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Makkonen, Taina; Lavonen, Jari; Tirri, Kirsi – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2023
This qualitative study used in-depth interviews to investigate how gifted Finnish upper-secondary-school physics students (N = 24) actualize their physics talent in their career choices. The data were analyzed using inductive content analysis. Half of the students had their primary career choice in natural sciences and engineering (NS&E). The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Physics, Career Choice
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Tarun, Ivy M. – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2019
Aim/Purpose: There is a huge array of educational technology tools that are now in use today. These tools have changed the way teachers teach and the way students learn. Among the many educational technology tools that are gaining popularity are the online collaboration tools. Online collaboration tools are web-based tools that allow individuals…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Teaching Methods, Technology Integration
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Agboola, Omowunmi Sola; Emmanuel, Michael – World Journal of Education, 2016
This study investigated awareness of climate change and sustainable development among undergraduates in two universities: University of Ibadan, Ibadan and Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso in Oyo State of Nigeria. This was aimed at increasing the knowledge of undergraduates on climate change and sustainable development. The study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Climate, Ecology
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Lam, Mary K.; Hines, Monique; Lowe, Robyn; Nagarajan, Srivalli; Keep, Melanie; Penman, Merrolee; Power, Emma – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2016
There is increasing recognition of the role eHealth will play in the effective and efficient delivery of healthcare. This research challenges the assumption that students enter university as digital natives, able to confidently and competently adapt their use of information and communication technology (ICT) to new contexts. This study explored…
Descriptors: Health Education, Information Technology, Technological Literacy, College Students
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Raacke, John; Bonds-Raacke, Jennifer – Educational Psychology, 2015
The rapid growth in popularity of social networking sites has spurred research exploring the impact of usage in a variety of areas. The current study furthered this line of research by examining the relationships between social network usage and adjustment to college in the academic, social, personal-emotional and university affiliation domains.…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Student Adjustment, College Students, Comparative Analysis
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Kazu, Ibrahim Yasar; Erten, Pinar – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2014
The aim of this study was to determine teachers' views on technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK), their self-efficacy, and whether these views changed according to sex, age, period of service, faculty graduated from, branch, access to the internet, the use of technology level, and access to in-service training which is oriented to the…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Self Efficacy, Technological Literacy, Teacher Attitudes
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Lu, Hsi-Peng; Lee, Ming-Ren – Behaviour & Information Technology, 2012
Although many studies focus on information sharing in communities and organisations, little research has been carried out on the antecedents of continuance intention of blog sharing. This study focuses on amateur blogs, which are the major customers for blog service providers (BSPs). The purposes are to investigate the antecedents of continuous…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Intention, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing
Rideout, Victoria – Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, 2014
The Joan Ganz Cooney Center has conducted a national survey of more than 1500 parents of children ages 2-10 to find out how much of children's media time is devoted to educational content, platform by platform, age by age. "Learning at Home: Families' Educational Media Use in America" is the first comprehensive analysis of parents'…
Descriptors: Educational Media, Mass Media Use, Family Involvement, Family Characteristics
van Beuzekom, Brigitte – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2008
This paper reviews recent measurement work on User-Created Content (UCC) undertaken in OECD countries. It shows that UCC is emerging as a significant area of economic and social activity worthy of consideration for official measurement and discusses the implications for the OECD Model Survey on ICT Access and Use by Households and Individuals.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Access to Computers, Users (Information)
Abouserie, Hossam Eldin Mohamed Refaat – Online Submission, 2007
The purpose of this study was to explore and investigate the ways faculty at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign use Networked Information Sources and Services to support their research task. Library and Information Sciences faculty at the University of Illinois were chosen as…
Descriptors: Information Science Education, Search Engines, Questionnaires, Directories
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Chang, Chiung-Sui – Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life, 2007
The study developed a Big 6 Information Problem-Solving Scale (B61PS), including the subscales of task definition and information-seeking strategies, information access and synthesis, and evaluation. More than 1,500 fifth and sixth graders in Taiwan responded. The study revealed that the scale showed adequate reliability in assessing the…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Early Adolescents, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries
Carlson, Dawn; Ehrlich, Nat – US Department of Education, 2005
The 2001 Survey of Assistive Technology and Information Technology Use and Need by Persons With Disabilities in the United States (AT Survey), was conducted over a nine-month period from March through December 2001. Each respondent was screened in as a person with a disability based on a screening instrument developed by the National Institute on…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Assistive Technology, Information Technology, Family Environment