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Direct linkLydia Horne; Amanda Manzanares; Nicholas Babin; Emily A. Royse; Lee Arakawa; Eunice Blavascunas; Lisa Doner; Daniel Druckenbrod; Ennea Fairchild; Meghann Jarchow; Barry R. Muchnick; Prajjwal Panday; Denielle Perry; Rebecca Thomas; Anne Toomey; Brian H. Tucker; Camille Washington-Ottombre; Shirley Vincent; Steven W. Anderson; Chelsie Romulo – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2024
Interdisciplinary environmental and sustainability (IES) programs are different from other fields because they focus on a complex integration of humanities, social, and natural sciences concepts centered on the interactions of coupled human and natural systems. The interdisciplinary nature of IES programs does not lend itself to traditional…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Environmental Education, Sustainability, Higher Education
Hubert Izienicki – Teaching Sociology, 2024
Many instructors use a syllabus quiz to ensure that students learn and understand the content of the syllabus. In this project, I move beyond this exercise's primary function and examine students' syllabus quiz scores to see if they can predict how well students perform in the course overall. Using data from 495 students enrolled in 18 sections of…
Descriptors: Tests, Course Descriptions, Performance, Predictor Variables
Download full textKleb Dale G. Bayaras – Online Submission, 2023
In course design, topic outline organization encompasses the structuring and sequencing of topics to be delivered in a learning environment. Recent studies in topic outline optimization revolve around massive open online courses (MOOCs) due to their abundance but not much has been studied on the traditional courses. This study investigates the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Introductory Courses, Programming
Morreale, Sherwyn P.; Myers, Scott A.; Wang, Tiffany R.; Westwick, Joshua N. – Communication Education, 2023
Continuing a tradition dating back to 1968, this tenth study in a longitudinal series of surveys of the basic communication course has two goals: (1) to provide descriptive information about the basic course contemporarily and over time; and (2) to propose a framework for interpreting the impact of the extraordinary national and international…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Trend Analysis, Introductory Courses, Higher Education
Laz, Cheryl – Teaching Sociology, 2020
Although there is a great deal of available material on using nontraditional resources for teaching sociology, the pedagogical uses of science fiction have not been examined for 20 years. This essay first asserts the need for an update based on changes in society and in science fiction over the past two decades. The paper then focuses on the uses…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Sociology, Introductory Courses, Science Fiction
Hudiburgh, Lynette M.; Garbinsky, Diana – Journal of Statistics Education, 2020
Although the use of tables, graphs, and figures to summarize information has long existed, the advent of the big data era and improved computing power has brought renewed attention to the field of data visualization. As such, it is crucial that introductory statistics courses train students to become critical authors and consumers of data…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Data Analysis, Visualization, Teaching Methods
Griggs, Richard A.; Bates, Scott C. – Teaching of Psychology, 2014
Because 98% of teachers use textbooks for the introductory psychology course and the majority of introductory teachers do not assign reading beyond the textbook, examining the topical coverage allocation pattern in introductory textbooks versus that in introductory course lectures is important for our understanding of how introductory students are…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Psychology, Textbook Content, College Students
Elicker, Joelle D.; Foust, Michelle Singer; Perry, Jennifer L. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2015
The complexity of a course's structure may influence how well students understand what is expected of them. Using the foundation of the industrial/organizational (I/O) psychology literature, the authors modified a measure of "Perceived System Knowledge" (Williams & Levy, 1992) for employee performance appraisal to be appropriate for…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Knowledge Level, Higher Education, Course Organization
Parris, Denise Linda; McInnis-Bowers, Cecilia – Journal of Management Education, 2017
Our objective was to design an introductory business course to shape the mind-sets and skill sets of the next generation of socially conscious practitioners--to help students develop a sense of self-efficacy built on the confidence that they can make a positive impact on the world using entrepreneurial thinking and action. Essentially, the focus…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Social Responsibility, Course Content, Outcomes of Education
Wartenberg, Thomas E. – Theory and Research in Education, 2012
This article is a response to criticism of my book "Big Ideas for Little Kids." The main topics addressed are: Who is the audience for the book? Can people without formal philosophical training can be good facilitators of elementary school philosophy discussions? Is it important to assess attempts to teach philosophy in elementary school? Should…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Educational Philosophy, Criticism, Audiences
Bell, Stephanie; Lewis, J. P. – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2015
In recent years, the pressure for educators to cultivate civic participation among Canada's apathetic youth voters has been mounting. Between 1998 and 2007, a national wave of curriculum reform introducing or enhancing civic engagement education occurred at the secondary level. In this study, we explore the role and place of civic engagement in…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Course Descriptions, Assignments, Curriculum
Afros, Elena; Schryer, Catherine F. – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2009
This article examines the genre of syllabus in higher education. In particular, it focuses on the intertextuality and interdiscursivity of paper-based and web-mediated syllabi and the ways they are used to promote links between various academic--classroom and research--genres and discourse communities. The corpus consists of ten syllabi with…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Higher Education, Discourse Communities, Blended Learning
Dickovick, J. Tyler – Journal of Political Science Education, 2009
This paper outlines an integrative approach to teaching (qualitative) comparative methods at the introductory undergraduate level. The integrative approach does not view methodological instruction as a topic to be treated cursorily at the outset of a course, but rather one to be intertwined throughout an academic term as students simultaneously…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Social Sciences, Methods, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedMcCall, George J. – Teaching Sociology, 1984
The introductory social psychology course, as taught by sociologists, varies widely in content and in its pedagogical concepts. This variation is due to the institutional setting and to the instructor's notion of the academic status of social psychology. Typical course contents answering to various course concepts are described. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Higher Education, Introductory Courses
Peer reviewedBalch, William R. – Teaching of Psychology, 1983
Live demonstration is a useful method for introducing concepts of psychotherapy to students in introductory psychology classes. Both audience and role-players get to experience first-hand some of the emotional dynamics of a therapy situation. Describes classroom role-playing that illustrated client-centered therapy. (CS)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Higher Education, Introductory Courses, Psychology
