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Heidbrink, Amber; Weinrich, Melissa – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2021
Metacognition is an important skill for undergraduate chemistry students, but there has been scant research investigating chemistry instructors' perspectives of metacognition and the development of their students' metacognition. Since undergraduate instructors have a wide influence over what happens in their courses, it is crucial to investigate…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Chemistry, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
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Pearman, Cathy; Bowles, Freddie; Polka, Walter – Critical Questions in Education, 2021
This study seeks to clarify teacher educator definitions of self-efficacy, how it is manifested in students, and ways it is taught in preparation programs. Data was collected through an electronic survey administered to teacher educators from three universities in the Midwest, Mid-South, and Northeast. Five key characteristics of…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Teacher Attitudes, Definitions, Teacher Characteristics
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Lê, Ni-La; Hinestroza, José Martínez; Kraus, Erika B.; Hassan, Azad; Plough, India C. – FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education, 2019
This article interprets teachers as change agents in light of the Transformational Teaching (TT) framework (Slavich & Zimbardo, 2012). Contributing to the understanding of teachers' transformation, we report on a case study that explores how of a graduate student's conceptualization of and engagement with the core methods of TT emerged and…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Transformative Learning
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Chan, Cecilia K. Y.; Yeung, Nai Chi Jonathan – Educational Psychology, 2020
In response to the global imperative of nurturing all-round students, educational institutions and schools worldwide have been developing learning activities targeting holistic competency development of students. However, there have been resistance and challenges on how to develop such competencies. Extending the Presage-Process-Product (3P)…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Teaching Methods, Holistic Approach, Structural Equation Models
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Sahingoz, Selcuk; Cobern, William W. – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2020
The main purpose of the study is to gain insight on to what extent taking a science methods course correlated with the science teaching pedagogical preferences of pre-service science teachers. The study recruited twenty K-8 teacher education students enrolled in lower division science courses at a large American public university, some of whom had…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
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Biasutti, Michele; Makrakis, Vassilios; Concina, Eleonora; Frate, Sara – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present a professional development experience for higher education academic staff within the framework of an international Tempus project focused on reorienting university curricula to address sustainability. The project included revising curricula to phase sustainable development principles into university…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Faculty Development, College Faculty, Sustainability
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Hart, John T., Jr. – Music Educators Journal, 2014
Ensemble directors have a special interest in helping students learn to practice effectively. Practice is also an essential component of musical development. Music educators need to both teach effective practice strategies and guide students toward meaningful, thoughtful practice. Metacognition strategies are one way to accomplish this. Current…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Educational Practices, Drills (Practice), Teaching Methods
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Warner, Richard; Miller, Julia – Higher Education Research and Development, 2015
International students with English as an additional language face transitional challenges when entering a new academic culture. One such challenge involves optimising feedback to help foster their academic development, bearing in mind that feedback is not a culturally neutral entity (Nazif, A., Biswas, D., & Hilbig, R. (2004-2005). Towards an…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Feedback (Response)
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Conway, Colleen; Edgar, Scott; Hansen, Erin; Palmer, C. Michael – Music Education Research, 2014
The purpose of this study was to examine the experiences of seven music educators who conducted teacher research in their classrooms and to document whether the teachers and the local school district considered the project as professional development. Research questions included: (1) How do these music educators describe the experience of planning…
Descriptors: Music Teachers, Music Education, Teacher Researchers, Faculty Development
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Barney, Lee S.; Maughan, Bryan D. – Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity and Education, 2015
Students learn best when teachers get out of the way. Unfortunately, university classrooms continue to be intensely teacher-centric, are driven by the teacher's agenda and calendar, and embrace simple models rather than complex alternatives. These simple types of learning environments frustrate students' development of the risk-­taking and choice…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Risk
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Daniel O. Lawler – English Journal, 2013
This article explores problems with the trend of business language making its way into schools and provides strategies for how to address this issue.
Descriptors: Business, Language Variation, Educational Strategies, Educational Environment
Moje, Elizabeth Birr; Tysvaer, Nicole – Carnegie Corporation of New York, 2010
In response to requests from out-of-school time (OST) providers, the authors have created this practitioner's guidebook for integrating adolescent literacy development initiatives into a wide variety of OST programs. As readers will discover in subsequent chapters, the authors' definition of adolescent literacy development represents a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Tutoring, Homework, Prevention
Lin, Grace Hui Chin; Chien, Paul Shih Chieh – Online Submission, 2009
Copious researches argue the effectiveness of peer-correction in writing courses (e.g., Connor & Asenavage, 1994). Also, Coit (2004) mentions using peer feedback for correcting articles through a student-centered environment is a beneficial pedagogy to extend learners' academic-style writing practice. Therefore, this study focused on…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Foreign Countries, Writing Teachers, Writing Instruction
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Blue, Jennifer; Taylor, Beverley; Yarrison-Rice, Jan – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2008
Enhancing critical thinking skills for undergraduate students is important across the curriculum and between disciplines. We report on a method of improving critical thinking skills, which was studied through an Ethics and Science First-Year Seminar course. We used full cycle assessment over a three-year period to assess students' development and…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Ethics, Science Instruction, Thinking Skills
Schippers, Margriet – Online Submission, 2008
As yet little research into the perspectives of Chinese students studying in mainland China's Higher Education Institutions has been undertaken. This paper explores the issue of students' support needs and presents the findings of a study carried out in 2005-2007 at a public university in North East China. The Action Research method used…
Descriptors: Career Development, Educational Quality, Student Attitudes, Action Research
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