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Moderating Relationships: Online Learners' Cognitive Presence and Non-Designer Instructor's Teaching Presence
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Silva, Laura Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Adult online learners represent the largest demographic in higher education. Academic leaders increasingly use non-designer instructors (NDIs) to meet demands. NDIs have little control over course design, part of teaching presence valued by learners. This quantitative, predictive correlational study investigated (1) to what frequency online…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Statistical Analysis, Correlation, Educational Media
High School Science Teachers' Attitudes toward, Beliefs about, and Implementation of Inquiry-Based Science Methods
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Gaylor, Kevin Lutrelle – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study was designed to investigate differences in high school science teachers' attitudes toward teaching inquiry-based science, beliefs about and practice of implementing inquiry-based methods according to the National Science Education Standards, and the frequency of implementing inquiry-based classroom lessons based on the gender,…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, High Schools, Teacher Attitudes, Science Instruction
Predictors of Community of Inquiry in a Flipped Classroom Model
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Karaoglan Yilmaz, Fatma Gizem – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2017
The aim of this study is to investigate structural relationships between community of inquiry, transactional distance perception, and motivation. The research was conducted with 109 students using flipped classroom environment utilized within the scope of a course. The data of the study were obtained from the answers given in community of inquiry…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Homework, Video Technology
Assessing Students' Experimentation Processes in Guided Inquiry
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Emden, Markus; Sumfleth, Elke – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2016
In recent science education, experimentation features ever more strongly as a method of inquiry in science classes rather than as a means to illustrate phenomena. Ideas and materials to teach inquiry abound. Yet, tools for assessing students' achievement in their processes of experimentation are lacking. The present study assumes a basal,…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Science Process Skills, Inquiry, Science Education
Exploring Teachers' Inquiry-Based Attitude
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Meijer, Marie-Jeanne; Geijsel, Femke; Kuijpers, Marinka; Boei, Fer; Vrieling, Emmy – Teaching in Higher Education, 2016
Having a well-founded insight into the characteristics of teachers inquiry-based attitude (IA) supports operationalising IA as a learning goal in teacher education (TE). The aim of this study is to refine the notion of IA from an ill-defined global concept into something with reliable and valid characteristics. To do so, data were gathered on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Inquiry, Cohort Analysis
The Effects of Technology on the Community of Inquiry and Satisfaction with Online Courses
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Rubin, Beth; Fernandes, Ron; Avgerinou, Maria D. – Internet and Higher Education, 2013
This paper extends the research on the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework of understanding features of successful online learning to include the effects of the software used to support and facilitate it. This study examines how the Learning Management System (LMS) affords people the ability to take actions in an online course. A model is…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Integrated Learning Systems, Electronic Learning, Distance Education