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Engelsrud, Gunn; Rugseth, Gro; Nordtug, Birgit – Sport, Education and Society, 2023
Even though qualitative research methods are considered important and have become more commonplace in research related to the sport sciences, there is little insight into the efforts made by sport science students to learn qualitative research methods. In this article, the authors use a course on qualitative methods inspired by a phenomenological…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Physical Education, Qualitative Research, Research Methodology
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Li, Wenshu; Bennett, Richard M.; Olsen, Taimi; McCord, Rachel – American Journal of Engineering Education, 2018
Homework is an important out-of-class activity, crucial to student success in engineering courses. However, in a first-semester freshman engineering course, approximately one-fourth of students were completing less than 80% of the homework. The purpose of this study was to examine students' attribution of their low completion of homework and…
Descriptors: Homework, Learner Engagement, Engineering Education, College Freshmen
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Pfeiffer, Verbra – South African Journal of Education, 2018
A key concern today is the question of homework in our nation's public schools. In this study, an investigation was conducted with the first no-homework policy, which has been introduced in one of the primary schools in the Western Cape. This study seeks to determine whether a no-homework policy will validate a positive or negative effect on…
Descriptors: Homework, School Policy, Case Studies, Public Schools
Gutierrez, Gisselle – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This research study employed both quantitative and qualitative methodology to explore high school students' perceptions about online math homework and paper math homework. The purpose of this study was threefold: to understand how high school students perceive online math homework, to determine what aspects of online math homework aid and/or…
Descriptors: High School Students, Homework, Secondary School Mathematics, Student Attitudes
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Heilmann, Sharon – Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research, 2018
This article examines how educational scaffolding was used in a graduate research methods course to encourage student mastery of two qualitative research concepts, interviews and narrative inquiry. Findings suggest that scaffolding resulted in students' mastery of both concepts as well as students' increased attention to quality of interview…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Interviews, Personal Narratives, Inquiry
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Griffiths, Barry J. – PRIMUS, 2018
This paper describes an innovative way of randomly collecting handwritten homework in calculus classes with approximately 50 students using a standard deck of cards, which does not place an excessive burden on faculty with regard to grading. In addition to the increased awareness students develop in structuring a mathematical solution, the…
Descriptors: Attendance, Writing Skills, Educational Games, Teaching Methods
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Maxwell, Pat; Smoker, Kari; Stites-Doe, Susan – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2018
The experience of students submitting written homework is compared to those using online homework platforms at a college in the northeastern United States. Results indicate that online homework platforms can increase student engagement in the course when students are satisfied with the platform's functionality and when students believe the…
Descriptors: Homework, Cognitive Style, Accounting, Business Administration Education
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Masland, Lindsay; Gizdarska, Simona – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2018
Existing research on student acceptance of the flipped classroom in higher education is somewhat equivocal: some students appreciate the opportunities for active learning that a flipped classroom affords, whereas others expect their learning to occur via in-class lectures. The current study sought to disentangle some of these mixed results by…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Higher Education, Qualitative Research, Blended Learning
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Redd, Bibia R.; Kennette, Lynne N. – College Quarterly, 2017
Effective instructor feedback can be used to increase student learning, provided that students read and apply this feedback, which is not always the case. The current study investigates an approach which may encourage students to read and immediately apply instructor-provided feedback. This is done by giving students the opportunity to submit…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Review (Reexamination), Reading Habits, Instructional Effectiveness
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Akbel, Burcu Avci – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
Flipped learning is based on more effective use of the time spent with the instructor in the classroom. This study is aimed at identifying students' and instructors' opinions on the use of flipped learning model in cello education in Turkish music. This is the first study whereby flipped learning model has ever been used in Turkish Music education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Musical Instruments, Homework, Video Technology
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Ndebele, Misheck – South African Journal of Education, 2018
This article reports on a qualitative study done in Johannesburg, South Africa, which investigated attitudes of primary school principals of eight public primary schools towards the use of homework in teaching and learning in the Foundation Phase (which comprises the first three grade levels of primary schooling). Using a semi-structured…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Elementary Education, Principals
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Moldwin, Mark B. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2018
Many large-lecture introductory science courses for nonscience majors do not have a lab component and hence do not provide much opportunity for students to engage in the practice of science. I have developed a new instructional activity called Dorm Room Labs that enables students to conduct hands-on activities as homework (or dorm room work) to…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, College Science, Science Laboratories, Nonmajors
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Reyneke, Fransonet; Fletcher, Lizelle; Harding, Ansie – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2018
The study in this paper reports on whether an online homework system in combination with a flipped classroom has a positive effect on success rates of first year statistics students. Departing from a traditional teaching model (Baseline), the technology-based intervention strategies implemented were firstly the Aplia™ interactive online homework…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Statistics, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Instruction
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Coffey, Debra; Elsawy, Ibrahim – Journal of Invitational Theory and Practice, 2017
This qualitative study explored the impact of participation in an inclusive post-secondary Academy's learning opportunities. The Academy intentionally utilized the Invitational Theory and Practice (ITP) framework. During the study, Academy mentors and faculty members highlighted their experiences and described the ways they created an…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Educational Opportunities, Educational Policy, Educational Environment
Harmon, Stefanie Anderson – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The problem at an elementary school is teachers' lack of knowledge and information on the perceptions and motivation of students to complete independent mathematics homework. The purpose of this study was to identify students' perceptions regarding their homework environment and academic motivation in mathematics. The study's conceptual framework,…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Student Attitudes, Homework, Elementary School Mathematics
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