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Showing 1 to 20 of 339 for “"education research"”.
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"Concept" and "Context": Toward modelling understanding in Physics Education research
"Context sensitivity" is a core issue in physics education research (PER). Why does student understanding of a concept depend so crucially on the context in which it is embedded? This dissertation attempts to answer this question by using a variety of theoretical tools to model understanding. We …
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Practices of Brokering: Between STS and Feminist Engineering Education Research
… gender theory-informed articles in engineering education journals. It analyzes the processes of writing and revising three articles submitted to three different journals, aiming to shed light on the field of engineering education, gender research therein, and contribute to feminist science …
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Data mining techniques in higher education research : The example of student retention.
… has much to offer within the context of higher education. However, there is little evidence that these well established techniques have previously been applied to the sphere of higher education. Student retention is a hot issue in higher education at the moment. It is for this reason that the …
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Discipline-Based Planetary Education Research and Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis of Mars
… which were developed and tested for astronomy education. Results from the tests indicated that there were statistically significant learning gains (p-value < 0.05) after students interacted with the tours compared to those who did not. The development of the tours inspired a geophysics study of …
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Fictive Text: A Narrative Source for Communicating Experience in Higher Education Research
It examines the evolution of the qualitative research paradigm in order to provide a theoretical framework for locating the new narrative forms in social science writing. Additionally, several key devices which influence current qualitative inquiry are also considered: ethnographic text, the …
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The value of using education research to enhance the curriculum in legal education
… how my work has had an impact on legal education at Liverpool John Moores University, and further impact on the external higher education landscape. It demonstrates how extrinsic evidence and action research methods were used to develop aspects of the curriculum and overall academic …
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Information Behaviors in Higher Education Research Administration: Support for Collaborative Proposal Development Activities
… development runs wide, the body of empirical research regarding this topic is narrow, especially concerning information behaviors surrounding the process. This study responds to this need as an empirical examination of a user-based method for improving our understanding of proposal development …
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Gender Equity in Physics Education: Framing the Future of Physics Education Research in Canada
… is to determine if and how the field of physics education research (PER) in Canada is addressing issues of gender inequity in physics education, and to develop an expert knowledge-based framework to guide Canada’s ongoing PER to increase gender equity in physics education. Three separate but …
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Reporting Methods and Analyses in Higher Education Research: Hierarchical Linear and OLS Regression Models
… examined the reporting practices used by higher education scholars to communicate the methods and analyses of studies using hierarchical linear and OLS regression models. The study consisted of three parts: (a) a citation analysis of sources associated with methods of hierarchical linear models, …
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Global citizenship education: Research and implications for practical application in the primary and secondary setting
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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Identifying academic subcultures within higher education research: an examination of scholars' careers through author cocitation
… begun to ask these questions of the scientific research community. They have been interested in identifying the social and intellectual connections which bring together scholars and their ideas, forming subcultures within academic disciplines. The present study, which follows this line of …
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The impact of National Science Foundation investments in undergraduate engineering education research: A comparative, mixed methods study
… U.S. invests billions of taxpayers' dollars in research tied to the national priorities that contribute to its competitiveness in a global economy. As the federal funding agency with an explicit focus on engineering education, the National Science Foundation (NSF) contains a portfolio of …
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Building `capacity' for education research among scholars of the global South: Learning from the case of an international research collaboration in Tanzania
… production vis-à-vis a case study of one research collaboration between scholars based in Tanzania and the United States. The Teaching in Action Research Project involved nine faculty based in Tanzania in an applied, multi-sited team ethnography that examined aspects of pedagogical …
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How can live projects stimulate progress in education, research, and practice? The establishment of live project / designbuild / community design education as a global and rigorous field of activity and inquiry
… presents 16 publications on live project education and examines their methodologies, findings and contribution to knowledge within the context of an emerging global field of live project / designbuild / community design education. The publications are discussed in relation to each other in …
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Scholarly Collaboration In Engineering Education: From Big-Data Scientometrics To User-Centered Software Design
<p>Engineering education research has grown into a flourishing community with an-ever increasing number of publications and scholars. However, recent studies show that a significant amount of engineering education knowledge retains a clear disciplinary orientation. If the gaps in scholarly …
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First year students' understanding of measurements in physics laboratory work
Recent collaborative work by the physics education research group at the University of Cape Town (South Africa) and the science education research group at the University of York (United Kingdom) has produced a suite of research instruments which may be used to probe the procedural understanding of …
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The effects of computer-based training with multiple theoretical perspectives on the analysis of cases of reading errors
… of academic programs. In the case of teacher education, research provides evidence for the demands for flexibility in teaching and for the importance of promoting flexibility during pre-service education. Current research suggests that flexibility can be developed by allowing learners to …
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Child refugee rights in Cape Town: the right to access education
… stipulates the right of all children to access education without discrimination. This research project used a rights based approach to education research to identify some of the factors that promote or hinder child refugee access to education. I used qualitative case study methodology to collect …
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'Towards meaningful learning: A theory for improved assessment in higher education
… aims to explore how student learning in higher education may be improved. It builds upon research which links perception of assessment tasks to approaches to learning. The thesis therefore investigates how messages about assessment are conveyed by staff and how students' interpret them. In doing …
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