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Nixon, Jessie; Halverson, Erica; Stoiber, Andy; Garbacz, Andy – Information and Learning Sciences, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to understand how learners describe their experiences with short-term, introductory maker experiences and to test a method for assessing learners' experiences authentic to short-term learning. Design/methodology/approach: The authors collected written responses from participants at a two-day event, STEM Center…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Student Attitudes, Student Experience, Program Effectiveness
Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. – Education Economics, 2010
This paper presents the results of an empirical investigation trying to explain individual time-to-degree variances with business cycle fluctuations. Assuming that students determine the optimum study length at university weighing up the cost of an additional semester against the consumption benefit of studying and not yet working, the general…
Descriptors: Investigations, Student Attitudes, Economic Climate, Time to Degree
Spooner, Melba; Flowers, Claudia; Lambert, Richard; Algozzine, Bob – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2008
The authors surveyed student teachers in a yearlong internship and their peers in a traditional semester-long internship to compare perceptions across different practice teaching experiences. All participants were enrolled in the same university and were similar across gender, age, ethnicity, and undergraduate educational experiences. The students…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Student Teachers, Teaching Experience, Cooperating Teachers
Anastasi, Jeffrey S. – Teaching of Psychology, 2007
Faculty and administrators often believe that abbreviated courses are less effective than the same courses taught during a full semester. This study examined student academic performance and course evaluations for identical courses taught during abbreviated summer sessions or during regular semester sessions. Contrary to popular convention,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Attitudes, Higher Education, Courses
Sharman, Rex G. – Education Canada, 1989
Examines effects of academic year division on junior high school student satisfaction. Reports no relationship between semester organization and student satisfaction or achievement, although students report dissatisfaction with the length of certain classes. Advanced English students were more satisfied with semester courses than general English…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Junior High Schools, Program Design
Brady, Patrick; Allingham, Philip – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2005
This study examined perceptions of preparedness for post-secondary education in the province of Ontario. Participants were 272 university students enrolled in the first year of a four-or five-year concurrent teacher education program and represented two distinctive groups: (a) entrants who had completed the old five-year Ontario Academic Credit…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Data Analysis, Academic Achievement, College Preparation

Kettel, Louis J.; And Others – Journal of Medical Education, 1979
Students and faculty at the University of Arizona College of Medicine found the three-year medical program to be an unsatisfactory educational experience due to excessive intensity of classroom work, insufficient vacation time, and inadequate time to teach basic science. Measures of student performance showed no differences between three- and…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Higher Education