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A Fresh Shot at Statistics in the Classroom: Three Perspectives Using World Cup Soccer Player Data
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Curley, Brenna; Peterson, Anna – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2022
In this article, we outline several activities revolving around soccer players who participated in the 2018 FIFA World Cup and 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup. Classroom activities are described from different perspectives, useful for a range of different statistics courses. In a first semester probability theory course, students investigate the…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Competition, Teaching Methods, Data Analysis
Examining Entrepreneurial Attributes of Latin American Female University Students
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Villasana, Marcia; Alcaraz-Rodríguez, Rafael; Alvarez, Mario Moisés – Gender and Education, 2016
The phenomenon of women engaging in entrepreneurship is expanding and becoming acknowledged as a valuable resource that must be institutionally and socially supported. Through entrepreneurship education, female students, as potential entrepreneurs, can develop and strengthen those skills and behaviours identified as characteristic of successful…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Females, Creativity, Risk Management
Evaluating the Use of a Postpartum Hemorrhage Simulation as a Teaching Strategy in an Undergraduate Nursing Program
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DiGiacomo, Pat – ProQuest LLC, 2017
A recurring theme in the literature is that simulation is a positive teaching strategy when compared to other methods of instruction and produces positive student outcomes (Jefferies, 2016). Simulation provides educators a way to reproduce a clinical teaching experience in a safe, supportive learning environment. The purpose of this quantitative…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Students, Nursing Education, Case Studies
Early Child Care Teachers' Socialization Goals and Preferred Behavioral Strategies: A Cross-Cultural Comparison
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Gernhardt, Ariane; Lamm, Bettina; Keller, Heidi; Döge, Paula – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2014
This study investigated early child care teachers' culturally shaped socialization goals and preferred behavioral strategies. The participants were 183 female teachers and trainees, 93 from Osnabrück, Germany, representing an urban Western context, which can be characterized by a primary cultural orientation toward psychological autonomy and a…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Socialization, Constructivism (Learning), Questionnaires
Gender and Age Differences in How Children Cope with Daily Stress
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Morales Rodriguez, Francisco Manuel; Trianes Torres, Maria Victoria; Miranda Paez, Jesus – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2012
Introduction: The study of coping among students accounts for an interesting subject, as having coping skills guarantees a healthy lifestyle and quality of life. The present study aims to analyze the role played by age and gender on the coping strategies used by Andalusian school students to cope with situations of daily stress. These situations…
Descriptors: Females, Quality of Life, Age Differences, Coping
The Effect of Teaching Vocabulary through Semantic Mapping on EFL Learners' Awareness of the Affective Dimensions of Deep Vocabulary Knowledge
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Nilforoushan, Somayeh – English Language Teaching, 2012
This study focused on the effect of teaching vocabulary through semantic mapping on the awareness of two affective dimensions, evaluation and potency dimensions of deep vocabulary knowledge as well as the general vocabulary knowledge of EFL students. Sixty intermediate EFL female adult learners participated in this study; they were chosen among 90…
Descriptors: Semantics, Cognitive Mapping, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)