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Miller, Emma Rebecca – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to determine what variables predict the use of instructional technology among community college instructors. Legislators, community college administrators, and students expect innovative lessons from instructors that use technology. This study addresses the problem of not knowing what predicts instructional technology…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, College Faculty, Community Colleges
Cruz, Crystal – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study was conducted to (a) explore high achieving high school students' perceptions of the teaching profession, (b) examine the influence of these perceptions on intentions to teach, and (c) test a recruitment suite of tools to determine the effectiveness of recruitment messaging and strategies. The Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB)…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Intention, Career Choice
Gordon da Cruz, Cynthia – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Many U.S. higher education institutions are reaffirming their commitments to public purposes--preparing graduates for civic engagement for the public good and producing knowledge with real-world applications. Developing students for civic engagement for justice in the context of a diverse and inequitable democracy is a complex task. In Article 1,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Participation, Citizen Participation, Citizenship Education
Thieken, John – ProQuest LLC, 2012
A sample of 127 high school Advanced Placement (AP) Calculus students from two schools was utilized to study the effects of an engineering design-based problem solving strategy on student performance with AP style Related Rate questions and changes in conceptions, beliefs, and influences. The research design followed a treatment-control multiple…
Descriptors: Engineering, Problem Solving, Advanced Placement, Calculus
Isabalija, Stephen Robert – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Although e-medicine, just as with all information technology (IT), was developed and piloted in developed countries, it has not been successfully applied to address pressing medical problems in SSA (Mbarika & Okoli, 2003; Maher, et al., 2010). There is a lot of research that has been conducted in the last decade on telemedicine in sub-Saharan…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Knowledge Management, Medicine
Iyer, Vidya V. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Despite the phenomenal growth projected for the Indian information technology (IT) industry, one of the biggest challenges it faces is the high rate of turnover in offshore supplier firms based in India (Everest Research Group 2011). According to recent estimates, turnover rates among Indian information systems (IS) professionals have been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Industry, Professional Personnel