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Fryer, Luke K.; Bovee, H. Nicholas – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
Motivations-beliefs for learning and their relationship to instructional experiences are a poorly understood aspect of higher education. Notably, interest is an individual difference that both researchers and educators alike believe should be supported. However, this support is too often relegated to the craft of instruction. To be enhanced…
Descriptors: Student Interests, Learning Motivation, College Freshmen, Foreign Countries
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Oberrauch, Luis; Seeber, Günther – Education Economics, 2022
Various studies have examined how the study of economics affects students' views on economic phenomena, yet there is little evidence regarding its impact on teenagers. We study the effect of a recent curriculum reform introducing mandatory economic education on teenagers' attitudes towards economics in Southwest Germany. Our findings reveal that…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Adolescent Attitudes, Required Courses, Foreign Countries
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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
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Hsiao, Yu-Chen – Education and Information Technologies, 2021
The global outbreak of COVID-19 since January 2020 has forced the closure of schools and universities in over 180 countries to control the pandemic, affecting approximately 90% of students worldwide. Distance teaching has been adopted during school closures to suspend classes without suspending learning. Scholars have claimed that distance…
Descriptors: Required Courses, Elective Courses, General Education, Synchronous Communication
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Mellander, Erik; Lind, Patrik – Review of Education, 2021
Many countries are trying to increase the recruitment to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) studies. Some have implemented curriculum reforms to this end, others may do so. Using experiences from curriculum reforms in Germany, the Netherlands and, in particular, Sweden, we consider a proposal from the Royal Society in England…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Recruitment, STEM Education, Curriculum Development
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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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Horwath, Ilona; Diabl, Christian – Gender and Education, 2020
This article offers new insight into students' responses to Womens' and Gender Studies (WGS) classes by overcoming the self-selection bias hitherto inherent in the field. Exploring the experiences of 1406 students (770 women, 636 men) of a university with a WGS requirement across all study programmes, we examine the prevailing discourses on WGS,…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Womens Studies, Required Courses, College Students
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Uyanik, Gökhan – International Electronic Journal of Environmental Education, 2020
The aim of this study is to investigate the ecological footprint awareness levels of classroom teacher candidates. Survey model have been used in this research. The study group consists of 349 prospective teachers who were studying in the first, second, third and fourth grade levels of Kastamonu University Faculty of Education classroom education…
Descriptors: Ecology, Preservice Teachers, Knowledge Level, Foreign Countries
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Al-Shannaq, Mamoon M. Mubark; Leppavirta, Johanna – International Journal of Instruction, 2020
This paper examines the relationship between mathematics anxiety and students' performance, gender, length of the studies and postponed calculus courses in scientific faculties. The data were collected from Calculus 2 students at the Hashemite University during the academic Year 2015/2016. The student sample consisted of 179 students with both…
Descriptors: Mathematics Anxiety, Mathematics Achievement, Correlation, Calculus
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Olcay, Zeynep F.; Temur, Sertaç; Sakalli, Ahmet E. – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2021
The safety culture plays an important role in reducing deaths and injuries in many sectors and educational institutions in developing countries. In this study, it was aimed to determine the occupational health and safety (OHS) course, which is taught as a compulsory course in Istanbul Aydin University before taking the course at the beginning of…
Descriptors: Occupational Safety and Health, Required Courses, Higher Education, Knowledge Level
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Filiz, Bijen – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2020
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between effective communication skills and verbal intelligence levels of Faculty of Sports Sciences students according to variables such as gender, department, age, academic grade point average (GPA), and way of taking the Effective Communication Skills (ECS) course. The correlational…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Multiple Intelligences, Verbal Communication, Physical Education
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Gökmen, Muhammed Fatih – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2019
The intent of the current study is to explore teacher candidates' cognitive, affective, and behavioral attitude towards the compulsory English courses at universities and the relation of attitude with the participants' genders, studying departments, graduated high schools, goals and hours for studying English. The cross-sectional survey and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Preservice Teachers
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Thumiki, Venkat Ram Raj – International Journal of Higher Education, 2019
Main reasons for student dropout from higher education may be low academic performance, poor socialization skills, low confidence levels, busy social life and financial issues. As students' dropout from higher education has been rising, there is a need to understand this problem for finding suitable solutions. Research objectives for this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Dropouts, Stopouts
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Adanir, Gülgün Afacan; Ismailova, Rita; Omuraliev, Asan; Muhametjanova, Gulshat – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2020
As online learning is becoming very popular in formal educational settings and in individual development, online exams are starting to be recognized as one of the more efficient assessment methods. Online exams are effective in either blended or traditional forms of learning, and, when appropriately used, bring benefits to both learners and the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Computer Assisted Testing, Foreign Countries, Developing Nations
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Alakyleh, Abdelnaser Sanad – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2018
Study aims to determine whether the university students' scores in the compulsory Islamic culture course test on a selected sample differ across the paper-and pencil test (PPT) & computer-based test (CBT) versions, and to reveal the relationship between gender and the student's level of performance in the test. Therefore, the study evaluated…
Descriptors: Test Format, Paper (Material), Computer Assisted Testing, Foreign Countries
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