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Mature Students' Journey into Higher Education in the UK: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
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Saddler, Yasmin; Sundin, E. C. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2020
This article reports on issues of diversity in the context of "widening participation" in "global higher education" (HE). Mature students represent a third of the HE student population in Australia, Canada, UK and the USA. More research is needed to understand factors that can facilitate or hinder access to HE for this group.…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Barriers
Making Learning Personally Meaningful: A New Framework for Relevance Research
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Priniski, Stacy J.; Hecht, Cameron A.; Harackiewicz, Judith M. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2018
Personal relevance goes by many names in the motivation literature, stemming from a number of theoretical frameworks. Currently these lines of research are being conducted in parallel with little synthesis across them, perhaps because there is no unifying definition of the relevance construct within which this research can be situated. In this…
Descriptors: Relevance (Education), Models, Student Interests, Expectation
Making Learning Personally Meaningful: A New Framework for Relevance Research
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Priniski, Stacy J.; Hecht, Cameron A.; Harackiewicz, Judith M. – Grantee Submission, 2018
Personal relevance goes by many names in the motivation literature, stemming from a number of theoretical frameworks. Currently these lines of research are being conducted in parallel with little synthesis across them, perhaps because there is no unifying definition of the relevance construct within which this research can be situated. In this…
Descriptors: Relevance (Education), Models, Student Interests, Expectation
Understanding the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Gifted Education: An Anthology by and about Talented Black Girls and Women in STEM. Contemporary Perspectives on Multicultural Gifted Education
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Joseph, Nicole M., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2020
This book seeks to understand the complexities of talented and high-performing Black girls and women in STEM across the P-20 trajectory. Analogously, this volume aims to understand the intersections between giftedness, its identification, and racial, gender, and academic discipline identities. The dearth of literature on this subject suggests that…
Descriptors: Gifted, Talent, Females, Gender Differences
Puerto Rican Students Perspectives of Socio-Cultural Characteristics of Giftedness and Talent Development
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Miriam Morales Taylor – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This qualitative study was conducted to investigate the social and cultural characteristics of gifted and talented students and their perceptions of the educational factors that have contributed to the development of their gifts and talents. Twelve Puerto Rican English Language Learner (PR-ELL) students who are identified as gifted and attend a…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Gifted, Puerto Ricans, Talent
The Effect of Learning Type and Avatar Similarity on Learning Outcomes in Educational Video Games
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Lewis, Melissa L. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Two theories guide two very different ideas about learning. Social cognitive theory (Bandura, 1977, 1989) places the greater emphasis on observational learning, or learning by watching a model produce a behavior before doing it oneself. Other researchers purport that experiential learning, or learning by doing, results in stronger learning (Kolb,…
Descriptors: Video Games, Self Efficacy, Observational Learning, Identification