At a four-year public comprehensive university in 2017, a mandated attempt to implement a corequisite model for Basic Writing education challenged assumptions about the types of students enrolled in the existing program. Students, who by institutional placement measures (ACT scores) would be placed in First-Year Writing, were voluntarily enrolling…

Information systems education objectives must continually adapt to a dynamic marketplace for knowledge and skills. For faculty developing programs that better prepare students for this demanding environment, existing research and guidelines provide a foundation to develop relevant coursework. However, an examination of peer institutions indicates…

As online learning is becoming very popular in formal educational settings and in individual development, online exams are starting to be recognized as one of the more efficient assessment methods. Online exams are effective in either blended or traditional forms of learning, and, when appropriately used, bring benefits to both learners and the…

In the field of second language (L2) research, there is a growing recognition of the vital need to explore the diversity of emotional experiences of learning. The current paper describes part of action research with two classes of Japanese first-grade university students (n = 47) in compulsory English as a foreign language (EFL) lessons.…

For many first-generation college students (FGCS), college success has not kept pace with college access. Because many students' struggles can be traced to deficits in self-regulated learning (SRL) processes, the purpose of this study was to explore the SRL skills of FGCS. We analyzed the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory, 2nd Edition…

The purpose of this study and question was to find out if age, gender, or student residency predicted the success in college credit-bearing courses when using the corequisite model. Student residency was defined, for the current study, as where the student lives, such as does the student reside on-campus or off-campus. The research questions for…

In this study, a multiple choice test which is composed of 19 articles which is prepared as per the scope of lesson of Measurement and Evaluation in Education, has been applied as interim exam to 207 teacher candidates who are getting education at the Faculty of Education. The difficulty levels of items which are in the test have been calculated…

The aim of the study is to examine the undergraduate program courses of the universities providing training in Sports Management in Turkey. In this study, electronic screening method was used via web sites of universities. 80 Sports Management Departments (SMD) were found and only 20 of them which were up to date were analyzed. 2016-2017 academic…

English Learners (ELs) attend community colleges at a greater rate than four-year schools, making community colleges primary sites of ESL education in American higher education. These institutions' recent embrace of the corequisite structure -- a pairing of a non-credit developmental course with a credit-bearing disciplinary content course in…

This dissertation examines the term legal literacy as it applies to the education field and looks at the legal literacy of educators across the country. The dissertation is organized into three separate papers. Paper 1 is a review of the research literature on the legal literacy of educators in the United States and how educators develop legal…

The intent and content of teacher professional learning has changed in recent times to meet the demands of performativity. In this article, we offer and demonstrate a pragmatic way to map teacher professional learning that both meets current demands and secures a place for teacher-led catalytic learning. To achieve this, we position identified…

This study attempted to answer whether strategically designed and placed metacognitive prompts within an online prerequisite teacher education course can make a difference in the amount and quality of student self-reported use of metacognitive strategies. The study found significant metacognitive results for students in an online introductory…

The growing popularity of Master of Accounting programs can be attributed to multiple factors, but the states' adoption of the 150-credit hour educational prerequisite for Certified Public Accountant licensure was clearly influential in stimulating enrollment growth. Despite the growth and importance of Master of Accounting programs, comparative…

The purpose of this study is to examine the conceptual framework of the changes in the curriculums of the Information Technologies course, which was started in 2006 and redeveloped in 2012 and 2018. These three curricula approved and implemented by the Board of Education within the Ministry of National Education in the survey will be examined by…

This article describes the development and iterations of the English 0111 Composition Workshop-the Texas Success Initiative (TSI), at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). The TSI is a program that determines college-readiness standards in reading, writing, and math. The initial structure of English 0111 was similar to the structure used in…