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Verma, Vipin; Craig, Scotty D.; Levy, Roy; Bansal, Ajay; Amresh, Ashish – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2022
Detection and responding to a player's affect are important for serious games. A method for this purpose was tested within Chem-o-crypt, a game that teaches chemical equation balancing. The game automatically detects boredom, flow, and frustration using the Affdex SDK from Affectiva. The sensed affective state is then used to adapt the game play…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Game Based Learning, Media Adaptation, Learner Engagement
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McMullen, Jake; Hannula-Sormunen, Minna M.; Lehtinen, Erno; Siegler, Robert S. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
Background: Adaptive expertise is a highly valued outcome of mathematics curricula. One aspect of adaptive expertise with rational numbers is adaptive rational number knowledge, which refers to the ability to integrate knowledge of numerical characteristics and relations in solving novel tasks. Even among students with strong conceptual and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Grade 6, Grade 7
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Köroglu, Mustafa; Balci, Ahmet – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2022
The aim of this research is to determine the strategies used by the 8th grade Turkish teachers in the teaching-learning process of the Turkish lesson for teaching comprehension (reading). The model of the research is the case study model, which is one of the qualitative research methods. The participants of the research are five Turkish teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Turkish, Reading Comprehension
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Mantai, Lilia; Marrone, Mauricio – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
Despite an increasingly competitive academic market, more and more people are seeking a PhD degree. While significant research focuses on skill attainment during PhD candidature and at PhD exit, we know little about the skills that might be present at PhD entry. We developed a data-driven taxonomy and conducted logistic regressions to analyse…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Doctoral Degrees, Foreign Countries, College Admission
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Dang, Thi Ngoc Yen; Lu, Cailing; Webb, Stuart – Language Learning, 2022
In this quasi-experimental study, 165 learners of English for academic purposes at a university in China were randomly assigned to five experimental groups and a control group. Each experimental group encountered 19 target collocations in the same academic lecture in one of the following input modes: (a) reading, (b) listening, (c) reading while…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, College Students, Second Language Learning, English for Academic Purposes
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Winke, Paula; Huntley, Elizabeth; Gass, Susan – Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
We explored how L2 learners of Arabic make use of video-based captions to learn vocabulary. Thirteen students watched a four-minute captioned video twice on a computer equipped with eye-tracking technology. The study included 19 novel words, 2 familiar words with novel meanings, and 2 words with familiar morphological roots (23 total). In this…
Descriptors: Arabic, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
Michelson, Elena M. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study was conducted to determine which admission criteria are most commonly utilized in selecting students into sonography programs, and whether a relationship exists between admission criteria and academic success in sonography education. All program directors from CAAHEP-accredited or CAAHEP-accreditation seeking sonography programs were…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Selective Admission, Admission Criteria, Allied Health Occupations Education
Fitchett, Michael T. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Teachers' beliefs are importantly linked to teachers' classroom actions and, ultimately, to student achievement. Although much is known about general education teachers' beliefs about how children learn mathematics and mathematics instruction, there is little known about special education teachers' beliefs. This study then examined special…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Special Education Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Trenton W. Dawson – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study aimed to understand the identity and attitude of students enrolled in computer science (CS) or programming-related course at community colleges nationwide. This study quantitatively evaluation data for estimating the relationships between students' identity and attitudes toward computer science with prior programming experience and…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Trend Analysis, Programming, Community College Students
Rusty Dolleman – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) is a term for various methods by which universities accredit student experiential learning. One such method is the academic portfolio, a written reflective process in which students demonstrate that their personal or professional learning fulfills university outcomes. Proponents of academic portfolios claim that…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Adult Students, Prior Learning, Student Evaluation
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Shep Stearns; Katherine E. McKee; John M. Dole; Jonathan W. Duggins – NACTA Journal, 2022
For colleges of agriculture throughout the US, recruitment and retention of undergraduate students is a matter of existential importance. We analyzed personal statements written by applicants accepted to undergraduate degrees at North Carolina State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) to determine what pre-university…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Undergraduate Students, Student Recruitment, School Holding Power
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Kerr, Thomas – Work Based Learning e-Journal International, 2019
In efforts to encourage student recognition of greater connections between their experiential learning and college-level learning, the author has developed a model comprising four key areas towards a method he calls 'thresholding'. These key areas are: situating experience, reflecting on experience, understanding college-level learning, and…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Recognition (Achievement), Labor Education, Experiential Learning
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Fauzi, Kms. M. Amin; Dirgeyase, I. Wayan; Agus Priyatno, – International Education Studies, 2019
Mathematical creative ability is one of the most important skills students must have to process the information provided in resolving the problem. Before using mathematical creative skills, prior knowledge becomes the most crucial thing that allows students to connect all existing information so that they can construct new knowledge through…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Geometry, Metacognition, Prior Learning
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Zhang, Tan; Chen, Ang; Ennis, Catherine – Sport, Education and Society, 2019
The purpose of this study was to explore and reveal naïve conceptions and misconceptions about energy embedded in elementary school students' prior knowledge. Students' performance on standardized knowledge test was used to classify students into low, median and high levels of knowledge about the cardiovascular system. Semi-structured in-depth…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Misconceptions, Physical Education, Prior Learning
Balthazar, Pierre – Online Submission, 2019
This paper presents innovative concepts and approaches on human transformative education and learning. The author relies on the works of well-known scholars such as Dewey (2009), Boud and Walker (1998), and Mezirow (1990; 1991; 1997), among others. The overarching views throughout this paper are that learning is not universal and that…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Adult Education, Learning Theories, Prior Learning
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