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Cornelius, Jeff; Harris, Felecia – Alabama Journal of Educational Leadership, 2018
The purpose of this study was to investigate graduate educational leadership students' perceptions of academic readiness of content knowledge on the "Praxis" test. The study also sought to determine if statistically significant correlations existed between the different content area categories of the "Praxis" test. Data were…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Readiness, Praxis
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Giombi, Kristen; Wiecha, Jean; Vine, Jackie; Rogers, Victoria W. – American Journal of Health Education, 2018
Background: Let's Go! is a Maine-based, nationally recognized childhood obesity prevention program. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify specific program and school characteristics, policies, and practices associated with schools achieving Let's Go!'s priority strategies for increasing opportunities for healthy eating/active living…
Descriptors: Obesity, Health Programs, Prevention, Institutional Characteristics
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Mike Mimirinis; Annita Ventouris; Elina Wright – British Educational Research Journal, 2024
The persistence of degree-awarding gaps and anti-Black racism warrant an exploration of the quality and effectiveness of academic support offered to Black undergraduate students in British higher education, and how such support is perceived by students. Our phenomenographic study found that Black students' conceptions of academic support range…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Blacks, Student Experience, COVID-19
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Erin Burns; Brian Quinn; Megan Benson – College & Research Libraries, 2024
Discussions about coping, resilience, and mental health accompanied the COVID-19 shutdowns and gradual return to academic and workspaces across the US through 2021. As physical and spiritual practices, yoga and meditation have been shown to help people through adversity and create resilience. Academic librarians were surveyed about yoga and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Academic Libraries, Coping
Cathy Grace; Kathy Thornburg; Sheerah Neal Keith; Max Altman; Allison Boyle – Southern Education Foundation, 2024
Head Start programs in many of the states with higher rates of children living in poverty have received less per-child funding allocations than programs in states with lower rates of children living in poverty for years. Further, the educators who teach these children are vastly underpaid, and their pay is also inequitable among states and…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Federal Programs, Social Services, Resource Allocation
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Maxwell, Nan L.; Person, Ann E. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2016
This chapter discusses challenges to using data in a continuous improvement framework and describes the approaches some community colleges have used to overcome those challenges.
Descriptors: Data, Information Utilization, Educational Improvement, Community Colleges
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Lima Fogaca, Janaina; Lee, Saemi; Joseph, Courtney; Clifford, Dawn E.; Papini, Natalie; Lee, Jonathan S. – Health Education Journal, 2023
Introduction: Peer-led health coaching is a realistic and sustainable way to support health behaviour change on university campuses. Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an effective framework to guide behaviour change conversations in peer health coaching sessions. However, research on the perceptions of peer coaches who provide health coaching…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Health Promotion, Motivation Techniques, Phenomenology
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Yagmur Tuc; Nejdet Karadag – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2023
In this study, it is aimed to evaluate Anadolu University Open Education Faculty Call Center Services Associate Degree Program, which is carried out through open and distance education, according to learner views within the framework of Stufflebeam's Context, Input, Process, Product (CIPP) Evaluation Model and to make suggestions for the…
Descriptors: Open Education, Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation
Vanessa J. Ruggieri – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Degree completion rates have recently dominated national debates regarding the value of higher education (Gagliardi et al., 2018). Inherent in this debate is the issue of how to utilize institutional data to evaluate student performance (Hubbard et al., 2020). This process, known as data-driven decision-making (DDDM), has been studied at four-year…
Descriptors: Data Use, Decision Making, Program Improvement, Community Colleges
Kieran Nduagbo; Carolyn Casale – Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, 2023
This qualitative research study looks at how reflective practices support preservice teachers' professional growth and development and its impacts on their self-efficacy. This study takes place in a regionally recognized south-western Hispanic Serving Institution that serves a high needs school district. Preservice teachers were asked to reflect…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Reflective Teaching, Self Efficacy, Professional Development
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Thomas, Glyn J. – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2019
Facilitating groups in outdoor education can sometimes be very challenging, and self-doubt and the fear of facilitating inadequately add to difficulties that facilitators must sometimes manage. In this paper, I will explore some of the ways by which facilitators contribute to the difficulties they experience and, furthermore, to explore some…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Graduates, Fear, Facilitators (Individuals)
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Thornton, Margaret E.; Barakat, Maysaa; Grooms, Ain A.; Locke, Leslie Ann; Reyes-Guerra, Daniel – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2022
This qualitative study describes and interprets how two educational leadership programs, participants in the UCEA (University Council for Educational Administration) Program Design Network Improvement Community, identified and responded to a problem of practice by focusing on the needs of each program regarding the recruitment, selection,…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Educational Administration, Program Design, Needs Assessment
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Cotter, Gertrude; Bonenfant, Yvon; Butler, Jenny; Caulfield, Marian; Prestwich, Barbara Doyle; Griffin, Rosarii; Khabbar, Sanaa; Mishra, Nita; Hally, Ruth; Murphy, Margaret; Murphy, Orla; O'Sullivan, Maeve; Phelan, Martha; Reidy, Darren; Schneider, Julia C.; Isaloo, Amin Sharifi; Turner, Brian; Usher, Ruth; Sinalo, Caroline Williamson – International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 2022
The Praxis Project, established at University College Cork (UCC), Ireland, in 2018, seeks to assess possible models of best practice with regard to the integration of global citizenship and development education (GCDE) into a cross-disciplinary, cross-campus, interwoven set of subject area pedagogies, policies and practices. This study--the first…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Global Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Ortega-Martínez, Eugenia de los Angeles; Saavedra-Alamillas, César; Rosendahl, Matthew; Sánchez-Hernández, Apolinar – Journal of Information Literacy, 2022
This study analyses the techniques and procedures that were developed and the changes that took place in the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the Autonomous University of Puebla (BUAP), both in Mexico, and the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD), in the United States of America. To face the crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Literacy, Media Literacy, COVID-19
Ashley Altizer – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Teacher retention is an ongoing problem in education, especially in small private schools where resources are limited. The purpose of this study was to evaluate educator perceptions of a new teacher induction and mentoring program to support first-year teachers and improve teacher effectiveness and the retention of new teachers. Cycle 1…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Catholic Educators, Teacher Persistence, Faculty Mobility
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