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Ho, Stephanie – LEARNing Landscapes, 2023
During a two-term observational study of my Secondary English Language Arts (ELA) class, I introduced "Surrealism" to the existing curriculum. Jot notes, personal interviews, and a self-study comprised my data strands. The COVID-19 pandemic struck shortly before my scheduled in-person interviews. This uncertainty disrupted my doctoral…
Descriptors: Interviews, COVID-19, Pandemics, Videoconferencing
Donohue, William J. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study examines the student writer perspective of a first-year composition program's student learning outcomes. Student descriptions of learning are a valuable, yet often overlooked data source. The student voice broadens a first-year composition program's outcomes-based, student learning assessment process as program assessment data is often…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty, Student Attitudes
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Kontorovich, Igor'; Rouleau, Annette – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2018
This article is concerned with tensions that teachers who are studying for a graduate degree in mathematics education experience when conducting a research project. Specifically, we focused on the tensions that emerge in situations where teacher-researchers encounter the mathematical misconceptions and difficulties of their interviewees. The…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Mathematics Instruction, Decision Making, Learning Theories
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Moyer, John C.; Robison, Victoria; Cai, Jinfa – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2018
This paper presents findings from a larger research project that provides insight into the attitudes of high-school students who were taught using different types of mathematics curricula when they were in middle school. A total of 44 12th-grade students from 10 high schools in the same urban school district were interviewed. Eighteen (41%) of…
Descriptors: High School Students, Mathematics Instruction, Student Attitudes, Research Projects
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Fullana, Judit; Pallisera, Maria; Català, Elena; Puyalto, Carolina – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2017
Background: This article presents the results of evaluating a research training programme aimed at developing the skills of people with intellectual disabilities to actively participate in inclusive research. Methods: The present authors opted for a responsive approach to evaluation, using a combination of interviews, questionnaires and focus…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Inclusion, Research Skills, Program Evaluation
Toro Clarke, Jose Antonio – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This research was carried out within a qualitative research paradigm. The objective was to observe, analyze and enrich pedagogical practice through the use of pedagogical learning strategies. The learning strategy was a participative and individualized lab carried out during a research project in a non-Traditional Laboratory (LnT). The primary aim…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Mathematics, Qualitative Research, Mathematics Curriculum
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Brent, Doug – Written Communication, 2017
Most of the literature on the assignment traditionally called the "research paper" focusses on first-year students, and often centers on what they don't know or can't do. This article seeks to expand the conversation to one about the skills and knowledge displayed by senior students, and about their perceptions of the universe of…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Research, Research Projects, College Seniors
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Werner-Burke, Nanci – Educational Leadership, 2014
Too often, students don't feel engaged in their research projects. The problem begins as early as the topic-creation stage, when students may choose from a list of teacher-selected topics that don't interest them or struggle to select a single fruitful topic on their own. Nanci Werner-Burke describes how two students in an English…
Descriptors: Student Research, Research Projects, Students, Student Attitudes
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Elola, Idoia; Nakatsukasa, Kimi; Tecedor, Marta – L2 Journal, 2018
A growing number of bilingual and multilingual national and international students are enrolling in graduate programs in the United States, creating an urgent need to understand how these writers build knowledge of unfamiliar academic genres and become part of their disciplinary academic communities (Selony, 2014). Such students struggle with…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Graduate Students, Self Concept, English (Second Language)
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Quan, Gina M.; Elby, Andrew – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2016
Undergraduate research can support students' more central participation in physics. We analyze markers of two coupled shifts in participation: changes in students' views about the nature of science coupled to shifts in self-efficacy toward physics research. Students in the study worked with faculty and graduate student mentors on research projects…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Student Attitudes, Attitude Change, Seminars
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Khozaei, Fatemeh; Naidu, Sivabala; Khozaei, Zahra; Salleh, Nor Aini – Education & Training, 2015
Purpose: Despite the critical issues involving Middle East countries such as war and a drop in currency exchange rates, a large number of students leave their country to pursue a higher education abroad, every year. The purpose of this paper is to understand the difficulties that these students face while conducting their research in a foreign…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Research Projects, Student Research
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Manarin, Karen; McGrath, April; Carey, Miriam – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2016
This article describes a model for supporting undergraduate research that can be adapted for very different classroom contexts; we implemented this model in a first-year general education composition class, a second-year Psychology class and a fourth-year English literature seminar. We examine student work created for each class as well as…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Undergraduate Students, Higher Education, Student Attitudes
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Gerena, Linda; Ramírez-Verdugo, M. Dolores – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2014
This study was carried out as an international cooperative research project supported by a Fulbright Scholar award to investigate attitudes and perceptions towards bilingual education, and to extract key findings on effective pedagogy in bilingual schools in the Region of Madrid, where expansion of bilingual programs has been rapidly increasing.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingual Education, International Cooperation, Research Projects
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Hawthorne, Timothy L.; Atchison, Christopher; LangBruttig, Artis – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2014
Collaborative engagement with local residents and organizations is often cited as one of the most valuable aspects of community-based research integration in classroom settings. However, little has been written on the impact of community engagement in international study abroad programs. We explore the use of community geography in Belize to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Students, Study Abroad
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Chesnut, MIchael; Lee, Vivian; Schulte, Jenna – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2013
This narrative article analyses three Korean undergraduate students' experiences conducting a linguistic landscape research project. Linguistic landscape research, the study of publicly displayed language such as billboards and other signs, is a relatively new area of scholarly interest. However, there has been only limited study of using…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Linguistics, Language Research, Multilingualism
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