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Direct linkHildenbrand, Grace M. – Communication Teacher, 2022
Courses: Health Communication, Science Communication, Interpersonal Communication. Objective: This activity prepares students to explain jargon effectively when communicating with individuals who have low health literacy by utilizing clear communication strategies.
Descriptors: Jargon, Communication Strategies, Learning Activities, Medical Students
Courtney McDonald; Nicole Trujillo – College & Research Libraries, 2024
This paper compares website usability--specifically library users' understanding of library terms--for fifty-one original research studies between 2012-2021, with the findings of John Kupersmith's 2011 white paper "Library Terms That Users Understand." Studies reported approximately twice as many terms that users didn't understand than…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Users (Information), Web Sites, Usability
Christine E. Mundy; Marietjie Potgieter; Michael K. Seery – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2024
General spectroscopy is known to be difficult for novice students due to its complex and abstract nature. In this study we used a first-year chemistry Mini Spec laboratory activity to uncover language barriers to student learning in spectroscopy. Analysis revealed that language barriers generated conceptual difficulties for English as Second…
Descriptors: Science Education, Spectroscopy, English (Second Language), Bilingual Students
Briley L. Lewis; Abygail R. Waggoner; Emma Clarke; Alison L. Crisp; Mark Dodici; Graham M. Doskoch; Michael M. Foley; Ryan Golant; Skylar Grayson; Sahil Hegde; Nathalie Korhonen Cuestas; Charles J. Law; R. R. Lefever; Ishan Mishra; Mark Popinchalk; Sabina Sagynbayeva; Samantha L. Wong; Wei Yan; Kaitlyn L. Ingraham Dixie; K. Supriya – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
Undergraduate physics and astronomy students are expected to engage with scientific literature as they begin their research careers, yet reading comprehension skills are rarely explicitly taught in major courses. We seek to determine the efficacy of a reading assignment designed to improve undergraduate astronomy (or related) majors' perceived…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Science Process Skills, Astronomy
Download full textThongsongsee, Juthamas; Watanapokakul, Sasa – rEFLections, 2023
Word stress instruction has increasingly become a focus among EFL teachers. Owing to the phonological differences between the learner's first language and English, EFL learners of different nationalities encounter varying degrees of difficulty when pronouncing English polysyllabic words. The majority of EFL students studying medicine tend to find…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Suprasegmentals, Second Language Learning, English for Special Purposes
Cherkas, Barry – PRIMUS, 2023
An online intro-to-proof course provided an unexpected opportunity for a series of email exchanges that yielded insights into one student's mathematical thinking and the ambiguous role of mathematical jargon in miscuing this student's reasoning. The jargon deals with the notation [limit value of a function], which encapsulates multiple conceptual…
Descriptors: Jargon, Mathematics Education, Thinking Skills, Online Courses
Christina M. Cline – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Communication is a critical component of effective healthcare. Students interested in going into healthcare fields require training to learn how to effectively communicate. These students have a need to learn communication skills. Understanding students' value for learning these skills is necessary for increasing the motivation to learn. In this…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Medical Education, Communication Skills, Undergraduate Students
Beatriz Antonieta Moya; Sarah Elaine Eaton – Journal of Academic Ethics, 2024
New technologies could facilitate new ways of cheating. This emerging scenario places academic integrity policy in higher education institutions as critical. Academic integrity scholars have designed conceptual frameworks to analyze academic integrity policy. The body of the literature on academic integrity policy analysis includes studies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Integrity, Ethics
Taylor, Zachary W.; Manor, Laura – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 2021
Decades of research has suggested that completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) can be a complex, difficult process for postsecondary students and their support networks. However, no extant research has informed federal student aid practitioners and researchers as to what federal student aid jargon terms institutions of…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, College Applicants, Federal Aid, Jargon
Young, Tim – Higher Education Pedagogies, 2020
In this opinion piece I reflect on an inspiring 2019 Advance HE STEM conference in Birmingham. In doing so I identify the term pedagogy as one aspect which ran contrary to the noble aspirations of the conference. I outline my own perspective as both an insider and outsider in my role of a Teacher-Practitioner. I use this vantage point to outline…
Descriptors: Higher Education, STEM Education, Learner Engagement, Jargon
Taylor, Z. W.; Weber, Karla; Holthaus, Gretchen – Higher Education Politics & Economics, 2021
Since 2012, many Title IV institutions of higher education have sent their students debt letters to inform them of their outstanding loan amounts, estimated or real monthly payments, and other loan-related information. However, no extant research has analyzed whether these letters are written at an appropriate level for college students, nor has…
Descriptors: Debt (Financial), Content Analysis, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Student Loan Programs
Zainab M. Gaffas – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2024
This study aimed to (1) elaborate on microblogging-based instruction, which was built on social media platform X and designed based on the four phases of the design-based research (DBR) framework (Amiel and Reeves in J Educ Technol Soc 11(4):29-40, https://www-jstor-org.bibliotheek.ehb.be/stable/jeductechsoci.11.4.29, 2008); (2) put microblogging-based instruction…
Descriptors: Social Media, Premedical Students, Undergraduate Students, English for Special Purposes
Kilgore, Wendy – American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), 2022
Earlier this year, AACRAO received an offer of research sponsorship and partnership from Modern Campus to focus on the role of the modern registrar. In June 2022, AACRAO deployed a 60-Second Survey asking members to provide their opinion on what the role of "a modern registrar" should be on their campus. This survey was open to all…
Descriptors: Registrars (School), Role, Reflection, Higher Education
Kruppa, Jochen; Rohmann, Jessica; Herrmann, Carolin; Sieg, Miriam; Rubarth, Kerstin; Piper, Sophie – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2021
"The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for" (Wittgenstein). When learning something completely new, we connect the unknown term to an already existing part of our knowledge. We can only build new ideas and insights upon an existing conceptual foundation. In the field of statistics, we…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, College Faculty, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Achievement
Lisa A. Cerrato – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The problem addressed in this study was that students who use passive study techniques when learning medical terminology are less likely to perform well on exams and retain course content in long-term memory. The purpose of this qualitative exploratory multiple case study was to explore the perceptions of college faculty regarding the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Medical School Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods
