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Download full textPozzi, Francesca; Manganello, Flavio; Passarelli, Marcello; Persico, Donatella; Brasher, Andrew; Holmes, Wayne; Whitelock, Denise; Sangrà, Albert – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2019
University ranking systems are being implemented with the aim of assessing and comparing higher education institutions at a global level. Despite their being increasingly used, rankings are often strongly criticized for their social and economic implications, as well as for limitations in their technical implementation. One of these limitations is…
Descriptors: Reputation, Distance Education, Academic Achievement, Universities
Celik, Suleyman – International Journal of Language Education, 2019
In this quasi-experimental study, quantitative findings were examined in terms of how grouping students based on their dominant type of Multiple intelligence and providing different Multiple Intelligence activities that correspond to their intelligence type effect the development of their reading skills. A control group and an experimental group…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Undergraduate Students, Pretests Posttests, English (Second Language)
Rahmatika, Annisa – International Journal of Language Education, 2019
Student Teams Achievement Division (STAD) is one of the simplest of all cooperative learning methods, where team works in learning English provides students with the team opportunity to express and to communicate with each other. One of the ways to make them express and communicate with each other is by dividing the class into several team works…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Cooperative Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Direct linkToy, Fatih; Büyükkarci, Kagan – Journal of Educational Technology, 2019
The current study aims to examine the effects of using Quizlet on foreign language learners' vocabulary learning success. Another aim of this study is to investigate the possible effects of Quizlet on learners' perceptions about vocabulary learning. The study implemented a mixed method research design. The study involved eighth grade students as…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Tests, Vocabulary Development, Grade 8
Miller, Margaret K.; Calandruccio, Lauren; Buss, Emily; McCreery, Ryan W.; Oleson, Jacob; Rodriguez, Barbara; Leibold, Lori J. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare masked English speech recognition thresholds between Spanish-English bilingual and English monolingual children and to evaluate effects of age, maternal education, and English receptive language abilities on individual differences in masked speech recognition. Method: Forty-three Spanish-English…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Monolingualism, Spanish, English (Second Language)
Vogler, Kenneth E.; Schramm-Pate, Susan; Allan, Audrey – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2019
This study compared the academic performance of seventh-grade students on a state-mandated social studies accountability test by the instructional time configuration used and explored the relationship among the variables of gender, race and poverty on this performance. Results of 24,919 seventh-grade student social studies test scores from 117…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Middle School Students, Hispanic American Students, Block Scheduling
Ma, Wenyue; Winke, Paula – Foreign Language Annals, 2019
Second language (L2) learners can assess their oral skills with some accuracy. A question is whether learners can reliably use self-assessment to track their language gains over time. During the spring of two subsequent years, 80 university L2 Chinese learners completed an oral skills self-assessment based on the NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Kunesh, Claire E.; Noltemeyer, Amity – Urban Education, 2019
The disproportionate discipline of Black male students is a pervasive problem in U.S. schools. To examine the role of stereotypes in disciplinary disproportionality, pre-service teachers were randomly assigned to read a vignette about a defiant student. Those who read a vignette about a Black student believed that the student was more likely to…
Descriptors: Males, African American Students, Vignettes, Preservice Teachers
van der Scheer, Emmelien A.; Bijlsma, Hannah J. E.; Glas, Cees A. W. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2019
A Bayesian IRT-model approach was used to investigate the validity and reliability of student perceptions of teaching quality. Furthermore, the student perceptions were compared with ratings of teaching quality by external observers. Grade 4 students (n = 675) filled out a questionnaire that was used to measure their opinions about the lessons of…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Validity, Interrater Reliability, Correlation
Cîineanu, Mariana-Doina – Romanian Review of Geographical Education, 2019
This paper analyses the tasks allotted to students, featuring two thematic units in the 6th grade Geography textbook published in 2018 by the Didactic and Pedagogic Publishing House Ltd., Bucharest and used in the schools in Romania during the 2018-2019 school year. After a brief analysis of the textbook and its lesson structure, we studied the…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Foreign Countries, Units of Study, Grade 6
Chiravate, Boonjeera – English Language Teaching, 2019
Although a number of interlanguage studies on apologies have been conducted, there has been no study of apologies among Thai EFL learners that differentiates between learners with high and low levels of exposure to the target language. This study, differentiating between learners with high and low levels of exposure to the target language,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Interlanguage
Wright, Catherine Z.; Dunsmuir, Sandra – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2019
This study explored whether being told stories by a teacher in school 4 days a week for 10 weeks would lead to improvements in 6- and 7-year-old children's oral language, written language, and self-perception. We also explored whether these improvements would be greater than those experienced by an active comparison group that was read the same…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Story Telling, Comparative Analysis, Metacognition
Layes, Smail; Lalonde, Robert; Rebai, Mohamed – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2019
We examined the effects of an adaptive phonological training program on the enhancement of 3 processing abilities--namely, phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming, and phonological short-term memory--as well as word and pseudoword reading in Arabic-speaking children with dyslexia. We compared an experimental group (n = 20; mean age =…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Semitic Languages, Reading Skills, Phonology
Kral, Tanja V. E.; Chittams, Jesse; Bradley, Chyrise B.; Daniels, Julie L.; DiGuiseppi, Carolyn G.; Johnson, Susan L.; Pandey, Juhi; Pinto-Martin, Jennifer A.; Rahai, Neloufar; Ramirez, AnnJosette; Schieve, Laura A.; Thompson, Aleda; Windham, Gayle; York, Whitney; Young, Lisa; Levy, Susan E. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
We examined associations between child body mass index at 2-5 years and maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index, gestational weight gain, and rapid weight gain during infancy in children with autism spectrum disorder, developmental delays, or population controls. The Study to Explore Early Development is a multi-site case-control study of children,…
Descriptors: Correlation, Child Development, Body Composition, Body Weight
Ahmed, Abdelhamid; Ibrahim, Ahmed Fathy – Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2019
Translation constitutes a problem for many students worldwide and Arab students in particular due to the ineffective approaches to the teaching of translation. The current study aimed at measuring the effect of a proposed blended learning programme on developing Egyptian secondary students' translation skills from English into Arabic; and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Blended Learning, Translation
