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Everett, Michael W.; Raven, Matt R. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2018
Many universities integrate leadership as a core component of agricultural education. Interestingly, little research has been conducted on the impact of leadership courses comparing the perceived leadership skills and abilities of students with and without prior leadership experience. Socio-psychological measures of flow or optimal experience…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Leadership Training, Comparative Analysis, Experiential Learning
Arnold, Bradley A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to develop descriptions of how teenage students remain engaged in learning while using mobile technology. Developments in technology have expanded learning contexts and provided learners with improved capacities to connect with others to exchange, gain, and construct knowledge. Developments in…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Telecommunications, Learning Activities, Qualitative Research
Ojewole, Foluso O. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this quantitative research study was to identify the critical thinking dispositions of undergraduate nursing students and nursing faculty in Southwestern Nigeria. Critical thinking dispositions are required for critical thinking skills. People who have critical thinking disposition exhibit seven traits: truth-seeking,…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Sampling, Statistical Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Petchauer, Emery – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2012
This article theorizes and charts the implementation of a learning activity designed from the hip-hop aesthetic of sampling. The purpose of this learning activity was to enable recent urban school graduates to reflect upon their previous schooling experiences as a platform for future learning in higher education. This article illustrates what…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Graduates, Sampling, Urban Education
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Hjalmarson, Margret A.; Moore, Tamara J.; delMas, Robert – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2011
Results of analysis of responses to a first-year undergraduate engineering activity are presented. Teams of students were asked to develop a procedure for quantifying the roughness of a surface at the nanoscale, which is typical of problems in Materials Engineering where qualities of a material need to be quantified. Thirty-five teams were…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Engineering, Laboratories, Learning Activities
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Karal, Hasan; Bahcekapili, Ekrem; Yildiz, Adil – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2010
The purpose of the present study was to design a mobile learning environment that enables the use of a teleconference application used in simultaneous e-learning with mobile devices and to evaluate this mobile learning environment based on students' views. With the mobile learning environment developed in the study, the students are able to follow…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Information Technology
Weber, Larry J.; And Others – 1974
A description is given of the methodology and findings of an evaluation of learning packages (LAP's) developed for students in distributive education programs by representatives of the 11 state members of the Interstate Distributive Education Curriculum Consortium. A total of 445 packages was judged on characteristics relating to students,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Competency Based Education, Distributive Education, Evaluation Methods