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Ishikawa, Yasushige; Akahane-Yamada, Reiko; Smith, Craig; Kondo, Mutsumi; Tsubota, Yasushi; Dantsuji, Masatake – Research-publishing.net, 2015
This paper reports on a research project in a university English as Foreign Language (EFL) program in Japan which explored ways to sustain active participation in e-learning tasks. The tasks were intended to improve students' scores on the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC), a test used by businesses to make hiring decisions.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Teaching Methods, Handheld Devices, Electronic Learning
Banks, Amber; LaFors, Jeannette – Education Trust-West, 2015
Schools around California are implementing the new Common Core State Standards. In math specifically, where significant disparities in proficiency exist for African American, Latino, and low-income students as compared to their white, Asian and higher-income peers, these new standards provide an opportunity to close achievement and opportunity…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Mathematics Education, Best Practices, Barriers
Sarah French – Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, 2015
Over the past twenty years, universities have increasingly employed credit-­based modular curriculum structures in an attempt to cater to the needs of more diverse student groups and to allow students greater flexibility and choice in managing their studies. With the increasing pressures placed on Australian universities to better support teaching…
Descriptors: Educational Benefits, Curriculum Design, Student Needs, Student Diversity
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Leung, Constant – Language and Education, 2016
The school population in England is linguistically diverse; according to official data, over one million pupils do not speak English as their first language. All teachers are expected to support English as an additional language (EAL) development as part of their professional responsibility. At the same time, there has been little specific…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction, Educational Policy
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Debreli, Emre; Onuk, Nazife – International Education Studies, 2016
In the area of language teaching, corrective feedback is one of the popular and hotly debated topics that have been widely explored to date. A considerable number of studies on students' preferences of error correction and the effects of error correction approaches on student achievement do exist. Moreover, much on teachers' preferences of error…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, English Teachers, English (Second Language)
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Cassidy, Alice; Fu, Guopeng; Valley, Will; Lomas, Cyprien; Jovel, Eduardo; Riseman, Andrew – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2016
Flexible Learning (FL) is a pedagogical approach allowing for flexibility of time, place, and audience, including but not solely focused on the use of technologies. We describe Flexible Learning as a pedagogical approach in four courses framed by three key themes: 1) objectives and aspects of course design, 2) evaluation and assessment, and 3)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Learning Strategies, Teaching Methods
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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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