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Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, 2023
Although extracurricular activities are valuable for school communities, they present specific contextual challenges including (a) scheduling outside of school hours/locations, (b) attendees who may not be directly connected to the school community, (c) large groups together in unstructured spaces, (d) potential opportunities for increased access…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Barriers, Prosocial Behavior, Values
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Oosthuizen, Heinrich; De Lange, Paul; Wilmshurst, Trevor; Beatson, Nicola – Accounting Education, 2021
Studies have reported that employers, graduates, and other stakeholders do not believe that higher education curricula facilitate the development of teamwork competencies adequately. In response to calls from Kennedy and Dull [(2008) Transferable team skills for accounting students. "Accounting Education," 17(2), 213-224] and Levant et…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Cooperative Learning, Accounting, Business Administration Education
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Phelps, Vicki A. – Roeper Review, 2022
This qualitative cross-case study explores gifted adolescents' perspectives on motivation in learning as a means to better understand their complex motivational and academic needs. Participants consisted of 6 students, ranging in age from 11 to 16, identified as gifted through holistic measures including cognition scores, interviews, and other…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Student Motivation, Adolescents, Gifted Education
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Getty, Stephen R.; Barron, Kenneth E.; Hulleman, Chris S. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2021
To improve student motivation, the authors propose a five-step process that entails learning about a motivation framework, identifying students' motivational challenges based on that framework, adopting interventions to address those challenges, and assessing the effectiveness of the interventions. In particular, they recommend adopting the…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, College Students, Introductory Courses, Psychology
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Parrisius, Cora; Gaspard, Hanna; Zitzmann, Steffen; Trautwein, Ulrich; Nagengast, Benjamin – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
In their situated expectancy-value theory, Eccles and Wigfield (2020) assume students' competence and value beliefs to be situation-specific and thereby to be "situative" in nature. Even though motivation research has gradually been developing an understanding of this situative nature, for instance, by disentangling time-consistent and…
Descriptors: Competence, Grade 9, High School Students, Mathematics Instruction
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Fischer, Elisabeth; Hänze, Martin – Educational Psychology, 2020
This study investigated university teachers' characteristics and their influence on teaching practices: Coming from expectancy-value theory, teachers' personal value of teaching was introduced as a possibly relevant variable and examined along with constructivist and transmissive teaching beliefs as to how they affect various aspects of university…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Values, Beliefs
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Migliorini, Paola; Wezel, Alexander; Veromann, Eve; Strassner, Carola; Srednicka-Tober, Dominika; Kahl, Johannes; Bügel, Susanne; Briz, Teresa; Kazimierczak, Renata; Brives, Hélène; Ploeger, Angelika; Gilles, Ute; Lüder, Vanessa; Schleicher-Deis, Olesa; Rastorgueva, Natalia; Tuccillo, Fabio; Talgre, Liina; Kaart, Tanel; Ismael, Diana; Rembialkowska, Ewa – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2020
Purpose: To clarify needs and requests of the young generation to the contemporary and future education on food systems, this paper aims to examine the following issues: students' background knowledge, students' behaviour as consumers and food citizenship, most interesting topics of SFS for students and students' preferences and expectations in…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Expectation, Sustainable Development, Food
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Çifçi, Taner; Dikmenli, Yurdal – Review of International Geographical Education Online, 2019
The aim of this study is to reveal the status of the geography course among other courses as perceived by teacher candidates, the way they use their geographic knowledge in daily life, what their expectations are from geography courses, and to determine their opinions about the necessity of learning geography and their suggestions for teaching…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography Instruction, Preservice Teachers, Value Judgment
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Klee, Holly L.; Buehl, Michelle M.; Miller, Angela D. – Theory Into Practice, 2022
Mathematics educators often know the widespread nature of mathematics anxiety and may even be aware of the debilitating effect it can have on their students. Although educators may develop tricks or tools that seem to help, a comprehensive understanding of what students are experiencing and how the classroom environment can be adjusted to address…
Descriptors: Mathematics Anxiety, Intervention, High School Students, College Students
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Cooper, Rebecca; Fitzgerald, Angela; Loughran, John; Phillips, Michael; Smith, Kathy – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2020
Professional learning is a significant focus of discussion in most schools but it is not all that common for these conversations to be informed by teachers' needs and expectations. Instead, they tend to be driven by external factors, such as accreditation, mandated professional development requirements and policies. Based on an in-depth study of a…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Inservice Teacher Education, Educational Needs, Secondary School Teachers
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Chen, Ru-Si; Tu, Chia-Ching – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2018
Integrating Internet-related applications into preschool instructional activities can enable children to develop multiple aspects of their learning abilities as well as their cognitive, affective, and relevant skills. Because of the trends toward an Internet society and parents' expectations from preschools, many teachers have considered parents'…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Internet, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Shaver, Denise – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2017
Do you find it challenging to have discussions with instructors about designing online courses and best practices in teaching? This article will highlight key components to conducting effective Learning Design meetings. It outlines techniques used by this institution that inspires faculty to design coherent courses that lead to meaningful learning…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Instructional Design, Meetings, Online Courses
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Doucette, Danny; Clark, Russell; Singh, Chandralekha – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
At universities where introductory physics labs are taught by graduate student teaching assistants (TAs), there is a need for specialized professional development for those TAs. This paper presents a specific instantiation of a model for lab TA professional development that uses a combination of cognitive apprenticeship and expectancy-value…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teaching Assistants, Physics, Science Instruction
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Glanzer, Perry L.; Alleman, Nathan F. – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2015
Some debate exists about the degree to which one should merge one's identities, particularly those with important normative content, with one's teaching practices. This issue becomes particularly important for those with a religious identity who purposefully merge their identity with classroom practices. This article examines the qualitative…
Descriptors: Religion, Religious Factors, Ethics, Identification (Psychology)
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Hanbidge, Alice Schmidt; Mackenzie, Amanda; Sanderson, Nicole; Scholz, Kyle; Tin, Tony – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2017
How do we close the gap between the lack of academic experience incoming students have--with the expectation that students know the rules of writing and taking exams? Academic integrity (AI) is essential in post-secondary academia yet insufficient time is allocated to teaching and practicing its concepts. Talks at orientation, lectures in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Integrity, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
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