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Awaah, Fred; Okebukola, Peter; Shabani, Juma; Arkorful, Helen – Cogent Education, 2023
Studies on reasons accounting for the difficulties in learning public administration is relatively new in the public administration literature though many findings exist regarding students' difficulties in the study of different subject areas. This paper examines whether the perceived reasons in other subjects are real in the study of public…
Descriptors: Public Administration, Undergraduate Students, Course Descriptions, Concept Formation
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Laura A. Meadows; Max Bernard; Kaela Clabaugh-Howell; Jessica Duke; Lani Irvin; Lydia Mayo; Emily A. Holt – College Teaching, 2024
Learner-centered and inclusive and equitable teaching practices aim to promote better learning outcomes for all students. Course syllabi can provide a window into these practices. We adapted an existing rubric to measure inclusiveness and equity-mindedness of syllabi and used an established rubric to assess their learner-centeredness. We then…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Biology, Introductory Courses, Science Instruction
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Eichelberger, Brenda; Gerbing, David; Gilpatrick, Thomas – College Student Journal, 2020
This study analyzes the relationship of completion of a college level personal finance course to undergraduate retention and graduation rates. Through the utilization of comparative data, results demonstrated that students who completed the personal finance course had a significantly higher probability of year to year retention and successful…
Descriptors: Money Management, Academic Persistence, Correlation, Knowledge Level
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Gibson, Anne; Spira-Cohen, Ezra; Sherman, Whitney; Namaste, Nina – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
This study examines what factors contribute to intercultural learning during the study abroad experience, drawing on Mezirow's theory of transformative learning and data from the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI). Using data from 1,858 US students studying abroad in 27 countries over 6 years (2014-2020), this study constitutes the largest…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Transformative Learning, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Context
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Smith, Ashly; Schieber, Danica; Austin, Traci – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2022
While there are many measures of anxiety, there are few measures or descriptions of confidence. This study considers students' perceptions of what it means to be or to look confident during undergraduate presentations. Findings show students placed high value on effective posture as the most common behavior that was causally connected to a…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Self Esteem, Undergraduate Students, Public Speaking
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Huo, Rongrong – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2023
In our investigation of university students' knowledge about real numbers in relation to computer algebra systems (CAS) and how it could be developed in view of their future activity as teachers, we used a computer algorithm as a case to explore the relationship between CAS and the knowledge of real numbers as decimal representations. Our work was…
Descriptors: Numbers, Computer Science Education, Knowledge Level, Algorithms
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Adams, Bryan; Baller, Daniel; Jonas, Bryan; Joseph, Anny-Claude; Cummiskey, Kevin – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2021
Since the publishing of Nolan and Temple Lang's "Computing in the Statistics Curriculum" in 2010, the American Statistical Association issued new recommendations in the revised GAISE college report. To reflect modern practice and technologies, they emphasize giving students experience with multivariable thinking. Students develop…
Descriptors: Multivariate Analysis, Statistics Education, Teaching Methods, Thinking Skills
Nyk Robertson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Current studies focus on critical pedagogy in the classroom as a practice, but do not connect these practices to praxis outside of the classroom as it relates to identity-based student activism. The purpose of this research is to investigate students' experiences and development as identity-based student activists and the role of dialogue in the…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Psychological Patterns, State Universities, Activism
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Lang-Wojtasik, Gregor; Erichsen-Morgenstern, Ronja M.; Stratmann, Jörg – International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 2020
Globalization and digital media have been responsible for societal and educational challenges. There are educational approaches in the field of global learning and media competence that offer options to deal with these challenges. These approaches were combined in a course called 'Global Medial', mainly addressing students of educational subjects…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Global Approach, Media Literacy, Teacher Education
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Li, Jiawei; Supraja, S.; Qiu, Wei; Khong, Andy W. H. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2022
Academic grades in assessments are predicted to determine if a student is at risk of failing a course. Sequential models or graph neural networks that have been employed for grade prediction do not consider relationships between course descriptions. We propose the use of text mining to extract semantic, syntactic, and frequency-based features from…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Learning Analytics, Academic Achievement, Prediction
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Blau, Gary – Journal of Education and Learning, 2019
Prior research has not investigated perceived added education value in courses. Using a sample of 165 graduating business students, two business administration (BA) scales were created from six required BA core courses as part of students' Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree. Students were asked if each required course "added…
Descriptors: Business Schools, Reputation, Business Administration Education, Correlation
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Scullin, Michael K. – Teaching of Psychology, 2019
Many students and educators know that sleep is important to learning, yet there exists a gap between their knowledge and behavior. For example, fewer than 10% of students sleep 8 hr before final exams. In the context of two undergraduate courses on sleep (N = 34), students could earn extra credit if they averaged =8.0 hr of sleep during final…
Descriptors: Sleep, Undergraduate Students, Tests, Course Descriptions
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Tan, Wee Lum; Venema, Sven – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
One of the challenges that commencing university students in computing degree programs face is the difficulty in engaging with the abstract and complicated theories in the computing discipline. In particular, it is hard for beginner computer architecture students to visualise the link between the theory of digital logic and the behaviour of the…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Computer Science Education, Introductory Courses, Correlation
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Fernandez, Stephen – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2021
This paper explores the ways that the intersection between disability and digital technology in higher education unfolds collaborative experiences that include disabled students through what I call 'Digital Collaborative Making'. Students who participate in Digital Collaborative Making collaborate on multimedia video projects that tell stories…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Inclusion, Cooperative Learning, Students with Disabilities
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Dawson, Susan – Educational Action Research, 2020
This article offers a conceptual and analytical framework for understanding the 'understandings' generated through practitioner research, and specifically exploratory practice (EP), based on Aristotle's philosophy of knowledge. Drawing on Olav Eikeland's interpretation of Aristotle's philosophy of knowledge as a gnoseology, it illustrates how a…
Descriptors: Action Research, Educational Philosophy, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning
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