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Tomas Butvilas; Deimante Žilinskiene; Remigijus Bubnys; Jordi Colomer; Dolors Cañabate; Marjan Masoodi – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: The importance of metacognitive awareness in learning, on the one hand, and the necessity of considering demographic variables, on the other hand, have encouraged the researchers to conduct this research. This research aims to initially determine the relationship between the level of metacognitive awareness and demographic variables of…
Descriptors: Metacognition, College Students, Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals)
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Janice Miller-Young; Marnie Jamieson; Seth Beck – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
Cultivating a sense of belonging can be challenging in online contexts as well as for underrepresented students in engineering education. This study used a mixed methods sequential explanatory design to understand underrepresented students' experiences in a Canadian first-year course. Taking place during remote delivery due to COVID-19, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Experience, Sense of Belonging, College Freshmen
Stephanie Fitzsimmons – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), including Computer Science (CS) are fields that are in great demand globally. This study's purpose was to explore the nature of the educational pathways, critical factors and commonalities/differences leading to CS undergraduate enrollment through the male and female perspectives focusing on…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Undergraduate Students, Computer Science Education, Guided Pathways
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Chen, Chen; Sonnert, Gerhard; Sadler, Philip M. – Science Education, 2020
To encourage the formation of science identity among girls, many scholars and practitioners have suggested to assign same-gender science teachers to students so that the teachers can serve as gender role models. However, direct evidence of any long-term effect of gender-matching is scarce. In a nationally representative survey of college students…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, Science Teachers, Gender Differences, Self Concept
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Moosa, Shaaista; Bhana, Deevia – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2019
The teaching of young children or Foundation Phase (FP) teaching as it is known in South Africa continues to be regarded as 'women's work'. Lately South African research has focused on encouraging men's participation as FP teachers. In this paper, we offer a critical examination of how South African primary school teachers 'embrace' the need for…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Role Models, Teacher Characteristics, Sex Role
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Warren, Chezare A. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2020
Increasing the number of Black men teachers and single-sex schooling options have been heralded as necessary to reverse trends in the failure of US education institutions to adequately educate Black boys. Too little research interrogates Black men teachers' interactions with Black boys for how they might reinforce anti-oppressive conceptions of…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Single Sex Schools, African American Students, African American Teachers
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Mertol, Huseyin; Gunduz, Mevlut – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2020
One adds meaning into his/her own life thanks to several values (reliance, respect, tolerance, benevolence, responsibility, justice, etc.). While the foundation of these values is laid at early ages, they might undergo several changes thanks to life experiences. Thus, the perceptions of the interviewee regarding that value are to be taken into…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Trust (Psychology), Childrens Attitudes, Elementary School Students
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Wladkowski, Stephanie P.; Mirick, Rebecca G. – Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education, 2019
Mentorship is an important component of doctoral program success, providing socialization to the profession and academia, professional development, and psychosocial support. For women in particular, mentoring increases feelings of preparedness, self-esteem, and rates of program completion. Within a gendered institution like academia, which does…
Descriptors: Mentors, Doctoral Programs, Pregnancy, Self Esteem
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Riggers-Piehl, Tiffani; Sax, Linda J. – Journal of College and Character, 2018
The influence of faculty on student academic and affective development is well-documented. Positive interactions with faculty are related to increases in student retention, GPA, and well-being, but less is known about how student-faculty interaction relates to students' spiritual development. Drawing upon faith development theory and considering…
Descriptors: Role, Teacher Student Relationship, Spiritual Development, Teaching Methods
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Sullivan, Amanda; Bers, Marina Umaschi – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2018
Aim/Purpose: The goal of this paper is to examine whether having female robotics teachers positively impacts girls' performance on programming and robotics tasks Background: Women continue to be underrepresented in the technical STEM fields such as engineering and computer science. New programs and initiatives are needed to engage girls in STEM…
Descriptors: Females, Robotics, STEM Education, Academic Achievement
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Hughes, Scott – in education, 2014
This conceptual paper examines the education of boys through the filter of pedagogy and goodness. In this paper, I posit a distinction between instructional strategies (the toolkit of practical activities and strategies used to support children's learning) and pedagogy (the relational and practical response to the needs of children in the lived…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Student Relationship, Males
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Kelly, Angela M. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2016
This article synthesizes sociopsychological theories and empirical research to establish a framework for exploring causal pathways and targeted interventions for the low representation of women in post-secondary physics. The rationale for this article is based upon disproportionate representation among undergraduate physics majors in the United…
Descriptors: Social Cognition, Gender Differences, Intervention, Females
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Rich, Yisrael; Schachter, Elli P. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2012
This research investigated whether schools characterized by high school students as being rich in identity promoting features contribute to student identity development. A theoretical model posited that student perceptions of teachers as caring role models and their school as cultivating the whole student will foster student exploration and…
Descriptors: Caring, Role Models, Jews, Foreign Countries
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Archard, Nicole – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2012
In this article, I explore the concepts of mentoring and role modeling with regard to developing student leaders within the girls' school context. The foundation for this discussion lies in two qualitative studies involving staff and students from girls' schools located in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Both survey and focus groups were…
Descriptors: Females, Foreign Countries, Mentors, Focus Groups
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Wood, Tracy Darrin – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine teacher perceptions of gender-based differences among elementary school teachers. In this mixed-methods study, the researcher utilized an online survey to collect data. Quantitative analysis revealed no statistically significant differences; however, qualitative analysis showed that there were more negative…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Gender Differences, Elementary School Teachers, Mixed Methods Research
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