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Sripai, Sunan; Wanawan, Ketkanok – Educational Research and Reviews, 2018
This research aimed to analyze the Latent Group Profile, hereafter (LPA) of good teacher characteristics' in the 21st century in the Northeastern region of Thailand. The samples were 4 groups, viz; 10 expert teachers for interviewing on the draft of the variable to develop the indicators; 12 teachers who won Guru Awards from Teachers Council for…
Descriptors: Profiles, Teacher Characteristics, Classification, Interviews
Gray, Colleen – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Several children in grades K-5 are attending after-school programs for various reasons, such as academic support, social interaction, and behavioral support. The problem investigated is that short-term success has been stated and researched, but the long-term academic effectiveness of after-school programs for students in urban educational…
Descriptors: African American Students, Parent Attitudes, After School Programs, School Districts
Bulut, Berker; Ertem, Ihsan Seyit – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
The purpose of this research is describing and comparing the listening-comprehension strategies used by the students who are identified as successful and less successful about listening. In the research, the case study pattern was used among the qualitative research approaches. In the study, different situations of each student within the same…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Protocol Analysis, Elementary School Students, Case Studies
Meletiou-Mavrotheris, Maria; Paparistodemou, Efi – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2015
The expanding use of data in modern society for prediction and decision-making makes it a priority for mathematics instruction to help students build sound foundations of inferential reasoning at a young age. This study contributes to the emerging research literature on the early development of informal inferential reasoning through the conduct of…
Descriptors: Inferences, Mathematical Logic, Elementary School Students, Comprehension
Baltaci, Serdal – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Technology, 2016
It is a widely known fact that gifted students have different skills compared to their peers. However, to what extent gifted students use mathematical thinking skills during probability problem solving process emerges as a significant question. Thence, the main aim of the present study is to examine 8th grade gifted students' probability…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Gifted, Thinking Skills, Mathematics Skills
Warwick, Katherine A. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This qualitative phenomenological study was an investigation of the individual and collective experiences of a group of teachers in one rural elementary school. The study served to discover how one group of teachers interpreted and defined professionalism in education. Stratified purposeful sampling was utilized to select the 12 participants. Two…
Descriptors: Professionalism, Teacher Attitudes, Reflection, Phenomenology
Wang'ang'a, Annrose Wanjiku; Wamocho, Franciscah Irangi; Kioy, Paul – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2015
The purpose of this study was to investigate the instructional constraints facing learners with muscular dystrophy in Joy Town special primary school, Thika, Kenya. Descriptive design was used for this study. The target population were all the 20 learners suffering from muscular dystrophy from S.A Joy Town Special Primary School. The total target…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grounded Theory, Qualitative Research, Sampling
Ryan, James; Tuters, Stephanie – Journal of Educational Administration, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe a study that explores the discreet activist strategies of educational leaders who promote social justice. Design/methodology/approach: Part of a larger project, this study employed qualitative methods. In particular, researchers interviewed 26 leaders--principals, vice principals, department heads,…
Descriptors: Activism, Social Justice, Instructional Leadership, Qualitative Research
Kocyigit, Sezai – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2014
Starting primary education is one of the most important changes that children encounter in early childhood. Moreover, especially within the last twenty years, as an outcome of the idea that children are active learners, listening to children's ideas about their learning, lives, and experiences has gained importance. In this sense, this study is…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Qualitative Research, Kindergarten, Foreign Countries
Evans-Palmer, Teri E.; Shen, Mei-Yi – Africa Education Review, 2017
This study examined a five-year project initiated by the Women's Global Connection (WGC) to train pre-primary teachers in schools serving HIV/AIDS orphans in Zambia. The researchers evaluated the contextual factors of the training initiative to clarify why some teachers possess high self-efficacy, while others do not. The article analyses the…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Program Descriptions
Tourangeau, Karen; Nord, Christine; Lê, Thanh; Wallner-Allen, Kathleen; Hagedorn, Mary C.; Leggitt, John; Najarian, Michelle – National Center for Education Statistics, 2015
This manual provides guidance and documentation for users of the longitudinal kindergarten-first grade (K-1) data file of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 2010-11 (ECLS-K:2011). It mainly provides information specific to the first-grade rounds of data collection. Data for the ECLS-K:2011 are released in both a…
Descriptors: Children, Surveys, Longitudinal Studies, Kindergarten
Oyier, Charles Richard; Odundo, Paul Amollo; Obat, Rispa Atieno; Lilian, Ganira Khavugwi; Akondo, Joseph Ochieng – World Journal of Education, 2015
Kenyan government launched Free Primary Education (FPE) in 2003 to make schooling affordable to all parents, but less attention has been paid to the quality assurance and equity of the education system. Studies have indicated that the FPE policy sacrificed the quality of education and this led to parents avoiding FPE offered in primary schools and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Quality, Parent Attitudes, School Choice
Nyeris, Raymond; Koross, Benjamin Towett – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The introduction of Free Primary Education (FPE) policy in 2003 was aimed at enhancing the enrolment of all school going-age children in Kenya indiscriminately. However, significant concerns have been raised by scholars and the public over the low enrolment of children with Special Needs Education (SNE). The main objective of this study was to…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Sampling, Foreign Countries, Special Needs Students
Tarman, Bulent; Kuran, Burcin – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2015
It can be argued that very important changes have been made to textbooks which were rearranged according to the theory of constructivism during the 2004-2005 academic year. The aim of this change was to enable students to acquire high-order cognitive skills. In this study, by using Bloom taxonomy, the pre-reading and reflection (assessment)…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Textbooks, Foreign Countries, Constructivism (Learning)
Gyansah, Samuel Tieku; Soku, Rejoice; Esilfie, Gabriel – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This research was conducted purposely to examine child delinquency on pupils' academic performance. Fumesua Municipal Assembly (M/A) primary school was used as the case study for the research. The specific objectives of the study are to find out the factors that contribute to child delinquent behavior, identify, if delinquent behavior influence…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Academic Achievement, Sampling, Interviews