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Mecoli, Noelle A.; Gumbs, Nikkia; Ward, Vicki; Willcox, Abby; Haynes, Cliff – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
This study examines staff development practices in community college student affairs. Nineteen interviews were conducted with supervisors in a variety of departments at community colleges. We found that supervisors frequently used multiple practices such as conducting staff meetings, attending institutional training, or viewing topical webinars…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Student Personnel Workers, Staff Development, Teaching Methods
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Lori A. Mumpower; Chad Rohrbacher; Joshua Caulkins; Jenna Korentsides – To Improve the Academy, 2024
Researchers seek to measure the extent to which faculty increased their student-centered practices in response to COVID-19 by analyzing course syllabi across three semesters. Faculty were randomly selected from two campuses of a STEM-focused institution (n = 110), each of whom had taught the same course during Fall 2019, Fall 2020, and Fall 2022.…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change, Course Descriptions
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Gondra, Ager – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
The Interface Hypothesis proposes that the pragmatic-discursive interface with syntax is more vulnerable to crosslinguistic influence than the syntactic-semantic interface [Tsimpli, Ianthi, and Antonella Sorace. 2006. "Differentiating Interfaces: L2 Performance in Syntax- Semantics and Syntax-Discourse Phenomena." In Proceedings of the…
Descriptors: Verbs, Spanish, Linguistic Theory, Task Analysis
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Oberg, Madeline Grace; Andenoro, Anthony C. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2019
The overwhelming rise of leadership learning programs and experiences within higher education merits the exploration and identification of best practices, reduction of limiting educational methodologies, and strategies for promoting efficient and effective leadership education has never been greater. This study explores the barriers inherent to…
Descriptors: Student Leadership, Undergraduate Students, Barriers, Teacher Attitudes
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Haberlin, Steven; O'Grady, Patty – Gifted Education International, 2018
In this pilot study, 24 gifted, elementary students in second to fifth grade enrolled in a large, diverse, urban public school were introduced to 10 mindfulness-based techniques that the students practiced in school. The students practiced the techniques for 10 weeks once per week for 30 minutes in the school's media center under the guidance of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Academically Gifted, Urban Schools, Public Schools
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North, Leslie; van Beynen, Philip – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2016
Despite the abundance of karst terrains and a universal lack of knowledge about the role they play in supplying freshwater resources, informal environmental education through guided show cave tours is poorly understood. This study evaluated techniques for educating cave guides on how to disseminate information about human-karst interactions to…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Informal Education, Teaching Methods, Information Dissemination
Reneski, John – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this quasi-experimental, non-equivalent control-group design study was to examine and measure the impact of the opportunity to receive synchronous weekly instructor content on online students' sense of community, social connectedness, and perceived learning. The population for this study consisted of first-year undergraduate…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Teaching Methods, Online Courses, Educational Technology
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Barakat, Maysaa; Reames, Ellen; Kensler, Lisa A. W. – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2019
The demographic profile of the United States has been rapidly changing; by 2020, minority students will constitute the majority of the public school student population nationwide. This makes cultural competence a necessity for today's school leaders. Educational leadership preparation programs are responsible for preparing culturally competent…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Student Diversity, Public Schools, Cultural Awareness
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Wilke, Dina J.; King, Erin; Ashmore, Margaret; Stanley, Craig – Journal of Social Work Education, 2016
This study compared the development of clinical assessment and intervention skills between students enrolled in a face-to-face (F2F) or an asynchronous online clinical social work class. All students from three semesters of F2F (n = 74) and online (n = 78) sections of an MSW clinical class taught by the same instructor were included. Two…
Descriptors: Social Work, Counselor Training, Online Courses, Role Playing
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Wilcox, Matthew; Yang, Yuehai; Chini, Jacquelyn J. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2016
Teaching assistants (TAs) that lead reformed recitations and labs must understand and buy into the design of the course and the research-based instructional strategies that the course requires in order to create high-fidelity implementations. We present a model that outlines possible influences on TAs' buy-in and their in-class actions coupled…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Science Instruction, Active Learning, Influences
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Macgowan, Mark J.; Wong, Stephen E. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2017
Objective: This is a replication of a study that examined the effects of teaching foundation competencies in group work to social work students and assessed their self-confidence in applying these skills. This study improves on the first by utilizing a controlled design. Method: Twenty-six master of social work students were taught group work…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Social Work, Introductory Courses
Crowe, Meagan – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2019
This report examines how technology and automation are changing the job market -- and what states can do to prepare adults for the new workplace. It analyzes shifts from low- to middle-skills jobs, details current education levels, and offers recommendations for retooling adult education programs.
Descriptors: Information Technology, Automation, Labor Market, Job Skills
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Brown, Victoria; Lewis, David; Toussaint, Mario – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2016
The multimedia elements of text and audio need to be carefully integrated together to maximize the impact of those elements for learning in a multimedia environment. Redundancy information presented through audio and visual channels can inhibit learning for individuals diagnosed with ADHD, who may experience challenges in the processing of…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Teaching Methods, Multimedia Instruction
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Wharton, Tracy; Burg, Mary Ann – Journal of Social Work Education, 2017
Social work has moved firmly into a need for partnership training models, as our newest Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards explicitly call for interprofessional education (IPE). Although IPE is not a new model, we have not been consistently involved in training partnerships. Three professional schools formed partnerships to provide IPE…
Descriptors: Social Work, Mixed Methods Research, Attitude Change, Student Attitudes
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Hipolito-Delgado, Carlos P.; Cook, Jennifer M.; Avrus, Elaine M.; Bonham, Erica J. – Counselor Education and Supervision, 2011
The Multicultural Action Project (MAP) is a cultural immersion project that requires counseling students to engage with diverse cultural communities on 3 levels: observation, information seeking, and action. To ascertain if participating in MAP improved the multicultural competence of graduate counseling students, the authors conducted an…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Information Seeking, Multicultural Education, Competency Based Education
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