Designing Learning for Sustainable Development: Digital Practices as Boundary Crossers and Predictors of Sustainable Lifestyles (open access)

Designing Learning for Sustainable Development: Digital Practices as Boundary Crossers and Predictors of Sustainable Lifestyles

This article contains results from a survey among students of urban and spatial planning in Slovenia to inform teacher's approaches to teaching as an important driver of institutional change.
Date: June 15, 2018
Creator: Starcic, Andreja Istenic; Terlevic, Maja; Lin, Lin & Lebenicnik, Maja
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship between Administrative Intensity and Student Retention and Success: A Three-Year Study (open access)

The Relationship between Administrative Intensity and Student Retention and Success: A Three-Year Study

This article describes a secondary data analysis study linking the internal organizational elements of administrative intensity to institutional results as evidenced by higher education student retention and graduation rates.
Date: September 22, 2018
Creator: Romine, Kerry; Baker, Rose M. & Romine, Karla A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Examining Scientific Literacy through New Media (open access)

Examining Scientific Literacy through New Media

Article evaluates the impact of new media on scientific literacy. Content analysis with a coding scheme was performed on 42 filtered websites and 20 microblogs to analyze the role of new media in disseminating scientific knowledge. The results showed that the quality of science-oriented websites was higher than that of microblogs. Suggestions about how to improve the quality of science-oriented new media and how to develop students’ scientific literacy through new media are also discussed.
Date: July 10, 2019
Creator: Gu, Xiaoqing; Wang, Chunli & Lin, Lin
System: The UNT Digital Library