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Exploring the Transformation of Actorship among Students at a Small Swedish University: Background, Actorship and Achievement
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Nelson, Anders – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2016
With an aim to better understand higher education's potential for fostering personal development and social change, this study explores how students' actorship in studies and civic engagement changed over time while enrolled in undergraduate programs at Halmstad University, Sweden. Additionally, it explores the relation among these students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Change, Higher Education, Citizen Participation
Unanticipated Student Utterances in an Adult ESL Grammar Classroom
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Chavoshan, Ida – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation study focused on a feature of emergent interactions in the L2 classroom called unanticipated student utterances (USUs), which is defined as utterances spoken by the student that the teacher has not anticipated as part of the discussion at hand. The purpose of the study was to demonstrate why USUs are significant in the L2…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Speech Communication
Urban Latina/o Undergraduate Students' Negotiations of Identities and Participation in an Emerging Scholars Calculus I Workshop
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Oppland-Cordell, Sarah B. – Journal of Urban Mathematics Education, 2014
In this article, the author presents a qualitative multiple case study that explored how two urban Latina/o undergraduate students' emerging mathematical and racial identity constructions influenced their participation in a culturally diverse, Emerging Scholars Program, Calculus I workshop at a predominately White urban university. Drawing on…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Workshops, Mathematics Education, Qualitative Research
Concept-Based Foreign Language Pedagogy: Teaching the Chinese Temporal System
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Lai, Wei – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The dissertation investigates the effect of a concept-based approach to teaching the Chinese temporal system to English-speaking university learners at the elementary level. The pedagogical framework, Systematic-Theoretical Instruction (STI), adopted in this study was proposed by Piotr Gal'perin and originated from Vygotsky's…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Concept Formation, Second Language Instruction
The Involvement of Hong Kong Parents in the Education of Their Children: A Validation of the Parents' Attributions and Perception Questionnaire
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Phillipson, Sivanes; Phillipson, Shane N. – Educational Psychology, 2010
This study describes the validation and interpretation of the Parents' Attributions and Perception Questionnaire (PAPQ) using confirmatory factor analysis and Rasch modelling to report both the construct validity and category structure of the scales in the questionnaire. The PAPQ was developed to reflect the proposal that parents mediate the…
Descriptors: School Involvement, Academic Achievement, Construct Validity, Validity
Script Identification: A Way to Understand How Students Choose Strategy during Mathematization?
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van der Aalsvoort, G. M.; Harinck, F. J. H.; Gosse, G. – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2006
The process of choosing strategies within mathematization is described in a multi-method study on solving additions and subtractions. The sample consisted of 40 dyads of 3rd-graders and their teacher from ten mainstream primary schools. From each classroom the two students rated as highest and the two rated as lowest were selected to take part in…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Student Attitudes, Mathematics Instruction, Discourse Analysis