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Download full textKevin T. Caffrey – Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2025
Amid declining enrollment in humanities programs throughout the United States, the English major has been hit the hardest. This article gives voice to current English majors about why they choose to enroll in a program that often receives criticism pertaining to its value and worth. This study provides a literature review of the history of higher…
Descriptors: Humanities, English Instruction, Majors (Students), Enrollment
Direct linkKelli Trei; Sara Benson; Siyao Cheng – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2025
This study examines whether graduate students in STEM fields at an R1 institution understand copyright law. Thirty graduate students participated in semi-structured interviews related to copyright and ownership. This study revealed that these students often conflate issues around copyright and plagiarism and have little understanding of their own…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Knowledge Level, Copyrights, Plagiarism
Shiva Jahani; Rebecca Soto – Journal of International Students, 2024
Countless factors influence students' educational and career choices. We examined potential impacts on international students' choices to study STEM (science, technology, engineering, or math) through the lens of Social Cognitive Theory (Bussey & Bandura, 1999). Using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM), we analyzed…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, STEM Education, Majors (Students), Social Influences
Shuhou Yuan – SAGE Open, 2025
Conducting a survey research on demotivating factors in business English majors can enrich the theoretical research findings on demotivation and meanwhile help to explore effective methods to enhance the students' learning motivation. This study explores the construct of demotivating factors in business English majors in a Chinese university, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Majors (Students)
Xiang-Min Guo; Dan-Cen Wang; Tian-Tian Lo; Xiao-Hong Huang – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
The immersive experience and diverse interaction modes provided by virtual digital technology match the spatial sensitivity and practical ability required in the field of architectural teaching, and its technological advantages can significantly enhance teaching outcomes. However, in the field of architecture teaching, there has been a lack of…
Descriptors: Architectural Education, Educational Technology, Computer Simulation, Technology Uses in Education
Kenneth J. Sousa – Information Systems Education Journal, 2024
In both the educational and business environments, two trends may be inarguable. The difference between the demand of technology positions as compared to the number of people majoring or interested in technology-based careers. Secondly, the education environment is radically changing in several aspects including a high number of undecided majors…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Career Choice, Technology
Anthony LokTing Yim – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Using a natural experiment which randomized class times to students, this study reveals that enrolling in early morning classes lowers students' course grades and the likelihood of future STEM course enrollment. There is a 79% reduction in pursuing the corresponding major and a 26% rise in choosing a lower-earning major, predominantly influenced…
Descriptors: Scheduling, Academic Achievement, STEM Education, Course Selection (Students)
McClellan, E. Fletcher; Kopko, Kyle C.; Hafler, Amanda – Journal of Political Science Education, 2023
Thirty years after the last APSA-sponsored recommendations on the structure of the undergraduate political science major, new efforts at curriculum reform are under way. As a prelude to how the profession might respond, this article examines how political science departments made undergraduate curriculum changes during the 2010s. Based on a survey…
Descriptors: Departments, Undergraduate Study, College Curriculum, Curriculum Development
Briley L. Lewis; Abygail R. Waggoner; Emma Clarke; Alison L. Crisp; Mark Dodici; Graham M. Doskoch; Michael M. Foley; Ryan Golant; Skylar Grayson; Sahil Hegde; Nathalie Korhonen Cuestas; Charles J. Law; R. R. Lefever; Ishan Mishra; Mark Popinchalk; Sabina Sagynbayeva; Samantha L. Wong; Wei Yan; Kaitlyn L. Ingraham Dixie; K. Supriya – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
Undergraduate physics and astronomy students are expected to engage with scientific literature as they begin their research careers, yet reading comprehension skills are rarely explicitly taught in major courses. We seek to determine the efficacy of a reading assignment designed to improve undergraduate astronomy (or related) majors' perceived…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Science Process Skills, Astronomy
Abdulmohsin A. Alshehri – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
This study aimed to investigate the extent to which computer-assisted pronunciation (CAP) is influential in helping Hijazi students to develop their pronunciation of English vowels within a Saudi English as a foreign language (EFL) context. It also examined whether Saudi Hijazi learners taught English vowel sounds by CAP outperform those taught…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Computer Uses in Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Yan Huang; Azirah Hashim – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
This mixed-methods study investigated Chinese tertiary-level students' perceptions of different English accents existing in mainland China. Also examined were their perception changes and factors that contributed to their perception changes. An electronic questionnaire survey was employed to investigate the general trend and the possible…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Postsecondary Education
Qing Xie – SAGE Open, 2024
This study reports on an investigative study with 70 English majors and 39 non-English-majors in a Chinese university who were recruited using convenience sampling, on their practice ability development motivations and needs, the effectiveness of business English curriculum in practice ability development and practice-oriented curriculum…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, English (Second Language), Business English
Joshua A. Woods; Megan E. Doran; Jesse Wilcox – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2024
Transparency in learning and teaching (TILT) has been a growing topic of interest in higher education. This study aimed to examine how a simple TILT manipulation could impact a well-established, popular, interdisciplinary semester-long research symposium that involves scores of undergraduates. TILTing the instructions for this symposium had a…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Instruction, Learning, Accountability
Sandra Coursey – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This paper explores the intersection of U.S. graduate music student experiences and mental health. A literature review discussing nineteenth-century mechanist piano pedagogy practices, Carl Seashore's Measures of Musical Talent, the impact of neoliberal capitalism on students, and an overview of current U.S. studies on university music student…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Music Education, Student Experience, Mental Health
Jessica L. Rosenberg; Nancy Holincheck; Michele Colandene – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Efforts to build the workforce in support of the second quantum revolution are growing, including the creation of education programs that will prepare students for jobs in this area. We surveyed 186 undergraduate students with majors across the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines and followed up with group interviews to…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Undergraduate Students, Majors (Students), Student Interests
