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Prevost, Luanna B.; Vergara, Claudia E.; Urban-Lurain, Mark; Campa, Henry, III. – Innovative Higher Education, 2018
Higher education institutions prepare future faculty members for multiple roles, including teaching. However, teaching professional development programs for graduate students vary widely. We present evaluation data from a high engagement program for STEM doctoral students. We analyzed the impact on three cohorts of participants over three academic…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Graduate Students, Fellowships, Program Evaluation
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Telford, Richard D. – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2017
A habitually active environment is a feature of past times, and in stark contrast with that experienced by our children today. Consequently, twenty-first century physical education (PE) assumes a position of great responsibility. This is especially true in primary schools; a premise recently strongly supported by published evidence from the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Educational Benefits, Randomized Controlled Trials
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Blazar, David; Kraft, Matthew A. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2015
Although previous research has shown that teacher coaching can improve teaching practices and student achievement, little is known about specific features of effective coaching programs. We estimate the impact of MATCH Teacher Coaching (MTC) on a range of teacher practices using a blocked randomized trial and explore how changes in the coaching…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Program Effectiveness, Randomized Controlled Trials, Faculty Development
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Domina, Thurston – Research in Higher Education, 2014
Twenty-one US states currently offer some form of merit-based postsecondary financial aid, although the generosity and eligibility requirements of merit aid programs varies from state to state. This article uses nationally representative data from high school students in the early 1990s and the early 2000s to evaluate the relationship between the…
Descriptors: Merit Scholarships, State Programs, Program Design, High School Students
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The study examined the effect of a secondary school teacher training and coaching program on student achievement. Eighty-eight teachers were randomly assigned to either the My Teaching Partner-Secondary (MTP-S) group or the control group. Of these teachers, 76 participated in the study during the intervention year (when they received coaching) and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers, Inservice Teacher Education
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Kurucz, Sue; Rietze, Lori; Lim, Angie; Swamy, Mindy – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2015
Canada does not have enough nurses with doctoral degrees. Such nurses fill important roles as researchers, educators, leaders, and clinicians. While a growing number of Canadian universities offer doctorate degrees in nursing, most institutions have only traditional on-campus programs, posing barriers for nurses who reside in places geographically…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Web Based Instruction, Doctoral Programs, Cohort Analysis
Lamb, Lindsay M. – Online Submission, 2014
This report for school year 2013-2014 analyzes the effectiveness of AISD's SEL program considering program implementation and cohort. Examinations of program outcomes across cohort suggest the longer schools have participated in SEL, the more positive the outcome.
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, School Districts, Program Effectiveness, Program Implementation
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Scott-Clayton, Judith – Journal of Human Resources, 2011
Programs linking college aid to academic achievement could work either by lowering the cost of college or by inducing additional student effort. I examine the PROMISE program in West Virginia, which offers free tuition to students who maintain a minimum GPA and course load. Using administrative data, I exploit discontinuities in the eligibility…
Descriptors: Incentives, Academic Achievement, Scholarships, College Students
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Ogunbawo, Dolapo – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2012
The provision of customized black and minority ethnic (BME) leadership courses and programmes is one of the measures being employed to address the under-representation of teachers and school leaders from minority ethnic backgrounds. This strategy has always attracted controversy as opinions have been divided about its value and benefits. Yet there…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Foreign Countries, Leadership, Instructional Leadership
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Maples, Glenn; Harris, Bette; Greco, Anna M. – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2010
Over the past 30 years, researchers have repeatedly demonstrated the need to improve academic advising. Nonetheless, at many Universities academic advising remains a neglected endeavor--poorly measured, managed and rewarded. This paper considers the implementation of an academic advising program which parallels the 360-Degree feedback approach…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Program Improvement, Program Implementation, Feedback (Response)
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Nunnery, John; Kaplan, Leslie; Owings, William A.; Pribesh, S. – NASSP Bulletin, 2009
This study examined approximately 6,500 Florida students' reading and mathematics performance when taught by a sample of teachers who obtained their teaching credentials through the Troops to Teachers program. Results indicated that students served by Troops teachers performed about equally well in reading and achieved a small but statistically…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Mathematics Achievement, Reading Achievement, Teacher Effectiveness
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Bifulco, Robert; Ladd, Helen F.; Ross, Stephen L. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2009
Using student-level data from Durham, North Carolina, we examine the potential impact of school choice programs on the peer environments of students who remain in their geographically assigned schools. We examine whether the likelihood of opting out of one's geographically assigned school differs across groups and compare the actual peer…
Descriptors: Neighborhood Schools, School Choice, Disadvantaged, Evidence
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Wong, Kenneth K.; Boben, Megan; Kim, Chisoo; Socha, Ted – Journal of Educational Research & Policy Studies, 2009
This pilot study proposes a set of analytical steps for comparing schools that participate in the National Science Foundation's Math and Science Partnership (MSP) Program and their intrastate non-participating peers. This pilot is part of a larger effort to evaluate the MSP Program's role in student achievement, along with two companion analyses.…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Cohort Analysis
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Corrin, William; Somers, Marie-Andree; Kemple, James J.; Nelson, Elizabeth; Sepanik, Susan – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2008
This report presents findings from the Enhanced Reading Opportunities (ERO) study, a demonstration and evaluation of two supplemental literacy programs that aim to improve the reading comprehension skills and school performance of struggling ninth-grade readers. The report, which is the second of three, focuses on the second of two cohorts of…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Supplementary Education, Literacy, Grade 9
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Corrin, William; Somers, Marie-Andree; Kemple, James J.; Nelson, Elizabeth; Sepanik, Susan – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2008
This document provides the executive summary of "The Enhanced Reading Opportunities Study: Findings from the Second Year of Implementation. NCEE 2009-4036." The full report presents findings from the Enhanced Reading Opportunities (ERO) study, a demonstration and evaluation of two supplemental literacy programs that aim to improve the…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Supplementary Education, Literacy, Grade 9
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