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Education Sciences, Volume 6, Issue 4

December 2016 - 10 articles

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Articles (10)

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,617 Views
19 Pages

Delphi Research Methodology Applied to Place-Based Watershed Education

  • Rosanna R. Vallor,
  • Kimberly A. Yates and
  • Michael Brody

16 December 2016

This research focuses on the results of the Flathead Watershed Delphi survey, a consensus-building methodology used to establish foundational knowledge, skills and dispositions for the Flathead Watershed Educators Guide, a place-based watershed curri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,902 Views
11 Pages

1 December 2016

Sustainable energy is one of the biggest global challenges today. This paper discusses how we can promote adolescents’ learning of sustainable energy with the help of an international massive open online course (MOOC). The aim of this case study is t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,008 Views
12 Pages

24 November 2016

In a context of the internationalisation of Higher Education (HE) driven by the high mobility of international Higher Degree Research candidates (HDRs), it is important to consider the value of HDRs’ multilingual capabilities for their learning and m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,055 Views
14 Pages

A Cross-National Study of Implicit Theories of a Creative Person

  • Manuel Hopp,
  • Marion Händel,
  • Heidrun Stoeger,
  • Wilma Vialle and
  • Albert Ziegler

23 November 2016

Implicit theories can influence learning behavior, the approaches individuals take to learning and performance situations, and the learning goals individuals set, as well as, indirectly, their accomplishments, intelligence, and creativity. For this c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
100 Citations
37,329 Views
12 Pages

12 November 2016

Faculty and assessment professionals rely on Bloom’s taxonomy to guide them when they write measurable student learning outcomes and describe their goals for developing students’ thinking skills. Over the past ten years, assessment offices and teachi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
12,513 Views
17 Pages

Fostering Creativity in the Classroom for High Ability Students: Context Does Matter

  • Liang See Tan,
  • Shu Shing Lee,
  • Letchmi Devi Ponnusamy,
  • Elizabeth Ruilin Koh and
  • Keith Chiu Kian Tan

9 November 2016

Researchers have argued for the importance of the classroom context in developing students’ creative potential. However, the emphasis on a performative learning culture in the classroom does not favour creativity. Thus, how creative potential can be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
23,007 Views
6 Pages

2 November 2016

Educational justice is a major global challenge. In most underdeveloped countries, many students do not have access to education and in most advanced democracies, school attainment and success are still, to a large extent, dependent on a student’s so...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,726 Views
22 Pages

19 October 2016

This case study explored the development of a rural cradle-to-career network with a dual focus on the initial mobilization of network members and subsequent adaptations made to maintain mobilization, while meeting local needs. Data sources included i...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
16 Citations
11,949 Views
8 Pages

26 September 2016

Whilst school principals and educational leaders are increasingly constrained by standardized assessment results and student achievement, persistent achievement gaps continue to separate poor and historically underserved students from their wealthier...

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