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Armoni, Michal; Gal-Ezer, Judith – Informatics in Education, 2023
In a previous publication we examined the connections between high-school computer science (CS) and computing higher education. The results were promising -- students who were exposed to computing in high school were more likely to take one of the computing disciplines. However, these correlations were not necessarily causal. Possibly those…
Descriptors: High School Students, Computer Science Education, Correlation, Higher Education
Wenting Song; Jeannine E. Turner – Foreign Language Annals, 2025
This study explored Chinese heritage language learners' prior Mandarin experiences and their current Mandarin-learning experiences to reveal factors that influence their motivation and intention to continue or discontinue their Mandarin coursework. Using a Grounded Theory approach, we conducted demographic surveys and semi-structured interviews…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Learning Motivation, Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Learning
Burch, Gerald F.; Burch, Jana J.; Bradley, Thomas P.; Heller, Nathan A. – Journal of Management Education, 2015
Educators have been challenged to identify threshold concepts and develop transformed students. This stands in stark contrast to many curriculum design and delivery models that currently view students as repositories of knowledge. In this article, we argue that educators can reach both goals, identify stumbling blocks and transforming students,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Concept Formation, Prior Learning, Learning Activities
Schartner, Alina; Young, Tony Johnstone – European Journal of Higher Education, 2016
Despite a burgeoning body of empirical research on "the international student experience", the area remains under-theorized. The literature to date lacks a guiding conceptual model that captures the adjustment and adaptation trajectories of this unique, growing, and important sojourner group. In this paper, we therefore put forward a…
Descriptors: Models, Student Adjustment, Foreign Students, Heuristics
Hoffmann, Theresa; Michel, Kevin A. – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2010
The marketplace continues to move working adults toward completing their college degrees at an expeditious rate. Prior learning assessment has been shown to aid retention efforts. As with any assessment tool, reliability and validity are key to quality assurance. Given the student-centered nature of prior learning assessment, evaluators have…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Prior Learning, Experiential Learning, Evaluation
McClary, LaKeisha Michelle – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study explored what cognitive resources (i.e., units of knowledge necessary to learn) first-semester organic chemistry students used to make decisions about acid strength and how those resources guided the prediction, explanation and justification of trends in acid strength. We were specifically interested in the identifying and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Heuristics, Prior Learning, Organic Chemistry
McEwen, Lindsey; Stokes, Alison; Crowley, Kate; Roberts, Carolyn – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2014
This paper explores role-play pedagogies in learning and communicating about cutting-edge flood science by flood risk management professionals in local government. It outlines role-play process/structure and evaluates participant perceptions of their learning experiences. Issues were impacts of prior role-play experience on attitudes brought to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Role Playing, Risk Management, Natural Disasters

Holt-Reynolds, Diane – American Educational Research Journal, 1992
The relationship among beliefs based on personal history that preservice teachers bring to their study of teaching and principles of reading, writing, and discussing to learn advocated by one professor was studied for nine college students. Personal histories of preservice teachers function as prior knowledge of good teaching. (SLD)
Descriptors: Beliefs, College Students, Course Content, Decision Making
Frederick, Lynda; Giles, Rebecca McMahon – 2000
This study investigated the relationship between preservice teachers' dominant intelligence(s) and picture book preferences. Participants completed the quiz, "Where Does Your True Intelligence Lie?" to determine their dominant intelligence(s). They also reviewed and ranked 21 picture books, chosen to represent each of the seven intelligences,…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Cognitive Style, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
Gray, Eileen – 1975
Information and advice in this guide focuses on the emotional, financial, and academic realities of women returning to school. Chapter One examines the opportunities available today, including such topics as special programs for returning women and the societal factors causing women to return to school. In Chapter Two the decision-making process…
Descriptors: Adult Students, College Admission, College Choice, Colleges
Peters, William H.; Stuessy, Carol L.; Loving, Cathleen C. – 2000
A collaborative of secondary teachers and administrators, university faculty, and administrators formulated a four-phase, field-based teacher education program that included: providing for self-directed experiences with adolescents; establishing an understanding of teaching and schools in modern society; developing skills to meet the needs of…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Decision Making, Field Experience Programs, Higher Education
American Council on Education, Washington, DC. – 1979
This national guide presents credit recommendations and course descriptions for education officials to consider when granting credit to students for learning acquired in noncollegiate organizations. The courses listed in the guide represent only a small sample of the educational programs conducted by the participating organizations. A section on…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Business, College Credits, Course Descriptions
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers