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O'Gorman, Eva; Salmon, Nancy; Murphy, Carol-Anne – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2016
Early school leaving is an international concern. Previous research indicates that the school context contributes to early school leaving. This systematic review is aimed to gather marginalised young peoples' perceptions concerning contextual factors that contributed to and interfered with their decisions to stay in alternative education.…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Academic Persistence, Literature Reviews, Disadvantaged
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Calatrava Moreno, María del Carmen; Danowitz, Mary Ann – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2016
The aim of this study was to identify how and why doctoral students do interdisciplinary research. A mixed-methods approach utilising bibliometric analysis of the publications of 195 students identified those who had published interdisciplinary research. This objective measurement of the interdisciplinarity, applying the Rao-Stirling index to Web…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Scientists, Student Experience, Computer Science Education
Yocum, Russell G.; Densmore-James, Susan; Staal, Laura A.; Pinkie, Elyse C.; Yocum, Dana A. E. – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2016
This research replicated a previous mixed-methods exploratory study of spirituality and spiritual development (Yocum, 2014). 339 participants at two southeastern United States universities were administered a Likert-scale survey to collect data to explore the correlations between the existing components of the proposed spiritual development…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Religious Factors, Spiritual Development, Student Needs
Radi, Odette Bourjaili – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2015
The content of this paper will focus on both language and computer practices and how school age students develop their literacy skills in the two domains of "language" and "computers." The term literacy is a broad concept that has attracted many interpretations over the years. Some of the concepts raised by the literature apply…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Technology Integration, Student Attitudes
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Simsek, Meliha R.; Dündar, Esin – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2017
The transformation of coursebook publishing into an industrial giant has brought about variety, choice, and difficulty of decision making. As coursebook selection profoundly influences the quality of foreign language instruction in Turkey, it is essential to investigate what kind of instruments are used, which method is followed, what criteria are…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Trend Analysis