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Shin, Suhkyung; Brush, Thomas A.; Glazewski, Krista D. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2020
The purpose of this study was to identify types and patterns of peer scaffolding that occur during inquiry-based learning (IBL) group activities. It employed a single instrumental case approach that integrated quantitative and qualitative analyses of data gathered from 21 students in a ninth grade biology course. A verbal analysis, a content…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Peer Relationship, Technology Integration, Social Networks
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Li, Liang-Yi; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2020
This study developed a learning system that allows teachers to edit assignments designed to teach students the text structure strategy through the use of four phases: instructing, modeling, practicing, and reflecting. A 7-week instructional experiment was conducted in which 84 12th-grade students learned the text structure strategy using this…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Learning Analytics, Text Structure
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Kallman, Meghan Elizabeth – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2020
A growing national focus on prison reform has led to a resurgence of interest in carceral education. However, and although college education prison is different from college education in the community, relatively little scholarship has explored why or how these variations exist, what they mean, or how they have changed over time. The present paper…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Institutionalized Persons, Adult Students, Community Colleges
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Blackstone, Sarah R.; Sangiorgio, Celeste; Johnson, Aimee K. – American Journal of Health Education, 2020
Background: Eating disorders (ED) are a concern on college campuses, yet comprehensive education and awareness is low. Few studies have investigated knowledge of disordered eating not fitting prototypical depictions or recognition of disordered eating in males. Purpose: To assess college students' ability to identify behavioral symptoms of ED in…
Descriptors: Eating Disorders, Vignettes, College Students, Gender Differences
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Vousden, George H.; Paulcan, Sloane; Robbins, Trevor W.; Eagle, Dawn M.; Milton, Amy L. – Learning & Memory, 2020
In obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), functional behaviors such as checking that a door is locked become dysfunctional, maladaptive, and debilitating. However, it is currently unknown how aversive and appetitive motivations interact to produce functional and dysfunctional behavior in OCD. Here we show a double dissociation in the effects of…
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Cues, Task Analysis, Punishment
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Kianersi, Sina; Luetke, Maya; Jules, Reginal; Rosenberg, Molly – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2020
Bias may be introduced in survey data collection when participants answer questions differently depending on interviewer gender. This could affect the validity of collected data, especially sensitive data. Using sexual behavior data collected in a 2017-2018 cross-sectional survey of Haitian women (n = 304), we evaluated the associations between…
Descriptors: Females, Foreign Countries, Responses, Surveys
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Nikula, Pii-Tuulia; Kivistö, Jussi – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2020
This article examines the monitoring of third-party education agents employed in international student recruitment. Agency theory identifies comprehensive monitoring as one way to ensure that agents work in the principal's best interest. By analyzing best practice guidelines, this article investigates the monitoring mechanisms proposed for…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Recruitment, Best Practices, Guidelines
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Kayyal, Mary H.; Widen, Sherri C. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2021
When asked to describe possible elicitors of fear, American children generate more stories about imaginary creatures than realistic ones; Palestinian children generate more realistic than imaginary causes (Kayyal et al., 2015). The current study reversed this task to investigate whether these patterns persist when American (n = 72) and Palestinian…
Descriptors: Fear, Imagination, Cross Cultural Studies, Story Telling
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Cummings, Cory; Dunkle, Jennifer; Koller, Jeanne; Lewis, Jack B.; Mooney, Loretta – Journal of Social Work Education, 2023
This study captured experiences of MSW and BSW students during COVID-19 across a number of life domains (i.e., class, field, personal coping and well-being, homelife, and employment). An electronic survey was administered, with a sample size of 65 students from two universities. Descriptive and bivariate analyses were conducted. A majority of…
Descriptors: College Students, Graduate Students, Social Work, Professional Education
Jennifer Hu – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Language is one of the hallmarks of intelligence, demanding explanation in a theory of human cognition. However, language presents unique practical challenges for quantitative empirical research, making many linguistic theories difficult to test at naturalistic scales. Artificial neural network language models (LMs) provide a new tool for studying…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Computational Linguistics, Models, Language Research
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Wu, Yanting – English Language Teaching, 2022
This paper presents an analysis and comparison of the projection of Chinese "shen" and English "deep" from the spatial domain to other domains of time, sense, emotion, behavior, and society from a cognitive perspective by using the comparative and contrastive method, explaining the universality and differences of SHEN and DEEP…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Second Language Learning
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Beshir, Mohammed; Yigzaw, Abiy – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2022
This study aimed to evaluate whether or not students engage in self-help behavior when they encounter difficulties during their presentations. The participants were second year EFL college trainees; the data were obtained from their classroom presentations. The audio recorded data has been transcribed, coded, and categorized into quantitative and…
Descriptors: Error Correction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Mustari, Sohela; Rahman, Mehe Zebunnesa; Kar, Susmita – Prospects, 2022
This article describes the socio-psychological effects of school closure on school-going urban girls in Dhaka, Bangladesh, during the COVID-19 pandemic. It illustrates the life of urban students in Bangladesh during the school-closing time and relates it to their previous normal life. It asserts that the strengths of traditional schools have…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Psychological Patterns, School Closing, Attachment Behavior
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Lewon, Matthew; Webb, E. Kate; Brotheridge, Sydney M.; Cox, Christophe; Fast, Cynthia D. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2019
Animal trainers working in scent detection programs are responsible for arranging training contingencies as well as for observing and recording animal behavior. We provided behavioral skills training (BST) to animal trainers working with scent detection rats to improve the treatment integrity of scent-detection research sessions. We evaluated the…
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Trainers, Olfactory Perception, Animals
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Scoular, Claire; Care, Esther – Educational Assessment, 2019
Recent educational and psychological research has highlighted shifting workplace requirements and change required to equip the emerging workforce with skills for the 21st century. The emergence of these highlights the issues, and drives the importance, of new methods of assessment. This study addresses some of the issues by describing a scoring…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Problem Solving, Scoring, 21st Century Skills
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