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Noyes, Elise; Darby, Alexa; Leupold, Christopher – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2015
Research has demonstrated the importance of emotions in learning, and academic service-learning (AS-L) has become an increasingly popular pedagogy. However, few studies have investigated emotional experiences specific to AS-L. The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to examine students' emotions related to their AS-L class. Results from the…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Teaching Methods, Emotional Experience, Statistical Analysis
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Wheland, Ethel R.; Butler, Kevin A.; Qammar, Helen; Katz, Karyn Bobkoff; Harris, Rose – NACADA Journal, 2012
In this mixed-methods study we identify situations that impact students' decisions to withdraw from a course and examine their affective reasoning and attitudes toward course withdrawal. Exploring students' decision-making processes through the lens of self-authorship, we show that students frequently seek information from people with whom they…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Withdrawal (Education), Decision Making, Intellectual Development
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Buckley, Charles A. – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2011
The research-teaching nexus is central to higher education as well as students' intellectual development. Staff identity can be developed by departments focussing on the nexus. In the context of an increasing interest in developing firmer relationships between research and teaching, there has been an acknowledgement that understanding students'…
Descriptors: Evidence, Student Attitudes, Intellectual Development, Teacher Attitudes
Knight, Brian Keith – ProQuest LLC, 2013
According to McAuliffe and Lovell (2006), regardless of the training received in skills classes, master's level counseling students continue to be rote in their approach to clients and their use of counseling skills as opposed to understanding how skills fit into the helping process. Students also experience confusion manifested by fear, anxiety,…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Counselor Training, Graduate Students, Student Experience
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Deeley, Susan J. – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2010
Service-learning is a form of experiential learning that combines academic coursework with voluntary service in the community. There is a dearth of critical analysis of the effects of service-learning. To address this issue, this practitioner research aimed to explore and understand its effects. An inductive approach, using qualitative and…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Focus Groups, Experiential Learning, Comparative Analysis
Vance, Melissa – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This comparative case study describes and evaluates programs designed to assist students with the first year transition into postsecondary education. Rather than focusing on quantitative measures of student completion, retention, or graduation, this case study uses qualitative methods to examine the ways faculty incorporate principles of…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Student Experience, Intellectual Development, Educational Principles
Wurtz, Joseph F. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The main research question of this study was: How do student life offices at four diverse Catholic colleges and universities create an environment that is expressive of a Catholic way of life? This research question was operationalized by two research sub questions: How do senior student affairs officers, mid-level student affairs officers, and…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Church Related Colleges, Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers
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Sabri, Duna; Rowland, Christopher; Wyatt, Jonathan; Stavrakopoulou, Francesca; Cargas, Sarita; Hartley, Helenann – Teaching in Higher Education, 2008
This paper explores the interaction between religious faith and academic study. It presents findings from a small-scale qualitative study of how first year theology undergraduates at Oxford experienced the relationship between academic study and their faith stance. The findings suggest varied developments in the extent to which students adapted to…
Descriptors: Religion Studies, Undergraduate Study, Philosophy, Religion
Collinson, Vivienne; Hoffman, Lynn M. – 1998
This study of high school students argues that American high school classes continue to be unsuccessful and boring to students because they artificially separate intellectual achievement and social development of adolescents. To understand how students view their high school priorities and the role of their experiences in the transition from…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Friendship, High School Students
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Rich, Yisrael; Iluz, Shira – Religious Education, 2003
This research examines the purposes of education perceived by teacher education students preparing for a career in Israeli public religious schools. Participants were 164 men and 364 women in their first or final year of teacher education. They responded to questionnaires that explored educational purposes in four ways. Twenty-four students also…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Objectives, Religious Education, Educational Policy
Holt-Reynolds, Diane – 2000
William Perry argued that adult development can be marked by a progressively refined set of questions focused on how Authorities like teachers can support multiple right answers and still maintain that there are wrong answers. When prospective English teachers view right and wrong answers as relativistic, they seem to view themselves as…
Descriptors: Case Studies, English Teacher Education, Higher Education, Intellectual Development
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Keedy, John L.; Fleming, Tracie G.; Wheat, Deborah L.; Gentry, Rita B. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1998
Examines an Advanced Placement U.S. history classroom as a miniature common school to assess students' abilities to develop historically-grounded perspectives and engage in a moral debate. Finds that (1) students with little historical-grounding lacked an inclination toward a collective, ethical critique; and (2) exchange of historically-grounded…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Citizen Role, Classroom Research, Controversial Issues (Course Content)
Holmes, Sharon L.; Roedder, Barclay S.; Flowers, Lamont A. – College Student Affairs Journal, 2004
This qualitative study sought to explore college students' spiritual beliefs in order to examine those beliefs and subsequent college experiences using student development theory. Data analysis revealed that peer and mentoring relationships were instrumental to students and shaped how students made meaning cf their academic and social experiences…
Descriptors: College Students, Mentors, Data Analysis, Religious Factors