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Steffen, Veronica; Villaverde, Angeles Bueno – International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, 2017
Leadership is critical to shaping and supporting individual teachers' endeavors to integrate new programs into their teaching. To determine the necessary support, leaders must be aware of the needs of the school and its individuals. In understanding their needs, leaders can then support teachers through appropriate professional development and the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Instructional Leadership, Teacher Administrator Relationship, Program Implementation
Stoll, Michael R. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The "college readiness" movement of the past decade coupled with the widespread adoption of Common Core State Standards (CCSS) has generated pressure on content area teachers to develop disciplinary thinking skills while also providing more opportunities for student writing. The purpose of this three-article dissertation is to understand…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Teacher Attitudes, Correlation, Intellectual Disciplines
Kittelson, Andrea – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this instrumental case study was to understand the ways in which the leaders of one high-achieving, large, urban high school communicate with Latino families about math with the intent to shine a light on the issue of communication with families as it relates to student achievement and the persistent math achievement gap among…
Descriptors: High Achievement, Mathematics, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction
Ametepee, Lawrence Kofi – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this study was threefold: (a) to explore the decisions teacher educators make while training preservice general education teachers for inclusive classrooms; (b) to examine the preparedness of the preservice general education teachers to teach all students, including students with disabilities in general education settings; (c) and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Educators, Inclusion, General Education
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White, Robert; Shin, Tae Seob – Multicultural Education Review, 2016
The issue of inclusive practice, particularly as it pertains to how school staff address antisocial behavior to improve learning and life outcomes for children has become a primary topic of discussion among educational stakeholders. Within an action research framework, this investigation used a mixed-method multiple case study approach to…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Citizenship Education, Prosocial Behavior, Social Development
Mazer, Vickie M. – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Online education is growing in response to demands of increased access, quality, and affordability. However, implementation and expansion are often challenged by faculty resistance, due in large part to perceived lack of quality and administrative support. This case study sought to determine how the presence or absence of quality elements, as…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Case Studies
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Owen, Hazel D. – Research in Learning Technology, 2015
Learning provision, including professional learning, needs to embrace mobility (of knowledge, cultures and contexts--physical and cerebral) to enable education practitioners to interact locally and globally, engage with new literacies, access rich contexts, and to question, co-construct and collaborate. Virtual mentoring, also known as distance,…
Descriptors: Mentors, Computer Mediated Communication, Professional Development, Communities of Practice
Payne, Diana L.; Baek, John Y. – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2014
This Partnerships Working Group (PWG) study responds to recommendations from the National Research Council's (NRC) NOAA's Education Program: Review and Critique (2010) for NOAA to better understand how NOAA Education partnerships are formed, fostered, sustained, and evaluated. The NRC report noted that while partnerships were mentioned as a means…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Partnerships in Education, Participative Decision Making, Documentation
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Terrazas-Arellanes, Fatima E.; Knox, Carolyn; Strycker, Lisa A.; Walden, Emily D. – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2017
This article reports on how design-based research methodology was used to guide a line of intervention research that developed, implemented, revised, and evaluated online learning science curricula for middle school students, including general education students and English language learners (primarily of Hispanic origin). The iterative,…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Middle School Students, Secondary School Science
Hamedani, MarYam G.; Darling-Hammond, Linda – Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, 2015
The psychological, social, and emotional aspects of education have enjoyed increased attention in recent years as often termed "non-cognitive factors" and "soft skills" have gained traction in research, policy, and practice circles as major drivers of student achievement. This renewed attention represents an important shift, as…
Descriptors: Social Development, High Schools, High School Students, Student Empowerment
Richardson, Matthew R. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This doctoral dissertation is an empirical study employing the case study research design and aims at gathering the perspectives of fraternity men concerning the utility of anti-discrimination clauses in protecting minority members' interests and contributing to a sense of belonging. The case includes a mixed methodology of a survey, focus group…
Descriptors: Fraternities, Males, College Students, Social Discrimination
Serrant, Ted Donaldson – ProQuest LLC, 2013
By the time today's Grade K students graduate high school in the Commonwealth of Dominica, they will have experienced five major and many low-intensity hurricanes (LIH). Between August and November each year, each hurricane, major or low-intensity, represents a major threat to their safety and schooling. This mixed-method case study investigated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Natural Disasters, Mixed Methods Research, Case Studies
Templeton, Richard Raymond – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 increased the importance of having principals who are not only effective leaders of general education programs but knowledgeable and skilled in special education and able to effectively lead special education programs. The researcher examined four principals of elementary schools (i.e., kindergarten through…
Descriptors: Principals, Elementary Schools, Special Education, Case Studies
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Pepin, Birgit – Policy Futures in Education, 2014
In this article the concept of the Didactic Contract is used to investigate student "transition" from upper secondary into university mathematics education. The findings are anchored in data from the TransMaths project, more particularly the case of an ethnic minority student's journey from his school to a university mathematics course…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, College Mathematics, Student Adjustment, Minority Group Students
Zakrzewski, Victoria S. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Research indicates that many factors may impede teachers' ability to develop caring relationships with students such as the school environment (Schaps, 2009), lack of cultural understanding (Thompson, 1998), the teacher's beliefs and attitudes about care (Goldstein, 2002), and personal experience of being cared for (Noddings, 1984). Yet, little…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Caring, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Environment
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