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Direct linkMcCray, Carissa – Professional Development in Education, 2018
The purpose of this research was to investigate secondary teachers' perceptions of professional development. Results indicated that although teachers perceive professional development as a tool for learning, teacher leadership, data analysis, and collaboration are needed to increase its effectiveness. Results of teachers' perceptions may be used…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development, Qualitative Research
Download full textMuseus, Samuel D.; Ravello, Joanna N. – NACADA Journal, 2021
Racial and ethnic minority student departure continues to be a major concern for higher education researchers, policy makers, and practitioners. We explore the role that academic advisors play in facilitating success among students of color at predominantly White institutions that have demonstrated effectiveness at generating ethnic minority…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Ethnic Groups, Minority Groups, Success
Behney, Jennifer – Foreign Language Annals, 2016
The Education Teaching Performance Assessment (edTPA) is a performance assessment of teacher effectiveness that is increasingly used to make decisions about licensure for teacher candidates, including candidates seeking certification in world languages. Because of the high-stakes nature of this assessment, it is important to isolate and better…
Descriptors: Cooperating Teachers, Performance Based Assessment, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Certification
Ma, Colleen; Harris, Peter; Cole, Andrew; Jones, Phil; Shulruf, Boaz – Issues in Educational Research, 2016
The objectives of this study were to identify the effectiveness of the panel admission interview as a selection tool for the medical program and identify improvements in the selection tools battery. Data from 1024 students, representing four cohorts of students were used in this study. Exploratory factor analysis using principal component analysis…
Descriptors: Interviews, Medical Education, College Admission, Admission Criteria
Cartwright, Angie D.; Avent-Harris, Janeé R.; Munsey, Rebecca Beck; Lloyd-Hazlett, Jessica – Counselor Education and Supervision, 2018
The authors used transcendental phenomenology to explore the campus interview experiences and diversity concerns of counselor education faculty from underrepresented populations. Six themes were identified: issues of integrity, disappointment in the counseling profession, importance of authenticity, intersectionality of major identity markers,…
Descriptors: Interviews, Phenomenology, Minority Group Students, Disproportionate Representation
Kiley, Margaret; Holbrook, Allyson; Lovat, Terence; Fairbairn, Hedy; Starfield, Sue; Paltridge, Brian – Australian Universities' Review, 2018
While there has been considerable research on doctoral examination there is little that examines the various roles of the oral component and what issues one might consider if introducing or revising that aspect of the thesis examination process. This matter is of particular importance in Australia where it is not usual to have an oral component as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Dissertations, Evaluation Methods, Verbal Tests
Xiaoqin, Liu – English Language Teaching, 2017
Based on four maxims of Grice's cooperative principle framework, a small-scale study is conducted to examine the communication strategies employed by experienced ground service staff. Data have been collected from questionnaires and in-depth interviews with Chinese domestic airlines' ground staff. This study identifies that the communicative…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, Questionnaires, Interviews, Air Transportation
Omdal, Heidi – Journal of Educational Change, 2018
The being together intervention intends to raise teacher capacity in Norwegian Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) institutions and promote social and emotional development in preschoolers by implementing an authoritative (warm and predictable) adult style in the institution. An authoritative adult balances between building up high quality…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Capacity Building, Intervention, Child Care Centers
Ragasa, Catherine; Ulimwengu, John; Randriamamonjy, Josee; Badibanga, Thaddee – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2016
Purpose: As part of the institutional reforms and agricultural restructuring in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), this paper provides an assessment of the performance of the agricultural extension system as well as factors explaining it. Method: This paper involves key informants' interviews and surveys of 107 extension organizations and 162…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Performance Factors, Rural Extension, Evidence
Heystek, Jan – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2014
Principals, as one of the professional leaders in a school, are accountable for the quality of education in the school. This is a part of the normal job description and expectations for the person in such a post. In the South African context with a large number of underperforming schools, there is an intention to have an additional performance…
Descriptors: Principals, Performance Contracts, Administrator Attitudes, Motivation Techniques
Soruç, Adem; Griffiths, Carol – ELT Journal, 2018
Although English-medium instruction (EMI) is now widely spread throughout the world, there is surprisingly little research into the challenges students face as they try to learn subject matter by means of a non-native language, or how learners attempt to address these challenges. The study reported in this article employed a qualitative approach,…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Qualitative Research, Video Technology
Barfod, Karen S. – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2018
Children today spend an increasing amount of time indoors, depriving them of the benefits of a more active outdoor life. In Scandinavia, regularly performed teaching outside the classroom, known as "udeskole", is growing in prevalence. This paper examines experienced teachers' perceptions of "udeskole", with the aim of…
Descriptors: Professional Isolation, Experienced Teachers, Teaching Experience, Outdoor Education
Sugrue, Erin P.; Zuel, Timothy; LaLiberte, Traci – Children & Schools, 2016
Chronic school absenteeism among elementary school-age students is gaining attention from researchers and policymakers because of its relationship to long-term negative educational outcomes. Current literature on effective interventions, however, is limited in terms of the number of studies that have found even marginally effective interventions,…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Attendance, Elementary School Students, Intervention
Leal Filho, Walter; Brandli, Luciana Londero; Becker, Deisi; Skanavis, Constantina; Kounani, Aristea; Sardi, Chrysoula; Papaioannidou, Dimitra; Paço, Arminda; Azeiteiro, Ulisses; de Sousa, Luiza Olim; Raath, Schalk; Pretorius, Rudi Wessel; Shiel, Christine; Vargas, Valeria; Trencher, Gregory; Marans, Robert W. – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2018
Purpose: There is a widely held belief that sustainable development (SD) policies are essential for universities to successfully engage in matters related to sustainability, and are an indicator of the extent to which they are active in this field. This paper aims to examine the evidence which currently exists to support this assumption. It…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Sustainability, Universities, School Policy
Nagle, Courtney; Casey, Stephanie; Moore-Russo, Deborah – School Science and Mathematics, 2017
This paper brings together research on slope from mathematics education and research on line of best fit from statistics education by considering what knowledge of slope students transfer to a novel task involving determining the placement of an informal line of best fit. This study focuses on two students who transitioned from placing inaccurate…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Transfer of Training, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Education
