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Ariel Chasen; Mariel A. Pfeifer – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
Biology education research provides important guidance for educators aiming to ensure access for disabled students. However, there is still work to be done in developing similar guidelines for research settings. By using critical frameworks that amplify the voices of people facing multiple forms of marginalization, there is potential to transform…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Education, Students with Disabilities, Student Attitudes
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2016
This review protocol from the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) covers the following issues relevant to screening criteria and full review for the Access to Higher Education Practice Guide: (1) time frame; (2) study design; (3) age and/or grade range; (4) brief description of intervention; (5) key subgroups; (6) location and language; (7) outcomes…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Evaluation Criteria, Research Design
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Deborah Tatar; Jeremy Roschelle; Stephen Hegedus – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2014
Historically, what people can learn is co-determined by the "representational infrastructure" for knowledge building. When Latin was the required medium of knowledge building, few could engage in scholarly activities; without the change to the vernacular, nearly universal access to higher education would not be possible. The highly…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Advanced Courses, Mathematics Instruction, Barriers
Bienkowski, Marie; Gerard, Sarah Nixon; Rubin, Shawn; Sanford, Cathy; Borrelli-Murray, Dana; Driscoll, Tom; Arora, Jessie; Hruska, Mike; Beck, Katie; Murray, Thomas; Hoekstra, Jason; Gannes, Stuart; Metz, Edward; Midgley, Steve; Castilla, Stephanie; Tomassini, Jason; Madda, Mary Jo; Chase, Zac; Martin, Erik; Noel, Marcus; Styles, Kathleen – Office of Educational Technology, US Department of Education, 2015
Opportunities abound for software designers and developers to create impactful tools for teachers, school leaders, students, and their families. This guide for developers, startups, and entrepreneurs addresses key questions about the education ecosystem and highlights critical needs and opportunities to develop digital tools and apps for learning.…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Design, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
Lynch, Richard; Hill, Frieda – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J3), 2008
Georgia conducted a multiphase, mixed methods study over three years (2003-2006) to determine whether credit-based transition programs facilitate college access and success for students who participate in them. The study, conducted in collaboration with, and funding from, the Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG) and with cooperation from the…
Descriptors: Credentials, High Schools, Career Planning, Student Attitudes
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Visher, Mary G.; Wathington, Heather; Richburg-Hayes, Lashawn; Schneider, Emily – National Center for Postsecondary Research, 2008
Learning communities are a popular strategy that community colleges nationwide have embraced in support of developmental students. In a learning community, a cohort of students takes two or more courses linked by integrated themes and assignments that are developed through ongoing faculty collaboration. While the number of learning community…
Descriptors: Research Design, Community Colleges, Community Programs, College Programs
2003
Achieving Education for All (EFA) in Ghana and many parts of sub-Saharan Africa remains an elusive goal. Extensive research in diverse countries has revealed that formalized systems that work on fixed timetables, a loaded curriculum, and trained teachers, are often not performing as well in rural environments in providing basic literacy, numeracy,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Developing Nations, Educational Innovation, Educational Practices
Darnell, Frank – 1981
The National Centre for Research on Rural Education (NCRRE), located at the University of Western Australia, was established in November 1980, to undertake research on educational problems in rural Australia, which include isolation, cultural heterogeneity and underdevelopment, insufficient resources, technical inadequacies, and economic…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Administrative Organization, College Role, Educational Improvement
Green, Patricia J.; And Others – 1996
The Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study (B&B:93) tracks the experiences of a cohort of recent college graduates, those who received the baccalaureate degree during the 1992-93 academic year and were first interviewed as part of the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study. The experiences of this group in the areas of academic…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Bachelors Degrees, Cohort Analysis, College Graduates
Government Studies & Systems, Philadelphia, PA. – 1980
This supplement to "Postsecondary Student Terminology," a National Center for Education Statistics handbook, examines postsecondary education policy issues relevant to information needs about students, procedures used in identifying information items needed to statistically evaluate the issues, and an illustrative database for postsecondary…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Career Choice, Databases, Education Work Relationship