We examined college instructors' perceptions of the behaviors and contextual factors that allow them to initiate and maintain rapport with their students. Phenomenological interviews with 21 college instructors indicated that instructors rely on different strategies and contextual factors to initiate and to maintain rapport with students across…

Collaborative argumentation is a powerful means to promote conceptual understanding of scientific concepts for which students have robust misconceptions. However, eliciting and maintaining productive collaborative argumentation is known to be difficult. Moreover, it is unclear whether and how the factor of communication media might enable or…

Online learning has steadily increased since well before the COVID-19 pandemic (Seaman et al., 2018), but research has yet to explore online students' perceptions of online exam proctoring methods. The purpose of this exploratory study was to understand the perceptions of fully online students regarding types of proctoring at a large state…

Decades of research suggest that interactive classrooms enhance student engagement and improve comprehension. Team-Based Learning (TBL) is an educational strategy used first in medical settings and business schools and then expanded to social sciences and humanities that emphasizes small-group, active-learning, where most classroom time is devoted…

Instruction, designed to impact learning, accentuates the quantity and quality of learner interactions. Theoretically, the higher the level or quantity of learner interaction within instruction, the higher the quality of instruction. Learner interactions are fostered through learner-to-learner (L2L), learner-to-instructor (L2I), and…

Distance learning continues to gain popularity among musical specialties due to the necessity and advantages of this training format. This study aimed to study students' experience of distance learning in Choral Performance. To this end, questioning, testing, and quasi-experiment methods were applied. The research involved 88 students from the…

COVID-19 has altered students' expectations for attending in-person learning. We qualitatively explored barriers and facilitators of undergraduates for attending in-person courses. A survey, distributed Winter 2022, included items regarding reasons why students did or didn't attend in-person and suggested facilitators to attend. The most reported…

The primary purpose of this quasi-experimental mixed-methods study was to examine whether a blended learning approach was more effective than traditional face-to-face instruction in improving the mathematical achievement and attitudes of preservice elementary teachers. The secondary purpose was to determine what specific features of blended…

Group metacognition involves a collective understanding of cognitive processes and collaborative problem-solving mechanisms within a group. This study, conducted through a systematic review of 54 studies, aims to present the evolutionary trajectory of research on group metacognition in (predominantly) online and face-to-face learning environments.…

The threat of climate change makes it increasingly important for biologists and the public to understand how organisms respond to temperature. The Metabolic Theory of Ecology (MTE) predicts that temperature should affect organism performance, with implications for species interactions and ecosystems that span disciplines including mathematics,…

Students enrolled in online courses tend to be less successful as measured by the rate of A's, B's, and C's than students enrolled in face-to-face courses. Yet little work has been done addressing whether these gaps vary depending on students' broader relationship with the university, including whether they are degree-seeking students and whether…

This dissertation describes the impact of a new blended virtual program on a school district. The dissertation focuses on the 2021-22 school year, when the school district initiated a blended virtual program to help educate students. The research compared credits earned and not earned by students in grades 9-12 who participated in the blended…

This study explores the effectiveness of video demonstrations compared to live classroom visits for promoting writing center services to students in first-year writing courses. Using a randomized cluster experimental design, the researchers implemented either an in-person demonstration, a video demonstration, or no intervention (control). Pre- and…

This study portrays the lived experiences of four faculty members striving to thrive in U.S. higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic while shifting from in-person to online teaching. Using a collaborative self-study as a methodological approach and the community of inquiry model as a theoretical framework, we explored unique experiences and…

We analyzed COVID-19's impact on business students in bachelor's and master's programs across traditional, hybrid, and online learning modes using data from 209,073 students in 215 U.S. colleges. Using repeated measures ANOVA and Friedman's test for this longitudinal study, we compared four periods from 2016-2023: pre-pandemic, a 5-month…