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Gillian Goldhagen; Heather Ford; Kinnari Atit – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2024
Despite concerted efforts aimed at improving gender diversity in the discipline, the underrepresentation of women continues to persist in the geoscience domain. Research suggests that successful completion of introductory undergraduate STEM coursework is pivotal to the retention of students in STEM major programs and that spatial skills are…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Perspective Taking, Earth Science, Natural Disasters
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Christy Jarrard; Deborah South Richardson; Robert Bledsoe – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2025
This study investigates the influence of instructor mindset on student perceptions. Due to the need for increasing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) student retention and the issue of underrepresentation of minority groups in STEM disciplines, we also examined whether instructor mindset impacts underrepresented students more…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, College Faculty, Teacher Student Relationship, STEM Education
Djatmika, Ery Tri – Online Submission, 2023
This research article aims to reveal leadership accountability based on gender differences. This research was conducted by using an explanatory research design for students as subjects of research who were taking an Organization Development course at the Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Negeri Malang. In…
Descriptors: Accountability, Gender Differences, Leadership Role, Management Development
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Mallory Avery; Jane Caldwell; Christian D. Schunn; Katherine Wolfe – Journal of Economic Education, 2024
The presentation of economics in introductory courses has been highlighted as potentially exacerbating the underrepresentation of women in economics. The authors study the impact of a gender-neutral change in content and instruction in introductory economics courses intended to increase student engagement. By implementing meaningful applied…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Course Content, Females, Educational Experience
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Zachary Odermatt; Robert Weston Siscoe – Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis, 2023
Political polarization is on the rise, undermining the shared space of public reason necessary for a thriving democracy and making voters more willing than ever to dismiss the perspectives of their political opponents. This destructive tendency is especially problematic when it comes to issues of race and gender, as informed views on these topics…
Descriptors: Civics, Dialogs (Language), Political Attitudes, Philosophy
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Iseminger, Shalyse; Acheson-Clair, Kris; Kelly, Colleen; Morris, Pamala – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2020
Communicating across Cultures (CaC) is an undergraduate course that exists to achieve the goal of equipping students to effectively work in multicultural environments. Students' worldviews, beliefs, and values shape their experience with the course materials and potentially impact the degree to which they achieve the intended learning outcomes.The…
Descriptors: Identification (Psychology), Educational Objectives, Educational Attainment, Undergraduate Students
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Su-Bergil, Ayfer – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2021
In this study, the metacognitive awareness, and skills of English Language Teaching Department (ELT) students regarding their course achievement of the structure of English is aimed to be investigated specifically. For this purpose, the participants were composed of the 1st grade ELT students at a state university taking the course of Structure of…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Yarosh, Jerrod H. – Teaching Sociology, 2021
The current research examines whether a visual syllabus aids in information retention compared to a traditional text-based syllabus. The data derive from two lower-division sociology classes, each having a different syllabus format. Utilizing a syllabus quiz during the first week of the class provides the data about whether syllabus format…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Teaching Methods, Retention (Psychology), Tests
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Warshowsky, Hannah; Mosley, Della V.; Mahar, Elizabeth A.; Mintz, Laurie – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2020
When young adult women and men engage in sexual encounters, the former have significantly fewer orgasms than the latter. This gendered orgasm disparity, often referred to as an orgasm gap, is theorised to be due to a multitude of societal issues. The purpose of this study was to assess whether a Psychology of Human Sexuality university course,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Sex Education, Gender Differences, Psychology
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Chakravarty, Debjani – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2019
In this article I analyze the way "globalization" is deployed in US universities as a value addition. I explore issues of teaching about the global "Other," the "third world," and other unfamiliar, objectified spaces. Through critical discourse analysis of syllabi, I outline some representational and pedagogical…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Global Approach, Universities, Discourse Analysis
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Bayer, Amanda; Bruich, Gregory; Chetty, Raj; Housiaux, Andrew – Journal of Economic Education, 2020
Economics does not attract as broad or diverse a pool of talent as it could. For example, women comprise less than one-third of economics bachelor's degree recipients, significantly lower than in math or statistics. The authors present a case study of a new introductory economics course that enrolled 400 students, achieved nearly 50-50 gender…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Talent, Economics Education, Gender Differences
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Theriault, Daniel – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2022
Diversity and inclusion courses are common components of undergraduate leisure studies curricula. Although a body of diversity and inclusion content has been developed, few detailed course structures have been shared. I share the learning outcomes, course units, lecture topics, assigned readings, and key assignments from my inclusive recreation…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Inclusion, Criticism, Outcomes of Education
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Porter, Andrew; Cooper, Spring; Henry, Myrthle; Gallo, Jennifer; Graefe, Beck – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2019
Most young people go to their friends for information on sexuality-related topics, thus it is important to understand the context of these communications so that we may gather insight into sexual values and the underlying emotions and styles of communication. We conducted qualitative weekly surveys regarding discussion of sexual health topics…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Sexuality, Sex Education, Values
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Azhar, Sarwar Mehmood; Tashfeen, Rubeena; Khalid, Jaweria; Azhar, Tashfeen Mahmood – Journal of International Education in Business, 2019
Purpose: The Corruption Perception Index (CPI) for 2016 shows Pakistan as among the more corrupt nations in the world with a ranking of 117 among 176 countries surveyed. This situation raises concerns about members of the society and especially about the business communities. This paper aims to examine whether the tendency to corruption is also…
Descriptors: Ethics, Student Attitudes, Business Administration Education, Foreign Countries
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Eren, Ömer – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2023
Increase in diversified teaching contexts has led researchers to investigate the potentials of telecollaboration in multicultural learning environments. While there are abundant telecollaboration studies, improving intercultural awareness through a theoretical model is usually under-investigated. Based on Byram's (1997) co-orientational and…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Videoconferencing, Intercultural Communication, Cultural Pluralism
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