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Stephanie Roach; Jennifer Alvey; Kazuko Hiramatsu – Assessment Update, 2024
In this article, the authors contribute to the conversation on High Impact Practice (HIPs) focusing on the connection between sense of accomplishment and what is high impact by discussing data from their study of signature assignments. Signature assignments are assignments within a single course or unit that give students choice, require synthesis…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Assignments, Student Attitudes, Reflection
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Grigoropoulos, Iraklis – Contemporary School Psychology, 2023
Educators have a critical role in enhancing children's play interests within the classroom by determining the actions and context of their play. This study examined personal and professional characteristics associated with educators' self-reported play engagement preferences using a sample of Greek early childhood educators. One hundred…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Play, Foreign Countries, Preschool Education
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Álvarez-Huerta, Paula; Muela, Alexander; Larrea, Inaki – Innovative Higher Education, 2023
Developing student critical thinking skills is a core purpose of higher education, and requires the cognitive and disposition components of critical thinking to be fostered. The present study aims to examine the relationship between disposition towards critical thinking and engagement in higher education students. Participants were 836 students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Critical Thinking
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Laura S. Miller – Journal of Educational Supervision, 2023
There is immense pressure on school leaders to show evidence of continual school improvement. To drive these improvement efforts, there are essential considerations when planning for implementation, specifically the development of a system that supports reflective practices to increase teacher autonomy and improved student outcomes. The research…
Descriptors: Supervision, Reflection, Educational Practices, Teacher Attitudes
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Rubkwan Thammaboosadee – Designs for Learning, 2025
This paper examines the practical application of "Stardust Odyssey: City's Last Stand," a tabletop game designed to support experiential learning about socio-economic inequality within Thailand's neoliberal education system. Anchored in Process Drama and Design-Based Research (DBR), the study explores how the game operates as an…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Educational Games, Foreign Countries, Drama
Laura Susan Miller – ProQuest LLC, 2022
There is immense pressure on school leaders as they grapple with their responsibilities to show constant evidence of school improvement. School improvement describes a process that identifies school changes needed to improve student outcomes and shows how and when the level of student outcomes will be made. There are essential considerations when…
Descriptors: Supervision, Reflection, Educational Practices, Teacher Attitudes
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Southall, Anne E.; Baxter, Lindy P.; Gardner, Fiona – Australian Journal of Education, 2023
Trauma-informed practice in education applies neuroscientific knowledge of the profound impact of early childhood trauma on learning and emphasises the central role of the student-teacher relationship in recovery. In adopting trauma-informed understandings, teachers are required to change their current practices and strengthen their relationships…
Descriptors: Trauma, Trauma Informed Approach, Comprehension, Educational Practices
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Moore, Jessie L. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2021
Elon University's Center for Engaged Learning facilitates multidisciplinary and multi-institutional scholarship of teaching and learning collaborations that now collectively represent over 200 scholars from over 120 institutions across more than a dozen countries. The collaborations have explored issues of engaged learning, in and beyond the…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Learner Engagement, Prior Learning, Student Experience
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Fierke, Kerry K.; Lepp, Gardner A. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2020
This mixed method study explores how a simple educational practice known as Intention/Reflection (I/R) may be applied to student leadership development to facilitate transformational learning. The study included Pharm.D. students within a leadership elective course (n=242) across five years of courses (fall 2014 to fall 2018). Further research was…
Descriptors: Intention, Reflection, Learner Engagement, Educational Practices
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Andrea Laser; Serra Acar; Karen Brown; Katherine B. Green; Lindsey A. Chapman; Chelsea T. Morris; Lauren Hart Rollins; Annie George-Puskar; Monica Gonzalez; Alesia Mickle Moldavan; Kathy R. Doody; Katrina Fulcher-Rood; Pamela Schuetze; Kaitlin Jackson; Bradley Mills; Lindsay R. Dennis; Tai Cole; Kelly Farquharson; Marisa Macy – Journal of Special Education Preparation, 2024
The personnel preparation of early intervention/early childhood special educator (EI/ECSE) candidates is a pivotal stage in supporting the development of professionals who can effectively work with young children with and at-risk of developmental disabilities, their families, and other service providers. This process encompasses a multifaceted…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, At Risk Students, Early Childhood Education, Special Education Teachers
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Reeve, Julia – Higher Education Pedagogies, 2019
This self-reflective conversation looks back on my experiences as an Art & Design practitioner delivering a workshop at the HEA STEM Conference. The focus is on one technique, Reframing, as part of a wider discussion of the way that creative practice can enhance student engagement. The conversation explores different applications of the…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Teaching Methods, Learner Engagement, Reflection
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McClellan, Fletcher; Kopko, Kyle Casimir; Gruber, Kayla L. – Journal of Political Science Education, 2021
Part of a broader movement to promote student engagement in educational activities, high-impact practices (HIPs) are purported to deepen learning through such activities as first-year seminars, internships, community-based learning, capstone experiences, study abroad, and research with faculty. Within political science, HIPs are key to efforts to…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Political Science, Learner Engagement, Student Attitudes
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Johnston, Bill; MacNeill, Sheila; Smyth, Keith – Digital Education and Learning, 2018
Despite the increasing ubiquity of the term, the concept of the digital university remains diffuse and indeterminate. This book examines what the term 'digital university' should encapsulate and the resulting challenges, possibilities and implications that digital technology and practice brings to higher education. Critiquing the current state of…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Higher Education, Holistic Approach
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Everett, Michele C. – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
This article reports on a qualitative study that explored the learning outcomes from an innovative instructional method, visual narratives, used in a first-year seminar. Fifty-three students enrolled in a mandatory first semester student success course were instructed to use visual images to tell the story of the first-year experience. Data…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Well Being, Qualitative Research, Visual Aids
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Nagle, James; Taylor, Don – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2017
In 2013 the Vermont legislature enacted Act 77 mandating that students in Grades 7-12 develop personalized learning plans (PLPs) to guide them toward high school graduation using proficiency-based requirements. In the present qualitative self-study, we document the impact of implementation of a personal learning framework integrating PLPs into a…
Descriptors: Humanities Instruction, Educational Practices, Constructivism (Learning), Integrated Activities
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