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Nurturing Cooperative Learning Pedagogies in Higher Education Classrooms: Evidence of Instructional Reform and Potential Challenges
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Tadesse, Tefera; Gillies, Robyn M. – Current Issues in Education, 2015
This article presents a pilot study that examined instructional practices and student outcomes of two courses designed using cooperative learning (CL) pedagogies in Ethiopian university context. The participants included 58 undergraduates and two teachers. The quantitative results showed that four inter-correlated pedagogical factors: Cooperative…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Student Participation, Undergraduate Students, Higher Education
Educating Linguistically Diverse Students: A Mixed Methods Study of Elementary Teachers' Coursework, Attitudes, and Practice
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Greenfield, Renée A. – Current Issues in Education, 2016
This study followed a mixed-methods sequential explanatory design. Phase I involved the collection of quantitative data to examine inservice teachers' (N = 69) attitudes about language and linguistic diversity as well as their teacher education coursework. All participants were graduates from the same teacher education program. Phase II included…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Mixed Methods Research, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods