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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Student beliefs"”.
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Online Machine Translation Use by International University Students: A Study of Student Beliefs and Behaviors
… such as Google Translate by international students studying at a major university in the southeastern United States. These students were a part of a support program dedicated to international students enrolled in full content courses at the university with lower English language, university …
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Communication organizational orientations in an instructional setting
… ambivalence, and indifference applied to students in the instructional setting. The McCroskey, Richmond, Johnson, and Smith (2004) Organizational Orientation Measure was adapted to a classroom setting to measure student orientations, and then the relationships between student orientations …
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An Ethnographic Study of Pre-Graduate, Precepted Nursing Student Clinical Placements in Long-Term Care Homes
… (LTC) home recruitment challenges and nursing student disinterest in such clinical placements and careers, underscore this study’s urgent need. This qualitative focused ethnography explored preceptor, faculty advisor, and pre-graduate student beliefs, values, and practices contributing to …
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How Faculty and Student Preferences for Active and Traditional Instructional Methods Relate to their Beliefs, Quantity, and Quality of Experiences, Knowledge of the Benefits, and Professional Training
<p>Purpose</p> <p>The complexity of preparing students for clinical practice and the mitigating factors that influence pedagogical preferences impact the current realities of health professional education. The purpose of this quantitative, correlational study is to explain the relationships between …
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Dealing with Death: Medical Students' Experiences with Patient Loss
Current research on medical students' death experiences is either outdated or produces conflicting results. This research aims to address these issues by analyzing in-depth interviews in order to explore how medical students view and cope view death. The sample consists of twenty third and fourth …
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Student Voices on High School Mathematics Teaching And Learning: College Student Voices on Teacher Behaviors and Actions Impacting High School Mathematics Achievement
… Center for Educational statistics, 2014). Student beliefs about mathematics learning are an important factor in determining the student's math achievement (Woodward, 2004). This qualitative dissertation explores college student perceptions of effective mathematics teaching and learning at …
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Student perception of behavior management systems
<p>The following qualitative study focuses on how students perceive classroom behavior management systems. The process of research consisted of observation of students in their natural classroom setting, the completion of the Student Beliefs of Discipline Inventory Survey by the students, and …
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Critical Components of Suicide Prevention Programs for Colleges and Universities: A Delphi Study
<p>Despite debate over whether or not college student suicide rates are greater or less than similar age groups not enrolled in higher education, the rates of college students experiencing suicide ideation, attempting suicide, and successfully committing suicide are indeed rising. A steady increase …
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An exploration of the beliefs, values, and attitudes of black students in Fairfax County
This study was an investigation of the beliefs, values, and attitudes of black students which guide their behavior. The cultural factors investigated included: student occupational and educational aspirations; student academic strategies; and people and.forces impacting upon student beliefs. The …
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The Relationship between Second-Wave Feminist Philosophy and Interpretation of Biblical Gender Roles by Entering Seminary Students
… of biblical gender roles by entering seminary students in select theological schools accredited by the Association of Theological Schools and the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The study also considered the influence of select demographics (gender, …
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Student Perceptions Of Mathematical Mindset Influences
… level (e.g., 11th grade) public high school students enrolled in a college-prep mathematics course perceived as influencing the development of their mindset associated with mathematics. Current research defines mindset as the set of attitudes and beliefs held by an individual (Dweck, 2008b) …
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The Influence of Relational Knowledge on the Transition out of Secondary School: An Investigation of How Social Capital and Social Goals Affect Educational Pathways
… though not tied to an understanding of how students and their families navigate the educational system. Research has focused on the point of transition and neglected the process of arriving there. In particular the roles of certain preparatory activities in which students engage and for …
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Personal Epistemological Growth in a College Chemistry Laboratory Environment
… nature of this study was to explore changes in beliefs and lay a foundation for focusing on more specific features of reasoning related to personal epistemological and NOS beliefs in light of specific science laboratory instructional pedagogical practices (e.g., pre- and post- laboratory …
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Inquiry-based instruction: The role of mindset for students with mathematics difficulties
… (IBI) is well documented, however its use with students with mathematics difficulties (MD) has been limited, since it is often thought such methods are unsuitable for low attaining students. However, this belief is not entirely evidence based, and little research has explored how students with …
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An exploration of different outlooks on science: towards an understanding of the under-representation of girls, and of Maori and Pacific Island students, in science
… understand why girls, Maori and Pacific Island students, are under-represented in the sciences. Two distinctive, but complementary, perspectives were developed; one qualitative, the other quantitative, to provide data from which an understanding of the problem was sought. The qualitative …
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Three essays on education decisions in Colombia
… linked to administrative records, we analyze student beliefs and evaluate the intervention. Findings show that most students overestimate true college premiums and are generally unaware of funding options. The talk does not affect earning beliefs but improves knowledge of financing programs, …
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An analysis of the relationship of fraternity membership with members' measured spiritual, religious, and charitable variables
… variables. Data from the 2004-2007 ""College Students' Beliefs and Values"" (CSBV) longitudinal survey instrument from the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) were used to carry out the study. Propensity score matching (PSM) was …
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Making Sense of Educational Change: A longitudinal mixed-methods exploration of how students and teachers come to understand and enact school reform in Brazil
… individuals deploy unique constellations of beliefs and understandings to decide how to act in the face of reform. My research therefore endeavors to uncover insights into the reform sensemaking process by tracing changes in *three core constructs*—schooling *beliefs*, reform …
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Early Childhood (K-5) Preservice Teachers' Beliefs about Mathematics, Teaching Mathematics, and Learning Mathematics
… teacher educators have agreed that teachers' beliefs about mathematics are contributing factors in their instructional practices, that preservice teachers' views of teaching and learning mathematics are influenced by their beliefs about mathematics, and that the process of becoming a teacher …