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Navigating the Academy and Beyond: An Examination of Major and Career Self-Efficacy of Latin* First-Generation College Students
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Serina Ody-Bravo – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study explores how Latin* first-generation college students develop major and career self-efficacy. This study employs a qualitative case study approach and utilizes data collected during the first phase of the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education's Pullias Center for Higher Education Promoting At-Promise Student…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Hispanic American Students, Majors (Students), Self Efficacy
Educating Orchestral Musicians
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Calissendorff, Maria; Hannesson, Haukur F. – British Journal of Music Education, 2017
This article examines research on the specific training of musicians before they begin work as players in professional orchestras. Most of the research is in the area of education. The present article suggests that little research exists that is specific to the development of a traditional orchestra musician from an early age through the music…
Descriptors: Music Education, Musicians, Classical Music, Student Development
Rediscovering the Art of Developmental Therapy: An Interview with Mary M. Wood
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Teagarden, James M.; Kaff, Marilyn S.; Zabel, Robert H. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2013
Dr. Mary Margaret Wood is best known for developing psychoeducational programs that integrate mental health and special education interventions for children with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD). Developmental Therapy (DT) includes comprehensive assessment of student behavior, communication, social, and cognitive development,…
Descriptors: Interviews, Teaching Methods, Student Development, Student Evaluation
CASE's ESEA Reauthorization Recommendations
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Council of Administrators of Special Education (NJ1), 2011
This paper presents the recommendations by the Council of Administrators of Special Education, Inc. (CASE) for the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). CASE is a non-profit professional organization which provides leadership and support to approximately 5,000 members by influencing policies and practices to improve…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Disabilities, Accountability
Professional Learning between Past Experience and Future Work
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Weber, Kirsten – Frontiers of Education in China, 2010
This paper deals with the professionalization of human service work. It analyses learning processes and identity development in the emerging profession of child care with concrete examples from empirical research, based on a life history approach. It discusses examples of careers mainly based on students' life experience, pointing out that their…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Biographies, Child Care, Self Concept
Meaningful Measurement: The Role of Assessments in Improving High School Education in the Twenty-First Century
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Pinkus, Lyndsay M., Ed. – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2009
In the chapters presented in this volume, leading experts describe some of the assessment challenges in greater detail and provide federal recommendations on how to address them. In "College and Work Readiness as a Goal of High Schools: The Role of Standards, Assessments, and Accountability," John Tanner of the Center for Innovative Measures at…
Descriptors: High Schools, Secondary Education, Educational Improvement, Educational Assessment