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Harrison, Jessica L. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Enhancing antiterrorism force protection (ATFP) training at off-installation sites to allow employees to survive a life threatening situation is a necessity after recent events at such military installations. However, little is known about how service members perceive their current ATFP training experiences and how those experiences impact their…
Descriptors: Military Personnel, Terrorism, National Security, Training
Cummings, Arturo M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Little research has been done regarding the role of spirituality from the perceptive of self-identifying African-American emerging adult learners and how it contributes to their academic persistence, even though isolation, lack of peer support, and identity issues can decrease motivation of self-identifying African-American students. This study…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Academic Persistence, African American Students, Adult Students
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Sanders-Bustle, Lynn; Lalik, Rosary – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2017
The purpose of this article is to explore the potential of artistic design to promote critical literacy among adult learners. Conducted by a university literacy educator and a university art educator, this qualitative study examined adults' divergent perspectives in the design of a mosaic at a center for the homeless. Participants included a…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Adult Learning, Art, Design
Higher Education Funding Council for England, 2016
The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) asked the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) and the Higher Education Academy (HEA) to undertake research to explore the current issues around academic teaching qualifications in the HESA Staff record and to offer recommendations to improve data quality and coverage in future…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Teacher Qualifications, College Faculty
Saunders, Carmen Teresa – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Professional development courses that focus on increasing knowledge and improving skill sets are an integral part of a medical imager's career. This study was a qualitative formative evaluation with purposeful sampling of participants in a professional development webinar course offered to medical imaging professionals in 35 Latin American and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Medical Education, Diagnostic Tests
Means, Vivian Fowler – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In an urban district, Surfside School personnel were concerned that student literacy proficiency levels were low during 2011-2014 and teachers had not been able to close the achievement gap despite a focus on literacy practices and literacy professional development (PD) provided by the district. The purpose of this case study was to explore the…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Districts, Literacy Education, Reading Skills
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Garrett, Lauretta – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2014
Examining the actions taken during a teaching experiment can provide insight into practices applicable to the use of mathematics technology to assist adult learners. A case study in the form of a teaching experiment was conducted with a small number of subjects to allow for detailed examination of the influence of technology on student thinking.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Thinking Skills
Garrett, Lauretta – Online Submission, 2014
Examining the actions taken during a teaching experiment can provide insight into practices applicable to the use of mathematics technology to assist adult learners. A case study in the form of a teaching experiment was conducted with a small number of subjects to allow for detailed examination of the influence of technology on student thinking.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Thinking Skills
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Carlock, Russell H., Jr. – Harvard Educational Review, 2016
Adult English as a second language (ESL) educators have struggled to move beyond skills-based instruction to implement more student-centered, contextualized pedagogy that prepares students to become active citizens and to solve real-world problems, even as the growing number of immigrants make adult education increasingly important for determining…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Action, Activism, Immigrants
Carr, Tracinal S. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This qualitative evaluation focused on the problem of student attrition at a northern California college, its attendance policy, the policy's impact on previous students' decisions to persist in school, and on administrators' attempts to increase retention. The purpose for this study was to evaluate the participants' perceptions about their…
Descriptors: College Attendance, School Policy, Educational Policy, Student Attrition
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Jackson, Suzanne F.; Kolla, Gillian – American Journal of Evaluation, 2012
In attempting to use a realistic evaluation approach to explore the role of Community Parents in early parenting programs in Toronto, a novel technique was developed to analyze the links between contexts (C), mechanisms (M) and outcomes (O) directly from experienced practitioner interviews. Rather than coding the interviews into themes in terms of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Semi Structured Interviews, Qualitative Research, Comparative Analysis
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Winters, Charlene A.; Cudney, Shirley; Sullivan, Therese – Qualitative Report, 2010
A major task involved in the management, analysis, and integration of qualitative data is the development of a coding schema to facilitate the analytic process. Described in this paper is the evolution of a coding schema that was used in the analysis of qualitative data generated from online forums of middle-aged women with chronic conditions who…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Data Analysis, Information Management, Difficulty Level
Wang, Feng-Kwei; Schwen, Thomas – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2003
In the context of Autoparts, a multinational manufacturer for automotive electronics, Lotus Notes was employed to create an e-learning system. This system was titled "Using Notes for Case-based Learning Environments" (UNCLE). The UNCLE project attempted to encapsulate knowledge and understanding of those organizational factors that might influence…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Computer Mediated Communication, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Corporate Education