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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
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
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
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
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
Hadad, Roxana; Thomas, Kate; Kachovska, Mila; Yin, Yue – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2020
Making activities and environments have been shown to foster the development of computational thinking (CT) skills for students in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) subject areas. To properly cultivate CT skills and the related dispositions, educators must understand students' needs and build awareness of how CT informs a deeper…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Computation, Thinking Skills, STEM Education
Jacqueline M. Campbell – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Undergraduate science students are known to struggle in introductory courses and often focus their studying efforts on memorization-based, algorithmic processes instead of focusing on gaining a conceptual understanding of the course material. To address this issue, the current study investigates the effects training undergraduate chemistry…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Chemistry, College Science, Learning Strategies
Ahmed Kamal Junina; Pat Strauss; Jay K. Wood; Lynn Grant – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2025
The challenges facing non-native English-speaking students (NNESSs) in adapting to the conventions of academic writing at the tertiary level in English-medium institutions have been widely canvassed in scholarly research. Nonetheless, there does not appear to be a great deal of research that investigates the experiences of Arabic-speaking students…
Descriptors: Arabic, Student Experience, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Marco Triulzi; Andrea DeCapua; Ina-Maria Maahs – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2025
The German government requires all migrants without sufficient German language proficiency to enroll in integration courses. Many of these migrants had few prior experiences with formal education, yet, regardless of degree of literacy in any language, they are placed in classes based on language proficiency. How well do government-approved…
Descriptors: Barriers, Textbooks, Literacy, Prior Learning
Leveraging a Lifetime of Knowledge: How Credit for Prior Learning Can Help Older Adults and Veterans
Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 2025
This report demonstrates how credit for prior learning (CPL) can revolutionize education and career advancement for older adults and veterans while supporting the success of postsecondary education institutions. Focusing on the untapped potential of decades of experience, the report explores how CPL can make higher education more accessible and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Veterans Education, Older Adults, Adult Education
Henriette Hogga Siljan; Camilla Gudmundsdatter Magnusson; Kirsti Klette – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2025
Although several studies underline the importance of a successful opening of a school lesson to spur students' interest and facilitate learning, we have limited knowledge about how openings are enacted in classrooms. This study contributes to the sparse research by asking: "What characterizes the openings of 58 reading lessons in Norwegian…
Descriptors: Norwegian, Language Arts, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods
Lee, Soon Chun; Alagic, Mara; Byun, Jaehwan; Liu, Fuchang – Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, 2021
This study examined preservice elementary teachers' (PETs') epistemological beliefs (EB) and their views about mathematics (VM) and the impact on these parameters by their prior experience in learning mathematics. A total of 541 PETs from an American university completed EB and VM questionnaires. It was found that participants' EB and the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Student Attitudes, Mathematics Education
Costu, Fatma; Bektas, Rukiye; Costu, Bayram – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2021
The aim of this study was to reveal science teachers' attitudes, readiness and views for STEM education. Parallel to this aim, the study was conducted in two parts. In the first part, to examine attitudes and readiness of the science teachers, T-STEM survey which consists of nine sub-parts, was implemented on the participants. In the second part,…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Career Readiness, STEM Education
Ruegg, Rachael; Petersen, Natalia; Hoang, Ha; Marianne – Higher Education Research and Development, 2021
There has been a lack of research systematically identifying the kinds of international students who struggle to succeed academically in the New Zealand tertiary context. This research was conducted to determine whether students who enter through different pathways have equal likelihood of academic success after admission. Statistical information…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Foreign Students, Educational Attainment
Bajada, Christopher; Singh, Sonika; Jarvis, Walter; Trayler, Rowan – Higher Education Research and Development, 2021
We focus on the pedagogical merit of introducing and assessing Thresholds Concepts (TCs) in the curriculum with a view to (inter alia) regain public confidence and trust in the legitimacy of business education and qualifications -- especially since the 2007-2010 global recession. While the education literature foregrounds the role of higher…
Descriptors: Fundamental Concepts, Business Administration Education, College Students, Prior Learning