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Govender, Irene – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2021
Aim/Purpose: This study seeks to understand the various ways information systems (IS) students experience introductory programming to inform IS educators on effective pedagogical approaches to teaching programming. Background: Many students who choose to major in information systems (IS), enter university with little or no experience of learning…
Descriptors: Programming, Information Science Education, Diaries, Student Attitudes
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Maakrun, Julie; Maher, Marguerite – Issues in Educational Research, 2016
Yunkaporta's (2009) pedagogical "eight ways" conceptual framework, inspired by Nakata's (2007) cultural interface theory, provided the platform for interpretation of the data in the current study. Here we considered the transferability of the framework to a current initiative in Kenya and its usefulness in preparation for an expansion of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Transfer, Outcomes of Education, Indigenous Populations
Ibrahim, Karim Hesham Shaker – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The field of game-mediated L2 learning has grown exponentially, and much has been discovered about the potentials of game-mediated interactions for L2 development, yet the fine-grained dynamics of player-game interactions and how they come to facilitate and afford L2 development are still largely underexplored. To address this gap in the…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning, Management Development, Video Games
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Franco, Mary J.; Unrath, Kathleen – Art Education, 2015
The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate how purposeful and substantive visual art experiences might support the literacy learning of elementary-aged boys. The overarching research question that guided this exploration was: What happens when Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) art discussions and related artmaking are infused into a…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Males, Visual Arts, Literacy Education
Titus, Simone – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
Over the past few years, the virtual landscape of South African higher education institutions has changed as a result of ubiquitous and ever-present technological initiatives that can potentially provide students with a flexible learning space. Within these learning spaces, Web 2.0 tools have transformed educators' pedagogical approaches to…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Web 2.0 Technologies, Undergraduate Study, Electronic Publishing
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Carey, Miriam – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2012
This study examines the cultivation of intentionality and integration in a foundation level General Education class: Communities and Societies. Three research tasks were set within the context of a grounded theoretical approach: codification of indicators for both intentionality and integration, and an examination of student learning logs.…
Descriptors: Intention, Teaching Methods, Group Discussion, Small Group Instruction
Baldridge, Mary Caufield – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The overall purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a "growth mindset" intervention on the beliefs about intelligence, effort beliefs, achievement goals, and academic self-efficacy of learning disabled (LD) students with reading difficulties. The treatment group consisted of 12 high school LD students with reading difficulties. This…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Reading Difficulties, Intelligence, Intervention