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Torres, Amada – Independent School, 2016
Spring 2015 marked the end of a three-year pilot program that the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) and the NAIS Commission on Accreditation sponsored on school use of the High School Survey of Student Engagement (HSSSE), created and administered by Indiana University. To better understand the student experience, HSSSE…
Descriptors: High School Students, Learner Engagement, Student Surveys, Private Schools
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Yates, Anne – Professional Development in Education, 2012
Professional learning to embed educational reform may need to take account of the stage of the reform rather than previous teaching experience. As reforms move to the embedding phase, some teachers have become more expert in executing the reform than others and may be well placed to provide professional learning. In 2007, the New Zealand Ministry…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Models, Academic Achievement
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Taipjutorus, Widchaporn; Hansen, Sally; Brown, Mark – Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning, 2012
In both traditional face-to-face and online learning contexts, self-efficacy has been shown to be a key contributor to learner success. Once established, self-efficacy can be generalised to other learning situations, with the strongest effect occurring with learning activities that are closest to those in which self-efficacy has been improved.…
Descriptors: Correlation, Self Efficacy, Self Control, Online Courses
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Wang, Charles Xiaoxue; Song, Hongbo; Stone, David E.; Yan, Qiaoqiao – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2009
Educational researchers and practitioners have paid considerable attention to the use of multiuser virtual environments (MUVEs) in recent years in order to support learning across curricula. Among MUVEs, Second Life (SL) is one of the most popular environments, with over 18 million account-registered users as of May 2008. This paper reports a…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Foreign Countries, Virtual Classrooms, Educational Researchers
TAYLOR, JOHN; AND OTHERS – 1962
TO HELP GIFTED CHILDREN GAIN SOUND EDUCATION IN THE HUMANITIES, THE SOCIAL SCIENCES, THE NATURAL SCIENCES, AND IN MATHEMATICS, A PROGRAM WAS DEVELOPED FOR EIGHTEEN SIXTH GRADERS. THE CLASS DIFFERED FROM OTHER SIXTH GRADE CLASSES IN THE WAY IT USED MATERIALS. PILOT PROGRAMS WERE SET UP TO ACQUAINT THE TEACHERS OR PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT WITH THE…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Gifted, Grade 6, Instructional Materials
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers