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Ardasheva, Yuliya; Tretter, Thomas R. – TESOL Journal, 2012
This survey study explored perceptions and use of language learning strategies among English as a second language teachers and English-learning students (Grades 3-8, 10, and 11). The sample comprised 1,057 students (651 elementary, 275 middle, and 131 high school) and 54 teachers (31 elementary, 11 middle, and 12 high school) from 38 schools…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English Teachers, Learning Strategies, Student Attitudes
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Lammintakanen, Johanna; Kivinen, Tuula – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe and compare the views of nurses of different ages on continuing professional development (CPD). The authors were interested in possible differences in the use of formal and especially informal CPD practices between nurses of different ages, and likewise in possible differences in attitudes of…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Nurses, Professional Development, Professional Continuing Education
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Zhang, Qian-Mei; Kim, Tae-Young – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2013
This mixed-methods study investigated the changes in Chinese students' motivation to learn English from elementary to high school and explored the reasons for these changes at different school levels. A motivational questionnaire was designed and administered to 3,777 elementary, junior high, and high school students, and follow-up interviews were…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Mixed Methods Research
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Liu, Ming-Chi; Huang, Yueh-Min; Kinshuk; Wen, Dunwei – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2013
It is critical that students learn how to retrieve useful information in hypermedia environments, a task that is often especially difficult when it comes to image retrieval, as little text feedback is given that allows them to reformulate keywords they need to use. This situation may make students feel disorientated while attempting image…
Descriptors: Navigation (Information Systems), Online Searching, Hypermedia, Predictor Variables
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Mckeown, Ian – Industry and Higher Education, 2010
Entrepreneurship is increasingly viewed as a plural rather than singular endeavour. This paper develops a conceptual framework of team-based entrepreneurial learning, challenging the myth of the entrepreneurial "Lone Ranger" and revealing the significance of power structures in the SME management team in mediating what is and is not learnt.…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Teamwork, Cooperative Learning, Learning Theories
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Selden, Annie; McKee, Kerry; Selden, John – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2010
In this largely theoretical article, we discuss the relation between a kind of affect, behavioural schemas and aspects of the proving process. We begin with affect as described in the mathematics education literature, but soon narrow our focus to a particular kind of affect--nonemotional cognitive feelings. We then mention the position of feelings…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Mathematics Education, Advanced Courses, Mathematical Logic
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Misco, Thomas; Shiveley, James – Social Studies, 2010
Too often, social studies educators are asked to focus their design and enactment of learning experiences on the mastery of content knowledge, often at the expense of other aims and goals. In response to this problem, the authors of this article explore the reclamation of dispositions in social studies curriculum planning and teaching. First, he…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Role of Education, Citizenship Education, Curriculum Design
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Houssart, Jenny; Evens, Hilary – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2011
This article explores theoretical and methodological issues associated with task-based interviews conducted with pairs of children. We explore different approaches to interviews from sociological, psychological and subject-based perspectives. Our interviews, concerning mathematical questions and carried out with pairs of 10 and 11-year-olds, are…
Descriptors: Conflict, Social Sciences, Interviews, Children
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Akcay, Behiye – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2011
The aim of this study was to determine elementary and secondary students' views concerning science and scientists. Data gathered from Draw-a-Scientist Test (DAST) and essays written by students were used to analyze their views. The study involved 359 students in grades 5 through 11. The results indicate that student's perceived scientists as to be…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Scientists, Secondary School Students
Lehmann, Thomas; Ifenthaler, Dirk – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
This research contributes to answer the question whether learning/cognitive styles of students serve as a justified starting point for creating target-group appropriate instruction. The study was realized in a self-regulated problem-based learning environment. Data of 56 participants on their individual learning styles, their acquired problem…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Introductory Courses, Schemata (Cognition)
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Kraus, Amanda – New Directions for Student Services, 2012
Helping students prepare for the complex transition to life after graduation is an important responsibility shared by those in student affairs and others in higher education. This chapter explores theories and models that can inform student affairs practitioners and faculty in preparing students for life after college. The focus is on roles,…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Workers, Career Development, Educational Theories, Models
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Cho, Yonjoo; Egan, Toby Marshall – Human Resource Development Review, 2009
Despite considerable interest in action learning, no systematic investigation of action learning literature has been reported. Two purposes of this study are (a) to systematically access and examine recent empirical studies on action learning and related themes using Garrard's Matrix Method for reviewing literature (the review of the literature…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Meta Analysis, Classification, Literature Reviews
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Dixon, James A.; Boncoddo, Rebecca – Cognitive Development, 2009
In an accompanying study, Alibali et al. [Alibali, M. W., Ockuly, K. M., Fischer, A. D. (2009) "Learning new problem-solving strategies leads to changes in problem representation." "Cognitive Development, 24," 89-101.] present an important experimental result: introducing a new strategy can affect conceptual aspects of children's problem…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Problem Solving, Cognitive Development, Learning Strategies
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Apperly, Ian A.; Back, Elisa; Samson, Dana; France, Lisa – Cognition, 2008
Much of what we know about other people's beliefs comes non-inferentially from what people tell us. Developmental research suggests that 3-year-olds have difficulty processing such information: they suffer interference from their own knowledge of reality when told about someone's false belief (e.g., [Wellman, H. M., & Bartsch, K. (1988). Young…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Validity, Cognitive Structures, Misconceptions
Denson, Cameron D. – National Center for Engineering and Technology Education, 2011
Since the inception of the National Center for Engineering and Technology Education in 2004, educators and researchers have struggled to identify the necessary components of a "good" engineering design challenge for high school students. In reading and analyzing the position papers on engineering design many themes emerged that may begin to form a…
Descriptors: Engineering, Design, STEM Education, High School Students
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