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Undergraduate Research, Learning Gain and Equity: The Impact of Final Year Research Projects
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Parker, Jonathan – Higher Education Pedagogies, 2018
This study evaluates the impact of undergraduate research on student achievement. It analyses graduating students from 2012 to 2016 at a UK university that requires a research project comprising 25% of final-year credits in most subjects, providing a sample of over 5000 students across the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities. It…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Academic Achievement, Research Projects, Grades (Scholastic)
Communication Research in Spain: Weaknesses, Threats, Strengths and Opportunities
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Caffarel, Carmen; Ortega, Félix; Gaitán, Juan-Antonio – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2018
This article presents the methodological strategies, results and a critical analysis of the national research project MapCom "The Research Sphere on Communication Studies Social Practices, Map of Projects, Groups, Research Objects and Methods". We present the results obtained within the first two phases of the research project. The…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Foreign Countries, Research Methodology, Comparative Analysis
Effects of Gender on Student Response to Course-Based Research
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Henter, Heather J.; Mel, Stephanie F. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2016
There is wide consensus among educators that participation in authentic research is valuable for undergraduate science students, and incorporating research into large-enrollment courses is one way to provide that opportunity to many students. There is substantial variation in the documented impacts, however, particularly between males and females.…
Descriptors: College Science, Undergraduate Students, Focus Groups, Science Education
Both-and, Not Either-or: Knowledge and Service-Learning
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Casile, Maureen; Hoover, Kristine F.; O'Neil, Deborah A. – Education & Training, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to expand the understanding of outcomes of service-learning/community engagement. The current study explored the efficacy of service-learning as a pedagogical tool to support content mastery by undergraduates in a management class. Design/methodology/approach: The study involved a classroom experiment with 120…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Research Projects, Course Content, Student Development
Research and/or Learning and Teaching: A Study of Australian Professors' Priorities, Beliefs and Behaviours
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Cretchley, P. C.; Edwards, S. L.; O'Shea, P.; Sheard, J.; Hurst, J.; Brookes, W. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2014
This paper presents findings from an empirical study of key aspects of the teaching and research priorities, beliefs and behaviours of 72 professorial and associate professorial academics in Science, Information Technology and Engineering across four faculties in three Australian universities. The academics ranked 16 research activities and 16…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs
Culminating Experience Action Research Projects, Volume 16, Part 1, Spring 2010
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McAllister, Deborah A., Ed.; Cutcher, Cortney L., Ed. – Online Submission, 2011
As a part of the teacher licensure program at the graduate level at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC), the M.Ed. Licensure candidate is required to complete an action research project during a 3-semester-hour course that coincides with the 9-semester-hour student teaching experience. This course, Education 590 Culminating…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Visual Arts, Singing, Student Attitudes