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YuChun Chen; Brian Myers – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2025
Purpose: This research examined the impact of two physical educators' appearance and sex on elementary school students' learning and teacher perceptions. Method: Four videos consisting of female informal appearance, female formal appearance, male informal appearance, and male formal appearance were created. A content examination and a perception…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Gender Differences, Elementary School Students, Teacher Characteristics
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Violeta Vasilevska; Carolyn Hamilton – PRIMUS, 2024
Math Girls Rock! is a year-long, two-tiered mathematics mentoring program that prepares female undergraduate mentors to facilitate high school girls' engagement in challenging mathematics concepts through a dynamic after-school program. In this article, we describe the distinct educational component of this program in which female faculty members…
Descriptors: Mentors, Females, Undergraduate Students, Mathematics Education
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Taasoobshirazi, Gita; Wagner, Madeleine; Brown, Austin; Copeland, Colene – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2022
The widely used Draw a Scientist Test was revised to focus on statistics and 110 Elementary Statistics students were asked to draw a statistician. In addition, to better understand students' drawings and have some relative comparison, 173 College Algebra students were asked to draw a mathematician. A detailed analysis of students' images and…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Professional Personnel, Freehand Drawing, Stereotypes
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Marshall, S. Alexandra; Hudson, Heather K.; Stigar, Lorraine V. – Health Educator, 2020
School-based sexuality education is widely supported by most Americans. However, there is debate over the topics that should be taught. Also, a better understanding of desires adolescents and parents have for equipping youth to make healthy decisions is needed. This study gathered perceptions from parents and students about the sexuality education…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Parent Attitudes, Student Attitudes, High School Students
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Janice Miller-Young; Marnie Jamieson; Seth Beck – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
Cultivating a sense of belonging can be challenging in online contexts as well as for underrepresented students in engineering education. This study used a mixed methods sequential explanatory design to understand underrepresented students' experiences in a Canadian first-year course. Taking place during remote delivery due to COVID-19, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Experience, Sense of Belonging, College Freshmen
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McCarthy, Andrew; Farr, Fiona – TESL-EJ, 2022
Role models and motivators can influence young people in a general sense and have a significant effect on their values and beliefs. As part of a larger project, we investigated the presence of L2 (second language) role models and motivators among 12 Japanese high school students (aged between 15 and 18), who took part in one-to-one interviews with…
Descriptors: Role Models, High School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Brewster, Kendra R. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2018
Critical service learning requires that students grapple with power even as they negotiate with discourses that frame service as transformative for others, without the reciprocal effect of service learners being transformed. To highlight microprocesses in power, this article uses figured worlds to explore the positional identities of service…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Power Structure, Identification, College Students
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Hall, Christopher J.; Gruber, Alice; Qian, Yuan – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2023
A major challenge for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) professionals is how to address the learning needs of diverse learners for whom a monolithic, native-normed version of English is no longer always useful or appropriate. Research in Global Englishes (GE) has noted many teachers' resistance to the adoption of a more…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Kirkby, Jane; Carabott, Kelly; Wilson, Sue; Rafi, Haleh; White, Pennie – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2022
This paper looks at students' motivation and engagement in the context of the "Read Like a Demon (RLAD)" project across a two-year period, in Melbourne, Victoria. This "RLAD" project was shaped over several years and targeted to students aged between 8 and 11 years. It utilized innovative reading experiences, including the…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Programs, Reading Motivation, Elementary School Students
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Pennington, Colin G.; Curtner-Smith, Matthew D.; Wind, Stefanie A. – European Physical Education Review, 2020
Few studies have focused on the issues older physical education (PE) teachers encounter which may limit their effectiveness. The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of a PE teacher's apparent age on high school pupils' learning and perceptions of the teacher. Participants were 114 ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grade pupils.…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, High School Teachers, Teacher Characteristics, Age
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Nejati, Mehran; Shafaei, Azadeh – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2018
Universities worldwide strive to nurture socially responsible graduates to create a better society. Since ethical behavior of role models can stimulate followers' professional standards and ethical values, it is crucial to focus on an appropriate path through which ethical values can be conveyed and learned by individuals. The current study seeks…
Descriptors: Ethics, Prosocial Behavior, Graduate Students, Structural Equation Models
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Haynes, Cliff – Journal of College and University Student Housing, 2018
The experiences of female students in an engineering living-learning program (LLP) are described in this study using a constructivist theoretical perspective. The study aims to fill gaps in the literature using qualitative methods. Data from 13 semi-structured individual interviews serve as the primary data source. After conducting a metaphorical…
Descriptors: Females, Engineering Education, Figurative Language, Social Support Groups
Suzanne Patricia Tatis – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This mixed methods study's focus was on exploring the perceptions of obstacles that hinder Hispanic students from pursuing postsecondary food and beverage management degrees. The study's overarching research question was what do Hispanic students perceive as the greatest obstacles or barriers to pursuing postsecondary food and beverage management…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Barriers, Food Service, Industry
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Anderson, Roger – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2022
Research has focused almost exclusively on International Teaching Assistants'(ITA) experiences as instructors, overlooking the ITA training class. This has led to the marginalization of Pre-Service ITAs in the literature. The locus of potentially important learning, a descriptive, multiple case study examined the investment (Darvin & Norton,…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Foreign Students, Teaching Experience, Case Studies
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Gudyanga, Anna; Gora, Josephine; Moyo, Lydia – Cogent Education, 2019
This study focused on the factors that affect rural male students` participation in Fashion & Fabrics and Food & Nutrition in Zimbabwe. The qualitative research design grounded in the interpretive paradigm was used to generate relevant data. The three data generating instruments used were interviews and observation guides as well as…
Descriptors: Males, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries, Clothing
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