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Zarestky, Jill; Bigler, Michelle – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2021
Given their responsibilities and influence on future students, preservice mathematics teachers' preparation is critically important. This research's purpose was to explore reflective journaling for preservice teachers in advanced undergraduate mathematics courses. To accomplish this purpose, 39 preservice teachers enrolled in upper-level…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Reflection, Journal Writing
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Hardy, John G.; Sdepanian, Stephanie; Stowell, Alison F.; Aljohani, Amal D.; Allen, Michael J.; Anwar, Ayaz; Barton, Dik; Baum, John V.; Bird, David; Blaney, Adam; Brewster, Liz; Cheneler, David; Efremova, Olga; Entwistle, Michael; Esfahani, Reza N.; Firlak, Melike; Foito, Alex; Forciniti, Leandro; Geissler, Sydney A.; Guo, Feng; Hathout, Rania M.; Jiang, Richard; Kevin, Punarja; Leese, David; Low, Wan Li; Mayes, Sarah; Mozafari, Masoud; Murphy, Samuel T.; Nguyen, Hieu; Ntola, Chifundo N. M.; Okafo, George; Partington, Adam; Prescott, Thomas A. K.; Price, Stephen P.; Soliman, Sherif; Sutar, Papri; Townsend, David; Trotter, Patrick; Wright, Karen L. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
For some professionally, vocationally, or technically oriented careers, curricula delivered in higher education establishments may focus on teaching material related to a single discipline. By contrast, multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary teaching(MITT) results in improved affective and cognitive learning and critical…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach, Higher Education
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Ling, Yizhou; Chen, Pengwen; Wang, Jingying; Chen, Kai; Ren, Hongyan – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
In this study, an innovative scientific modeling course on concentration cells is designed: First, the demonstrations revealed examples of three different concentration cells. Then, scientific models visualizing the process and principle of cell reactions at the level of microparticulates were introduced to students. Finally, three new…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Models, Cytology, Science Curriculum
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Vuojärvi, Hanna; Purtilo-Nieminen, Sirpa; Rasi, Päivi; Rivinen, Susanna – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2021
This phenomenographic study represents part of an ongoing design-based research initiative to inform the design of a new course on older people's media literacy in the adult-education teacher-education context. The aim was to describe the conceptions of teachers-in-training regarding media literacy education for older people. The data consist of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Teacher Education, Older Adults, Media Literacy
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Swan, Kathy; Grant, S. G.; Lee, John; Danner, Andrew; Cartner, Christy; Stringer, Grant – Social Education, 2021
This article examines three examples of inquiry-based curricular loops, each of which focuses on a particular social studies concept. The article begins with a civics teacher (Andrew Danner) who uses a series of structured inquiries highlighting the concept of power as it relates to the three branches of government and the role of citizens in a…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Social Studies, Civics, Teaching Methods
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Lorimer Leonard, Rebecca; Gear, Caroline; Sánchez, Lenny – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2021
This case study describes the dynamics of a literacy curriculum that was collaboratively designed at a community language school. The curriculum teaches participants how to get a driver's license in Massachusetts, focusing on the English language literacies necessary for passing the written and road tests. This case study describes the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Literacy Education, Community Schools, English (Second Language)
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Park, Eun Jeong – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2021
This paper addresses the conceptions of needs analysis and mixed-methods research, and the affordances and challenges of mixed methods needs analysis in implementing ESP courses. Language researchers and educators maintain that a lack of identifying students' needs hampers the development and improvement of English language education in ESP. ESP…
Descriptors: Affordances, Needs Assessment, Mixed Methods Research, Curriculum Development
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Charara, Jeanane; Miller, Emily Adah; Krajcik, Joseph – Journal of Leadership, Equity, and Research, 2021
Decades of research support integrating play in kindergarten to benefit young students' social, emotional, and cognitive development. As academic readiness becomes a focus, time for play has decreased. As a result, there has been a demand for integration of play with content. This study modifies a project-based science curriculum about how living…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Play, Kindergarten, Young Children
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Trinter, Christine P.; Hughes, Hilary E. – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2021
This exploratory, embedded single study examined the experiences of middle grades teacher design teams over 10 months as they were immersed in the development of interdisciplinary curriculum units using a backward design framework. The teachers were supported by a researcher-practitioner partnership and situated in a middle level school structure…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Curriculum Design, Educational Objectives, Faculty Development
Wood, Susan – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2021
If assessment is about improving learning and facilitating better teaching through research and helping students learn what higher education purports to value, then the often-invisible institutional barriers that do not always embrace the ways in which classroom assessment can teach an institution about student learning within individual…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Basic Writing, College Students, Writing Attitudes
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King Thorius, Kathleen A. – Advances in Special Education, 2021
In this chapter, I expand on ideas about assessment originally put forward by Federico Waitoller and I in recent articles about a curriculum design that cross-pollinates elements of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy (CSP) and Universal Design for Learning (UDL). The purpose of our original work was to address the intersection of racism and ableism in…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Alternative Assessment, Curriculum Design, Culturally Relevant Education
Sugat Dabholkar – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation is about designing learning environments that foreground students' epistemic agency as they "do science" in a science classroom. I build on the prior work that combines two important strands in learning sciences - agent-based modeling of complex systems and constructionism to design learning environments. I call such…
Descriptors: Science Education, Curriculum Design, Educational Environment, Active Learning
Nancy C. Wheat – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Careful consideration of the design of an online laboratory course can lead to an improved laboratory experience for students (Cancilla & Albon, 2008). This dissertation study represents one iteration in a process to improve the online offering of a general biology lecture and laboratory course at Hartnell College. The purpose of this research…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Online Courses, Curriculum Design, Biology
Brooke Hoffman – ProQuest LLC, 2021
As online education opportunities continue to grow, college readiness begins to rely more and more on technology literacy. Skeptics question the validity of online education and insist that technology has created more of a barrier for students. This opinion took center stage during the COVID-19 pandemic that started in spring 2020. Many higher…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Critical Thinking, COVID-19, Pandemics
Sharron Bates – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The problem addressed by this study was the commonly held belief that lack of confidence, preparedness, educational neuromyths, and little or no professional development are factors that impede early childhood teachers' implementation of brain-based learning strategies in the daily curriculum design structure. This qualitative narrative inquiry…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Self Esteem, Readiness, Faculty Development
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