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Daenique H. A. Jengelley; Tess D. Weathers; Dustin O. Lynch; Morgan E. Ness; Luis Garcia; Gina E. Claxton; J. Dennis Fortenberry; Tamara S. Hannon – Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, 2025
Medical education may lack experiential training on authentic community engagement (CE). Employing a human-centered design approach with medical faculty and students to identify goals, opportunities, needs, and barriers to implementing CE research, we developed an Experiential Community Engagement Learning Series (EXCELS) pilot program. EXCELS…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Experiential Learning, School Community Relationship, Research Design
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Munir Moosa Sadruddin – Journal of Peace Education, 2025
This study presents the design and pilot of the environmental education course with one of the communities, living under environmental emergencies in Pakistan. The study employs the case study as a research approach. Community-based participatory research is used as a method. Forty participants are selected from one of the communities in Hunza,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Natural Disasters, Peace
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Barnow, Burt S.; Greenberg, David H. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2020
This paper reviews the use of multiple trials, defined as multiple sites or multiple arms in a single evaluation and replications, in evaluating social programs. After defining key terms, the paper discusses the rationales for conducting multiple trials, which include increasing sample size to increase statistical power; identifying the most…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Randomized Controlled Trials, Experiments, Replication (Evaluation)
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Jara, Magdalena – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2021
Supervisors play a crucial role in helping doctoral students to successfully complete their degree. Current practice in the development of doctoral supervisors is mostly focused on regulatory issues rather than on pedagogical topics. Existing research suggests a range of successful strategies for supervisor training including the development of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Students, Supervision
World Education Services, 2018
World Education Services (WES) is a non-profit organization with over 40 years of experience in assessing academic credentials from more than 200 countries and jurisdictions and 40,000 educational institutions. Because many refugees are unable to obtain verifiable documents, the assessment of their qualifications calls for a different approach…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Pilot Projects, Credentials
UK Department for Education, 2021
In 2017, the government launched Career Learning Pilots in order to test the design and provision of various training approaches for working adults with low to intermediate skills. As part of this initiative, the Department for Education provided approximately £11.3 million in funding to pilot projects that offered flexible and accessible ways of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pilot Projects, Adult Students, Student Participation
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Zoi Simopoulou; Alette Willis; Lorena Georgiadou – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2022
Opportunities for working, volunteering, and studying abroad have become popular in higher education as vehicles for the development of cultural awareness and global citizenship. However, such experiences on their own do not guarantee the development of such attributes. What appears to be essential to maximizing the benefits of educational…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Study Abroad, Cultural Awareness, Global Approach
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Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest, 2018
Research shows that teachers affect student learning more than any other factor. The Educator Effectiveness Research Alliance, a collaborative partnership of educators, policymakers, and researchers, seeks to improve educator quality through research and analytic technical support. Initially focused on Texas, the alliance has expanded to include…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Partnerships in Education, Teacher Improvement, Educational Quality
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Morrill, Janet – Accounting Education, 2019
Internationally educated professionals (IEPs) encounter significant barriers to entry to their professions upon immigrating. Obtaining education in the new country is an effective means of improving their positions. While universities emphasize the need to attract and serve adult learners and a more diverse clientele, the specific needs of…
Descriptors: Accounting, Foreign Students, College Students, Transitional Programs
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Schindler, Holly S.; Fisher, Philip A.; Shonkoff, Jack P. – Child Development, 2017
This article presents a description of how an interdisciplinary network of academic researchers, community-based programs, parents, and state agencies have joined together to design, test, and scale a suite of innovative intervention strategies rooted in new knowledge about the biology of adversity. Through a process of cocreation, collective…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Educational Researchers, Educational Innovation, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Siller, Michael; Morgan, Lindee; Turner-Brown, Lauren; Baggett, Kathleen M.; Baranek, Grace T.; Brian, Jessica; Bryson, Susan E.; Carter, Alice S.; Crais, Elizabeth R.; Estes, Annette; Kasari, Connie; Landa, Rebecca J.; Lord, Catherine; Messinger, Daniel S.; Mundy, Peter; Odom, Samuel L.; Reznick, J. Steven; Roberts, Wendy; Rogers, Sally J.; Schertz, Hannah H.; Smith, Isabel M.; Stone, Wendy L.; Watson, Linda R.; Wetherby, Amy M.; Yoder, Paul J.; Zwaigenbaum, Lonnie – Journal of Early Intervention, 2013
Given recent advances in science, policy, and practice of early identification in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), questions about the effectiveness of early intervention have far-reaching service and policy implications. However, rigorous research evaluating the efficacy and effectiveness of intervention programs for toddlers with ASD faces a…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Intervention, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism
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Johnson, Matt; Sprowles, Amy; Overeem, Katlin; Rich, Angela – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2013
A place-based learning community called "Klamath Connection" was designed to improve the academic performance of freshman in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) majors at Humboldt State University, a midsize public institution in a location geographically and culturally unfamiliar to the majority of its students. The…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, College Freshmen, State Universities, Academic Achievement
New Leaders for New Schools (NJ1), 2011
New Leaders for New Schools created the Effective Practice Incentive Community (EPIC) initiative in 2006 to learn from educators driving achievement gains in high-need urban schools. EPIC identifies school leaders and teachers whose students are making significant achievement gains and financially rewards these educators in exchange for sharing…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Leadership Training, Principals, Assistant Principals
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Fayolle, Alain; Gailly, Benoit; Lassas-Clerc, Narjisse – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2006
Purpose: Facing the multiplication of entrepreneurship education programmes (EEP) and the increasing resources allocated, there is a need to develop a common framework to evaluate the design of those programmes. The purpose of this article is to propose such a framework, based on the theory of planned behaviour (TPB). Design/methodology/approach:…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Instructional Design, Program Design, Training Methods
Pfnister, Allan O. – North Central Association Quarterly, 1973
This project, undertaken as a pilot study, was a joint venture of the seven commissions on higher education of the six regional accrediting associations in the United States. In total, ten programs were reviewed in Madrid and two programs in Strasbourg. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Evaluation Methods, Orientation, Pilot Projects
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