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Finlayson, April Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The Future of Work and Learning looks bleak to some, incites worry in others and signals an opportunity for widespread education and workforce innovations and invention in others. Unfortunately, the latter are counted among the few. With staggering realities that more than 50% of jobs will be forever transformed by automation. Or the fact that 65%…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Lifelong Learning, Labor Force, Information Technology
Stout, Wendy Rose – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this exploratory collective case study is to discover how geospatial education can meet the geospatial workforce needs of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the emerging intelligent web mapping era. Geospatial education uses geographic information systems (GIS) to enable student learning by increasing in-depth spatial analysis and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Case Studies, Labor Force Development, Geographic Information Systems
Nicole Marie Westrick – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This study explores the teaching practices and labor conditions of media and communication adjunct faculty at three universities. Since the late 1960s, the number of faculty who are part-time and contingent is increasing and adjuncts are now more than 70% of college and university faculty (AAUP, n.d.). In this study, I examine the neoliberal…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Adjunct Faculty, Universities, Part Time Faculty
Iris, Michael William – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The U.S. higher education system has undergone significant changes since the early 2000s, with the COVID-19 pandemic being the most recent catalyst for rapid adaptation. Institutions had to quickly adjust to the ever-changing environment, with fluctuating conditions beyond their control affecting students, faculty, and support staff. As a result,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Action Research, Burnout, Career Development
Rubner Sobalvarro – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This quantitative study addressed some of the challenges associated with teacher turnover and highly effective teachers as well as the relationship between perceived stress, teacher stress, and teacher self-efficacy. The measurement instruments, offered in an online survey, included the Teacher Stress Inventory (TSI), the Perceived Stress Scale-10…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Self Efficacy, Teacher Persistence, Labor Turnover
Kathy L. S. Garneau – ProQuest LLC, 2023
A theoretical framework grounded in constructionism and pragmatism theories supported research on learning by doing. This framework underpinned the purpose of this qualitative case study to explore how K-8 STEM teachers facilitated projects utilizing innovative technologies to solve community-based problems. The problem was a lack of connection…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3
Jones, Sherry Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Nursing education courses and professional development (PD) do not include coping and resilience training for registered nurses (RNs) who work in emergency departments (EDs). Exposure to traumatic events, death, and dying may lead to health issues, substance abuse, stress symptoms, nursing staff turnover, and compassion fatigue among ED RNs.…
Descriptors: Nurses, Coping, Trauma, Resilience (Psychology)
Sublette, Heidi – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In the last 5 years, industries have begun to recognize a growing gap in the production of college graduates in areas of STEM. Researchers in various industries believe this gap will create a significant loss of competitive edge in the STEM fields, which will leave the United States pursuing STEM graduates from foreign countries and may ultimately…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Labor Market, Industry, Competition
Headen, Monica Dolores – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This qualitative multiple case study examines how principals contribute to the success of exemplar elementary PBIS schools in North Carolina and how their thoughts about PBIS informed their actions. Guided by the literature on principals and change efforts and sensemaking, this study used individual interviews, focus group interviews, field notes,…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Role, Program Implementation, Behavior Modification
Perez Arce Novaro, Francisco – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This thesis consists of three essays in the economics of education with an empirical focus on Mexico. The first two chapters study a college in Mexico whose admission decisions are made through a lottery. Some applicants are randomly assigned into a group that can immediately enroll and the rest into a group that can only do so after waiting…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Expenditures, Economics, Outcomes of Education
Steier, E. Joseph, III – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The objective of this dissertation was to explore the concept that knowledge and application of theories, principles and methods of adult learning to teaching may be a core management competency needed for companies to improve employee reaction to learning, knowledge transfer and behavior as well as engagement, retention and profitability.…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Learning Theories, Teacher Effectiveness, Labor Turnover
Eweni, Samuel O. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study investigated the readiness of three higher educational institutions in Nigeria in their attempt to introduce and maintain technology-driven services to students, faculty, and support staff. The prerequisites for participation in the digital, networked economy include the affordable ICT, reliable electric supply, reliable and up-to-date…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Colleges, Readiness, Technology Integration
Dodman, Stephanie Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2011
There is a persistent and significant gap in the achievement of students who attend high-poverty schools and those who attend low-poverty schools. Students in high-poverty schools, the majority of whom are African American and Hispanic, are not achieving the same levels of academic success as their low-poverty or White counterparts. Retention…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Capacity Building, Educational Policy, Accountability
Synar, Edwyna Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2010
It is estimated that 50% of beginning teachers leave the profession within the first five years on the job (Murnane, Singer, Willett, Kemple, & Olsen, 1991; Colbert & Wolff, 1992; Ingersoll, 2003b; Schlechty & Vance, 1981). When teachers depart, they take with them their knowledge of instructional techniques, students' learning styles, and…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Teacher Selection, Labor Turnover, Teaching Experience
Lefebvre, Lauryl A. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The increased demand for postsecondary education in the United States and abroad and the availability of new teaching and learning technologies are having an indelible impact on the nature of faculty work. As distance education becomes more prevalent, a growing number of faculty are facing new challenges and opportunities, especially those working…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Research Methodology, Virtual Universities, Labor Turnover
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