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Stumph, Carolyn Fabian; Kim, Myeong Hwan; Han, Yongseung; Minke, Susan – Journal of Education for Business, 2017
Learning communities are increasingly used at colleges and universities, as one of the goals of a learning community is to increase interaction among students and teach them how to apply knowledge. The goal of this research is to assess the learning community of the economics and accounting students in their class performance measured by class…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Accounting, Communities of Practice, Performance Based Assessment
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Hall, J. Camille; Theriot, Matthew T. – Multicultural Perspectives, 2016
As the population becomes more diverse, social work educators will bear a larger responsibility for educating culturally competent practitioners. To enhance student learning, research should consider those factors that influence students' multicultural awareness, knowledge, and skills. This information potentially can help students better prepare…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Literacy, Interpersonal Competence
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Scafuto, Isabel; Serra, Fernando; Mangini, Eduardo; Maccari, Emerson Antonio; Ruas, Roberto – Education & Training, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the perceived quality of the service environment, regarding the use of the flipped classroom, through a survey of MBA students. Design/methodology/approach: Four hypotheses were developed from the literature in marketing and quality services in higher education. The hypotheses were tested using…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Blended Learning, Graduate Students, Masters Programs
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Donnelly, Dermot F.; Vitale, Jonathan M.; Linn, Marcia C. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2015
Middle school students struggle to explain thermodynamics concepts. In this study, to help students succeed, we use a natural language processing program to analyze their essays explaining the aspects of thermodynamics and provide guidance based on the automated score. The 346 sixth-grade students were assigned to either the critique condition…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 6, Secondary School Science, Thermodynamics
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Petrovic, Juraj; Pale, Predrag – Teaching in Higher Education, 2015
This paper aims to provide insight into various properties of live lectures from the perspective of sophomore engineering students. In an anonymous online survey conducted at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, we investigated students' opinions regarding lecture attendance, inherent disadvantages of live…
Descriptors: Lecture Method, Student Attitudes, Synchronous Communication, Engineering Education