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Tallant, April – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2011
The purpose of this research was to evaluate a service-learning project conducted at a public university in the southern United States of America. A sample of 46 undergraduates enrolled in two sections of a liberal studies personal nutrition seminar course participated in a food insecurity awareness project. The service-learning component entailed…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Hunger, Food, Undergraduate Students
Hayes, Alicia G. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to identify and compare educational needs and goals during deployment and nondeployment of spouses of active-duty Army service members. The sample consisted of spouses of active-duty military service members from the Army brigades who had recently returned from a deployment or who were experiencing a deployment…
Descriptors: Military Personnel, Spouses, Educational Needs, Educational Attainment
Smalley, Kristi D. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Distance education, especially that of online coursework, is growing at a phenomenal rate. Despite its growth, there is a lack of experimental and quasi-experimental research that has been conducted to investigate what factors influence students' experiences and academic success in online learning environments. Previous research has focused on…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Academic Achievement, High School Students, Distance Education
Baker, Glenda – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study investigated the strategic uses of music in the U.S. history classroom of six expert secondary U.S. history teachers identified by their administrators as expert teachers based on the merit of national certification, exemplary student and/or administration evaluations, high achieving teacher awards, or a combination of these criteria.…
Descriptors: Music, United States History, History Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Kraver, Jeraldine R. – CEA Forum, 2011
Integrating writing instruction into the content-area classroom poses a variety of challenges for instructors at all levels. Beyond the need to embrace a new skill set involving writing instruction, there is the resistance of students (and faculty) who find a disconnection between content-area and literacy learning. Developing a method for…
Descriptors: Literacy, College English, Writing Instruction, English Instruction
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Tam, Vicky C. W.; Chan, Raymond M. C. – Educational Studies, 2011
This study examines the perceptions of Chinese students and parents in Hong Kong on homework involvement, assignment type and homework functions. The relationships of homework perceptions to student and parent attributes are also assessed. The sample includes 1393 pairs of students and their parents from 36 primary schools in Hong Kong. Findings…
Descriptors: Homework, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes
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Kaplan, Avi; Lichtinger, Einat; Margulis, Michal – Teachers College Record, 2011
Background: Common conceptions of motivation and self-regulation view them as related but distinct entities. Most research on motivation and self-regulation investigates quantitative relations between level (e.g., self-efficacy) or type of motivation (e.g., mastery goals) and level of self-regulation. Purpose: Alternatively, the current study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Efficacy, Student Motivation, Learner Engagement
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Schmidt, Joanna – English Journal, 2011
In an effort to introduce students to a relatively new genre and allow them to evaluate it in the context of how they had been taught in the past, the author created an assignment about graphic novels and literacy that guided students through four short papers, forming a longer research paper for a final project. The students would begin with a…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Curriculum Design, Opinions, Novels
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Junior, Nyasha; Edwards, Amy – Teaching Theology & Religion, 2011
This essay describes a web site evaluation project which served as the final assignment for an undergraduate "Introduction to Religion" course. The essay discusses lessons learned from the design and implementation of this web-based research assignment over three consecutive semesters. It includes insights from an instructor and a reference…
Descriptors: Religion, Internet, Web Sites, Evaluation
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Krajewski, Sabine – Journal of Research in International Education, 2011
Internationalization and intercultural competence are key issues in higher education institutions across the globe. In times of accelerating globalization, intercultural competence emerges as one of the most desirable graduate capabilities for those who are likely to work in international environments. This article focuses on the development of…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Case Studies, Cultural Awareness, Multilingualism
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Brockman, Elizabeth; Taylor, Marcy; Kreth, Melinda; Crawford, MaryAnn K. – English Journal, 2011
In the authors' January 2010 "English Journal" article, "Helping Students Cross the Threshold: Implications from a University Writing Assessment," they showcase results of a large-scale writing assessment conducted at Central Michigan University, arguing that some of these results are especially relevant to English teachers…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, College Faculty, Focus Groups, College Preparation
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Tholander, Michael – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2011
The present article focuses on in situ social comparison among junior high school students. Rather than studying social comparison as an individual phenomenon in experimental situations, which has been common in previous research, the study analyzes social comparison as a real-life social practice. The results show that the practice of social…
Descriptors: Junior High School Students, Comparative Analysis, Social Influences, Socialization
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Fulmer, Sara M.; Frijters, Jan C. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2011
This study explored the influence of an excessively challenging reading task on middle school students' motivation, attributions for failure, and persistence. In particular, the authors considered the possibility that relative topic interest might function as a buffer against the negative outcomes of excessive challenge. Students ranging from 10…
Descriptors: Persistence, Student Interests, Student Motivation, Reading Ability
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Haimovitz, Kyla; Wormington, Stephanie V.; Corpus, Jennifer Henderlong – Learning and Individual Differences, 2011
The present study examined how beliefs about intelligence, as mediated by ability-validation goals, predicted whether students lost or maintained levels of intrinsic motivation over the course of a single academic year. 978 third- through eighth-grade students were surveyed in the fall about their theories concerning the malleability of…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Student Motivation, Academic Ability, Beliefs
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Fuehrer, Ann – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2011
A social change agenda is central in feminist psychology. In creating learning outcomes for a psychology of women course, instructors might wish to facilitate processes that have the potential to move individuals from acceptance of a status quo toward various degrees of feminist thinking. This agenda could include endorsing social constructionist…
Descriptors: Feminism, Current Events, Females, Behavioral Objectives
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