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Nafissi, Zohreh; Rezaeipanah, Fariba; Monsefi, Roya – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
Iran's education system is exam-based and to gain admission to universities at undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate levels, candidates have to sit a competitive examination. For this reason, developing an EAP course which prepares the candidates for these examinations is of crucial importance. The present study attempted to develop an EAP…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Pretests Posttests, Needs Assessment, Student Evaluation
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McGeough, Ryan; Rudick, C. Kyle – Communication Education, 2018
In this study, we explore the heuristic decision-making skills of undergraduate students as they incorporate information into their persuasive speeches. We interviewed 26 students enrolled in an introductory communication course to ascertain their information literacy for vetting sources for their public speeches. From their responses, we…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Heuristics, Decision Making, Persuasive Discourse
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Tolliver, David V., III; Miller, Michael T. – Education, 2018
African American men have not historically participated in higher education at the same levels or with the same success as others. And, as colleges and universities have sought to diversify their student populations, the rapidly increasing enrollment of Asian American and Hispanic students has illustrated the difficulty in trying to increase the…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, Student Attitudes, Graduation
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Blackman, Stacey; Conrad, Dennis A.; Philip, Lisa – International Journal of Special Education, 2017
This retrospective qualitative research utilised ecological systems theory and content analysis to explore the pre-university experiences and barriers to participation faced by students with disabilities in Barbados and Trinidad. Findings suggested that attitudinal and environmental barriers heavily influenced the level of participation of…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Content Analysis
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Fitzpatrick, Kate R.; Henninger, Jacqueline C.; Taylor, Don M. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2014
The purpose of this collective instrumental case study was to examine the experiences of six undergraduate students from traditionally marginalized populations with regard to their preparation for, admission to, and retention within a music education degree program. Analyzed and reported through the lens of critical theory, data sources included…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Music Education, Academic Persistence, Disadvantaged
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Haynes, Nia A.; Jacobson, Susan – Journal of Environmental Education, 2015
Using a framework based on social cognitive career theory, we conducted 38 interviews and four focus groups with college students to identify motivations and barriers faced by underrepresented groups to natural resource careers. Interviews revealed career satisfaction as the most important goal for both natural resource and a comparison of liberal…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Natural Resources, Environmental Education, Barriers
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Brown, Jason M.; Guy, Breonte S.; Henderson, Dawn X.; Ebert, C. Edward; Harp, Jill; Markert, Chad D. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2018
Regenerative medicine is a novel discipline that both excites undergraduates and may be used as a vehicle to expose students to scientific concepts and opportunities. The goal of this article is to describe the implementation of a National Science Foundation-funded Targeted Infusion Project in which underrepresented minority undergraduates are…
Descriptors: Exercise Physiology, Undergraduate Students, Minority Group Students, Disproportionate Representation
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Case, Kathleen; Crook, Brittani; Lazard, Allison; Mackert, Michael – Journal of American College Health, 2016
Objective: This formative study examined perceptions of e-cigarettes in college students with the goal of informing future health communication campaigns. Differences between e-cigarette users and nonusers were also examined. Participants: Thirty undergraduate students were recruited from a large southwestern public university (15 users, 15…
Descriptors: Smoking, Formative Evaluation, Student Attitudes, Health Promotion
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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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Beránek, Ladislav – Informatics in Education, 2015
One of the main goals of many educational courses at various colleges, especially those which focus on applied economics and management, is the development of students' entrepreneurship skills. It is usually accomplished through various project-oriented tasks. The development of the students' entrepreneurship skills is also the primary objective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Entrepreneurship
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Yoke, Soo Kum; Hasan, Nor Haniza; Jangga, Rohani; Kamal, Siti Nuur-Ila Mat – English Language Teaching, 2015
The idea of integrating higher order thinking skills (HOTS) in language classrooms has been viewed negatively by language teachers. Students have been found to be passive and teachers have been found to lack creativity in innovating their lessons. The government's effort of introducing thinking skills in the Malaysian Education Blueprint (MEB)…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reading Instruction
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McGrath, Cormac; Barman, Linda; Stenfors-Hayes, Terese; Roxå, Torgny; Silén, Charlotte; Laksov, Klara Bolander – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2016
In this paper, we are concerned with how change agents go about and experience change implementation in higher education. We identified change agents and interviewed them about how they implement change. Empirical data was analysed using a theoretical framework of change. The findings suggest that change in the university is enacted through a…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Change Agents, Universities, Persuasive Discourse
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Hajhosseini, Mansoureh; Zandi, Saeid; Hosseini Shabanan, Sediqeh; Madani, Yaser – Cogent Education, 2016
Following the failures in traditional methods of teaching, theorists have recently emphasized students' active role in education in which the teacher is no longer a mere transmitter of knowledge. Discussion-based teaching has been regarded as a route to improving students' active role. The current study intended to discover the benefits of using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Thinking, Active Learning, Teaching Methods
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Galbraith, Craig S.; Merrill, Gregory B. – Journal of College Student Development, 2012
We examined the interaction between academic burnout and work-related burnout for a sample of working undergraduate university students. Using a longitudinal design we found that the factors of burnout (Exhaustion, Cynicism, and Efficacy) change significantly over the semester. In addition, the study suggests there are distinct differences in how…
Descriptors: Semi Structured Interviews, Structured Interviews, Educational Experience, Burnout
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Yigermal, Moges Endalamaw – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
This study was designed to investigate the determinant factors affecting academic performance of regular undergraduate students of Arba Minch University (AMU) Chamo Campus students. The study employed the use of correlation design to establish the nature of the relationships. Data were collected from 100 respondents selected from all the 12…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Academic Achievement, Achievement Need, Performance Factors
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