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Villena-Taranilla, Rafael; Cózar-Gutiérrez, Ramón; González-Calero, José Antonio; Diago, Pascual D. – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2023
Virtual Reality (VR) is an emerging technology with an increasing number of studies assessing its benefits in educational settings. However, there is a shortage of empirical studies aimed at evaluating the acceptance of this technology in primary education. The authors propose an extended version of the Technological Acceptance Model to examine…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Computer Simulation, Electronic Learning, Elementary School Students
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Vinnervik, Peter – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2023
In Sweden, as in many other countries, programming has been added to the curriculum in recent years. This paper explores how and under what conditions programming is transformed into teaching in technology education. Teachers in grade 7-9 were interviewed about what and how they teach about programming in the context of technology education, and…
Descriptors: Programming, Technology Education, Foreign Countries, Grade 7
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Carone, Delaney; Perkins, Ashley; Scott, Catherine – Science and Children, 2023
This lesson focuses specifically on teaching concepts of speed and its impact on energy, as well as providing a basic introduction to potential and kinetic energy to fourth-grade students. "Next Generation Science Standards" ("NGSS") 4-PS3-1 states that students should be able "to use evidence to construct an explanation…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Science Instruction, Energy, Scientific Concepts
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Fikrat-Wevers, S.; Stegers-Jager, K. M.; Afonso, P. M.; Koster, A. S.; Van Gestel, R. A.; Groenier, M.; Ravesloot, J. H.; Wouters, A.; Van Den Broek, W. W.; Woltman, A. M. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2023
Student diversity in health professions education (HPE) can be affected by selection procedures. Little is known about how different selection tools impact student diversity across programs using different combinations of traditional and broadened selection criteria. The present multi-site study examined the chances in selection of subgroups of…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Student Diversity, College Admission, Undergraduate Students
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Bronwyn A. Kosman; Daniela Castro De Jong; Catherine R. Knight-Agarwal; Lucy Chipchase; Naroa Etxebarria – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2023
Student pre-departure preparation has been identified as essential if study abroad programs involving work-integrated learning are to deliver the numerous benefits they intend, while mitigating the many risks they involve. However, little is known about what preparation is provided to the academic and professional staff who implement these…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Student Adjustment, Prior Learning, Professional Personnel
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Abdulhadi Shoufan – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2023
With the immense interest in ChatGPT worldwide, education has seen a mix of both excitement and skepticism. To properly evaluate its impact on education, it is crucial to understand how far it can help students without prior knowledge answer assessment questions. This study aims to address this question as well as the impact of the question type.…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Assisted Testing
Erin Geiger – ProQuest LLC, 2023
A qualitative, exploratory approach was utilized to examine the course experiences of 18 early childhood education PSTs enrolled in a three-credit undergraduate language and literacy methods course. Eight of these participants were enrolled in the course during the Fall 2019 semester while 10 participants were enrolled during the Fall 2020…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Early Childhood Teachers, Student Experience, Literacy
Zhao, Yilang – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study explores learning vector addition and demonstrating the understanding of vector addition. Vector addition is a key skill in mathematics and science education, but there is a limited amount of research that focuses on this topic. My study investigates how an instructional design framework "concreteness fading" can be used for…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Grade 8, Middle School Students, Knowledge Level
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Dilnot, Catherine; Macmillan, Lindsey; Wyness, Gill – British Educational Research Journal, 2023
Many countries have introduced flexibility in their admissions equivalents for tertiary education, allowing students to apply with vocational rather than academic qualifications at upper secondary level. However, entrants with vocational qualifications are generally less likely to succeed at university. Students from disadvantaged backgrounds are…
Descriptors: College Students, Socioeconomic Status, College Admission, Admission Criteria
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Lin, Xin; Powell, Sarah R. – Child Development, 2023
In the present study, we investigated the impact of a word-problem intervention in retention and acquisition of knowledge after the intervention ended. We based analyses upon Grade 4 students experiencing mathematics difficulty (average age at pretest = 8.77) who received one of two variants of a word-problem intervention (with [n = 111] vs.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Elementary School Mathematics, Word Problems (Mathematics)
Micah Watanabe; Tracy Arner; Danielle McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2023
David Stephens, a 4th grade teacher in Washington State, was preparing a lesson plan about desert wildlife (all names are pseudonyms). He was planning on assigning his students the chapter book, "Desert Giant: The World of the Saguaro Cactus." The students had divergent knowledge about the topic. For example, Maryam had grown up in…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Elementary School Students
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Feride Sahin; Semra Sungur; Salih Ates – Science Education International, 2023
The purpose of this study is to test the relationship between seventh-grade students' personal epistemology for science, subjective task value, and science self-efficacy, with prior achievement serving as a moderator. The mediating role of subjective task value is proposed in the prediction of the relationship between personal epistemology for…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 7, Student Attitudes, Beliefs
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Bergman, Matt; Herd, Ann M.; Green, Ehren R. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2020
The veteran military-to-civilian transition (MCT) process continues to be complex and unwielding. Higher education has an opportunity to ease this transition, but, unfortunately many institutions still miss the mark. One mechanism higher education institutes can incorporate to help with the transition is the use of prior learning assessments or…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Student Evaluation, Transitional Programs, Military Personnel
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Samuel, Thomas; Azen, Razia; Campbell-Kyureghyan, Naira – Journal of Education and Learning, 2020
Training programs are a popular method, in industry globally, to increase awareness of desired concepts to employees and employers and play a critical part in changing or supporting performance improvements. The predominant method to assess the effectiveness of training programs is to have the participants answer Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) and…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, On the Job Training, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
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Liu, Yushuang; van Hell, Janet G. – Language Learning, 2020
Novel word learning and consolidation was studied in inexperienced language learners, to conceptually replicate and extend a similar study in experienced learners by Bakker, Takashima, Van Hell, Janzen, and McQueen (2015). Participants learned definitions for novel words on Day 1 and for another set of novel words on Day 2. Brain potentials…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Brain, Second Language Learning
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