The core purpose of this paper is to draw together research issues and concrete problems with the use of multimedia technology at the graduate level in higher music education by examining one university's responses to the challenges posed by the use of multimedia technology as a teaching and learning aid for music education. Between June and July 2006, this study conducted a simple questionnaire and interview survey of 16 postgraduate students. The results suggest that music students are...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Learning Motivation, Educational Technology,...
This case study explored asynchronous online discussions, assessment processes, and the meaning students derived from their experiences in five online graduate courses at the Colleges of Education of two Midwestern higher education institutions. The findings suggest that asynchronous online discussions facilitate a multidimensional process of assessment demonstrated in the aspects of structure, self-regulatory activities, learner autonomy, learning community and student writing skills. The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Writing Skills, Personal Autonomy, Schools of Education, Online Courses, Distance...
This paper focuses on discursive practices of postgraduate research as a crucial element in constructs of international student subjectivities when they undertake postgraduate studies in Australian universities. As such, it focuses on a discursive field emerging within domains of internationalisation, globalisation, and resistance. It examines processes and protocols in a number of Australian universities' postgraduate divisions' practices in the conduct of postgraduate supervision, in the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Models, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship, Foreign Students, Graduate Students,...
The purpose of the present article is to provide a case study of what is believed to have been the first master's degree in technology education (TE) to be offered completely online, and the online offering of a sister program in career and technical education (CTE). This case study looks at the impact this move to Internet delivery had on student enrollment and discusses the lessons learned in this process. This study shows that placing technology education and career and technical education...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Program Effectiveness, Graduate Study, Technology Education, Online Courses,...
The researchers explored the possible relationships between six specific influencing factors and the timing of a small group of graduate students' movement through their program, using a short researcher-designed qualitative survey administered once to students at three points in their programs: entrance, mid-point, and exit. While the experience of moving through graduate school does not appear to be well addressed in the research literature, this study points to the relevance of these...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Student Surveys, Longitudinal Studies, Influences,...
This study seeks to identify factors influencing East Asian international students' choices of Canadian graduate schools, to assess the strengths and dynamics of the factors influencing enrolment decisions, and to describe possible implications both for the Canadian government and for Canadian universities offering graduate education. The research sample comprised 140 students from China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan who enrolled in graduate programs at two large Ontario universities....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Universities, Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Foreign Students,...
Cohorts are commonly formed in Indigenous undergraduate and graduate education programs. In this article, I have examined the notion of coalition building in the context of First Nations graduate cohorts. I interviewed women from a range of cohort experiences, asking--Is intra-group and inter-group coalition building a priority within cohorts? From these interviews, I conclude that cohorts ought to be sites for intra-group coalition work among First Nations students, and that the cohort...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Graduate Study, Canada Natives, Indigenous Populations, Cooperation, Interviews,...
Syllabi from undergraduate and graduate courses offered at a small, private liberal arts college in central New York were examined to determine what percentage contained information that would make it easier for students with disabilities to access supports or accommodations to improve their success in the course. A total of 111 syllabi were examined for the presence or absence of information relevant to students with disabilities. Given that a significant percentage of the course syllabi...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Special Needs Students, Student Needs, Disabilities, Course Descriptions, Liberal...
The U.S. educational system invests heavily, in both time and money, in continuing education for teachers. In this article Heather Hill examines the effectiveness of two forms of teacher learning--graduate coursework and professional development. She focuses first on graduate education. Almost half of all teachers have a master's degree. Many states allow graduate coursework to count toward recertification requirements. Some districts require teachers to complete a master's degree within...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Salaries, Graduate Study, Continuing Education, Program Effectiveness, Faculty...
For a number of years, studies of places focused on their economic efficiency, though more recently, attention has shifted to questions about social justice with an emphasis on the experienced actualities of place. The places of children's everyday lives have limited their opportunities for nurturance, growth, and learning. In this article, the author maintains that making questions about "the place of children's everyday lives" more central in research with children and youth can...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Student Attitudes, Human Geography, Youth, Graduate Study, Graduate Students,...
Around the globe, people with HIV/AIDS are increasingly those who are most marginalized within their societies and with least access to health education and prevention efforts. Rising HIV infection rates within underserved populations demonstrate a vital need to critically reflect upon the nature and practice of HIV/AIDS education and prevention. Online learning is increasingly being used as a way of bridging gaps of space and time between health educators/ providers and training resources....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Education Courses, Health Education, Distance Education, Prevention, Online Courses,...
From summer programs in archaeology or Russian to teaching abroad for a year or more, there are many opportunities available for teachers. This article describes unique programs in archeology, geology, astronomy, botany, and oceanography that are available as summer programs; master's programs in languages, administration, writing, and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages; and overseas opportunities through the Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program, International Schools Service, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Summer Programs, Faculty Development, Graduate Study, Educational Opportunities,...
This study assessed current criteria and procedures used when hiring health education faculty. One hundred thirty two program heads/coordinators of health education programs listed in the "AAHE 2001 Directory of Institutions" completed a mailed 45-item survey on hiring criteria and procedures. Results indicated that 90% of programs had conducted a search since 1995 with 71% hiring a faculty member. Twenty nine percent were unable to complete their search due to lack of quality...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Health Education, Personnel Selection, Criteria, Teaching Experience, College...
In a multi-year study of a group of learners engaged in online graduate study, I explored the development of learners' sense of community using a variety of data-gathering instruments. An initial questionnaire established learners' pre-program perceptions of online learning and the notion of community; subsequent questionnaires, interviews, and a focus group monitored developments in learners' relationships with each other and in their sense of community. The longitudinal nature of this study...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Graduate Study, Student Attitudes, Focus Groups, Online Courses, Higher Education,...
Any professional act will lead to a significant change. How can one make students understand "managing change" as a consequence or as an intended objective? "DECISION IN CASCADE" -- is a Management Computational Game for the Education of University Master Students and Junior Executive -- simulates five economic functions: research and development, production, purchases and sales, personnel, finance and accounting of five to nine companies operating on a free market. The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Research and Development, Graduate Study, Computer Simulation, Learning Modules,...
Instructional immediacy is an established communication strategy that teachers can implement to create engaging learning environments. Yet, little is known about experiences distance education learners in graduate study programs have had with immediacy. This article presents findings from a qualitative research project designed to explore healthcare students' ideas about and activities related to instructional immediacy behaviors within a masters program offered exclusively through a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Constructivism (Learning), Communication Strategies, Graduate Study, Student...
Much has been written about the promise of online learning environments for higher education, and there is a rapidly growing body of research examining the nature of learning and interaction in such courses. This article presents a discourse analysis of an interactive, text-based, online, graduate education course, designed and taught according to constructivist principles. Qualitative analysis was used to describe the discourse devices and strategies that participants used in order to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Constructivism (Learning), Graduate Study, Education Courses, Distance Education,...
Finding solutions to complex health problems, such as obesity, violence, and climate change, will require radical changes in cross-disciplinary education, research, and practice. The fundamental determinants of health include many interrelated factors such as poverty, culture, education, environment, and government policies. However, traditional public health training has tended to focus more narrowly on diseases and risk factors, and has not adequately leveraged the rich contributions of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Interdisciplinary Approach, Research Methodology, Social Problems, Models, Graduate...
I explore in this essay an ethically grounded method for structuring a program of study. Rather than attempt to delimit a discipline or to reinforce disciplinarity, I suggest a means of creatively narrowing the scope of research, namely by focusing on inner necessity and conscience. The art of rhetoric as self-discipline is an extension of inner necessity and a framework in which scholars may come to integrate the more rational and more artistic, more public and more private elements of their...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Rhetoric, Interdisciplinary Approach, Research, Philosophy, Religious Factors,...
This essay on graduate music education is in response to an article by David Hebert on challenges and solutions in online music teacher education that appeared in the online journal, "Research and Issues in Music Education," 5(1). The author found the article stimulating because so little has been written on the topic of music teacher education at the graduate level. It appears that graduate music education in institutions of higher learning is locked into traditions that online...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Music Education, Music Teachers, Teacher Education, Graduate Study, Research, Online...
As educators we talk a great deal about theory to practice, and we hope our candidates will understand and make the connections needed in order to apply their theory to practice. Often though, we do not spend enough time helping our candidates discover what their own theory base is and thus that theory to practice (praxis) connection gets broken. One of the ongoing assignments for our graduate program in reading requires students to write and then revisit and rewrite their literacy philosophy....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Reading, Reading Programs, Grade 12, Teachers, Reading Instruction, Transformative...
This paper focuses on doctoral assessment as an area that has been relatively neglected in higher education research. It then describes and justifies a mixed-method approach to the study of PhD examination processes and outcomes in Australia. The design is reported of a study including candidate and candidature information for approximately 800 PhD students across all discipline areas at eight Australian universities, some examiner information, and the 2100 examiner reports on their theses....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Doctoral Programs, Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation, Multitrait Multimethod...
Historically, reform efforts to address poor student achievement have focused on a variety of issues other than teacher quality. Movements such as TQM (Total Quality Management), class size reduction (CSR), school leadership, parental involvement, and multicultural curriculum have not directly addressed the power or influence of the individual classroom teacher. However, research shows that individual teachers can profoundly impact the academic achievement of their students. Teacher educators,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Social Justice, Teacher Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Accountability, Academic...
The objective of this research was to compare the quality and quantity of teacher and student interaction in an on-line versus face-to-face learning environment. A Master's level course on nursing theories was taught by the same professor by both methods. Transcripts of the face-to-face class and on-line postings were analyzed to identify professor behaviors and also to rate the levels of student responses using the Gunawardena, Lowe and Anderson (1997) Analysis Model for Social Construction of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Graduate Study, Nursing Education, Student Behavior, Teacher Behavior, Instructional...
The purpose of our paper is to describe and compare educational models based on four major concepts that can be used to assess educational quality. We focus on graduate management programs since they are increasingly supporting their education offerings with state-of-the-art technology. We examine why some distance educational models are more appropriate than others. We first discuss the literature surrounding distance education with a focus on two major concepts--"dialogue and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Education, Distance Education, Educational Quality, Delivery Systems,...
This study examined the nature of power manifestations in a specific online learning setting. The two online classes selected for this study were Master's level courses in a professional school at a large state university in the United States. A total of 1340 postings were made in the two classes over the span of the semester. To test the research question, frequency analysis and the Mann-Whitney U test were conducted, using gender and race as the independent variables. The results of the study...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Race, Gender Differences, Distance Education, Online Courses, Graduate Study, Adult...
Over the last decade, teacher performance assessments (TPAs) have begun to find appeal in the context of teacher education programs and teacher licensing for their innovative ways of assessing teacher knowledge and skills but primarily for their potential to promote teacher learning and reflective teaching. Studies of preservice teachers who have completed a TPA, portfolio assessments in particular, have examined learning outcomes for teachers and have generally found positive effects on their...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Preservice Teacher Education, Credentials, Preservice Teachers, Performance Based...
The author describes an action research project given to masters-level preservice teachers in her educational psychology classes to help them connect the theories they are learning with educational problems they have observed or experienced. Students' responses on a six-item survey indicated that they valued the better understanding of how knowledge in educational psychology can serve as a foundation for solving problems in the classroom and the experience with the action research process that...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Preservice Teachers, Action Research, Educational Psychology, Research Methodology,...
This article describes an action-research project in which the author sought to enact her philosophy of democratic education. A brief discussion of this philosophy along with its pitfalls and promises is followed by details of the author's attempt to co-construct a graduate education course with her students. The article concludes with reflections on what the author would do differently in the future and why democratic and other models of education are so necessary in teacher education...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Graduate Study, Education Courses, Teacher Education Programs, Democracy, Action...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the development of the learning experiences of gifted young string players in Taiwan. Nine musicians under the age of 40, who had been accepted into music programs for the gifted, were invited to discuss their experiences and the development of their careers. Thorough interviews were conducted and then analyzed using a grounded theory approach. The findings of this study indicate that the training of the string players depended on 5 key elements:...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Grounded Theory, Music, Gifted, Musicians, Musical Instruments, Learning Processes,...
The aim of this research was to establish effective e-learning practice in higher education. This was achieved by looking at examples of different pedagogic techniques employed in several cases. The effectiveness of these techniques was established by looking at the students' outcomes on these courses. This study has adopted a sequential mixed methodology characterized by an initial phase of qualitative data collection and analysis, which was followed by a phase of quantitative data collection...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Data Collection, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Integration,...
This study investigated how agricultural education programs prepare teacher education students for work in diverse situations. It assessed the extent to which agricultural education programs are infusing diversity, multiculturalism, and pluralism into their curriculum as courses, field experiences, and in-service for current teachers. This census study included all universities with an agricultural education program as identified in the 2005 Directory of Agricultural Education on the American...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Student Teaching, Required Courses, Education Courses, Agricultural Education, Field...
This paper draws on 159 survey responses of fourth year Education students as they embark on a research project based in their internship school. The project explores predisposition to research and the level of preparedness to undertake a research project. The students who met most frequently with their supervisor and showed higher research self-efficacy were also most likely to want to undertake postgraduate study and reacted positively to good personal support and a feeling of belonging to a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Student Attitudes, Research Projects, Self Efficacy, Research Methodology, Research...
Recently, attempts have been made to use Weblogs and other personal webpublishing technologies to support individual and social reflection in higher education. Weblogs can be highly individual and reflective in nature, and students' experiences and perceptions of the technology and practice are of primary importance in furthering educational use. In this phenomenological study 8 participants who maintained Weblogs in a graduate course were interviewed. Initial data analysis indicates that...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Student Attitudes, Data Analysis, Electronic Publishing, Web Sites, Graduate...
The purpose of this study was to explore the dynamics of an online educational experience through the lens of the Community of Inquiry framework. Transcript analysis of online discussion postings and the Community of Inquiry survey were applied to understand the progression and integration of each of the Community of Inquiry presences. The results indicated significant change in teaching and social presence categories over time. Moreover, survey results yielded significant relationships among...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Computer Mediated Communication, Online Courses, Educational Experience, Transcripts...
Background: Universities have a vested interest in attracting and encouraging enrolment of as many high calibre students as possible. With greater frequency, universities are using marketing techniques to do so. Aims: The study reviewed current student opinions of a programme within a UK university to discover its shortcomings and strengths. Topics investigated were why the programme was selected by the participant pool, programme worth, impressions of modules, lecturers, and materials, how to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Student Needs, Student Attitudes, Opinions, Measures (Individuals), Computers,...
The psychopharmacology training experiences and attitudes of Canadian counsellors were the focus of our national Internet-based survey. This study was part of a larger investigation on Canadian counsellors' attitudes, practices, and training experiences related to clients on antidepressants. Results of the current study indicate Canadian counsellors vary considerably in type and amount of psychopharmacology training received. A majority of participants reported that they did not receive this...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Pharmacology, Counselor Training, Drug Therapy, Counselor Attitudes, Foreign...
There is an increasing impression among online geography educators that interaction can be developed based on specific teaching and learning methods. The authors developed a practical research study to investigate this issue. The study was based on advanced graduate courses in geography at Beijing Normal University and Texas State University. International interaction was complemented by online collaboration among the US local group. Both synchronous and asynchronous communication systems were...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Geography, Online Courses, Interaction, Computer Mediated Communication, Teaching...
Adult learners value the flexibility and convenience offered to them as online learners, and many learners are required to absent themselves from their online classes during courses in order to accommodate demanding schedules. What factors and tensions contribute to learners' decision-making at these times? This qualitative study considered the planned absences of learners engaged in an online graduate course at a large university. Working within the framework provided by cognitive,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Online Courses, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Metacognition, Attendance, Decision...
It is generally accepted that the undergraduate cumulative point average (UCPA) is associated with graduate performance of the same discipline. Less known, however, is how good the UCPA at predicting graduate performance in a different discipline. This paper discusses a study on the relationship between UCPA, undergraduate program of study, and graduate performance--operationalised as graduate CPA (GCPA)--in a Master in Technical and Vocational Education program (MTVE). Data were gathered on...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Records, Graduate Study, Regression (Statistics), Civil Engineering, College...
This article describes a metaphorical imaging activity used in World Educational Links (WEL), a graduate teacher certification program, to help future social justice educators explore their relationship with society and their sense of interconnectedness and empowerment to effect change. The author investigates possibilities inherent in the activity for helping to assess individual transformation, as future teachers come to view their mission in terms not of "just one child," not even...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Social Justice, Teacher Education, Teacher Attitudes, Social Change, Economic Change,...
Although many programs ascribe to promoting and celebrating diversity, traditional teacher preparation rarely centralizes multicultural education courses. Instead, these courses are often "added on" to or disconnected from the rest of the program. Multicultural education courses and other courses that address diversity often ask the preservice teachers enrolled to reflect critically on their own identities through the lenses of power and privilege. Given the peripheral positioning of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teachers, Education Courses, Multicultural Education, Course Content, Educational...
Student responses to a tertiary, flexibly delivered physics course are examined. The course was designed to provide secondary science teachers in rural regions of NSW, Australia, with a qualification appropriate to teach senior physics, and is a response to the lack of new physical science teachers currently being trained. Evaluations indicate that it has been highly successful overall, but also reveal something of how participants responded to different modes of delivery. Both students and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Physics, Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Graduate Study, Science Instruction,...
Behavior analyst teaching child development courses would do well to look into this book as the main text for the course. It represents the most comprehensive attempt to date to try and integrate the developmental literature with the study of basic mechanisms of learning. The book is written in a clear and concise manner that can be understood by the average undergraduate. It is also comprehensive enough to be enjoyed by graduate students. This review looks at the book in greater detail....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adolescent Development, Systems Approach, Child Development, Behavior Modification,...
This study seeks to determine whether item features are related to observed differences in item difficulty (DIF) between computer- and paper-based test delivery media. Examinees responded to 60 quantitative items similar to those found on the GRE general test in either a computer-based or paper-based medium. Thirty-eight percent of the items were flagged for cross-medium DIF, and "post hoc" content analyses were performed focusing on page formatting, mathematical notation, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Test Bias, Test Items, Educational Testing, Student Evaluation, College Entrance...
This report provides a two-part evaluation of the IntelliMetric[SM] automated essay scoring system based on its performance scoring essays from the Analytic Writing Assessment of the Graduate Management Admission Test[TM] (GMAT[TM]). The IntelliMetric system performance is first compared to that of individual human raters, a Bayesian system employing simple word counts, and a weighted probability model using more than 750 responses to each of six prompts. The second, larger evaluation compares...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests, Scoring, Essays, Automation, Essay Tests,...
In community-based research (CBR), faculty, students, and community partners collaborate on research projects. This emerging pedagogy presents numerous challenges to instructors teaching CBR courses, including: finding a disciplinary connection, building CBR into the curriculum, ensuring student readiness, and structuring the CBR experience (Strand, Marullo, Cutforth, Stoecker, & Donohue, 2003). In this article, these challenges are addressed by the instructor of a new CBR course for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Graduate Students, Community Involvement, Research Projects, Student Projects,...
This article describes the practical application of social learning theory to build and sustain community in an asynchronous online learning environment. It presents ways that community-building can occur in a graduate online education program through the shared meaning-making processes occurring among students within and across interdisciplinary online courses as communities of practice emerge. Three professors share their experiences and strategies for developing, teaching, reflecting, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Learning Theories, Graduate Study, Socialization, Computer Mediated Communication,...
Several forms of blended learning at Pace University offer flexible options for learners, and its growth reflects its appeal to traditional and corporate learners.
Topics: ERIC Archive, Online Courses, Blended Learning, Distance Education, Electronic Learning,...
The purpose of this qualitative study was to demonstrate and evaluate the incorporation of teambuilding training into a graduate course on transition. A total of 33 students in two different sections of the course participated in six exercises focusing on group development and teambuilding and a group simulation. Students provided input about their perceptions of the teambuilding exercises and their own teambuilding skills in the form of journals and questionnaires. The group simulation was...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Evaluation, Teamwork, Graduate Study, Graduate Students, Higher Education,...