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Brent L. Todd – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Colleges implement success courses to improve student outcomes. Since expanding its curriculum to include nine success courses, Illinois Eastern Community Colleges (IECC)--a multi-college community college district in rural, southeastern Illinois--has not determined the efficacy of these courses on student success. The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Curriculum Development, Rural Schools
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Hugues Engel – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2025
Thanks to a wealth of research on college student retention, we have today a good understanding of the factors that facilitate student success. However, actions taken to promote student success are far from always effective. The teaching-learning environments differ between institutions and provide, to a greater or lesser extent, the conditions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Romance Languages, Classical Languages
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Katie Bjorkman – Learning Assistance Review, 2024
A study was conducted considering a mathematics learning center as a figured world, that is, as a social space that is treated as if individuals within the space share certain meanings about the space and interactions within it (Holland et al., 1998) from the perspective of the undergraduate peer tutors employed in it (for the larger study, see…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Peer Teaching, Undergraduate Students, Mathematics Instruction
New Leaders, 2024
New Leaders developed the Transformational Leadership Framework (TLF) to pinpoint practices commonly found in schools that were significantly advancing student achievement and in what sequence principals and their teams implemented those practices to deliver consistent and equitable outcomes for students. The TLF is based on: (1) More than 100…
Descriptors: Transformational Leadership, Educational Practices, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains
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Heileman, Gregory L.; Abdallah, Chaouki T. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2019
While occupying various academic leadership positions, the authors repeatedly encounter the use of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) accreditation to influence decision making around engineering curricula. For instance, ABET criteria are commonly cited as the reason why particular changes to engineering programs, such…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Engineering Education, Outcomes of Education, Academic Achievement
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Susan L. Douglass – Journal of Education in Muslim Societies, 2022
Education reform has focused on academic standards, but curriculum is still weighed down by outdated subject-area categories that are reinforced through various practices and institutions. T his article examines the possibilities for an integrative curriculum model that can accommodate the broad goals of holistic education and the needs of society…
Descriptors: Barriers, Educational Change, Academic Standards, Holistic Approach
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Klapp, Alli; Jönsson, Anders – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2021
National goals and performance standards were introduced in Sweden during the 1990s as part of a curriculum reform. The intention was to detect shortcomings among students and provide support to those students who did not reach the passing grade in one (or several) subject/s. Despite this reform, approximately one-fourth of the students do not…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Foreign Countries, Educational Objectives, Factor Analysis
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Van der Kleij, Fabienne Michelle; Cumming, Jacqueline Joy; Looney, Anne – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2018
Formative assessment is strongly advocated as a critical component of Australian teachers' work. This article examines the evolving policy expectations and support for teachers' formative assessment practices in the context of two recent Australian education reforms: the introduction of the first national curriculum and of new professional…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Educational Change, Educational Policy, National Curriculum
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MacPhail, Ann; Halbert, John; O'Neill, Hal – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2018
The more recent discussion in Ireland around post-primary teachers being responsible for assessing their own students' work continues. The new junior cycle reform (covering the first three years of post-primary education) is concerned with making fundamental changes in approaches to learning, teaching, curriculum and assessment, with school-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Student Evaluation, Measurement Objectives
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Ayers, Natasha L.; Kiley, Margaret; Jones, Narelle; McDermott, Marie-Louise; Hawkins, Martine – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2018
This paper reports on implementing learning plans at an Australian university and their perceived use in supporting doctoral candidates' professional and academic development. The implementation of individualised learning plans for doctoral candidates was the outcome of university-wide discussions regarding coursework in the PhD. Based on a review…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Academic Achievement, Professional Development, Individualized Instruction
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Sadovets, Olesia – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2019
It has been substantiated that Academic English must be an integral component of ESL students' study at foreign languages departments to achieve success as professionals and be ready to realize themselves in a demanding world of today. We have defined the main problem on the way to it, namely the insufficient provision of the Academic English…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English for Academic Purposes, Foreign Countries, Departments
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Robinson, Sarah; Neergaard, Helle; Tanggaard, Lene; Krueger, Norris – Education & Training, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the discussion about the complexity and heterogeneity of entrepreneurship education. In order to achieve this objective, this paper combines educational psychology with perspectives from entrepreneurship education research to make explicit educators tacit assumptions in order to understand how…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Student Centered Learning, Educational Psychology, Educational Research
Coburn, Cynthia E.; Penuel, William R.; Geil, Kimberly E. – William T. Grant Foundation, 2015
This design-research partnership involves learning scientists, design researchers, and graduate students from the Learning in Informal and Formal Environments (LIFE) Center and the College of Education at the University of Washington (UW), and district staff, teachers, and students from the Bellevue School District (BSD). The goal of their work is…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation, School Districts, Case Studies
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Surra, Alex; Litowitz, Len S. – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2015
The authors describe a vocational training course that was developed to give more than just an overview of how aircraft work, or a course on how to fly. This training course was a half-year course in aviation technology. Powered flight is an area of interest for many students, and the intent of creating a curriculum rich with science, technology,…
Descriptors: High Schools, Aviation Education, STEM Education, Vocational Education
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Hiebert, James; Stigler, James W. – Educational Researcher, 2017
We examine the distinction between teaching and teachers as it relates to instructional improvement. Drawing from work outside of education on improvement systems and from analyzing the Japanese system of lesson study, we contend that a focus on teaching can shape a coordinated system for improvement whereas a focus on teachers, common in the…
Descriptors: Instructional Improvement, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Lesson Plans
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