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Beagon, Una; Kövesi, Klara; Tabas, Brad; Nørgaard, Bente; Lehtinen, Riitta; Bowe, Brian; Gillet, Christiane; Spliid, Claus Monrad – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2023
Despite the emerging discussions about the growing role of engineers in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there is a lack of agreement on which competences should be prioritised to prepare engineering students to resolve future sustainability challenges. This study examined and compared the views of key stakeholders of…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Barriers, Sustainable Development, Objectives
Puraci, Ligia Tabita – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Although many studies make important contributions to understanding the process and outcomes of school-based parent involvement initiatives, more work needs to be done to measure parent perceptions of parent involvement practices, policies, and barriers in low SES schools serving minority students. This qualitative case study looked to identify…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Disadvantaged Schools, Elementary School Students, Teacher Attitudes
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Said-Hung, Elias; Gonzalez-Prieto, Evaristo; Pallarès-Piquer, Marc – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2021
Numerous studies have examined the phenomenon of bullying. The development of information and communications technology (ICT) has enabled an emerging form of bullying known as cyberbullying. This article presents a case study of an Internet-focused bullying prevention programme in a Spanish secondary school with 627 students, from a…
Descriptors: Prevention, Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication, Information Technology
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Jurvelin, Jouni Antero; Kajaste, Matti; Malinen, Heikki – European Journal of Higher Education, 2018
The article reports on a case study of impact evaluation of external quality assurance, i.e. EUR-ACE programme accreditation, which was carried out by the Finnish Education Evaluation Centre at Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences in the form of a methodological before-after comparison. The results show mainly positive and stable attitudes of…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Accreditation (Institutions), Case Studies, Educational Quality
Sarah Bright Smith – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this quantitative comparative study is to analyze the demographic and program choice data of students who completed a study abroad program in the United States over a 10+-year period and to determine the impacts of those factors. The literature is well saturated with the benefits of students engaging in any type of study abroad…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Attitudes, College Students, Study Abroad
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Peter J. O. Aloka – Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 2023
First-year students at universities continue to experience adjustment challenges which are an indication of low academic buoyancy. Academic buoyancy is a student's ability to succeed amidst academic difficulties and setbacks in academic settings. This study examined the gender differences in academic buoyancy among first-year undergraduate…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Academic Achievement, Student Adjustment, College Freshmen
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Manuel B. Garcia – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
The global shortage of skilled programmers remains a persistent challenge. High dropout rates in introductory programming courses pose a significant obstacle to graduation. Previous studies highlighted learning difficulties in programming students, but their specific weaknesses remained unclear. This gap exists due to the predominant focus on the…
Descriptors: Programming, Introductory Courses, Computer Science Education, Mastery Learning
King, Sherria N. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
There has been a significant amount of research on the impact of stress and job satisfaction amongst employees in a multitude of professional settings, including the criminal justice and higher education field. Yet, information on criminal justice professionals who work in more untraditional types of higher education institutions, such as career…
Descriptors: Law Enforcement, Department Heads, Stress Variables, Job Satisfaction
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Chin, Amita; Jones, Beth; Little, Philip – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2021
This study on smartphone security behaviors and practices is a continuation of the work in Jones and Chin (2015), where results of a 2011 student survey at a regional comprehensive university were compared to results from a 2014 survey at the same institution. That study found that students continued to be lax in their mobile security practices.…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Computer Security, Student Attitudes
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Feuerborn, Laura L.; Tyre, Ashli D. – Preventing School Failure, 2016
Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support (SWPBS) offers an alternative to reactive and exclusionary school discipline practices. However, the shift to SWPBS requires substantial change in the practices of staff, and many leadership teams struggle to rally staff support for implementation. With a more thorough understanding of staff perceptions, level…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Teacher Attitudes, Program Development, Program Implementation
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Goodman, Diana; Caldwell, Angela; Bodnar, Dianne; Stover, Alyson – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2020
Despite legal mandates and evidence of predictors of success in transition, there continue to be poor outcomes for students with disabilities as compared to students without disabilities. This article describes the first steps of a quality improvement project, including a needs assessment and description of the current constraints of transition…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Students with Disabilities, Comparative Analysis, Needs Assessment
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Sadovnikova, Nadezhda; Kotova, Svetlana; Hasanova, Irina; Tserkovnikova, Natalya; Lebedeva, Viktoriya – World Journal on Educational Technology: Current Issues, 2022
The study considers the phenomenology of the professional crisis of the teacher personality in the context of the transition to online learning. Based on the analysis of the results of the theoretical and empirical research involving 170 teachers, it was established that the features of the professional crisis of the teacher personality are the…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Online Courses, Comparative Analysis, Personality Traits
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Merz, G. Russell; Ward, Jamie; Qrunfleh, Sufian; Gibson, Bud – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe the role and characteristics of the summer internship program (Digital Summer Clinic) delivered by Eastern Michigan University. The authors report the results of an exploratory study of interns participating in the Digital Summer Clinic over a five-year time period. The study captures and analyzes…
Descriptors: Marketing, Internship Programs, Natural Language Processing, Computer Software
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O'Mally, Jamie; Steverson, Anne – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2017
In a competitive employment climate, college graduates with visual impairments (that is, those who are blind or have low vision) face challenges securing work. Employment barriers among visually impaired individuals include: limited early work experience, negative employer attitudes, transportation issues, lack of exposure to successful role…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Blindness, College Students, Mentors
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Bogdanov, Sergiy; Girnyk, Andriy; Chernobrovkina, Vira; Chernobrovkin, Volodymyr; Vinogradov, Alexander; Harbar, Kateryna; Kovalevskaya, Yuliya; Basenko, Oksana; Ivanyuk, Irina; Hook, Kimberly; Wessells, Mike – Journal on Education in Emergencies, 2021
Psychosocial support in education that is provided during emergencies frequently aims to support children's resilience, but strong, contextual measures of resilience are in short supply in Eastern Europe. In this article, our aim is to describe the development and psychometric properties of the first measure of resilience for war-affected…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, War, Resilience (Psychology), Measures (Individuals)
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