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Newton, Diane; Ellis, Allan – International Journal on E-Learning, 2012
Access to information and communication technologies can enable academics to design courses with learning opportunities that bring together and engage students from diverse backgrounds and locations. For first year university students, knowing how to access and participate in learning opportunities is part of their transition to successful study.…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Access to Information
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Ellis, Robert A.; Taylor, Charlotte E.; Drury, Helen – Higher Education Research and Development, 2007
Students in a large undergraduate biology course were expected to write a scientific report as a key part of their course design. This study investigates the quality of learning arising from the writing experience and how it relates to the quality of students' preconceptions of learning through writing and their perceptions of their writing…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Biology, Writing (Composition), Student Writing Models
Baker, Geraldine – 1990
Questionnaires were mailed to parents of the 55 sixth graders in the 1988-89 year-round school pilot program in Conroe Independent School District in Texas and to those of sixth graders on the district's traditional calendar to determine parent perceptions and satisfaction regarding the year-round school calendar. The document also reviews the…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Parent Attitudes, Parent School Relationship