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Braden, Sarah; Wassell, Beth A.; Scantlebury, Kathryn; Grover, Alex – Language and Education, 2016
Increases in the number of English language learner (ELL) students in the United States has led to a significant need for research that explores teaching and learning for ELL students in science and other content-area classrooms. This qualitative study investigated middle-school ELL students' (N = 12) beliefs and practices surrounding science…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Middle School Students, Science Instruction, English Language Learners
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Dabic, Marina; Vlajcic, Davor; Novak, Ivan – International Journal of Educational Management, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to take the emergence of the knowledge mobilization as an opportunity to develop an understanding of needs for catching up appropriate knowledge application in SMEs in the Republic of Croatia, Poland and the UK. It draws upon the "frame mobilization" literature, which illuminates the role that acts…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Management Development, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality
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Caswell, Cynthia Ann – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2016
This exploratory, evaluative case study introduces a new context for problem-based learning (PBL) involving an iterative, modular approach to curriculum-wide delivery of PBL in an MA TESOL program. The introduction to the curriculum context provides an overview of the design and delivery features particular to the situation. The delivery approach…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Graduate Students, Teacher Education Programs, Problem Based Learning
Akst, Leslie Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This dissertation is a qualitative study of a curriculum I designed for composition students in the Fall of 2012. The curriculum I created is informed by the Freirean edict that a self-generated desire to "create knowledge" is far more likely to result in meaningful, holistic learning than simply "banking" information. In the…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Ethnography, College Faculty, College English
Ratnayake, Iresha; Oates, Greg; Thomas, Mike – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2016
A crucial step towards improving the conceptual use of digital technology (DT) in the mathematics classroom is to increase teacher involvement in the development of tasks. Hence, this research considers some teacher factors that might influence DT algebra task development and implementation in secondary schools. We observed and assisted one group…
Descriptors: Mathematics Activities, Teacher Developed Materials, Technology Uses in Education, Technology Integration
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Tang, Kok-Sing – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2011
Based on the multidisciplinary field of multimodality, this paper offers a theoretical perspective on the construct of a curricular concept which is commonly used in a school curriculum and applies it to an analysis of a typical curricular text and classroom instruction that exposit the physics concept of work-energy. Theorizing a concept as a…
Descriptors: Semantics, Academic Education, Curriculum, Curriculum Design
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Wong, Arch Chee Keen – Religious Education, 2011
This article examines how pastoral leaders learn in the context of ministry in terms of how they see the relationship between theory and practice. The work of Wilfred Carr is introduced as a theoretical framework and clue structures are used to distinguish the different approaches to the theory and practice relationship. A case study using two…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Theological Education, Clergy, Guidelines
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Law, Wai K. – Information Systems Education Journal, 2014
It has been increasingly challenging to provide an introductory coverage of the rapidly expanding fields in Information Systems (IS). The task has been further complicated by the popularity of web resources and cloud services. A new generation of technically savvy learners, while recognizing the significance of information systems, expects…
Descriptors: Information Systems, Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
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Rosen, Jody R.; Davis, M. Justin – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2014
This article describes the design of a learning community that paired an English Composition and a Public Speaking course at the New York City College of Technology (City Tech) and explains the embedded teaching strategies: flexible scheduling, integrated assignments, and a place-based (Brooklyn) focus. These tactics, developed with the aim of…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Place Based Education, Writing (Composition), Public Speaking
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Morris, R. C.; Parker, Loran Carleton; Nelson, David; Pistilli, Matthew D.; Hagen, Adam; Levesque-Bristol, Chantal; Weaver, Gabriela – Educational Assessment, 2014
This study examines the development and implementation of a survey-based instrument assessing the effectiveness of a course redesign initiative focused on student centeredness at a large midwestern university in the United States. Given the scope of the reform initiative under investigation in this study, researchers developed an instrument called…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Program Effectiveness
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Sarathchandra, Dilshani; Maredia, Karim M. – Journal of Extension, 2014
Scholars have recognized a need for educational programs that prepare scientists, Extension practitioners, and other stakeholders to communicate science effectively. Such programs have the potential to increase public awareness and aid policy development. Having recognized this need, faculty at Michigan State University (MSU) developed an…
Descriptors: Professional Education, Extension Education, Scientific and Technical Information, Communication Skills
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Pratt, Jean A.; Keys, Anthony; Wirkus, Tyrrell – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2014
The purpose of this paper is to encourage Information Systems (IS) faculty to intentionally revise their curriculum to address (and assess) higher-order learning skills which are demanded by industry and society and are representative of a liberal arts based education. We substantiated the need for this proposed curriculum revision by first…
Descriptors: Information Systems, Graduates, Liberal Arts, Business Administration Education
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Rodriguez, Brenda Cecilia Padilla; Armellini, Alejandro – Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 2014
Finding effective ways of designing online courses is a priority for corporate organizations. The interaction equivalency theorem states that meaningful learning can be achieved as long as courses are designed with at least a high level of one of three types of interactions (learner-content, learner-teacher or learner-learner). This study aimed to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Courses, Corporate Education, Learning Theories
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Mohamud, Abdul; Whitburn, Robin – Teaching History, 2014
It has become a truism that Britain is a multi-cultural society yet, as Mohamud and Whitburn argue, there is still a great deal of thinking to be done by history teachers in accounting for this diversity in the classroom. Mohamud and Whitburn consider approaches to both curriculum and pedagogy when it comes to teaching about the Somali community…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Ethnic Diversity, Multicultural Education
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Saraswat, Satya Prakash; Anderson, Dennis M.; Chircu, Alina M. – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2014
This paper describes the development and evaluation of a graduate level Business Process Management (BPM) course with process modeling and simulation as its integral component, being offered at an accredited business university in the Northeastern U.S. Our approach is similar to that found in other Information Systems (IS) education papers, and…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Teaching Methods, Graduate Students, Statistical Significance
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