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Pamela Roberts; Shirley V. Scott; Jacquelyn Cranney; Therese M. Cumming; Elizabeth Angstmann; Marina Nehme; Karin Watson – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2024
This paper proposes four principles for managers and higher education educators who are designing units and programmes so as to be dual mode ready. `Dual mode' design and delivery enables students to equitably complete their studies fully online, while also offering on-campus experiences where possible. The four principles are: (1) All learning…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Higher Education, College Students, Stress Variables
Miles Davison; Ayesha Hashim; Jazmin Isaacs; Susan Kowalski; Karyn Lewis; Sofia Postell; S. Michael Gaddis – NWEA, 2024
School districts have historically operated summer programs to give students extra learning and enrichment opportunities to promote positive academic and behavioral outcomes. Despite the potential benefits and policymakers' endorsement of summer programming, recent research suggests that summer programs have a limited impact on post-pandemic…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Summer Programs, Program Implementation, Literacy Education
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Capello, Sarah; Gyimah-Concepcion, Mellissa; Billimack, Victoria Vandover – Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 2021
Purpose: This paper describes how an embedded dissertation program design feature supported two cohorts of EdD dissertators and helped them make consistent progress toward and eventually complete their dissertation milestones during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, we detail the work, challenges, and results of EdD students' efforts toward…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Program Design, COVID-19, Pandemics
Wiley, K.; Neisler, J.; Means, B. – Digital Promise, 2023
This report describes a 15-month collaboration between three Every Learner Everywhere partner organizations (Achieving the Dream, the American Association of Public and Land-grant Universities [APLU], and Digital Promise) and five colleges, all engaged in a research-practice partnership (RPP) around enhancing equity and digital learning in gateway…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Theory Practice Relationship, Electronic Learning, Program Design
National Center on Education and the Economy, 2025
National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE) studies education systems with strong student performance across the globe to understand what they do, how they do it, and the context and challenges that they face. This brief shares what has been learned about how global leaders think about high school and how they organize time in school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Time Management, High Schools, Secondary Education
McCombs, Jennifer; Augustine, Catherine – EdResearch for Recovery Project, 2021
This brief is one in a series aimed at providing K-12 education decision-makers and advocates with an evidence base to ground discussions about how to best serve students during and following the novel coronavirus pandemic. It begins with an at-a-glance view of an effective voluntary academic summer learning program structure (duration, class…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Summer Programs, Program Design, Program Length
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Carr-Hill, Roy – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2018
It has often been lamented that girls are more likely not to attend or to drop-out (for example, because of gender preference by the parents, insecurity, pregnancy, amongst many other postulated factors) or that their achievement even if they stay in school is worse than boys. For the former, UNESCO introduced the Gender Parity Index (GPI), which…
Descriptors: Females, Academic Achievement, Grade Point Average, Gender Differences
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Balu, Rekha; Ehrlich, Stacy B. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2018
Accumulating evidence indicates that student attendance is closely tied to a range of educational outcomes, and yet millions of students are chronically absent each year. Under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), schools are now held accountable for their students' attendance at a scale this country has never before seen. As such, this is a…
Descriptors: Incentives, Models, Design, Attendance
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Burge-Hall, Valerie; Garrison, Latoya; Giles-Brown, Leigh; Lepore, Dan; McNall, Melanie; Pauly, Christine; Quinn, Andrew; Vaughn Jordan, Lisa – Inquiry, 2019
The Virginia Community College System (VCCS) administration identified the need for adequate and proactive advising programs to foster student success. This paper presents a review of "best practices" in advising to determine commonalities, provides a comparison with current VCCS advising practices, and offers recommendations that…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Administration, Best Practices, Academic Advising
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Steenbergen-Hu, Saiying; Olszewski-Kubilius, Paula; Calvert, Eric – Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2017
Executive function (EF) has been linked to many important aspects of child and adolescent functioning, such as academic achievement, self-regulated learning, social-emotional development, physical well-being, and behavioral problems. Planning and organization, two key executive functions, are found to be the most important predictors of school…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Inhibition, Short Term Memory, Cognitive Processes
Sugarman, Julie – Migration Policy Institute, 2021
Across the United States, students face increasingly high expectations of what they should know and be able to do upon completing high school. However, too few state policies take into consideration how the pathway to graduation may look different for English Learners (ELs), particularly adolescent newcomers who have limited formal education. Many…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Educational Improvement, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap
Whinnery, Erin; Rafa, Alyssa; Wolff, Kate – Education Commission of the States, 2018
Creative Youth Development (CYD) is a long-standing practice that fuels students' potential by intentionally integrating creative skill-building, inquiry and expression with positive youth development principles. In CYD programs, young people create original work through arts experiences and apply their creative skills to solve problems. These…
Descriptors: Creativity, Skill Development, Program Descriptions, Disadvantaged Youth
Miller-Adams, Michelle; Smith, Edward – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2018
Can place-based college scholarships stimulate local prosperity? Research suggests that Promise programs can indeed contribute to revitalizing economically distressed communities. We argue that these scholarship programs, when leveraged effectively, can spawn a host of community benefits and serve as catalysts for economic and educational…
Descriptors: College Programs, Scholarships, Enrollment, Economic Development
Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2016
Comprehensive teacher evaluation systems are a core element of current state and local strategies to support improved teaching and learning in elementary and secondary education in the United States. The Study of Emerging Teacher Evaluation Systems provides descriptive information on the design and early implementation of teacher evaluation…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, School Districts, Public Schools, Program Design
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Price-Shingles, June N.; Place, Greg – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2016
After-school programs (ASP) are a long-standing activity historically facilitated by organizations such as the YMCA, Boys and Girls Club, social service/community centers and, in the past decade, an increasing number of municipal park districts. Staffing usually consist of recreation professionals, social and youth workers, and volunteers. In…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, After School Programs, Youth Clubs, Physical Education
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