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Lukács J., Ágnes; Szabó, Tünde; Huszti, Éva; Komolafe, Cinderella; Ember, Zsolt; Dávid, Beáta – Intercultural Education, 2023
Adapting to the expectations of educational institutions can be difficult for any students, but it is particularly difficult for disadvantaged, first-generation college students with a minority ethnic background. Our case study, employing a social network perspective, examines the role of small peer-communities in the academic adjustment of…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Undergraduate Students, Student Adjustment, Foreign Countries
Zhang, Lixin – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Social network analysis (SNA) is increasingly viewed as a contributing methodology to program evaluation to examine the complexities of social programs and interrelationships within the program networks. Despite the growing literature on the topic, more knowledge is needed to understand how, when, and under what conditions social network analysis…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Network Analysis, Program Evaluation, Health Education
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Sarah Boodt; Charlynne Pullen – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2025
Professional development for the further education sector (FE) in England, whether commissioned by the Education and Training Foundation (ETF), or the Department for Education (DfE), is typically formal learning. There are usually measurable outcomes, and practitioners are asked to identify changes to their practice. The focus on outcomes means…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Social Networks, Continuing Education, Educational Practices
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Wendy Nuis; Mien Segers; Simon Beausaert – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
To keep up with technological advances and macro-economic trends, higher education has increasingly focused on developing students' employability competences through mentoring programs. However, measuring the effectiveness of such mentoring programs has remained difficult, because many mentoring measurements are not validated or grounded in…
Descriptors: Mentors, Employment Potential, College Programs, Higher Education
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Mason, W. Alex; Rentschler, Jamy K.; Habecker, Patrick; Whitbeck, Leslie B. – Prevention Science, 2023
Diffusion can contribute to the spread of preventive intervention effects from participants to non-participants, but best practices for randomized trials prevent contamination of conditions. These practices conflict with cultural values of community benefit, which are salient among American Indians. This study embedded social network measures…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Social Networks, Network Analysis, American Indian Students
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Abirami Thirumanickam; Fiona Rillotta; Ruth Walker; Eleanor Watson; Susan Balandin; Parimala Raghavendra – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2025
People with intellectual disability use social media; however, there are barriers preventing them from using and benefiting from social media to the same extent as others. Some barriers include lack of knowledge, limited skills and inaccessibility. This pilot study used a sequential mixed method design to explore the outcomes of a social media…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Intellectual Disability, Social Media
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Jan A. Yow; Brett A. Criswell; Christine Lotter; Wendy M. Smith; Gregory T. Rushton; Paula Adams; Sally Ahrens; Anna Hutchinson; Greysi Irdam – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2025
This study shares findings from a review of eight science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teacher leader programs across the United States. With limited empirical research in STEM teacher leadership, the goal of the study is to build the research knowledge about STEM teacher leader conceptualization and structure. Results from…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Teacher Leadership, Faculty Development, Graduate Study
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E. Anne York – Journal of Economic Education, 2024
Social media is becoming a more widely used tool to engage students in learning. LinkedIn (linkedin.com) is a professional social networking platform that most college students are encouraged to use, but it is not widely used as an educational tool. In this article, the author describes how LinkedIn was deployed in a principles course to teach…
Descriptors: Social Media, Economics Education, Social Networks, Teaching Methods
Travis Cardoso – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study was to investigate the California Agricultural Teacher Induction Program (CATIP) and examine its effectiveness in California School-Based Agricultural Education. Prior literature about networking and mentorship was reviewed to aid in formulation of the survey questions asked in this quantitative study. Participants for…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Mentors, Agricultural Education, Agriculture Teachers
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Karnopp, Jennifer R. – Voices of Reform, 2020
Regional professional learning networks support school change by linking principals to others engaged in similar change work. While increasingly prevalent, little is known about the factors that contribute to the formation of ties between network members, or how knowledge moves across the network. Using social network analysis, this study examined…
Descriptors: Principals, Social Networks, Network Analysis, Institutional Characteristics
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Evans S. Boadu; Isioma Ile – American Journal of Evaluation, 2024
The notions of indigenous knowledge and cultural philosophies are becoming ubiquitous in many social inquiries, and evaluation is no exception. Nonetheless, the pursuit to embed relevant indigenous philosophies in contemporary evaluation has yet to succeed. In this article, we discuss indigenous relational philosophies, approaches, and practices…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge, African Culture, Cultural Influences
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Greene, Jordan; Seefeldt, Kristin – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2023
Summer Youth Employment Programs (SYEPs) help connect youth to opportunities for career exploration, skill development, and mentorship. Despite heightened investment in SYEPs, research regarding positive impacts is limited. Most of the common SYEP evaluation strategies are rooted in deficit thinking and focus on outcomes such as reducing violent…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Young Adults, Employment Programs, Summer Programs
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Zornes, Deborah; Ferkins, Lesley; Piggot-Irvine, Eileen – Educational Action Research, 2016
The focus of this paper is to share thinking about networks in action research (AR) and to consider their role, purpose, and how networks' outcomes and impacts might be evaluated. Networks are often a by-product of AR projects, yet research focused on the network itself as part of a project is rare. The paper is one of several associated with the…
Descriptors: Action Research, Social Networks, Network Analysis, Program Evaluation
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Guillot-Wright, Shannon; Oliver, Kathryn – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2023
Background: Despite the known need for empirical research-to-policy studies, little is known about the factors and conditions needed to support meaningful evidence use or how to intervene to promote quality evidence use. Aims and objectives: To study research-policy processes empirically and descriptively, we conducted an ethnography that focused…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Policy Formation, Theory Practice Relationship, Evidence Based Practice
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Kretchmar, Kerry; Sondel, Beth; Ferrare, Joseph J. – Educational Policy, 2018
In this article, we illustrate the relationships between Teach For America (TFA) and the deregulation of university-based teacher education programs. We use policy network analysis to create a visual representation of TFA's connections to individuals, organizations, and private corporations who are working to shift the way teachers are prepared.…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Education, Higher Education, Program Evaluation
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