Project Tags: Educational Innovation

Improving Professional Communication Skills through an Online Tutorial

Recent workplace studies have shown that a typical professional in a scientific or technical field spends more than half of his/her time communicating technical information to a variety of audiences…

Understanding complex physiological problems in medical education

Humans have limited capacities in understanding complex problems with at least one variable developing over time. For instance, adult participants perform poorly in predicting exponential growth (e.g., Wagenaar & Sagaria,…

Advancing Arabic Language Learning in Qatar

All prior language research has shown that a negative attitude towards one’s mother tongue not only makes mastering the language difficult but also detrimentally affects the person’s self esteem. Across…

SLATE-Q: Scaffolding Literacy in Academic and Tertiary Environments: The Case of Communication in Information Systems

The proposed project seeks to improve the quality of student technical and professional communication at the postsecondary level through a literacy intervention study. In particular, this project focuses on the…

Assessing English Language Placement Tests for Use in Qatari Post-secondary Institutions

Learning4Teaching-Qatar: Examining Qatari teachers’ experiences of professional development in English language teaching

This proposed study will examine public-sector Qatari English language teachers’ experiences in, and reported use of, professional development (PD). As a national case study in the larger cross-national Learning4Teaching Project,…

Improving reading skills in the middle school science classroom

Reading in content areas such as science requires that students read and understand expository texts. Expository texts are characterized by dense factual information, multisyllabic technical vocabulary, complex and interconnected sentences,…

Undergraduate Discipline-Specific Writing: Expectations, Demands, & Development

This study examines the expectations and linguistic demands of discipline specific college writing, and the writing development of 87 students majoring in business administration, computer science, and information systems at…

Effects of Emotional Arousal on Mathematical Learning

Realistic “word” or “story” problems represent one of the most difficult areas of undergraduate mathematics learning (Bessant, 1995). The situation is unfortunate as story problems have the power to stimulate…