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Ashlee Lynn McManamey – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Graduation rates and standardized test scores are common indicators to measure student academic achievement. These indicators have revealed a gap between two socioeconomic cohorts of students in kindergarten through 12th grade. Students attending high-poverty schools have lower academic performance than students attending low-poverty schools. As a…
Descriptors: Poverty, Comparative Analysis, Leadership Styles, Transformational Leadership
Yablon, Yaacov B.; Iluz, Shira; Hershkowitz, Shulamit – British Journal of Religious Education, 2022
School rabbi-teachers are responsible for both the religious education and the daily classroom routines of their pupils. There are many conflicts that arise from the tension between these dual roles and although rabbi-teachers face such conflicts in school daily, they are not adequately trained to deal with them. The aim of the present study was…
Descriptors: Clergy, Judaism, Conflict, Conflict Resolution
Diane Yendol-Hoppey; Eva Garin – School-University Partnerships, 2023
Purpose: The study aims to present a logic map linking the Professional Development School (PDS) Nine Essentials as a PDS theory of action and offer an analysis of dissertations that compare outcomes of learning in PDS and non-PDS contexts. Design/methodology/approach: For this current study, the authors identified 25 of the 210 dissertations from…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, Outcomes of Education
Ho, Maxwell Chun Sing; Lee, Daphnee Hui Lin – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2020
A standardised financial literacy curriculum ensures that all students in a school system receive financial knowledge, which offers them the necessary support to make informed decisions about money management and practise appropriate financial behaviour. In Hong Kong, all secondary schools supposed to teach financial literacy via a standardised…
Descriptors: Money Management, Curriculum Development, Teaching Methods, Standards
Hinde, Kylie; Mason, Jonathan; Kannis-Dymand, Lee; Millear, Prudence; Sultana, Razia – Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2021
Introduction: Intellectual disability (ID) and co-morbid mental health problems are more common in developing countries such as Bangladesh. However, little is known about how Bangladeshi health practitioners diagnose mental health disorders in people with an ID. Studies in developed countries have explored the impact of the diagnostic…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Mental Disorders, Comorbidity, Clinical Diagnosis
Michael, Nancy A.; Libarkin, Julie C. – Bioscene: Journal of College Biology Teaching, 2016
Unless sought out by the individual, University and College faculty typically receive minimal, if any, pedagogical training as part of their career development. This perspectives essay first introduces pedagogical training for instructors in higher education by comparing it to the training required for primary and secondary school educators. Using…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, Mentors, Methods
Gumus, Emine; Bellibas, Mehmet Sukru – Educational Studies, 2016
The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to which professional development predicts principals' instructional leadership in order to identify whether a relationship exists between the duration of principals' participation in distinct professional development activities and their perceived practice of instructional leadership while…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Instructional Leadership, Surveys, Academic Achievement
Yoon, Susan A.; Yom, Jessica Koehler; Yang, Zhitong; Liu, Lei – Teachers College Record, 2017
Background: Recent research investigating the conditions under which science teachers can successfully implement science education reforms suggests that focusing only on professional development to improve content knowledge and teaching skills--often referred to as human capital--may not be enough. Increasingly, possessing social capital, defined…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Science Education
Baudson, Tanja Gabriele; Preckel, Franzis – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2016
Stereotyping of gifted students may not only hinder identification and actualization of potential but also personality development ("stigma of giftedness"). This is obvious in the case of negative stereotyping (e.g., the disharmony hypothesis, which sees gifted students as intellectually strong, but emotionally and socially inferior),…
Descriptors: Gifted, Academically Gifted, Stereotypes, Teacher Attitudes
de Velasco, Jorge Ruiz; Gonzales, Daisy – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2017
California's alternative education options for youth vulnerable to dropping out of school have been established at different historical points and for different student age and target populations. For purposes of this brief, "alternative school" is defined as belonging to one of six legislatively authorized types of public (non-charter)…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Accountability, Comparative Analysis, Alignment (Education)
Yin, Yue; Olson, Judith; Olson, Melfried; Solvin, Hannah; Brandon, Paul R. – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2015
This study compared two versions of professional development (PD) designed for teachers using formative assessment (FA) in mathematics classrooms that were networked with Texas Instruments Navigator (NAV) technology. Thirty-two middle school mathematics teachers were randomly assigned to one of the two groups: FA-then-NAV group and FA-and-NAV…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Professional Development
Kite, Toby G. – ProQuest LLC, 2015
After the passing of the Individuals with Disabilities Act of 2004, many schools began to use a Response to Intervention (RtI) model instead of the discrepancy model when identifying students with specific learning disabilities (National Center on Response to Intervention, 2011). When elementary schools adopted the RtI model, it was shown to be…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Academic Achievement, Response to Intervention, Disabilities
Yslas, Tracy M. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Principals need to be leaders who set and communicate a vision for learning, understand organization development, know how to effect change, are able to help teachers grow in their craft, and can interpret and utilize data for school improvement. The literature has shown disconnect between principal preparation and actual practices needed for the…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Education, Administrator Qualifications, Alignment (Education)
Joyce, Hilary D. – Children & Schools, 2015
Strong connections to school and positive student-teacher relationships offer numerous social, emotional, and academic benefits for youths. Unfortunately, sexual minority youths (SMY) are at risk for disparate school connectedness and student-teacher relationship experiences compared with their peers. Using the National Longitudinal Study of…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Teacher Student Relationship, At Risk Students, Sexual Orientation
Sinelnikov, Oleg A.; Kim, Insook; Ward, Phillip; Curtner-Smith, Mathew; Li, Weidong – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2016
Background: Lack of content knowledge (CK) is problematic in teaching in classroom subject areas and in physical education. There is a dearth of data-based research on interventions aimed at helping teachers acquire CK and, in turn, on the effects of CK on student learning. Aim: To investigate the effect of professional development, in the form of…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Academic Achievement, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Physical Education