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van der Veen, Jatila – American Educational Research Journal, 2012
The persistent fear of physics by learners motivated the author to take action to increase all students' interest in the subject via a new curriculum for introductory college physics that applies Greene's model of Aesthetic Education to the study of contemporary physics, utilizing symmetry as the mathematical foundation of physics as well as the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Aesthetic Education, Learning Modalities, Physics
Maynard, Brandy R.; Tyson-McCrea, Katherine; Pigott, Therese; Kelly, Michael – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2011
The main objective of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to examine the effects of intervention programs on school attendance behaviors of elementary and secondary school students to inform policy and practice. The specific questions guiding this study were: (1) Do indicated programs with a goal of increasing student attendance affect…
Descriptors: Intervention, Student Attitudes, Attendance Patterns, Attendance
Allegretti, Rosette M. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Typical college classrooms consist of auditory lectures with very little variety. Frequently, with large quantities of difficult material such as literature and writing assignments, undergraduate students become anxious about maintaining their grades. This problem is more prevalent with first-year students, who are still adjusting to the college…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction