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Quick, Robin L. – College Quarterly, 2013
This study is an exploratory study of faculty members' knowledge and perceptions toward of with academically vulnerable college students who are specifically experiencing reading and writing difficulties. Data were gathered from 174 college faculty at six higher education institutions throughout northwestern Pennsylvania via an online electronic…
Descriptors: College Students, College Faculty, Teacher Surveys, Online Surveys
Mason-Dorman, Cheryl – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The School District of Philadelphia (SDP), established in 1818, is the eighth largest school district in the United States, with a student enrollment of 184,560 K-12 students. Like most of the other large urban school districts in the United States, its student population consists of more minority students than non-minority students. As the white…
Descriptors: School District Size, School Districts, Academic Achievement, Elementary School Teachers
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Domitrovich, Celene E.; Gest, Scott D.; Gill, Sukhdeep; Jones, Damon; DeRousie, Rebecca Sanford – Early Education and Development, 2009
Research Findings: This study examined factors associated with process and content outcomes of the training provided in the context of Head Start REDI (Research based Developmentally Informed), a preschool curriculum designed to enhance the quality of interactions (social-emotional and language-literacy) between teachers and children. REDI…
Descriptors: Preschool Curriculum, Program Effectiveness, Professional Development, Performance Factors
Greytak, Emily A. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (1974) requires that states receiving U.S. federal funds directed at child abuse implement mandated reporting laws. As a result, all states have adopted legislation requiring teachers and other professionals who deal with children to report suspicions of child abuse. The federal mandate for such…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Structural Equation Models, Self Efficacy
Bobbitt, Erica M. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The passage of Public Law 94-142 (the Education of All Handicapped Children Act) in 1975 established the rights of children with disabilities to a public school education in the least restrictive environment. Fifteen years later, it was amended and renamed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) (PL 101-476, 1990), still intended to…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Factor Analysis, State Standards, Competence
Drost, Carolyn J.; Abbott, Judy – 2000
This paper reports on the findings of a two-part study undertaken to determine how teacher education programs prepare preservice teachers to use technology in their instruction and to determine the influence of the decade of initial teaching degree on a teacher's willingness to use technology. The teacher education faculty from four institutions…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Higher Education, Predictor Variables