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Crozier, Madeline; Workman, Erin – Composition Forum, 2022
This article illustrates how we incorporated discourse-based interviews (DBIs) into a mixed-methods research study informed by the heuristics of institutional ethnography (IE). As the first stage of a longitudinal study designed to understand what, where, and how "writing" means across our university, our research used DBIs in a writing…
Descriptors: Interviews, Writing (Composition), Laboratories, Peer Teaching
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Meyer, Amanda J.; Innes, Stanley I.; Stomski, Norman J.; Armson, Anthony J. – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2016
Anatomical education is becoming modernized, not only in its teaching and learning, but also in its assessment formats. Traditional "steeplechase" examinations are being replaced with online gross anatomy examinations. The aims of this study were to: (1) determine if online anatomy practical examinations are equivalent to traditional…
Descriptors: Anatomy, College Students, Interviews, Student Attitudes
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Guth, Douglas J. – Community College Journal, 2016
Community colleges nationwide are retrofitting their campuses to meet best environmental principles, creating comprehensive "living laboratories" where participants have a direct impact on reducing an institution's carbon footprint. Environmental stewardship is a growing priority among millennials, observers say. Sixty-six percent of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Environmental Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Conservation (Environment)
Porter, John Martin, II – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Educational researchers have conducted very few studies on the subjective experiences of both trained and self-taught auto mechanics (Barber, 2003, 2004; Nelsen, 1997, 2010). Further, no present studies explore the subjective experience of the automotive instructor as he or she experiences uncertainty in the automotive lab. This study addresses a…
Descriptors: Auto Mechanics, Vocational Education Teachers, Teaching Experience, Interviews
Bass, Joshua William – ProQuest LLC, 2018
International students represent a large portion of student populations at some higher education institutions in the United States. In response to the complexity of the student immigration process, more international students are choosing to pursue their US degrees online, while fulfilling their personal and professional obligations in their home…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Students, Academic Achievement, Online Courses
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Bakker, Arthur; Ben-Zvi, Dani; Makar, Katie – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2017
To understand how statistical and other types of reasoning are coordinated with actions to reduce uncertainty, we conducted a case study in vocational education that involved statistical hypothesis testing. We analyzed an intern's research project in a hospital laboratory in which reducing uncertainties was crucial to make a valid statistical…
Descriptors: Statistical Inference, Case Studies, Statistics, Hypothesis Testing
Brennen, Paul George – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The research study recognized that, although the knowledge obtained from academic textbooks and traditional classes are important to post-secondary hospitality management curriculum as they provide numerous insights and perspectives of different methods to manage a particular avenue within the hospitality industry; it is not the only aspect of the…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Hospitality Occupations, Student Attitudes, College Students
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Rosenblum, Jason; Hughes, Joan E. – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2017
Using a phenomenological study of educational games, this article describes how computer-based digital tools were used to simultaneously record computer applications (such as games), voice and sounds, participant facial expressions, and gestures to enliven phenomenological interviews and provide rich, thickly described data. In a study,…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Educational Games, Recall (Psychology), Protocol Analysis
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Eckerdal, Anna – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
Computer programming education has practice-oriented as well as theory-oriented learning goals. Here, lab work plays an important role in students' learning. It is however widely reported that many students face great difficulties in learning theory as well as practice. This paper investigates the important but problematic relation between the…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Computer Science Education, Programming, Laboratories
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Haapasaari, Arja; Engeström, Yrjö; Kerosuo, Hannele – Journal of Education and Work, 2016
Changes and transformations in organisations are traditionally initiated by the management. This approach does not, however, encourage the agency of all the members in an organisation to engage in cooperative development of the activity. This paper presents an analysis of the development of participants' transformative agency in a Change…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employees, Employer Employee Relationship, Laboratories
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Weirick, Joshua; Davis, Tracy; Lawson, Daniel – Learning Assistance Review, 2017
This case study examines the differences in comments offered by asynchronous online writing center consultants to L1 and L2 speakers and examines the potential disconnects in consultant perceptions of their practice. The researchers collected and coded sample papers and interviewed participants to contextualize data from the quantitative portion…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Laboratories, Computer Mediated Communication, Asynchronous Communication
Lee, Alice Shu-Ju – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation explores the identity enactments (Bucholtz & Hall, 2005) of 14 multilingual university writing center tutors and multilingual student writers who use English and Putonghua to negotiate their interactions. The study is situated within sociocultural theory (Vygotsky, 1978) and uses ethnographic methods such as observation,…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Multilingualism, Self Concept, Interviews
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Mortier, Teresa; Yatczak, Jayne – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2016
Understanding student learning in health science professional programs is both timely and relevant and is the focus of this article. "The Table of Learning" by Lee Shulman (2002) provided a tool for an interdisciplinary reflection surrounding student learning in clinical laboratory science and occupational therapy. Utilizing the taxonomy…
Descriptors: Health Sciences, Academic Achievement, Health Programs, Occupational Therapy
Simpson, Shelah Y. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In this multiple-case study, the author investigated fully online students' perceptions of and experiences with asynchronous and synchronous writing support options of an institutional writing center and a commercial tutoring service. This dissertation used a multiple-case study design (Merriam, 1998, 2009; Yin, 2009) to ascertain which features…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Electronic Learning, Writing (Composition), Laboratories
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Turunen Olsson, Pernilla; Weurlander, Maria; Mattiasson, Anne-Cathrine; Wärn Hede, Gunnel; Panagiotidis, Georgios; Broberger, Eva; Hult, Håkan; Wernerson, Annika – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2016
Traditionally, nursing students learn medical subjects and nursing separately, which makes it difficult to develop an integrated understanding. This study aimed to explore nursing students' experiences of participating in a case seminar integrating medical and nursing sciences and if, and how, it contributed to their learning. A case seminar…
Descriptors: Nursing Students, Nursing Education, Seminars, Medicine
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