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Moyo, Nathan; Modiba, Maropeng M. – Journal of Education Policy, 2013
This paper reflects on the key actors in education policy making in Zimbabwe. It looks at the contextual complexities that characterized policy-making in this country to make sense of the contestations that the state had to confront and accommodate. The policy network approach is employed as an analytical framework to clarify how, in particular…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Governance
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Brenner, Charles – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2013
Approximately two million students matriculate into American colleges and universities per year. Almost 20% of these students begin taking a series of courses specified by advisers of health preprofessionals. The single most important influence on health profession advisers and on course selection for this huge population of learners is the…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Biochemistry, Genetics, Medical Schools
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DeKeyser, Robert M. – Language Learning, 2013
The effect of age of acquisition on ultimate attainment in second language learning has been a controversial topic for years. After providing a very brief overview of the ideas that are at the core of the controversy, I discuss the two main reasons why these issues are so controversial: conceptual misunderstandings and methodological difficulties.…
Descriptors: Age, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Policy
Koehler, Kimberly Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Although the National Association for Gifted Children states that gifted and talented students from prekindergarten through high school require a differentiated curriculum in all subject areas to maximize their abilities, few gifted programs focus on developing the abilities of high school students in the domain of social studies. Further, the few…
Descriptors: Gifted, High School Students, Grade 9, Apprenticeships
Becker, Melissa Roberts; Winn, Pam; Erwin, Susan – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
Each semester faculty members at a regional university encountered students in their courses who were unprepared for learning. As the demand for rigor continues to increase in all fields of study continues to increase, professors expressed concern regarding preparedness of their students to enter the work-force. In an effort to leverage the…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Student Centered Learning, Active Learning, Learner Engagement
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Roberts, Regina Lee; Taormina, Mattie – Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 2013
This article describes a year-long application of critical information literacy theory for social-science-related library workshops. Each of these workshops had a customized section that included working with special collections and university archives. The students who participated ranged from incoming freshman to seniors at Stanford University.…
Descriptors: Archives, Information Literacy, Curriculum Development, Workshops
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Wayer, Nicola; Crippen, Kent; Dawson, Kara – Journal of Online Learning Research, 2015
This study investigated the ways in which four K-12 teachers, following professional development in blended learning, designed the online portion of their blended learning courses and how these online components were ultimately enacted with students. Specifically, the study investigates what kind of content, resources, or activities were developed…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Online Courses, Course Organization, Secondary School Teachers
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Heisterkamp, Kimberly; Talanquer, Vicente – Journal of Chemical Education, 2015
The central goal of this study was to characterize major patterns of reasoning exhibited by college chemistry students when analyzing and interpreting chemical data. Using a case study approach, we investigated how a representative student used chemical models to explain patterns in the data based on structure-property relationships. Our results…
Descriptors: College Students, Science Education, Chemistry, Data Interpretation
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Therrell, James A.; Dunneback, Staci K. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2015
Through prioritizing student voice, this study investigated the perspectives of millennial students in relation to their preferences and priorities for how they desired to experience teaching and learning. While not experts, our assumption was that undergraduate students, because of their relatively long experience as students, would be closely in…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Preferences, Needs Assessment, Student Interests
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Davis, Jon D.; Fonger, Nicole L. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2015
The symbolic manipulation capabilities of computer algebra systems, which we refer to as CAS-S, are now becoming instantiated within secondary mathematics textbooks in the United States for the first time. While a number of research studies have examined how teachers use this technology in their classrooms, one of the most important factors in how…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation, Algebra
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Allison, Pete; Gray, Shirley; Sproule, John; Nash, Christine; Martindale, Russell; Wang, John – Improving Schools, 2015
Regardless of the aims and purposes of education, recent trends in pedagogy suggest an increasing popularity of project-based learning (PBL) and a focus on interdisciplinary approaches to learning, however ill-defined they may be. Connections between PBL, curriculum trends and health and wellbeing are reviewed, as well as potential value of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Active Learning, Student Projects, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Insulander, Eva; Ehrlin, Anna; Sandberg, Anette – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
The website of the Swedish National Agency for Education states that preschools are to promote entrepreneurial learning. Many Swedish preschools, therefore, have started to work consciously with entrepreneurial learning as a way of fostering pupils' creativity and ability to make their own decisions. This article investigates whether and how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship, Active Learning, Student Participation
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Yuayai, Rerngrit; Chansirisira, Pacharawit; Numnaphol, Kochaporn – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
This study aims to develop competency of teachers in basic education schools. The research instruments included the semi-structured in-depth interview form, questionnaire, program developing competency, and evaluation competency form. The statistics used for data analysis were percentage, mean, and standard deviation. The research found that…
Descriptors: Teacher Competencies, Questionnaires, Semi Structured Interviews, Educational Practices
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Crawford, Ian; Wang, Zhiqi – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
This study investigates the academic performance differences between Chinese and UK students in a UK university using two undergraduate cohorts by uniquely exploring academic performance patterns among Chinese and UK students across a full degree study period (3 or 4 years). The results reveal a dramatic drop in performance among Chinese students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Undergraduate Students
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McMahon, Margery; Forde, Christine; Dickson, Beth – Educational Review, 2015
The current policy gaze on teacher quality is resulting in significant shifts in how teacher education is conceptualized, designed and delivered. Traditional approaches to teacher preparation and continuing professional development (CPD) are being challenged, and often displaced, by new models that expedite the process and experience of becoming a…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Curriculum, Educational Change, Curriculum Design, Educational Practices
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