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Xiao-Yin Chen – ProQuest LLC, 2024
It is essential that all students who are interested in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) have the motivational supports to persist in their STEM career trajectories. "STEM role models," or successful individuals in STEM, can be powerful tools to motivate college students towards STEM careers, particularly if students…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Academic Persistence, Role Models, College Students
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Jie Wang; Winai Thongpuban; Saman Asawapoom – Journal of Education and Learning, 2025
The COVID-19 pandemic instigated a global educational crisis, compelling an abrupt transition from traditional in-person instruction to emergency remote teaching. This sudden shift underscored the need for robust learning management models capable of navigating unprecedented disruptions. The objectives of this research were to ascertain the needs…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Secondary Schools
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Kuyini, Ahmed Bawa; Abukari, Abdulai; Rashid, Mohammed Abubakari – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2022
This study explored student teachers' (mentees) and their mentors' perspectives of the mentoring during initial teaching practice in Ghana. Guided by the framework of mentor as role model, peer support and sponsor, a 15-item questionnaire (Mentoring Support Scale) -- premised on four factors -- was combined with two open-ended questions to gather…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Teachers, Cooperating Teachers, Mentors
Bridgot Lynn Loesch – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This qualitative case study explored the perspectives of teachers towards their professional development (PD) in a school with a high population of low-income students. The study focus was driven by critical theory with a unique application of attribution theory as a part of the data analysis. This moved the data analysis beyond simply a…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development, Low Income Students, Program Effectiveness
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Ana Darie; Ciorba Constantin – Journal of Educational Sciences, 2023
As an integral part of the concept of lifelong learning, non formal learning enables adults to acquire the necessary skills to adapt more easily to the ever-changing social life. Concerned with these values, through the lens of the ODD, with reference to Health and well-being, which indicates "ensuring a healthy life and promoting well-being…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Adult Education, Life Style, Health Behavior
Amy Rhodes Brennan – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Decades of research have elucidated the practices associated with effective professional development (PD) for educators, yet evidence suggests that school practices in the United States do not regularly meet these criteria, and even when they do, they may not have the desired effect on student outcomes (Darling-Hammond et al., 2017; Didion et al.,…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Participation, Independent Study, Teacher Role
Linder, Sandra M., Ed.; Lee, Cindy M., Ed.; Stefl, Shannon K., Ed.; High, Karen A., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2023
Faculty in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines face intensifying pressures in the 21st century, including multiple roles as educator, researcher, and entrepreneur. In addition to continuously increasing teaching and service expectations, faculty are engaged in substantive research that requires securing…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Teacher Role, Faculty Development, College Faculty
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Banaian, Esther; Brauner, Sarah; Chandramouli, Harini; Klinger-Logan, Kim; Nadeau, Alice; Philbin, McCleary – PRIMUS, 2022
We detail our experience running an annual four-day workshop at the University of Minnesota, called the Mathematics Project at Minnesota (MPM). The workshop is for undergraduates who come from groups underrepresented in mathematics and aims to increase the participation and success of such groups in the mathematics major at the University. In this…
Descriptors: Workshops, Mathematics Education, Undergraduate Students, Disproportionate Representation
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Moreira, Patricia; Marzabal, Ainoa; Talanquer, Vicente – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2019
Understanding how chemistry teachers' interventions shape the reasoning that students express after a lesson is critical to support prospective and in-service teachers as they work with students' ideas in the classroom. In this qualitative research study, we analysed changes in the reasoning expressed by 10th grade students in a Chilean school in…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Chemistry, Grade 10, Foreign Countries
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Nagovitsyn, Roman S.; Zamolotskikh, Elena G.; Potashova, Irina I.; Rybakova, Lyudmila V. – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2019
The social attractiveness and prestige of the teaching profession over the past twenty years have reached an extremely low level, despite the fact that the teaching profession is declared by the state as one of the most respected, honorable and responsible professions. The presented contradiction determined the purpose of the research: to develop…
Descriptors: Models, Social Status, Professional Identity, Reputation
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Neisler, Otherine Johnson, Ed. – Palgrave Studies on Leadership and Learning in Teacher Education, 2022
This handbook provides a global overview of the design, implementation and assessment of academic development centers within higher education institutions. The current nature of our complex, rapidly changing world makes it imperative that colleges and universities worldwide find ways to educate their students in new and better ways: this is…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Program Design, Program Implementation, Program Evaluation
Chesnut, Colleen E.; Dimitrieska, Vesna – Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, Indiana University, 2018
This brief provides guidance to policymakers and practitioners on the challenges and opportunities of the "dual language immersion" (DLI) model and presents research conducted with teachers and administrators both before and during their first years of implementing new DLI programs in several Indiana school districts. The brief also…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education, Models, English (Second Language)
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Hornby, Garry – Preventing School Failure, 2016
Bullying is a major concern in education worldwide, particularly in countries such as New Zealand that are reported to have high rates of bullying in schools. In this article it is proposed that, in order to effectively prevent or substantially reduce bullying in schools, a systemic approach needs to be adopted, with interventions organized at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bullying, Ecology, Systems Approach
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Nyström, Sofia; Dahlberg, Johanna; Edelbring, Samuel; Hult, Håkan; Abrandt Dahlgren, Madeleine – Studies in Continuing Education, 2017
The increasing complexity of health care practice makes continuing professional development (CPD) essential for health care professionals. Simulation-based training is a CPD activity that is often applied to improve interprofessional collaboration and the quality of care. The aim of this study is to explore simulation as a pedagogical practice for…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Health Services, Professional Development, Simulation
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Moreno, Amanda J. – Childhood Education, 2017
As mindfulness practices become more widely implemented in schools, they are attracting both keen interest and strong criticism. It is important that mindfulness-based programs adhere to sound child development principles, be aligned with the neuroscience of stress, be integrated in a holistic manner by teachers throughout the school day, and…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Ethics, Elementary School Students, Child Development
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