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He, Ye; Hutson, Bryant – Review of Higher Education, 2016
Academic advising is one of the key functions in higher education. While there has been a development of advising practices in the past decade, the assessment of academic advising practices is far from satisfactory. In this article, we review major academic advising approaches and key characteristics of quality assessment practices. Based on the…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Higher Education, Mixed Methods Research, Evaluation Methods
Litt, J.; Fishel, G. – New York City Department of Education, 2017
The Office of School Design and Charter Partnerships (OSDCP) at the New York City Department of Education (DOE) developed and executed a plan for district-charter collaboration, which they called the District-Charter Partnerships (DCP) initiative. This document describes the results of a mixed-method study of DCP conducted during the 2016-17…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Districts, Charter Schools, Partnerships in Education
White, Bradford R.; Colaninno, Carol E.; Doll, Mimi; Lewandowski, Holly – Illinois Education Research Council, 2017
The Early Childhood Innovation Zones initiative was established by Illinois Action for Children (IAFC), with guidance from the Illinois Governor's Office for Early Childhood Development. Funded by a Race to the Top--Early Learning Challenge grant, this initiative supported capacity building efforts for organizations working with young children in…
Descriptors: State Policy, Educational Policy, Early Childhood Education, Educational Innovation
Bustos Flores, Belinda; Claeys, Lorena; Gist, Conra D.; Riojas Clark, Ellen; Villarreal, Abelardo – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2015
To address the challenge of ensuring the quality of preparation of secondary mathematics and science teachers, this article describes the efforts of the "Academy for Teacher Excellence" (ATE; Flores et al., 2007), which received Transition to Teaching grants to establish the Accelerated Teacher Education Program (ATEP). ATEP's purpose…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Teacher Education Programs, Science Teachers, Mathematics Teachers
Hargreaves, Jo; Osborne, Kristen – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2017
This summary brings together the findings from two research projects: "Choosing VET: Investigating the VET Aspirations of School Students" and "In Their Words: Student Choice in Training Markets--Victorian Examples." The research investigated school students' post-school aspirations for vocational education and training (VET),…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Student Attitudes, Student Participation, Foreign Countries