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Do Screencasts Help to Revise Prerequisite Mathematics? An Investigation of Student Performance and Perception
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Loch, Birgit; Jordan, Camilla R.; Lowe, Tim W.; Mestel, Ben D. – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2014
Basic calculus skills that are prerequisites for advanced mathematical studies continue to be a problem for a significant proportion of higher education students. While there are many types of revision material that could be offered to students, in this paper we investigate whether short, narrated video recordings of mathematical explanations…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Mathematics Education, Prerequisites, Academic Achievement
Trends in Participation and Attainment of Chinese Students in UK Higher Education
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Iannelli, Cristina; Huang, Jun – Studies in Higher Education, 2014
The UK higher education system receives the second largest number of Chinese overseas students in the world. The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) data used in this study show that the total number of Chinese graduates (at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels) increased from around 6000 at the beginning of the twenty-first century to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asians, Student Participation, Trend Analysis
The Flight from Physics Education: Searching for Reasons by Comparisons across the Curriculum
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Monk, Martin – Physics Education, 2008
Cross-curriculum comparisons help open up new perspectives on old issues. The flight from physics by students is one such issue. Here a comparison is made with music education and language education. Where these comparisons provide useful insights they can also warn against knee-jerk panaceas. It is suggested we need to understand how and why…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physics, Interdisciplinary Approach, Comparative Analysis
The Flexible Learning Approach to Physics (FLAP): A Review After the First Two Years.
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Tinker, M. H.; Lambourne, R. J. A.; Windsor, S. A. – International Journal of Science Education, 1999
Describes the Flexible Learning Approach to Physics (FLAP) teaching resource and the project's implementation and evaluation at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. Reports that FLAP delivers many of the expected benefits, with significant gains in the quality and effectiveness of teaching and learning. Contains 21 references.…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Professional Training for Encoded Archival Description in Europe
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Fox, Michael – Journal of Archival Organization, 2005
This paper represents an abridgement of a panel session that reported on the status of training for archivists in the use of Encoded Archival Description (EAD) in seven countries (France, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and United States). It touched on related archival descriptive standards and practices and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Documentation, Archives, Professional Training
"Are You Just Helping?" The Perceptions and Experiences of Minority Ethnic Trainees on a One-Year Primary Initial Teacher Training Course
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Hoodless, Pat – Research in Education, 2004
This article summarises the findings of a small-scale study of the perceptions and progress of minority ethnic trainees on a one-year Postgraduate Certificate in Education primary initial teacher training course between 2001 and 2003. It also accounts for the reasons behind the trainees' experiences and their erratic and sometimes surprisingly low…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnic Groups, Trainees, Formative Evaluation
Curriculum Opportunity. A Map of Experiential Learning in Entry Requirements to Higher and Further Education Award Bearing Courses. a Project Report.
Evans, Norman – 1983
A study examined the policies and practices that higher educational institutions in the United Kingdom have adopted towards experiential learning as a means of fulfilling entrance requirements. Included among the major activities of the project were a comparative analysis of United Kingdom and United States policies and practices with respect to…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Certification, College Admission, College Credits