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Kooiman, Brian J.; Sheehan, Dwayne P. – Cogent Education, 2015
Online physical education (OLPE) has been viewed as an oxymoron. Physical education curriculum at all levels seeks to help learners grow socially in the way they interact and deal with diverse and challenging fellow students and settings. Students who have no contact with other students while they are at home for various reasons may not be able to…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Online Courses, Student Participation, Preadolescents
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Nwankwo, Madeleine C.; Okoye, K. R. E. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The perceived influence of college club in increasing students' interest and achievement in Nigerian post-primary schools in Anambra State was studied using a survey research design. The population of the study comprised all senior secondary school science students in Anambra State totaling 9322 as at 2007. From this population, a sample of 140…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Clubs, Student Organizations
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Wanjohi, Racheal N.; Mwebi, Robert B.; Nyang'ara, Naftal M. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The increasing connectivity of places to the internet platform has led to widespread use of the social media platforms in homes, workplaces and schools wherein it is preferred by mostly the young people christened as dot.com generation. The use of social media platforms has a potential effect on the productivity of the users either in their places…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Media, Mass Media Use, Mass Media Effects
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Rao, Harika – Journal for Leadership and Instruction, 2015
The purpose of the research was to understand the latest job skill requirements for undergraduates from the real world as perceived by the students themselves and their career counselors at a university in South Florida. The study intended to provide relevant inputs to enhance the marketability of the undergraduate students by seamless…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Labor Needs, Undergraduate Students, Thinking Skills
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Grissom, Jason A.; Kalogrides, Demetra; Loeb, Susanna – Peabody Journal of Education, 2015
Politics of education researchers have long recognized the role of micropolitics in school decision-making processes. We argue that investigating micropolitical dynamics is key to an important set of school decisions that are fundamental to inequities in access to high-quality teachers: assignments of teachers and students to classrooms. Focusing…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Politics of Education, Power Structure, Teacher Student Relationship
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Akanbi, Muritala Ishola; Augustina, Godwin; Theophilus, Anyio Bahago; Muritala, Muhammad; Ajiboye, Ajiboye Stephen – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The study investigated the impact of substance abuse on adolescent on academic performance in colleges of education in Kwara State. The design used for the study was the survey. A sample of 150 adolescent students was randomly selected form selected departments in three colleges of education in the State. A validated instrument, Drug Habit…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Substance Abuse, Adolescent Attitudes, Academic Achievement
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Eze, Ogwa Christopher – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This research was conducted to ascertain teachers' and students perception of instructional supervision in relation to capacity building in electrical installation trade in technical colleges. Three research questions and a null hypothesis were employed to guide the study. Descriptive survey was adopted. A 23-item questionnaire was used to elicit…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Teacher Supervision
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Sarraj, Huda; Carter, Stacy; Burley, Hansel – Multicultural Perspectives, 2015
Demographic changes at the national level emphasize a critical need for multicultural education to be included as part of undergraduate education. This critical review of the literature examines 10 multicultural instruments that are suitable for use in K-12 or higher education institutions. This is a novel literature review in that it is the first…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Multicultural Education, Demography, Educational Technology
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Sofoluwe, Abayomi Olumade; Akinsolu, Abiodun Olatoun – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
Nigeria, like most developing countries is having challenges in reaching the Millennium Development Goals, Education for All and national education goals within the globally agreed timeframe of 2015. While the widespread progress in enrolment figure is laudable due to social demand for it, there are persistent challenges of exclusion,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Community Involvement, Quality Assurance
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Forjan, Matej; Grubelnik, Vladimir – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2015
Despite difficulties understanding the dynamics of complex systems only simple dynamical systems without feedback connections have been taught in secondary school physics. Consequently, students do not have opportunities to develop intuition of temporal development of systems, whose dynamics are conditioned by the influence of feedback processes.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Science, Physics
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Kondo, Takeo; Takahashi, Tomone; Shirasawa, Mayumi – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2015
The Japanese government passed an anti-discrimination law, the Act on the Elimination of Disability Discrimination, in June 2013 (to be enforced April 2016) and ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in January 2014. Prior to ratification of the CRPD, the Japanese government had begun to construct an inclusive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disabilities, Disability Discrimination, Federal Legislation
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Enu, Justice; Danso, Paul Amoah; Awortwe, Peter K. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
An ideal group size is hard to obtain in small group settings; hence there are groups with more members than others. The purpose of the study was to find out whether group size has any effects on students' mathematics achievement in small group settings. Two third year classes of the 2011/2012 academic year were selected from two schools in the…
Descriptors: Small Group Instruction, Class Size, Mathematics Achievement, Foreign Countries
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Elvira, Quincy; Imants, Jeroen; deMaeyer, Sven; Segers, Mien – Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 2015
The ability to solve problems is a key skill and is essential to our day-to-day lives, at home, at school and at work. The present study explores the quality of managerial problem-solving of participants who are in secondary education. We studied 10th, 11th, and 12th graders following a business track in the Netherlands. Participants were asked to…
Descriptors: High School Students, Problem Solving, Expertise, Educational Quality
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Wigelsworth, Michael; Oldfield, Jeremy; Humphrey, Neil – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2015
The Wider Outcomes Survey for Teachers (WOST) is a teacher informant-report questionnaire developed to aid the assessment of behaviour difficulties, quality of relationships and exposure to bullying among students identified with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). This study examines the psychometric properties of the WOST in a…
Descriptors: Teacher Surveys, Questionnaires, Behavior Problems, Interpersonal Relationship
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Algadheeb, Nourah A. – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2015
This study aimed at exploring the differences in professional/career orientation and awareness while considering a number of variables including locus of control, academic specialization and school backwardness. Several measures were used to achieve the study's goals. The first two, a professional/career orientation measure and a…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Professional Development, Goal Orientation, Locus of Control
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