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Smith, Thomas J.; Hong, Zuway-R; Hsu, Wen-Yi; Lu, Ying-Yan – Science Education, 2022
This study examined how high school students' attitudes toward advanced physics were predicted by their sense of school belonging, and how gender moderated this relationship. The Trends in International Math and Science (TIMSS) 2015 Advanced data, consisting of responses from 12th grade students enrolled in advanced physics courses among nine…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Scientific Attitudes, Physics
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Jaya Kannan; Sara J. Brenneis; Sanam Nader-Esfahani – CALICO Journal, 2021
The use of digital exhibitions in two advanced language and culture courses within a liberal arts curriculum provides an innovative pedagogical approach to promoting language learning and critical analysis. This article proposes a pedagogy to incorporate Maker-Centered Learning (MCL), the framework that emerged from a Harvard Graduate School of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Cultural Awareness, French
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Kovalchuk, Vasyl – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2015
The issue of teaching staff advanced training is paid much attention in many countries. In the Republic of Moldova progressive professional credits system is used. Credits are scored not only in assigning teaching degrees or issuing a certificate of continuing professional education, but also for teachers' evaluation at the educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teachers, Inservice Teacher Education, Professional Continuing Education
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Stephens, Maria; Landeros, Katherine; Perkins, Robert; Tang, Judy H. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2016
The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2015 is the sixth administration of this international comparative study since 1995 when first administered. TIMSS is used to compare over time the mathematics and science knowledge and skills of fourth- and eighth-graders. TIMSS is designed to align broadly with mathematics and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education
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Papadima-Sophocleous, Salomi, Ed.; Bradley, Linda, Ed.; Thouësny, Sylvie, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2016
The 23rd EUROCALL conference was held in Cyprus from the 24th to the 27th of August 2016. The theme of the conference this year was "CALL Communities and Culture." It offered a unique opportunity to hear from real-world CALL practitioners on how they practice CALL in their communities, and how the CALL culture has developed in local and…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Bimbenet, Eric – Francais dans le Monde, 1985
A six-hour advanced level unit on French unions focuses on their role in French society, their origins, size, and comparison with those of other European countries, and also on more general topics of demography and the French school system. (MSE)
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Agency Role, Cultural Education, Foreign Countries
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Thomas, Alain – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2004
This article is drawn from a large-scale ongoing study on linguistic progress in advanced French as a second language (FL2). The performance of 48 English-speaking students who spent their third year of university in France the "experimental" group) has been compared to that of 39 classmates who chose to stay and study at home in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Phonetics, French, College Students
Capece, Teresa; And Others – Francais dans le Monde, 1994
Four classroom activities for French second-language instruction are described: a unit on Lorraine, a region of France; a song and related exercises for young children; an exercise in interviewing classmates, based on an 1890 interview with Marcel Proust; and a literature-based unit on friendship. (MSE)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Advanced Courses, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques