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Chen, Kate Tzu-Ching – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2017
The academic success of non-native English speaker (NNES) graduate students greatly relies on their ability to read and comprehend English journal articles (EJA). The purpose of this study was to identify NNES graduate students' comprehension difficulties and reading strategies when reading EJA. In addition, the study explored how the relationship…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Graduate Students, Foreign Countries, Interviews
Harris, Bryn; Ravert, Russell D.; Sullivan, Amanda L. – Urban Education, 2017
This mixed methods study focused on adolescents who rejected conventional singular racial/ethnic categorization by selecting multiple race/ethnicities or writing descriptions of "Other" racial/ethnic identities in response to a survey item asking them to identify their race/ethnicity. Written responses reflected eight distinct categories…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Racial Identification, Ethnicity, Multiracial Persons
Falconer, Emily; Taylor, Yvette – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2017
This article addresses the negotiation of "queer religious" student identities in UK higher education. The "university experience" has generally been characterised as a period of intense transformation and self-exploration, with complex and overlapping personal and social influences significantly shaping educational spaces,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Homosexuality, Religion, Identification (Psychology)
Toohey, Danny; McGill, Tanya; Whitsed, Craig – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2017
Transnational education (TNE) is an important facet of the international education learning and teaching landscape. Ensuring academics are positively engaged in TNE is a challenging but necessary issue for this form of educational provision if the risks inherent in TNE are to be successfully mitigated. This article explores job satisfaction for…
Descriptors: International Education, Job Satisfaction, Mixed Methods Research, Questionnaires
Brandstetter, Miriam; Sandmann, Angela; Florian, Christine – International Journal of Science Education, 2017
In classroom, scientific contents are increasingly communicated through visual forms of representations. Students' learning outcomes rely on their ability to read and understand pictorial information. Understanding pictorial information in biology requires cognitive effort and can be challenging to students. Yet evidence-based knowledge about…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Pictorial Stimuli, Biology, Science Instruction
Ryerson, Rachel – Educational Research, 2017
Background: How can educators and students partner in the work of making transformational changes in schools and school systems? This paper will address how teacher researchers, funded by the Ontario Ministry of Education in Canada, have studied the student experience to generate evidence. It will outline changes in practice and benefits for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Experience, Evidence Based Practice, Educational Research
Zhou, Ninger; Pereira, Nielsen L.; Tarun, Thomas George; Alperovich, Jeffrey; Booth, Joran; Chandrasegaran, Senthil; Tew, Jeffrey David; Kulkarni, Devadatta M.; Ramani, Karthik – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2017
The societal demand for inspiring and engaging science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students and preparing our workforce for the emerging creative economy has necessitated developing students' self-efficacy and understanding of engineering design processes from as early as elementary school levels. Hands-on engineering design…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Experiential Learning, Toys, Workshops
Topçu, Ersin – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2017
In this research, the aim is to determine what the social studies teachers think about the interdisciplinary structure of the social studies course and the educational situation. Likert type questionnaire and semi-structured interview form were used as data collection tools. The questionnaire was applied to 150 teachers working in 58 secondary…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Semi Structured Interviews
Determination of Secondary Students' Preferences Regarding Design Features Used in Digital Textbooks
Öngöz, Sakine; Mollamehmetoglu, Mehmet Zülküf – Digital Education Review, 2017
The aim of this study was to determine secondary school students' choice of design features for digital textbooks. As a part of the research--which was conducted using a mixed technique--a literature review was carried out to source points to consider in the designing of digital textbooks and experts' opinions were obtained. Based on the results,…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Textbook Research, Electronic Publishing, Design Preferences
Brown, Tiara Saufley; Stanton-Chapman, Tina L. – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2017
A substantial challenge confronting public education systems across the world is the employment and retention of high-quality paraprofessionals (also known as teaching assistants and educational assistants). The current study expands upon previous research by employing a mixed methods design to examine the relationship between paraprofessionals'…
Descriptors: Special Education, General Education, Mixed Methods Research, Paraprofessional Personnel
Özdemir, Emine; Övez, Filiz Tuba Dikkartin – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
The cognitive development of prospective teacher needs to be taken into estimate so that proofs are presented in forms that are potentially meaningful for them. This requires educators and mathematicians to rethink consider the use of types of proof related to the logical thinking improvement of the singular. The purpose of the study is to…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Validity, Mathematical Logic
MacMath, Sheryl; Sivia, Awneet; Britton, Vandy – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2017
This study examines teacher perceptions of their experiences with Project Based Learning (PBL) at a secondary school in Western Canada. This PBL initiative included English language arts, mathematics, science, and digital literacy courses and all the grade nines at this large secondary school. This article reports on two teacher focus group…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Active Learning, Student Projects
Owens, Marissa; Nussbaum, E. Michael – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2017
This study aimed to: 1) evaluate Twitter as a viable tool for promoting collaborative argumentation; 2) determine if scripting through sentence openers promotes a greater number of arguments within an online discussion; and 3) compare Twitter to Facebook as viable tools for promoting collaborative argumentation. Participants were 27 undergraduate…
Descriptors: Social Media, Teaching Methods, Persuasive Discourse, Sentences
Kunnath, Joshua P. – American Secondary Education, 2017
This mixed-methods study applied a decision-making theoretical framework to an investigation of teacher grading in a large urban school district in California. A sample of 251 high school teachers of core subjects were surveyed, and 15 teachers participated in four focus group interviews in order provide data on the influences, rationale, and…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, High Schools, Grading, Decision Making
Nousiainen, Maija; Koponen, Ismo T. – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2017
The concepts of electricity and magnetism in physics are complex and demanding to learn because their meaning builds through several different phenomenological areas. Each of the phenomenological areas adds a certain facet of the meaning of the concept. All standard physics textbooks discuss at least 1) force, 2) energy and work, and 3) electric…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Science Instruction, Science Teachers