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Haba-Osca, Julia; Ambros, Alba; Osca-Lluch, Julia – Online Submission, 2018
Children's literature has raised the interest of different disciplines and has strongly emerged not only in society but also in school and university curricula. This paper aims to analyse production in children's literature and determine the discipline's scientific activity published in international scientific journals indexed in the Web of…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Journal Articles, Scientific Research, Teaching Methods
Feldman, Bernard J. – Online Submission, 2012
It has been almost 10 years since one of the greatest frauds in the history of physics was uncovered, namely, the case of Hendrik Schon. This case provides a wonderful opportunity to discuss scientific integrity and scientific misconduct with both undergraduate and graduate science students. This article explains the scientific data at the heart…
Descriptors: Physics, Scientific Research, Writing for Publication, Deception
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Dakhi, Saniago; Hutabarat, Horas – Online Submission, 2018
The linguistic feature distinction between written and spoken discourse, like scientific writing, narrative text, discussion text, oral speech, etc. has been a longstanding discussion among scholars. However, there is limited number of studies on Indonesian undergraduate thesis context. This article reports the language effectiveness, i.e. lexical…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Grammar, Foreign Countries, Scientific Research
Bueno, David Cababaro – Online Submission, 2020
Innovation and the development of knowledge in the field of scientific research is increasing exponentially, but it continues to be disjointed. It makes it difficult to keep up with state-of-the-art and to be at the forefront of research and dissemination, as well as to evaluate empirical evidence in the area of academic excellence. Recent…
Descriptors: Prevention, Plagiarism, Search Engines, Research Methodology
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Bada, Erdogan; Ulum, Ömer Gökhan – Online Submission, 2018
By its nature, AW [academic writing] represents adversity compared to other types of writing. It owns the characteristics of more notable patterns and language usage compared to other writing styles such as literary works, news, etc. Without discriminating the language used, this kind of writing generally bears similarities across languages due to…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Content Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Topolovcan, Tomislav – Online Submission, 2016
This paper provides a critical analysis of art-based research in education, that is, in constructivist learning and teaching. It presents the methodological features and advantages of art-based research in terms of the axiological, ontological and epistemological features of the constructivist, participatory and critical scientific paradigm, and…
Descriptors: Art Education, Constructivism (Learning), Teaching Methods, Epistemology
Mikk, Jaan – Online Submission, 2006
The value of research and the career of a university lecturer depend heavily on the success in publishing scientific papers. This article reviews the guidelines for writing and submitting research papers. The three most important success criteria in publishing are as follows: the paper describes a good research, it is written according to the…
Descriptors: Writing for Publication, Publish or Perish Issue, Peer Evaluation, Faculty Publishing
Master, Peter – Online Submission, 1993
The determiners in English include three categories: predeterminers, central determiners, and postdeterminers. The focus of the present study is the central determiners because they comprise the largest group and because a minimum of one central determiner is required in the generation of any noun phrase. Furthermore, the central determiners have…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Discourse Communities, Nouns, Academic Discourse
Grinnell, Frederick; Dalley, Simon; Shepherd, Karen; Reisch, Joan – Online Submission, 2018
The goal of our research is to identify strengths and weaknesses of high school level science fair and improvements that might enhance learning outcomes based on empirical assessment of student experiences. We use the web-based data collection program REDCap to implement anonymous and voluntary surveys about science fair experiences with two…
Descriptors: High School Students, Secondary School Science, Science Fairs, Student Attitudes
Elliott, Shannon Snyder – Online Submission, 2007
The purpose of this study is to first develop an 8-week college teaching module based on root competition literature. The split-root technique is adapted for the teaching laboratory, and the Sugar Ann English pea (Pisum sativum var. Sugar Ann English) is selected as the species of interest prior to designing experiments, either original or…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Laboratory Experiments, Competition, Constructivism (Learning)
Holder, K. C. – Online Submission, 2004
This study represents an attempt at determining if a construct, rather than an instructional method, is supported by scientifically-based research. The purpose of this study was to examine the credibility of evidence-based claims underlying the literature related to Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) (Shulman, 1986). Using a hybrid…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Teaching Methods, Journal Articles, Evaluation Criteria
Burton, Clark A. – Online Submission, 2005
The purpose of this article was to explain the constructs of doctrine and doctorate to the fire service. The methodology applied the Carnegie Foundation review of the doctorate as the basics for explaining what stewards of the fire service discipline will do with a doctoral degree. Although the fire service is an interdisciplinary occupation, the…
Descriptors: Fire Science Education, Doctoral Degrees, Doctoral Programs, Fire Protection
Stephens, Lauren M.; Dieppa, Melissa; LeBlanc, Patrice – Online Submission, 2006
The purpose of this paper is to provide information about the social difficulties of students with Autism. A review of Erikson's Theory supports why developing social skills is important. No Child Left Behind evidence-based practices are suggested to assist these students. A literature review was conducted on these topics using key words to…
Descriptors: Individual Development, Federal Legislation, Behavioral Science Research, Metacognition