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Stoller, Aaron – Honors in Practice, 2022
A defining feature of honors education is meaningful engagement within and across disciplines, yet significant challenges for creating and sustaining meaningful transdisciplinary research remain. One such challenge involves a nuanced understanding of a discipline, or what educational researchers call "disciplinary literacy." This article…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Practicums, Teaching Methods, Intellectual Disciplines
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Haley, Karen J.; Lohr, Kathy D. – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2018
Many students return to graduate programs as experts in their prior fields. "Returners," as they are commonly termed, have undergraduate degrees and have worked five or more years before returning for a graduate degree. While there is a significant body of literature on graduate students in general, there is less research on students…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Specialists, Work Experience, Graduate Students
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Mozelius, Peter; Fagerström, Andreas; Söderquist, Max – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2017
Game-based learning has been a strong emerging trend in the 21st century, but several research studies on game-based learning reports that the educational potential of games has not been fully realised. Many educational games do not combine learning outcomes with entertaining gameplay. At the same time as there is a tendency to digitise and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Games, Student Motivation, Knowledge Level
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Cheung, Derek; Lai, Edith – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2013
The personal development of students is an essential component of school guidance and counselling programmes, but no published research on guidance and counselling has investigated the effects of regular classroom teaching on students' self-efficacy for personal development. In this study, questionnaire items were constructed to measure classroom…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Classroom Environment, Student Development, Instructional Effectiveness
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Gutwill, Joshua P.; Allen, Sue – Science Education, 2010
We describe a study of programs to deepen families' scientific inquiry practices in a science museum setting. The programs incorporated research-based learning principles from formal and informal educational environments. In a randomized experimental design, two versions of the programs, called "inquiry games," were compared to two control…
Descriptors: Museums, Exhibits, Effect Size, Inquiry
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers