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Direct linkAndrene J. Castro; Taryn Goodwin Traylor – Teachers College Record, 2024
Background and Context: Teacher licensure and certification are complex processes that aim to establish standards of teacher quality by regulating entry into the profession. However, many teachers of color experience barriers when navigating licensure and certification. Purpose: Using racialized administrative burdens as a theoretical lens to…
Descriptors: Teacher Certification, Licensing Examinations (Professions), Minority Group Teachers, Barriers
Aydarova, Elena; Rigney, James; Dana, Nancy – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2021
As attacks on teacher education mount, teacher educators have been urged to take a more active part in policy deliberations. Yet the question of how teacher educators get their voices heard in policy contexts that are not receptive to their expertise remains underinvestigated. This qualitative case study addresses this gap by exploring the work of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Teacher Educators, Advocacy, Neoliberalism
Tobi Fox Baldwin – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Physical therapy educational researchers have studied various factors that may or may not predict success on the National Physical Therapy Examination (NPTE). One factor that has not been studied extensively is the use of the Academic Practice Examination and Assessment Tool (APEAT) as a formative assessment. The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables, Physical Therapy, Licensing Examinations (Professions)
Gail Russell Buffalo – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Growing national attention to the importance of early childhood education (ECE) has led many cities and states to abandon debates pertaining to whether and for whom Pre-Kindergarten (PK) should be available in favor of the establishment of Universal PK (UPK). UPK programs have been framed as an investment in human capital to improve standards and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Certification, Teacher Effectiveness, Minority Group Teachers
Laurie Bernadette Midgette – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The diminishing number of African American teachers in our nation's classrooms is a growing concern. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine how African American public charter school teachers with full, partial, or uncertified status describe their experiences of equity and access regarding compulsory teacher licensure exams.…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Licensing Examinations (Professions), African American Teachers, Disproportionate Representation
Anders, Michael E.; Vuk, Jasna; Rhee, Sung W. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2022
Retrieval practice improves long-term retention. Use of interactive retrieval practice in large group, in-person and online live classes, in combination with outside resources, is unreported for medical physiology classes. The primary study purpose was to compare student cohorts' performance with or without retrieval practice in renal physiology…
Descriptors: Physiology, Medical Students, Drills (Practice), Scores
Tracie Lee Thornton – ProQuest LLC, 2022
To practice physical therapy, physical therapist assistants (PTAs) must graduate from an accredited program and pass the National Physical Therapy Examination (NPTE). There is a lack of evidence exploring the relationships between admission processes in PTA programs with no pre-requisites. The first purpose of this study was to determine whether…
Descriptors: Success, Physical Therapy, Allied Health Personnel, Allied Health Occupations Education
Fursenko, Tetiana – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2018
The article sets out peculiar features of attaining the CERA credential from the Canadian Institute of Actuaries. The analysis results show that there are scores of ways available to candidates perusing the aim of becoming a CERA. There have been singled out the main models following which it is possible to get the designation which is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Certification, Insurance Occupations, Licensing Examinations (Professions)
Grad, Roland; Leger, Daniel; Kaczorowski, Janusz; Schuster, Tibor; Adler, Samara; Aman, Marya; Archibald, Douglas; Beaulieu, Marie-Claude; Chmelicek, John; Cornelissen, Evelyn; Delleman, Bethany; Hadj-Mimoune, Sonia; Horvey, Samantha; Macaluso, Steven; Mintsioulis, Stephen; Murdoch, Stuart; Ng, Brian; Papineau, Alain; Rangwala, Sohil; Rousseau, Mathieu; Rudkin, Teresa; Schabort, Inge; Schultz, Karen; Snow, Pamela; Wong, Eric; Wu, Pearson; Brailovsky, Carlos – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2021
Spaced education is a learning strategy to improve knowledge acquisition and retention. To date, no robust evidence exists to support the utility of spaced education in the Family Medicine residency. We aimed to test whether alerts to encourage spaced education can improve clinical knowledge as measured by scores on the Canadian Family Medicine…
Descriptors: Graduate Medical Education, Graduate Students, Medical Students, Family Practice (Medicine)
Bezirhan, Ummugul; von Davier, Matthias; Grabovsky, Irina – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2021
This article presents a new approach to the analysis of how students answer tests and how they allocate resources in terms of time on task and revisiting previously answered questions. Previous research has shown that in high-stakes assessments, most test takers do not end the testing session early, but rather spend all of the time they were…
Descriptors: Response Style (Tests), Accuracy, Reaction Time, Ability
Lemons, Janet Rhea – ProQuest LLC, 2021
There is a need for nurses throughout the country. Nursing program administrators need evidence-based admission criteria to determine the best applicants to admit to nursing programs. The problem to be addressed is the inability to determine which of the many preadmission criteria are predictive of success in nursing programs. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Admission Criteria, Nursing Students, Evidence Based Practice
Download full textMorris, Tama Lynn – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2019
There are over 4 million Registered Nurses in the United States (National Council of State Boards of Nursing, 2019). To become a practicing registered nurse, one must graduate from approved educational program, pass a licensure examination, and meet the requirements of licensure in their state of residence. Despite a common licensure examination,…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Licensing Examinations (Professions), Bachelors Degrees, Employment Qualifications
Qunbar, Sa'ed Ali – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This work presents a study that used distributed language representations of test items to model test item difficulty. Distributed language representations are low-dimensional numeric representations of written language inspired and generated by artificial neural network architecture. The research begins with a discussion of the importance of item…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Test Items, Difficulty Level, Models
Oducado, Ryan Michael F.; Sotelo, Marianne G.; Ramirez, Liza Marie M.; Habaña, Maylin P.; Belo-Delariarte, Rosana Grace – Online Submission, 2020
Background: Studies have shown that various factors influence students' success in nursing school and the Nurse Licensure Examination (NLE). Such factors should be studied as foundations of the nursing programs. Problems with proficiency in the language used by the instructor to teach curricular courses may be considered a barrier to effective…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Nursing Students, Nursing Education
Natalie Tagge; Courtney Eger; Gregory Laynor – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2024
Students in STEM and the health sciences have unique learning needs, including preparation for exams required for entering a STEM or health sciences profession. Students in these areas thus often seek, in addition to or instead of traditional course materials and library resources, digital study tools that utilize techniques such as spaced…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Library Role, Equal Education, Library Materials
