Maria; Tydén, Tanja; Westerling, Ragnar; Nevéus, Tryggve; Rosenblad, Andreas; Hedin, Erik; Oscarsson, Marie – Journal of School Health, 2017
Background: Parents' beliefs about human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination influence whether they allow their daughters to be vaccinated. We examined the association between parents' refusal and sociodemographic background, knowledge and beliefs about HPV, and the HPV vaccination in relation to the Health Belief Model. Methods: The sample consisted…
Descriptors: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Pilot Projects, Foreign Countries, Immunization Programs
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Saldiraner, Mehmet; Gizir, Siddika – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2021
This qualitative study is aimed at examining middle school principals' opinions on the factors associated with bullying in their schools, the strategies that principals take to tackle bullying in their schools, and the issues that they are faced while dealing with bullying their schools. The study group was consisted of 20 voluntary middle school…
Descriptors: Bullying, Middle Schools, Content Analysis, Principals
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