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John F. Hutton – ProQuest LLC, 2022
All engineering careers require some level of programming proficiency. However, beginning programming classes are challenging for many students. Difficulties have been well-documented and contribute to high drop-out rates which prevent students from pursuing engineering. While many approaches have been tried to improve the performance of students…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Engineering Education, Epistemology, Delphi Technique
Bianca M. DeJesus – ProQuest LLC, 2022
There is extensive research that speaks to first-year seminars as an effective high impact practice. However, this inquiry utilized qualitative research to understand the steps needed to make first-year seminars more effective and inclusive with the integration of a social justice curriculum. Specifically, this inquiry consisted of 12 semi…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, Program Effectiveness, First Generation College Students, Low Income Students
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Mona Asbjørnslett; Helen Bull; Gry Mørk; Tore Bonsaksen – Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, 2022
When students enter a bachelor program in occupational therapy, they engage in a variety of learning activities. To explore students' perceptions of learning activities, this qualitative study investigated the experiences of six first year students participating in an occupational therapy study program at a Norwegian university. The students took…
Descriptors: Occupational Therapy, Allied Health Occupations Education, Learner Engagement, Learning Activities
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James, Nicole M. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2023
Course grades are commonly used as an evaluation metric within institutions and as part of education research. However, using grades to compare across course sections may implicitly assume that grades are awarded similarly and consistently. This article details how different sections of the same course offered differing amounts of extra credit and…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Course Descriptions, Grades (Scholastic)
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Mahaffey, Angela L. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2023
This article will (1) initially outline first-year nursing and undergraduate exercise sciences student perspectives on examinations of the 2011 Michael-McFarland (M-M2011) core principles in physiology through an anonymous online survey, and (2) model an updated approach based on these qualitative findings. Briefly, for the first perspective (i of…
Descriptors: Physiology, Undergraduate Students, Science Tests, Nursing Education
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Nyenhuis, Robert; Gellers, Joshua C. – Journal of Political Science Education, 2023
This article describes the results of an experiential learning activity conducted at Cal Poly Pomona (CPP) and the University of North Florida (UNF). The activity formed the basis for an assignment required for class credit in a course titled "Politics of the Developing Areas" ("Politics of Developing Countries" at UNF). The…
Descriptors: Poverty, Experiential Learning, Educational Benefits, Learning Activities
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Levitt, Peggy; Saferstein, Ezequiel; Jaber, Rania; Shin, Doyeon – Comparative Education Review, 2023
We hear calls to globalize, internationalize, decolonize, and diversify higher education from all corners of the world. What changes do they actually seek? Who is behind them and whose interests do they serve? How much are curricula actually changing? In this article, we explore these questions from outside Europe and the United States by…
Descriptors: Art History, Educational Change, Colonialism, Power Structure
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Bahng, E. J.; Hauptman, John; Lowery, Jennifer – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2023
This article describes and illustrates a physics course for first-year college students whose only knowledge of physics is that they do not like the subject. The physics content is driven entirely by what appears in the daily newspapers and generally covers most physics topics in a semester. This course was structured as a learning community that…
Descriptors: Physics, College Freshmen, Course Descriptions, Newspapers
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Iserte, Sergio; Tomas, Vicente R.; Perez, Miguel; Castillo, Maribel; Boronat, Pablo; Garcia, Luis A. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2023
Team project-based learning (TPBL) combines two learning techniques: 1) project-based learning (PBL) and 2) teamwork. This combination leverages the learning outcomes of both methods and places students in a real work situation where they must develop and solve a real project while working as a team. TPBL has been used in two advanced database…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Student Projects, Active Learning, Teamwork
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Rizgar Qasim Mahmood – Issues in Educational Research, 2023
This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of explicit formal instruction (EFI) on speaking and pronunciation skills among a Kurdish university's first-year EFL students. The researcher was teaching a communications unit, where the focus was on speaking skills and pronunciation: speech rate (words per minute), fluency (number of pauses and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pronunciation Instruction
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Brea Henson – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2023
This study presents curriculum mapping of noncore course offerings in political science curricula by an early-career librarian. It combines syllabi study and curriculum mapping methods to analyze the language of student learning objectives (SLOs) from course syllabi and to integrate SLOs with threshold concepts from the ACRL Framework for…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Library Instruction, Concept Mapping, Curriculum Evaluation
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Katie N. Smith – Journal of College Student Development, 2023
Higher education historians agree that the earliest direct antecedents to today's student affairs professionals were deans of women (DOWs) and deans of men (DOMs), administrative positions that first arose in the 19th century. While DOWs were expected to supervise women students within newly coeducational environments, they professionalized the…
Descriptors: Females, Gender Differences, Deans, Educational History
Vitsanu Nittayathammakul; Sonthaya Rattanasak; Panita Wannapiroon; Prachyanun Nilsook; Rajin Arora; Krittanai Thararattanasuwan – Online Submission, 2023
The research aims to redesign and develop the Imagineering MOOC Instructional Design model (I-MOOC ID model) to enhance creative thinking and creative health media innovation. The exploratory sequential design mixed-method research method was used, and it was divided into three phases: (1) investigation and synthesis of the composition of the…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Instructional Design, Creative Thinking, Health
Rachel Elizabeth Corrigan – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Social studies education has traditionally aimed to foster productive citizens. However, recent societal polarizations have added complexity to this objective (Levy et al., 2023). Amid these challenges, understanding remains limited regarding how teacher preparation programs are adapting their social studies methods curriculum. Grounded in…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Education Curriculum, Teaching Methods
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Brule, Nancy J.; Eckstein, Jessica J. – Journal of Communication Pedagogy, 2019
Students who enroll in communication courses to improve their conflict management abilities should be provided with both an understanding of, and skills pertaining to, interpersonal conflict across diverse contexts. In this article, we offer pedagogical guidance for teaching the Interpersonal Conflict course. With an emphasis on building…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Interpersonal Communication, Conflict Resolution, Course Descriptions
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