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Dahlawi, Saad; El Sharkawy, Mahmoud F. – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: Municipal solid waste (MSW) consists mainly of several recyclable materials such as paper and cardboard. Inside the educational institutes, especially universities, MSW is generated from several facilities including offices and cafeterias. Without an effective management program, solid waste can have detrimental impacts on the…
Descriptors: Universities, Municipalities, Sanitation, Recycling
Clement Adamba; Dante Castillo-Canales; Chhorn Lin; Emily Gustafsson-Wright; Mustapha Mensah; Rosa Maria Moncada; Erick Nehring; Elyse Painter; Sorachana Seng; Wendy Smith; Leslie Tettey – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2023
To address the learning crisis and other challenges facing children and youth (those 15-24 years of age) it is critical for governments, multilateral and bilateral funders, other donors, and implementers to have a clear understanding of program costs and cost breakdowns to inform financing decisions. For nearly a decade, the Center for Universal…
Descriptors: Costs, Intervention, Early Childhood Education, Child Development
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Tan, Kay See; Elkin, Elena B.; Satagopan, Jaya M. – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2022
We developed a summer research experience program within a freestanding comprehensive cancer center to cultivate undergraduate students with an interest in and an aptitude for quantitative sciences focused on oncology. This unconventional location for an undergraduate program is an ideal setting for interdisciplinary training in the intersection…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Professional Development, Data Analysis
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Corrin, William; Zhu, Pei; Shih, Miki; Brown, Kevin Thaddeus, Jr.; Teres, Jed; Darrow, Catherine; Nichols, Austin; Lack, Kelly – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2022
These are the appendices for the report "The Effects of an Academic Language Program on Student Reading Outcomes." This study investigated WordGen Elementary, a program designed to improve fourth- and fifth-grade students' ability to understand and communicate academic language and their general reading skill. The program provider…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Reading Programs, Program Effectiveness, Reading Achievement
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Baumer, Benjamin S.; Garcia, Randi L.; Kim, Albert Y.; Kinnaird, Katherine M.; Ott, Miles Q. – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2022
We present a programmatic approach to incorporating ethics into an undergraduate major in statistical and data sciences. We discuss departmental-level initiatives designed to meet the National Academy of Sciences recommendation for integrating ethics into the curriculum from top-to-bottom as our majors progress from our introductory courses to our…
Descriptors: Ethics, Statistics Education, Data Analysis, Teaching Methods
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Leidig, Jonathan P. – Information Systems Education Journal, 2023
Educators are tasked with continually updating course objectives, content, assignments, and assessment to meet model curriculum guidelines. IS2020 proposes program level outcomes for required and elective areas. Two elective areas in IS2020 are Data and Business Analytics and Data and Information Visualization. IS2020 details 14 program level…
Descriptors: Course Objectives, Outcomes of Education, Curriculum Development, Required Courses
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Boliver, Vikki; Gorard, Stephen; Siddiqui, Nadia – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2021
This paper reports on the findings of an ESRC funded project that contributes to the evidence base underpinning contextualised approaches to undergraduate admissions in England. We show that the bolder use of reduced entry requirements for disadvantaged learners is necessary if ambitious new widening access targets set by the Office for Students…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Higher Education, Undergraduate Students, College Admission
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Casarosa, Vittore; Ruggieri, Salvatore; Salvatori, Enrica; Simi, Maria; Turbanti, Simona – Education for Information, 2020
Interdisciplinarity is becoming increasingly important in education. With the rapidly evolving job market, an interdisciplinary education can prepare students for the flexibility and broad knowledge base required to adapt. At the University of Pisa, we recognized the value of an interdisciplinary educational environment during our participation in…
Descriptors: Universities, Information Science Education, Barriers, Masters Programs
Russell, Christina A., Ed.; Newhouse, Corey, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2021
"Measure, Use, Improve! Data Use in Out-of-School Time" shares the experience and wisdom from a broad cross-section of out-of-school time professionals, ranging from internal evaluators, to funders, to researchers, to policy advocates. Key themes of the volume include building support for learning and evaluation within out-of-school time…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Capacity Building, Evaluators, Educational Quality
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Nelson, Randy B.; Yusef, Kideste Mariam; Cooper, Adrienne – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2019
Bethune-Cookman University's Center for Undergraduate Research Excellence has operated a summer research program since 2014. An interdisciplinary team of faculty mentors and student research fellows examined variables impacting juvenile delinquency and risk of recidivism within Florida, using a database of more than 64,000 youth who aged out of…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Interdisciplinary Approach, Research Training, Black Colleges
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Neugebauer, Sabina Rak; Morrison, Diane; Karahalios, Vicky; Harper, Evan; Jones, Haley; Lenihan, Shauna; Oosterbaan, Fenner; Tindall, Carly – Action in Teacher Education, 2021
Current teacher preparation programs have received scrutiny for failing to sufficiently support teachers in valuing and developing their knowledge of data literacy. The current study explores a collaborative approach to increasing pre-service teachers' experiences with data literacy by including under-utilized data experts: school psychologists.…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Decision Making, Preservice Teacher Education, Literacy
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Jakobs, Eva-Maria; Digmayer, Claas – AILA Review, 2020
This article examines how written feedback is used to support the production of texts for purposes of reuse. The case study refers to an entrepreneur training program at the University of Texas at Austin. In the program, Korean startups are trained in understanding the US market, and developing pitches that convince US investors. They are…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Case Studies, Entrepreneurship, Universities
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Woodside, Joseph M.; Augustine, Fred K., Jr.; Chambers, Valrie; Mendoza, Monica – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2020
This paper develops the structure for an integrative model information systems curriculum on Accounting Analytics, which affords students the opportunities to develop domain knowledge along with application of data analytics. As industry experiences rapid technological change, university curricula must remain current in order to be effective.…
Descriptors: Accounting, Information Systems, Data Analysis, Curriculum Development
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Wynne, Carlise Womack; Satchwell, Deryck – Quality in Higher Education, 2020
This article outlines a case study of creating a system of quality assurance in Belize while also building the capacity of teaching staff in order to support the process of establishing quality standards in tertiary education. This case study outlines the process of establishing the first quality assurance system in the nation's history as well as…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Case Studies, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance
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Goncalves, Zan; Bennett, Thomas; Murray-Chandler, Lynn; Hall, Caroline – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2018
This article describes a multi-institution collaboration to improve student skills in information literacy and inquiry and analysis (as described by the American Association of Colleges & Universities' VALUE rubrics). The project is unique in that it captures the student voice in all phases of the process--from choosing the kind of inquiry…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Information Skills, Skill Development, Inquiry
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