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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Kiener, Michael; Green, Peter; Ahuna, Kelly – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2014
A goal of higher education is to advance learning. This study examined the role "comfortability" plays in that process. Defined as the level of comfort students experience with their classmates, instructor, and course material, comfortability addresses how secure a student feels in the classroom. Comfortability was assessed multiple…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, Undergraduate Students, Predictor Variables, Learning Processes
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Kiener, Michael – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2009
The research discussed within is one example of how to move from scholarly teaching to the scholarship of teaching and learning. This transition began with a desire to better understand the teaching and learning process and evolved into the development of an empirically-based emerging theory called Mutual Engagement (ME). Mutual Engagement…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Scholarship, Teaching Methods, Theories
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Kiener, Michael – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2008
Under the principles of the scholarship of teaching and learning and action research this study sought to examine how an instructor created and facilitated engagement in his students. The research was primarily undertaken to further define the middle range theory of mutual engagement. Theoretical sampling was used to analyze approximately 100…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Personality Traits, Student Evaluation, Student Attitudes