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Dobbs, Page D.; Clawson, Ashley H.; Gowin, Mary; Cheney, Marshall K. – Journal of American College Health, 2020
Objective: This convergent mixed methods study examined how information sources influence college students' beliefs and knowledge about vaping. Participants: College students either completed a survey (n = 522; January-April, 2016) or were interviewed (n = 33; 2015-2016). Methods: College students completed an online survey asking 'where' students…
Descriptors: College Students, Smoking, Electronic Equipment, Information Seeking
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Eastman, Nicholas J. – Philosophical Studies in Education, 2020
With the advent of social media, Nicholas J. Eastman writes, corporations are not only brand conscious, but conscious brands. Its marketing assumes the form of an intimate and absurd conversation about its, your, and society's misery. He contends that consumerism is the most potent driver of feeling, thinking, and doing, and for an increasing…
Descriptors: Social Media, Marketing, Social Systems, Corporations
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Forzani, Elena – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2020
Recently, many have released calls for the need to help students evaluate online information. Additionally, many have offered strategies, lists, and other heuristics for helping students evaluate. However, educators lack a method for organizing these various practices into a systematic framework that captures the complex (occurring within online…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Information Literacy, Evaluative Thinking, Online Searching
Kayyali, Mustafa – Online Submission, 2020
University rankings have been of interest to many specialists, academics, and independent researchers, who are affiliated to educational or scientific institutions. The matter was also the subject of discussion among students at the master's and doctoral levels about the feasibility of these rankings, whether there is any desired practical benefit…
Descriptors: Universities, Achievement Rating, Institutional Characteristics, Reputation
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Mary Bair; David Bair; Rui Niu-Cooper; Nagnon Diarrassouba – College Teaching, 2024
Career success is associated with having an integrated professional identity, especially for teacher educators who play a vital role in the professional development of novice teachers. Yet, the unique professional needs of teacher educators themselves, especially faculty of color, are often times ignored at predominantly White teaching…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Professional Identity, Personal Narratives
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Daniel Woldeab; Thomas Brothen – International Journal of E-Learning & Distance Education, 2024
In this study, we analyze undergraduate student responses in 1,364 surveys to better understand student reactions to online proctoring. We present findings regarding two aspects of student reactions to online proctoring: First, we assess whether students believe that the act of cheating in online exams diminishes the legitimacy of their courses;…
Descriptors: Supervision, Tests, Online Courses, Cheating
Trisha Kelly Travers – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation explored how effectively first-year writing (FYW) evaluated and selected sources for their researched writing assignments. Though students were taught how to access sources from the library and offered sources on the course management system, most often they obtained sources via the open internet. As mis- and disinformation…
Descriptors: Misinformation, Writing Assignments, Information Sources, Learning Processes
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Swati Datta; Shiv Kumar – Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, 2024
This paper focuses on finding the criteria adopted by users to select free information retrieved from the Web for academic use. A close-ended questionnaire was formulated to record the opinions of the respondents. A survey for various categories of users such as post graduate students, research scholars and faculty members from five universities…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Users (Information), Information Seeking, College Faculty
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Yongliang Wang; Mariusz Kruk – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2024
Adopting a sequential mixed-methods approach, the current inquiry examined English major students' perceptions of the role of teacher confirmation and teacher credibility in enhancing their academic engagement in the Chinese context. In doing so, through WeChat messenger, three scales were provided to 1168 English major students chosen from…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Bobkowski, Piotr S.; Younger, Karna; Watson, John C. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2021
This case study discusses the integration of information literacy instruction and assessment in a required research course for students of journalism and strategic communication at the University of Kansas. The integration consisted of four components: (1) a unifying threshold concept, (2) an open textbook, (3) a sequence of five assignments, and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Journalism, Information Literacy, Case Studies
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Tarchi, Christian – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2021
This study explored the impact of the think-aloud research methodology on multiple-documents comprehension outcomes. The participants in this study were 168 University students. The procedure included three steps. First, students were administered the tests measuring prior topic beliefs, topic interest, and topic knowledge. Then, students were…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Reading Comprehension, College Students, Prior Learning
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Pickering, Kristin – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2021
This article presents an observational case study of a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Resource Manager working with community members through a contested project. Using the Aristotelian concepts of ethos, credibility, and character development, I examine ethos appeals the Resource Manager used to align Corps's sustainability values with the…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Organizational Communication, Federal Government, Conflict Resolution
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Amo-Adjei, Joshua; Caffe, Sonja; Simpson, Zoe; Harris, Michelle; Chandra-Mouli, Venkatraman – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2023
The Women's Center of Jamaica Foundation's (WCJF) Programme for Adolescent Mothers)--has supported pregnant girls and adolescent mothers to have uninterrupted access to education and allied services since 1978. This paper analyzes the conception, establishment, scale up and sustainability of the Programme. The Programme evolved from a small, local…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Mothers, Pregnancy, Foreign Countries
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Mixter, Philip F.; Kleinschmit, Adam J.; Lal, Archana; Vanniasinkam, Thiru; Condry, Danielle L. J.; Taylor, Rebekah T.; Justement, Louis B.; Pandey, Sumali – Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2023
Immune literacy--the ability to hear, learn, read, write, explain, and discuss immunological content with varied audiences--has become critically important in recent years. Yet, with its complex terminology and discipline-specific concepts, educating individuals about the immune system and its role in health and disease may seem daunting. Here, we…
Descriptors: Epidemiology, Scientific Concepts, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction
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MacKillop, Eleanor; Downe, James – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2023
Background: Government-funded knowledge brokering organisations (KBOs) are an increasingly prevalent yet under-researched area. Working in the space between knowledge and policy, yet framing themselves as different from think tanks and academic research centres, these organisations broker evidence into policy. Aims and objectives: This article…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Research Projects, Evidence, Policy Formation
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