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Gus Greivel; Alexandra Newman; Maxwell Brown; Kelly Eurek – INFORMS Transactions on Education, 2024
Industrial-scale models require considerable setup time; hence, once built, they are used in myriad ways to consider closely related cases. In practice, the code for these models frequently evolves without appropriate notational choices, largely as a result of the lengthy development time of, and the number of individuals contributing to, their…
Descriptors: Models, Best Practices, Mathematical Concepts, Energy
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Fernandez-Gauna, Borja; Rojo, Naiara; Graña, Manuel – International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2023
We describe an automated assessment process for team-coding assignments based on DevOps best practices. This system and methodology includes the definition of Team Performance Metrics measuring properties of the software developed by each team, and their correct use of DevOps techniques. It tracks the progress on each of metric by each group. The…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Programming, Coding, Teamwork
National Forum on Education Statistics, 2023
This forum guide was developed to meet the need for common, widely understood, standardized course codes. The purpose of this guide is to introduce the voluntary School Courses for the Exchange of Data (SCED) classification system, including information on the structure of SCED codes, the process for ensuring that SCED remains up to date and…
Descriptors: Courses, Classification, Coding, Data
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Zeng, Mini; Zhu, Feng – Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice, 2021
Software vulnerabilities have become a severe cybersecurity issue. There are numerous resources of industry best practices available, but it is still challenging to effectively teach secure coding practices. The resources are not designed for classroom usage because the amount of information is overwhelming for students. There are efforts in…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Coding, Computer Security, Computer Science Education
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Sheffield, Jenna Pack – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2020
Search engine optimization (SEO), or the set of practices involved in attaining a high ranking in search engine results, is a web writing skill that requires more attention in business communication pedagogy, because SEO helps businesses attract customers. This article presents the results of interviews with seven SEO experts on SEO best practices…
Descriptors: Search Engines, Business Communication, Expertise, Web Sites
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Audette, Lillian M.; Hammond, Marie S.; Rochester, Natalie K. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2020
Longitudinal studies are commonly used in the social and behavioral sciences to answer a wide variety of research questions. Longitudinal researchers often collect data anonymously from participants when studying sensitive topics to ensure that accurate information is provided. One difficulty gathering longitudinal anonymous data is that of…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Longitudinal Studies, Research Design, Social Science Research
National Forum on Education Statistics, 2020
The "Forum Guide to Exit Codes" provides an updated taxonomy for exit codes, information on best practices related to exit coding, and case studies that highlight different education agencies' approaches to and experiences with exit coding. In 2006, the Forum addressed the need for a voluntary, common format for tracking data about when…
Descriptors: Coding, Taxonomy, Best Practices, State Departments of Education
Brown-Turner, Jasmine – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Edutainment refers to curriculum and instruction designed with a clear educational purpose, including multi-faceted virtual learning game design. Tools such as the Jacob's Ladder pre-production design tactic have been developed to ensure that voices of both engineers and educators are heard. However, it is unclear how development team members…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Phenomenology, Computer Software, Computer Simulation
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Delaney, Katherine K. – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2018
Within the United States, publicly funded pre-Kindergarten (pre-K) is a borderland of teacher practice--somewhere between early childhood and Elementary approaches to pedagogy. For pre-K teachers, this can mean negotiating many different, and oft-competing conceptions of what curriculum and practice should look like in order to support the…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Best Practices, Preschool Education, Time
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Wilinski, Bethany – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2017
Many state-funded prekindergarten (preK) programs are implemented through school-community partnerships, which has been promoted as a way to increase preK access, to meet the needs of families, and to ensure program quality (Schumacher, Ewen, Hart, & Lombardi, 2005). In spite of the potential benefits of such partnerships, there are also…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Early Childhood Education, Best Practices, Elementary Secondary Education
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Boyle, Helen N.; Salah, Wail – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2017
In light of disappointing scores on the Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) and the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), Arabic-speaking countries have begun to reexamine, and in some case reform, how they teach reading in the early grades. Egypt was one of the first countries to initiate early-grade reading reforms in 2010.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Instruction, Educational Change, Reading Tests
Grabowski, Jeremiah Stanley – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This exploratory case study delves into the instructional design of a gamified online course. The study focuses on how the professor incorporated game elements into a graduate-level online course. Participants in the gamified course were pre- and in-service mathematics teachers. The qualitative case study used two sources of data, an interview…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Educational Games, Online Courses, Case Studies
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Lauer, Sabine; Wilkesmann, Uwe – Learning Organization, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to link two modes of governance (transactional and transformational) to organizational learning by examining the example of academic teaching. Consequently, the "transformational" strategies of best practices that have been used by German universities to achieve teaching excellence are interpreted as…
Descriptors: Governance, Best Practices, Universities, College Faculty
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Dancy, Melissa; Henderson, Charles; Turpen, Chandra – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2016
The lack of knowledge about how to effectively spread and sustain the use of research-based instructional strategies is currently a significant barrier to the improvement of undergraduate physics education. In this paper we address this lack of knowledge by reporting on an interview study of 35 physics faculty, of varying institution types, who…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Teaching Methods, Best Practices, Interviews
Howell, Linda Jane – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Research shows that use of high fidelity simulation (HFS) as a teaching strategy requires extensive amounts of faculty time and financial resources for faculty development and equipment. This project study addressed the challenges encountered in the integration of HFS into a Midwestern metropolitan baccalaureate nursing program. The purpose of…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Simulated Environment, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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