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Martha C. Inouye; Clare I. Gunshenan – Teacher Development, 2024
In the United States, science education has experienced substantial shifts in the last decade. For in-service teachers, professional development programs (PDPs) play an important role in reform success. Despite well-known core features of effective PDPs, research still suggests a range of results among programs that claim to use those features. An…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Educational Change, Science Education, Construct Validity
Marla R. Cobb – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative case study provided insight into the effectiveness of rural school leaders' implementation practices during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study addressed the need for knowledge regarding school administrators' and educators' perspectives on the practice changes necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This qualitative case study aimed…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, COVID-19, Pandemics, Teacher Attitudes
Laura Jarrell; Dale Kirby – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2024
Purpose: This paper aims to examine the roles of quality managers at community colleges, their experiences balancing accountability and improvement and their insights into the future of quality assurance. Design/methodology/approach: This phenomenological, qualitative study used semi-structured interviews with eight community college quality…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Foreign Countries, Quality Assurance, Administrators
Darice M. Balizan – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Principals of low-performing schools in northern New Mexico lack adequate professional development to improve student outcomes. Exploration of experiences in the professional development program, Principals Pursuing Excellence, studied the lived phenomena of 12 rural northeastern turnaround school leaders through the conceptual framework of…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Principals, Low Achievement, Professional Development
Gomez, Ana Karen; Cobian, Krystle Palma; Hurtado, Sylvia – Education Sciences, 2021
STEM transformation has been a longstanding goal for higher education institutions who not only wish to maintain global economic competitiveness but most recently have also aimed efforts at achieving STEM equity. While researchers have typically looked to students' and faculty's experiences for answers, STEM program directors possess great insight…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Administrators, Administrator Attitudes, Program Effectiveness
Simon, Susan; Heck, Deborah; Christie, Michael; Farragher, Yvonne – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2021
The tsunami of global educational reform in the past decade has led to national, regional and school-based policy redevelopment to elevate teaching standards, enrich student learning and improve results. Consequently, principals are frequently charged with leading mandated pedagogical reform in their schools. Building on earlier research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Instructional Leadership, Transformational Leadership
Doss, Christopher Joseph; Akinniranye, Goke – RAND Corporation, 2019
School reform has become an umbrella term for initiatives and programs that aim to improve school functioning and student outcomes. Many researchers and educators have noted the emergence of a "school reform churn." New initiatives and programs are adopted, only to be dropped when the next popular reform emerges. Although experimenting…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Improvement, Principals
Genlott, Annika Agélii; Grönlund, Åke; Viberg, Olga; Andersson, Annika – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
Digitalizing school is a process that comes with challenges. It requires strategic leadership and transformational change to work processes. Nevertheless, some succeed, and it is useful to understand what makes for success. This paper studies the challenges of leading digitalization of education in a city which decided to implement an IT-supported…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Innovation, Barriers
Innabi, Hanan; Emanuelsson, Jonas – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2021
This study presents a case of a problem that did not originate in theory but rather ended in theory. It addresses the issue of the prevalent, traditional public view of the nature of mathematics and that of its teaching and learning that might hamper mathematics reform. In this study, we present a five-day professional development programme that…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Role Perception
Louise Fullard; Charl Wolhuter; Aaron Nhlapo; Hennie Steyn – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2024
This paper investigates the challenges, mitigation strategies and transformative approaches in educational programme delivery in South African education amidst the adverse influence of the pandemic in schools' Further Education and Training phase with a focus on the integration of technology-enhanced effective teaching and learning; using data…
Descriptors: Secondary School Curriculum, Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics
Eliot Levine – Aurora Institute, 2024
The Mastery-Based Learning Collaborative (MBLC) is a demonstration project taking place in 47 schools across Washington to help decision makers understand what quality mastery-based (or competency-based) learning looks like, how long it takes to implement, and what resources are necessary. The schools receive funding, coaching, and professional…
Descriptors: Mastery Learning, Program Descriptions, Decision Making, Educational Quality
Lin, Wan-Ting – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2021
A skills gap from theoretical knowledge to practical application is always a critical issue in Taiwan's education field. The launch of 12-year Basic Education Curriculum and the emergence of the educational innovation industry arouse the awareness of project-based competency-oriented curriculum design. Introducing design thinking into the…
Descriptors: Design, Thinking Skills, Educational Innovation, Curriculum Design
Ashour, Sanaa; El-Refae, Ghaleb A.; Zaitoun, Eman A. – Higher Education for the Future, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented an opportunity to rethink higher education. This study focused on analysing experiences from three higher education institutions (HEIs) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) since the onset of the crisis and explored how university leaders and professors in these institutions imagine post-COVID-19 higher education.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Higher Education
Grinkevich, Yulia; Kuskova, Valentina; Shabanova, Maria – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2020
Using the case study of HSE University (Russian Federation), this article will focus on how professional development programmes can be used by universities to ensure transformations and achieve their goals. It will focus on the administrative (professional services) staff and how universities can develop and leverage their potential in order to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Universities, Problem Solving, College Administration
Kindred, Donna Michelle – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The 21st-century job description for school principals requires greater areas of leadership and accountability utilizing student data to improve instruction as mandated by state legislative reforms. The Principal's accountability is measured using the principal evaluation system. The general problem is that many principal evaluation systems are…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Effectiveness, Educational Change