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Goomas, David T.; Isbell, Teresa – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
The process of building a culture of evidence involves using data to understand where students are experiencing problems, designing strategies for remedying those problems, implementing them, and then evaluating the effectiveness of those implemented strategies. This case study is about two programs that were implemented within the last two years…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Evidence, Case Studies, Performance Factors
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Rizk, Nadya; Jaber, Lama; Halwany, Sarah; BouJaoude, Saouma – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2012
Beliefs about the nature of knowledge and knowing have been investigated extensively in educational and developmental psychology research. Hofer's framework on personal epistemology is adopted in the present study for assessing Lebanese university students' epistemologies of science. Participants were 213 students in their first year of…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Interviews, Data Analysis, Developmental Psychology
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Zucchero, Renee A. – Educational Gerontology, 2011
Intergenerational service-learning between college students and older adults is a commonly used in educational gerontology. Service-learning is believed to enhance student learning through an equivalent focus on service and learning, reflection, and linking course content with the service experience. This article describes a comentoring project…
Descriptors: Intergenerational Programs, College Students, Reflection, Older Adults
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Simon, Martin; Saldanha, Luis; McClintock, Evan; Akar, Gulseren Karagoz; Watanabe, Tad; Zembat, Ismail Ozgur – Cognition and Instruction, 2010
We discuss an emerging program of research on a particular aspect of mathematics learning, students' learning through their own mathematical activity as they engage in particular mathematical tasks. Prior research in mathematics education has characterized learning trajectories of students by specifying a series of conceptual steps through which…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Learning Processes, Research Methodology, Mathematics Activities