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Tasha D. Jackson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The College of Technology at Wilmington University launched the Virtual Instructor Pilot Program (VIPP) in Fall 2022 to address the shortage of qualified adjunct instructors for on-campus courses following the COVID-19 pandemic. This study assessed the VIPP's effectiveness by analyzing student academic performance in on-campus courses with remote…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Program Effectiveness, Distance Education, On Campus Students
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Kulmagambetova, Svetlana S.; Iskindirova, Saltanat K.; Kazhiakparova, Zhadyra S.; Bainiyeva, Kulyash T.; Pandya, Chimay – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The present rapid technological progress and the post-crisis period determine the increasing demand for revision of existing concepts and strategies aimed at maintaining global development. This article describes pedagogical technologies, indicates the need to reform the outdated education systems or to reject them completely in order to improve…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Technology, Comparative Analysis, Pilot Projects
Childress, Cameron; Ward, James Dean; Pisacreta, Elizabeth Davidson; Chen, Sunny – ITHAKA S+R, 2022
The accreditation process and the federal role in shaping it are clearly of critical importance for ensuring all students have access to quality postsecondary options. And yet, due to the complexity of the relationship among the federal government, accreditors, and institutions, and the opacity of the accreditation process itself, there is little…
Descriptors: Government Role, Accreditation (Institutions), Access to Education, Educational Quality
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Grainger, Peter; Weir, Katie – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2016
Assessing student learning in university courses is commonly done using a rubric that arranges the assessment criteria and standards descriptors in a matrix style or grid format. This paper introduces an alternative style of grading tool known as the continua model of a guide to making judgements, which arranges assessment criteria based on a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Evaluation, Alternative Assessment
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Starkey-Perret, Rebecca; Belan, Sophie; Lê Ngo, Thi Phuong; Rialland, Guillaume – Research-publishing.net, 2017
This chapter presents and discusses the results of a large-scale pilot study carried out in the context of a task-based, blended-learning Business English programme in the Foreign Languages and International Trade department of a French University . It seeks to explore the effects of pre-task planned Focus on Form (FonF) on accuracy in students'…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Crosson, Pat; Orcutt, Bonnie – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2014
This article describes efforts in Massachusetts and the Multi-State Collaborative to Advance Learning Outcomes Assessment (MSC) to develop a statewide system for learning outcomes assessment that does not rely on standardized testing and that is designed to transcend the traditional tensions and boundaries between campus-based formative and…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Higher Education, Formative Evaluation, Accountability
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Marsil, Dorothy F.; McNamara, Corinne – Journal of American College Health, 2016
Objective: Researchers compared rape victimization based on self-identification to the current federal legal definition in a pilot study of college students. Methods: The sample was comprised of 1,648 (69.8% female; 30.2% male) college students who completed the Sexual Experiences Survey-Short Form Victimization (SES-SFV) online. Results: Based on…
Descriptors: Rape, Pilot Projects, Comparative Analysis, Victims of Crime
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Thakral, Charu; Vasquez, Philip L.; Bottoms, Bette L.; Matthews, Alicia K.; Hudson, Kimberly M.; Whitley, Steven K. – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2016
Research (Gurin, Nagda, & Zúñiga, 2009) on intergroup dialogue (IGD) has primarily focused on student outcomes in traditional semester-long, 3-credit courses, documenting the positive impact IGD has on college students' (a) intergroup understanding, (b) intergroup relationships, (c) intergroup collaboration and action, and (d) perceived…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Freshmen, College Students, Outcomes of Education
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Tiruneh, Dawit Tibebu; Weldeslassie, Ataklti G.; Kassa, Abrham; Tefera, Zinaye; De Cock, Mieke; Elen, Jan – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2016
Identifying effective instructional approaches that stimulate students' critical thinking (CT) has been the focus of a large body of empirical research. However, there is little agreement on the instructional principles and procedures that are theoretically sound and empirically valid to developing both domain-specific and domain-general CT…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Universities, College Students
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Tynan, Belinda; James, Rosalind – Open Praxis, 2013
This paper reports in brief the pilot study, Distance Education Regulatory Frameworks, undertaken by the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) in 2010-2012 and the implications for openness for higher education in Southwest Pacific/South East Asia region nations. The project developed a methodological approach to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Readiness, Pilot Projects
Wagner, Alan; Sun, Ruirui; Zuber, Katie; Strach, Patricia – Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, 2015
This report focuses on one of the State University of New York's (SUNY's) applied learning initiatives that includes work-based activities, e.g., co-ops, internships, work study, and clinical placement (SUNY Works). With funds from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, SUNY asked the Rockefeller Institute of Government to examine applied…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Work Experience Programs, Private Financial Support, Educational Finance
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Hemsley-Brown, Jane; Oplatka, Izhar – International Journal of Educational Management, 2010
Purpose: The paper's purpose is to test: whether there are significant differences between England and Israel, in terms of perceptions of market orientation (MO) in higher education (HE); which MO dimensions (student, competition, intra-functional) indicate more positive attitudes and whether the differences are significant; and the reliability of…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
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Edwards, Daniel; Coates, Hamish; Friedman, Tim – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2013
Australian higher education is currently entering a new phase of growth. Within the remit of this expansion is an express commitment to widen participation in higher education among under-represented groups--in particular those from low socioeconomic backgrounds. This paper argues that one key mechanism for achieving this goal should be the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disproportionate Representation, Socioeconomic Status, Aptitude Tests
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Kooken, Janice; Welsh, Megan E.; McCoach, D. Betsy; Johnston-Wilder, Sue; Lee, Clare – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2016
The Mathematical Resilience Scale measures students' attitudes toward studying mathematics, using three correlated factors: Value, Struggle, and Growth. The Mathematical Resilience Scale was developed and validated using exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses across three samples. Results provide a new approach to gauge the likelihood of…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Student Attitudes, Thinking Skills
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Hamel, Marie-Josee; Caws, Catherine – CALICO Journal, 2010
This article discusses CALL development from both educational and ergonomic perspectives. It focuses on the learner-task-tool interaction, in particular on the aspects contributing to its overall quality, herein called "usability." Two pilot studies are described that were carried out with intermediate to advanced learners of French in two…
Descriptors: Tests, Interaction, Pilot Projects, French
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