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Banda, Rosa M.; Flowers, Alonzo M., III – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2017
While an abundance of literature addresses undergraduate students' lack of success in engineering programs, fewer studies examine the persistence of minority females, especially of Latinas. This study employed a qualitative method of inquiry to gain insight into the reasons why Latina undergraduate engineering majors sought membership in student…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Group Membership, Student Organizations, Classification
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Cin, Mustafa – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2013
The objective of this research is to investigate students' mental models of the hailstone formation and explore factors that may affect their mental models. The sample chosen for the study was composed of a total of 84 students. The students attended the 1st to 4 th grade classes of the Social Studies Teaching Programme at Giresun University in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Visualization, Models
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Çakir, Recep; Korkmaz, Özgen; Bacanak, Ahmet; Arslan, Ömer – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 2016
The purpose of this study is to explore students' preferences for formative feedback and its relationship with their self-regulated learning skills. The study used a mixed methods approach in which quantitative data collection and analysis was followed by qualitative data collection and analysis. "Preferences toward Formative Feedback"…
Descriptors: Correlation, Preferences, Formative Evaluation, Semi Structured Interviews
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Jahnke, Isa; Haertel, Tobias; Wildt, Johannes – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2017
Creativity is one of the important skills of the twenty-first century and central to higher education (HE). When we look closer into research on creativity in HE, however, it is not clear how university teachers conceptualise student creativity. How do teachers grasp, observe and express student creativity? Different methods such as interviews and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Undergraduate Students
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Allan, Elizabeth G. – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2016
This article identifies the strategies used by architecture professors and their undergraduate students to mitigate common issues that students raise about group work. Based on participant-observation, interviews with students and faculty, and analysis of instructional materials and student work, this IRB-approved ethnographic case study…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Small Group Instruction, Cooperative Learning
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Johnston, Pattie; Tankersley, Merrie; Joenson, Trevor; Hupp, Mikey; Buckley, Jennifer; Redmond-McGowan, Margaret; Zanzinger, Allison; Poirier, Alex; Walsh, Abigail – Education, 2014
Cyber-bullying has become increasingly problematic in academic settings including universities and colleges. The bullying literature has been expanding investigation of the bully behaviors and has identified four bully types to include pure offender, pure victim, offender and victim, neither-offender-nor-victim. The majority of research has…
Descriptors: Bullying, Victims, Psychological Patterns, Motivation
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Harrison, Neil; Chudry, Farooq; Waller, Richard; Hatt, Sue – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2015
As the UK sits on the verge of a major change in the financing of both universities and students, this study seeks to capture and analyse attitudes to money, borrowing and debt among contemporary young undergraduates. It reports findings from a qualitative study of 62 individuals in the second term of their first year at university, these being…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Debt (Financial)
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Lawson, Alison – Educational Research, 2014
Background: A "learner identity" can be broadly defined as how an individual feels about himself/herself as a learner and the extent to which he/she describes himself/herself as a "learner." The literature suggests that those from non-traditional backgrounds may struggle to adapt to a university environment with all its related…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Case Studies, Self Concept, Marketing
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Mendoza, Pilar; Malcolm, Zaria; Parish, Nancy – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2015
This study investigated qualitatively how undergraduate students experienced the Great Recession at a flagship university in the South Eastern of United States and how this experience relates to their retention. Results indicate that the Great Recession has significantly impacted students' engagement and commitments. We argue that student…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, School Holding Power, Academic Persistence, Economic Climate
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Willson, Rebekah; Given, Lisa M. – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2014
Introduction: This paper presents a qualitative exploration of university students' experience of searching an online public access catalogue. The study investigated how students conceptualise their searching process, as well as how students understand themselves as seekers of information. Method: Following a search task, thirty-eight…
Descriptors: Online Searching, Self Concept, Online Systems, Coding
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Gates, Alice B.; Fletcher, C. Vail; Ruíz-Tolento, María Guadalupe; Goble, Laura; Velloso, Tadeu – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2014
The move to "internationalize" United States universities has contributed to increased interest in global service-learning. This article presents qualitative data collected by a team of faculty and students during a service immersion in Nicaragua. The solidarity model of service-learning attempts to address shortcomings of earlier…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Qualitative Research, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes
Pyo, Katrina A. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
A review of the nursing literature reveals many undergraduate nursing students lack proficiency with basic mathematical skills, those necessary for safe medication preparation and administration. Few studies exploring the phenomenon from the undergraduate nursing student perspective are reported in the nursing literature. The purpose of this study…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Nursing Students, Nursing Education, Student Attitudes
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