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Dolan, Anne M.; Waldron, Fionnuala; Pike, Susan; Greenwood, Richard – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2014
Primary geography education is an important part of initial teacher education. The importance of prior experiences in the development of student teachers has long been recognised and there is growing evidence of the nature of those experiences in areas such as geography. This paper reports the findings of research conducted with one cohort of…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Prior Learning, Geography
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Lynch, Raymond; Seery, Niall; Gordon, Seamus – Irish Educational Studies, 2011
There has been a growing interest in the influences on undergraduate performance in recent years as a result of the increasing diversity of students entering third-level education and an ever increasing emphasis on the development of a robust knowledge economy. This paper investigates the influence of students' dominant interest types and prior…
Descriptors: Student Interests, Interest Inventories, Regression (Statistics), Academic Achievement