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Caton, Patrick; Ernst, Howard; Flack, Karen; Smith, Joseph P.; Swope, Kurtis – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2017
This study makes use of a pre-test/post-test design (with a control group) to test the effect of an interdisciplinary energy course on student attitudes and values related to energy issues. The interdisciplinary energy course was co-taught by engineering, political science, economics, and oceanography professors at the United States Naval Academy…
Descriptors: Military Schools, Energy Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Instructional Effectiveness
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Cheng, Dorothy A. – Economics of Education Review, 2011
This is the first study to use self-reported ratings of student learning, instructor recommendations, and course recommendations as the outcome measure to estimate class size effects, doing so across 24 disciplines. Fixed-effects models controlling for heterogeneous courses and instructors reveal that increasing enrollment has negative and…
Descriptors: Class Size, Outcomes of Education, Satisfaction, Student Attitudes
Tight, Malcolm, Ed.; Mok, Ka Ho, Ed.; Huisman, Jeroen, Ed.; Morphew, Christopher, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2009
This volume is a detailed and up-to-date reference work providing an authoritative overview of the main issues in higher education around the world today. Consisting of newly commissioned chapters and impressive journal articles, it surveys the state of the discipline and includes the examination and discussion of emerging, controversial and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Progress, Higher Education, Political Science