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Singh, Malkeet; McNeil, Jan Torbet – Learning Environments Research, 2014
The purpose of this study was to survey a sample of high school students in Hawaii and Singapore about what they perceive to be helpful aspects of classroom environments in their learning of science and humanities subjects. The What Is Happening In this Class? (WIHIC) questionnaire was administered in the fall of 2003 to 73 high school students in…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Environment, Questionnaires, Science Education
Ifenthaler, Dirk; Gosper, Maree; Bailey, Matthew; Kretzschmar, Mandy – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
Despite the expansion of online and blended learning, as well as open education, little research has been undertaken on what motivates students to enrol in particular study modes at university level. This project addresses this gap in higher education research by exploring the reasons why humanities students choose to study through specific modes.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Habits, Humanities, College Students
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Putwain, Dave; Whiteley, Helen; Caddick, Lee – Educational Research, 2011
Background: It has been claimed that thematic or integrated approaches to curriculum delivery offer a range of advantages over subject-based modes of delivery including improved pupil motivation. Purpose: This study put claims regarding pupil motivation to the test, using the achievement goals framework. This contemporary approach to understanding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Design, Student Motivation, Program Effectiveness
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Oppenheim, Charles; Summers, Mark A. C. – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2008
Introduction: This study aimed to explore research assessment within the field of music and, specifically, to investigate whether citation counting could be used to replace or inform the peer review system currently in use in the UK. Method: A citation analysis of academics submitted for peer review in Unit of Assessment 67 in the 2001 Research…
Descriptors: Music, Periodicals, Correlation, Humanities
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Lavonen, Jari; Angell, Carl; Bymen, Reijo; Henriksen, Ellen K.; Koponen, Ismo T. – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2007
The purpose of the study was to determine the typical teaching methods used in upper secondary physics in Finland and Norway and how students would like to study physics. Moreover, the further aim of seeing how certain background variables may explain students' desire to study their chosen specialist subject, physics or social science…
Descriptors: Secondary School Science, Science Instruction, Student Attitudes, Student Characteristics