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The Importance of Being…Social? Instructor Credibility and the Millennials
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Gerhardt, Megan W. – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
Using the framework of generational identity, the current study explores how a range of characteristics impact Millennial perceptions of instructor credibility. Millennial Generation student ratings of the impact of competence, character, and sociability on instructor credibility were compared to faculty ratings of the same characteristics.…
Descriptors: Generational Differences, Credibility, Learner Engagement, Values
Coping with the Demands of Academic Literacy: Generation 1.5 ESL Community College Students and the Challenge of Reading to Learn While Still Learning to Read
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Flowers, George A., Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This quantitative study conducted in the ESL program at a large community college investigated the symbiotic relationship between reading and second-language learning from the perspective of the class of post-secondary functional bilinguals sometimes referred to as Generation 1.5. These students are long-term, resident second-language (L2) English…
Descriptors: Coping, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Reading Ability
The Net-Generation Interior Design Student: An Exploratory Study Assessing Learning and Engagement within a Computer Simulation Environment
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Peterson, Julie Ellen – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The first purpose of this experimental study was to determine if there were effects on achievement between traditional pencil-and-paper instructional strategies and computer simulated instructional strategies used to teach interior design business ethics. The second purpose was to determine the level of engagement of interior design students using…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Interior Design, Computer Simulation, Statistical Analysis