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Wendt, Brea E. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The dissertation study is a basic qualitative study, which illuminates the educational experiences of active duty undergraduate army adult learners or active duty learners. The literature review for the study highlights themes of military education, of identity roles, of adult learnings and of how the brain learns. The study closed the gap in…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Military Personnel, Self Concept, Undergraduate Students
Odongo, Rispa Achieng' – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The use of community service to promote learning and civic responsibility in higher education has blossomed since the 1980s. The problem addressed in this study was that although the X University initiated the required community service program in 2004, it had not assessed the effectiveness of the program from students' perspectives. Using Kolb…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Service Learning, Citizenship Education, Social Responsibility
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Haywood-Bird, Eden – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
In this ethnographic research, discovery of how preschool-aged children use play to wield their individual power in the outdoors is documented in a single classroom. Embedded as a participant-researcher and working from constructivist and critical theory orientations, the researcher seeks to understand how children use their play to construct the…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Outdoor Education, Power Structure, Preschool Children
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van Polanen, Marleen; Colonnesi, Cristina; Fukkink, Ruben G.; Tavecchio, Louis W. C. – Early Education and Development, 2017
Outcomes of studies with exclusively or predominantly female caregivers suggest that boys in child care are involved with interactions, attachment relationships, and care of lower quality than girls. We investigated to what extent child gender (N = 38, 19 boys) and caregiver gender (N = 38, 19 males) is associated with child-caregiver interactions…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Child Caregivers, Caregiver Child Relationship, Interaction
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Jessop, Tansy; Tomas, Carmen – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2017
Evidence from 73 programmes in 14 U.K universities sheds light on the typical student experience of assessment over a three-year undergraduate degree. A previous small-scale study in three universities characterised programme assessment environments using a similar method. The current study analyses data about assessment patterns using descriptive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation, Summative Evaluation, Undergraduate Students
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Alase, Abayomi – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2017
As a research methodology, qualitative research method infuses an added advantage to the exploratory capability that researchers need to explore and investigate their research studies. Qualitative methodology allows researchers to advance and apply their interpersonal and subjectivity skills to their research exploratory processes. However, in a…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Semi Structured Interviews
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Gunes, Gokhan; Tugrul, Belma – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2017
Children learn so many things (rules, science, mathematics, etc.) by the help of the games. Chess is also an enjoyable game for most children. The chess grandmaster Karpov stated that chess is everything--art, science, and sport. However, this raises the questions concerning how children evaluate chess and whether chess reflects the child's inner…
Descriptors: Games, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Learning Processes
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Hall, Natalie; Durand, Marie-Anne; Mengoni, Silvana E. – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2017
Background: Despite experiencing health inequalities, people with intellectual disabilities are under-represented in health research. Previous research has identified barriers but has typically focused on under-recruitment to specific studies. This study aimed to explore care staff's attitudes to health research involving people with intellectual…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Research, Caregiver Attitudes, Barriers
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Sobocinski, Márta; Malmberg, Jonna; Järvelä, Sanna – Metacognition and Learning, 2017
Investigating the temporal order of regulatory processes can explain in more detail the mechanisms behind success or lack of success during collaborative learning. The aim of this study is to explore the differences between high- and low-challenge collaborative learning sessions. This is achieved through examining how the three phases of…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Cooperative Learning, Difficulty Level, Comparative Analysis
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Kintz, Stephen; Wright, Heather Harris – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2017
Semantic memory is relatively stable across the lifespan (LaBarge, Edwards, & Knesevich, 1986). However, most research has been conducted at the single concept level (LaBarge et al., 1986, Spaniol et al., 2006). Few researchers have examined how semantic knowledge is used in discourse. The purpose of the study, then, was to determine the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Age Differences, Discourse Analysis, Memory
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Conlon, Mallory; Coble, Kim; Bailey, Janelle M.; Cominsky, Lynn R. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2017
As astronomers further develop an understanding of the fate of the Universe, it is essential to study students' ideas on the fate of the Universe so that instructors can communicate the field's current status more effectively. In this study, we examine undergraduate students' preinstruction ideas of the fate of the Universe in ten semester-long…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Astronomy, Knowledge Level, Introductory Courses
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Brant, Cathy A. R. – Educational Forum, 2017
This article describes a study that investigated preservice teachers' understandings and self-efficacy related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ) students and families. The preservice teachers indicated a broad range of understandings in relation to LGBTQ terms. They reported a relatively high sense of self-efficacy in…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Knowledge Level, Self Efficacy, Homosexuality
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Wahesh, Edward; Likis-Werle, S. Elizabeth; Moro, Regina R. – Professional Counselor, 2017
This content analysis includes 210 articles that focused on addictions topics published between January 2005 and December 2014 in the journals of the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC), Chi Sigma Iota (CSI), the American Counseling Association (ACA), and ACA member divisions. Results include the types of addictions content and…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Alcoholism, Drug Addiction, Content Analysis
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Koretsky, Milo – Chemical Engineering Education, 2017
This article reports analysis of students' written reflections as to what helps them learn in an active learning environment. Eight hundred and twenty seven responses from 403 students in four different studio courses over two years were analyzed. An emergent coding scheme identified 55% of the responses as associated with cognitive processes…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Learning Processes, Problem Solving, Teacher Student Relationship
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Rinke, Carol R.; Mawhinney, Lynnette – Teaching Education, 2017
This article examines the career pathways of US teacher leavers, individuals who have voluntarily left classroom teaching prior to retirement. Based on the perspective that teachers construct their own career pathways through an ongoing negotiation among intrinsic and extrinsic factors, this research captures the experiences of 24 teacher leavers…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Faculty Mobility, Labor Turnover, Career Development
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