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Colby Gull; Leslie Rush – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
New teachers benefit from mentoring from more experienced colleagues, and the Wyoming Teacher Mentor Corps (WTMC) provides high-quality training for master teachers to provide this mentoring support. As part of the program, mentors learn about assessment, communication, feedback, and work-life balance. Colby Gull and Leslie Rush describe how, as…
Descriptors: Mentors, Beginning Teachers, Faculty Mobility, Prevention
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Angelina V. Leary; Robert D. Dvorak; Emily K. Burr; Ardhys N. De Leon; Samantha J. Klaver; Gabrielle Lynch; Ethan Toth; Michelle J. Diaz; Sebastian Martin – Journal of Drug Education, 2024
College students are at a heightened risk of experiencing depression and anxiety symptomatology and engaging in maladaptive alcohol use. Understanding how alcohol interventions impact emotional functioning is essential. One such intervention uses Deviance Regulation Theory (DRT), which posits that behavior can be modified using targeted messaging…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Drinking, Intervention, Depression (Psychology)
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Duckworth, April; Shaffer, Jamie – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2022
The purpose of this article is to recognize the importance of mentoring in higher education and to identify useful strategies to ensure effective mentorship. The authors demonstrate and apply evidence-based approaches and strategies for effective mentorship in both online and in-person classroom settings. A discussion of four major strategies…
Descriptors: Mentors, College Students, Best Practices, Program Effectiveness
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Record, Rachael A.; Lash, Brittany N. – Journal of General Education, 2021
Although skills learned in general education courses are seen as vital by faculty and employers, students often fail to understand their benefits. The "Think Beyond the Major" communication campaign was developed to increase undergraduate perceptions about the value of general education courses. Campaign effectiveness was evaluated in a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, General Education, Curriculum
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Lin-Stephens, Serene; Manuguerra, Maurizio; Tsai, Pei-Jung; Athanasou, James A. – Education & Training, 2022
Purpose: Stories of employability are told in employment and educational settings, notably the selection interviews. A popular training approach guiding higher education students to construct employability stories has been the past-behaviour storytelling method. However, insufficient research exists regarding the method's effectiveness and…
Descriptors: Employment Interviews, Story Telling, Imagery, Personal Narratives
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J. A. Bunn; Y. Feito – International Journal of Kinesiology in Higher Education, 2024
Agile, Lean, and Scrum (collectively referred to as Agile) are frameworks that help teams collaborate more effectively and transparently on complex projects. Originally developed in business and information technology, these methods have since been adapted for use in a variety of disciplines. Agile is based on iterative and incremental…
Descriptors: Student Research, Student Projects, College Students, Group Activities
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Towner, Emil B. – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2019
This study examines the effectiveness of images on warning signs that communicate risk and risk avoidance in public spaces. Specifically, I compared data from 749 survey responses to determine whether the use of images can increase the effectiveness of a warning sign in a public space. Although the findings indicate that image-based warning signs…
Descriptors: Signs, Pictorial Stimuli, Risk, Safety
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Khateeb, Linda Ahmad; Shdaifat, Sameer Aowad Kassab; Shdaifa, Nidal A. K. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2021
The present study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of communication techniques in distance education programs. It aimed to explore the impact of such effectiveness on the student's learning outcomes at Jordanian universities. The researchers adopted a descriptive analytical approach. They developed a questionnaire based on the relevant…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, Distance Education, Outcomes of Education, Foreign Countries
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Tang, Chun M.; Bradshaw, Adrian – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2020
Working on team projects is a common feature in higher education as a way to foster team learning and collaboration. For a team to work well towards achieving project objectives, it is important that there is effective team communication. Conventionally, face-to-face interactions allow students to interact with each other in multiple communication…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Computer Mediated Communication, Teamwork, College Students
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Nanath, Krishnadas; Ajit Kumar, Shivani – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: This paper aims to test the effectiveness of communication platforms in conveying the importance of sustainability messages focusing on electronic waste (e-waste) recycling. While corporate communication has been explored well, this research explores the influence of communication medium on the shift in attitude and behavioural intention…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, Reading Materials, Video Technology, Recycling
Niu, Emily – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This action research project focused on teacher retention in Adult Education programs. The study was centered on new teachers in Adult Education, as defined as having less than three years of experience teaching in the field of Adult Education. The study concentrated on growing new teachers' senses of belonging, self-efficacy, and new teachers'…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Teacher Persistence, Beginning Teachers, Group Membership
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Young, Karin J.; Lashley, Sarah; Murray, Sarah – Journal of Chemical Education, 2019
Creating instructional activities and assessments that align with expected learning outcomes can improve student learning. Communicating learning expectations to students may lead to better student performance and an increase in student perceptions of the fairness of the assessment tools. One tool for communicating learning outcomes is the…
Descriptors: Inorganic Chemistry, Science Instruction, Student Attitudes, Science Achievement
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Ooms, Joëlle A.; Jansen, Carel J. M.; Hoeks, John C. J. – Health Education Journal, 2020
Objectives: This study compared the effects of two types of health warnings on cigarette packages: 'narrative visual warnings', showing an image portraying people plus a corresponding slogan that could evoke a story-like interpretation, and 'non-narrative visual warnings' with non-narrative content (i.e. body parts). Moreover, the mechanisms…
Descriptors: Smoking, Health Promotion, Merchandise Information, Human Body
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Smith, Tyler E.; Sheridan, Susan M. – Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation, 2019
When families are engaged in their education, children's academic, behavioral, and social-emotional development is indirectly supported. Many teacher-training programs (TTPs) focused on preparing teachers to communicate and work with families have been developed, although inconsistencies regarding their effectiveness exist. The current…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Family School Relationship, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Teacher Attitudes
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McGloin, Rory; Coletti, Amanda – Communication Center Journal, 2019
Effective presentation skills never go out of style, however, the channel by which we deliver presentations has been rapidly changing over the past two decades. Technological developments have made it easier to bring audiences together in virtual spaces and as a result, more and more presentations are taking place every day through digital…
Descriptors: Public Speaking, Communication Skills, Computer Mediated Communication, Telecommunications
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