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Direct linkHansen, Sarah Elizabeth Wilson – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Direct assessment competency-based education (CBE) is an online, self-directed learning innovation that is disrupting higher education. This study examined the development and early diffusion of direct assessment CBE at a private, nonprofit university. The purpose of this case study was to investigate the presence of organizational factors and the…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Educational Innovation, Case Studies, Higher Education
Peer reviewedWilson, Sue – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2013
Engaging successfully in the modern technological society requires a command of mathematics. Hence, successfully engaging with mathematics has social, economic and political implications. There has been a history over a long period of time of significant numbers of people not forming productive relationships with learning mathematics. Failure in…
Descriptors: Mathematics Anxiety, Rural Areas, Preservice Teachers, Investigations
González-Espada, Wilson J.; Carrasquillo, Rose E. – Physics Teacher, 2017
It was a pleasant surprise to see Gary White's call for papers on race and physics teaching. We definitely think that the physics teaching and learning of students from diverse and minority backgrounds is an important issue to discuss, especially given the fact that bias and discrimination are common experiences in the lives of many Latinx,…
Descriptors: Race, Ethnicity, Culture, Physics
Download full textJolls, Tessa; Wilson, Carolyn – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2014
"New media" does not change the essence of what media literacy is, nor does it affect its ongoing importance in society. Len Masterman, a UK-based professor, published his ground-breaking books in the 1980's and laid the foundation for media literacy to be taught to elementary and secondary students in a systematic way that is…
Descriptors: Fundamental Concepts, Media Literacy, Educational Trends, Educational History
Wilson, John Silvers, II – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This research study sought to identify perceived barriers in online career and technical alternative certification and specialty area certification in the state of Alabama. The study was further conducted to determine why alternatively certified career and technical education teachers choose to leave the teaching profession entirely. Frequencies,…
Descriptors: Barriers, Alternative Teacher Certification, Vocational Education Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
Peltz, David P., Ed.; Clemons, Anthony C., Ed. – IGI Global, 2019
As individuals progress through each stage of life, they continue to learn and grow intellectually. However, what may be a conducive learning environment for a child may not be as effective for an adult, creating a need to understand how to aid adults in being successful learners in their later life. "Multicultural Andragogy for…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Cultural Pluralism, Andragogy, Adult Learning
Choi, In-Hee; Wilson, Mark – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2015
An essential feature of the linear logistic test model (LLTM) is that item difficulties are explained using item design properties. By taking advantage of this explanatory aspect of the LLTM, in a mixture extension of the LLTM, the meaning of latent classes is specified by how item properties affect item difficulties within each class. To improve…
Descriptors: Classification, Test Items, Difficulty Level, Statistical Analysis
Yezbick, Erin Lewis – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The researcher attempted to determine if a correlation exists between student/instructor rapport, student perceptions of instructor effectiveness, and course grade expectations for freshman general education courses at a career college in the Great Lakes Region of the United States. Previous studies have determined that rapport affects motivation…
Descriptors: Correlation, Teacher Student Relationship, Student Attitudes, Teacher Effectiveness
Wilson, Sue – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2012
Pre-service primary (elementary) teachers' mathematics anxiety affects their engagement with and future teaching of mathematics. The study measured the range of mathematics anxiety in 219 pre-service teachers starting a teacher education course in an Australian university. They responded to the Revised Mathematics Anxiety Scale (RMARS) and a set…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Anxiety, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Teachers
Tanaka, Michele – in education, 2015
Educators often wonder how to respond purposefully to vexing issues such as ecological sustainability, social justice and holistic health and wellness. The search for useful ways of proceeding can be addressed through engagement in the process of Transformative Inquiry (TI), a mode of inquiry for educators that resonates with indigenous views and…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Transformative Learning, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge
Mason, David; Ingham, Barry; Birtles, Heather; Michael, Cos; Scarlett, Clare; James, Ian A.; Brown, Toni; Woodbury-Smith, Marc; Wilson, Colin; Finch, Tracy; Parr, Jeremy R. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
Autism spectrum condition is associated with co-occurring physical health conditions and premature mortality. Autistic people experience multiple barriers to accessing healthcare. This study investigated autistic people's experiences of healthcare and professionals' experiences of providing healthcare to autistic people. Focus groups with 11…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Access to Health Care, Allied Health Personnel
Mackay, Jessica; Nixon, Gillian M.; Lafferty, Antony R.; Ambler, Geoff; Kapur, Nitin; Bergman, Philip B.; Schofield, Cara; Seton, Chris; Tai, Andrew; Tham, Elaine; Vora, Komal; Crock, Patricia; Verge, Charles; Musthaffa, Yassmin; Blecher, Greg; Caudri, Daan; Leonard, Helen; Jacoby, Peter; Wilson, Andrew; Choong, Catherine S.; Downs, Jenny – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a rare genetic disorder characterised by neurodevelopmental delays, hyperphagia, difficulties with social communication and challenging behaviours. Individuals require intensive supervision from caregivers which may negatively affect caregiver quality of life. This study used data collected in the Australasian PWS…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Genetic Disorders, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities
Wong, Wilson – ProQuest LLC, 2013
User resistance has been identified as a factor in information systems implementation failures in the health care industry. RFID, radio frequency identification, is being incorporated into new health care information systems in order to effect cost reductions by tracking, identifying and monitoring individuals and medical items. This is the first…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Information Systems, Health Services, Resistance (Psychology)
Wilson, Nina; Dashiell, Shelbie; McMaster, Nicole; Bohland, Cindy; Schmale, David G., III – Science Teacher, 2018
Approximately 1 billion metric tons of food are lost each year due to mycotoxins (FAO 2013), secondary metabolites produced by fungi (Marin et al. 2013) that contaminate crops (Placinta, D'Mello, and MacDonald 1999) and threaten the health of domestic animals and humans (Sobrova et al. 2010). The fungus "Fusarium graminearum" produces…
Descriptors: Food, Interdisciplinary Approach, Secondary School Students, Agriculture
Chen, Yea-Wen – Communication Education, 2019
Critical scholarship has been at the forefront of critiquing a sustained pattern of ignoring race and related historically marginalized identities while privileging Eurocentric/white/male epistemologies in communication and instruction scholarship (e.g., Fassett & Rudick, 2018; Fassett & Warren, 2007; Hendrix, Jackson, & Warren, 2003;…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Minority Group Students, Institutional Characteristics, Hispanic American Students
