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Caterina B. Azzarello; Ashlee Kemp; Kevin Pugh – Journal of Educational Research and Innovation, 2024
This study examines teachers' beliefs about Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the U.S. educational system. Given the controversy surrounding CRT, understanding these beliefs is crucial for informing professional development, curriculum design, and instructional strategies. The study employed an online survey to assess over sixty U.S. preservice and…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Educational Practices, Beliefs, Preservice Teachers
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Geesa, Rachel Louise; Stith, Krista M.; Rose, Mary A. – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2022
Higher education institutions in the United States with graduate-level educational leadership programs traditionally do not offer professional learning opportunities in integrative STEM education. The objective of this paper is to share our journey to prepare and implement a course designed for P-12 educational leaders to build knowledge and…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, STEM Education, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Implementation
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Hew, Khe Foon – Teachers College Record, 2018
Background/Context: The advent of massive open online courses (MOOCs) has fueled much attention among educators. However, despite the high interest they generate, we still understand little about student engagement in these large-scale online courses. Existing studies tend to focus on how MOOCs affect higher education institutions in terms of…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Educational Strategies, Learner Engagement
Edmunds, Julie; Gicheva, Dora; Thrift, Beth; Hull, Marie – SERVE Center at University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2019
This report presents the findings from an external evaluation of Project COMPASS, an effort by Wake Technical Community College to redesign community college online courses to improve outcomes, particularly for students of color. The evaluation used a randomized controlled trial in which students were randomly assigned to course sections taught by…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Program Evaluation, Online Courses, Curriculum Design
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Thompson, J. Ray; Ballenger, Julia N.; Templeton, Nathan R. – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2018
The purpose of this descriptive qualitative study was to examine the quality elements of online learning in a regional doctoral program. Utilizing the six quality dimensions of Hathaway's (2009) theory of online learning quality as a framework, the study investigated instructor-learner, learner-learner, learner-content, leaner-interface,…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Higher Education, Online Courses, Doctoral Programs
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Miller, J. Jay; Grise-Owens, Erlene; Escobar-Ratliff, Laura – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2015
Licensing has been a dynamic tension for the social work profession for many years, specifically in social work education. Increasingly, social work programs are using factors related to social work licensing (pass rates, number of test takers, etc.) as an indicator of programmatic success. Yet few, if any, published papers examine curricular…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Social Work, Licensing Examinations (Professions), Curriculum Design
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Watson, Kevin; Agawa, Grant – JALT CALL Journal, 2013
The importance of a structured learning framework or interrelated frameworks is the cornerstone of a solid English as a foreign language (EFL) computer-assisted language learning (CALL) curriculum. While the benefits of CALL are widely promoted in the literature, there is often an endemic discord separating theory and practice. Oftentimes the…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Integrated Curriculum, English (Second Language), Computer Assisted Instruction
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Bailey, Cheryl P.; Minderhout, Vicky; Loertscher, Jennifer – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2012
As research-based, active learning approaches become more common in biochemistry classrooms, the large lecture course remains the most challenging to transform. Here, we provide a case study demonstrating how process oriented guided inquiry learning (POGIL) can be implemented in a large class taught in a traditional lecture hall. Course structure…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Active Learning, Biochemistry, Data Analysis
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Teodorescu, Raluca E.; Bennhold, Cornelius; Feldman, Gerald; Medsker, Larry – European Journal of Physics Education, 2014
We present the most recent steps undertaken to reform the introductory algebra-based course at The George Washington University. The reform sought to help students improve their problem-solving performance. Our pedagogy relies on didactic constructs such as the" GW-ACCESS problem-solving protocol," "instructional sequences" and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Science Course Improvement Projects, Science Curriculum, Curriculum Development
Bruce-Davis, Micah N.; Gubbins, E. Jean; Gilson, Cindy M.; Villanueva, Merzili; Foreman, Jennifer L.; Rubenstein, Lisa DaVia – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2014
The present qualitative study was conducted in response to federal initiatives aimed at increasing the number of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) schools in the United States; and to better understand STEM high school administrators', teachers', and students' perceptions of the characteristics of the curricular and…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, STEM Education, Administrators, Secondary School Teachers
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Fenwick, Lisl; Endicott, Michele; Quinn, Marie; Humphrey, Sally – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
Teacher education is effective when pre-service teachers are able to transfer knowledge from content areas to practice. This study investigates the extent to which curriculum and assessment designs, along with teaching practices, supported pre-service teachers to transfer knowledge gained about language from a first-year course into a second-year…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Teaching Methods, Curriculum Design, Student Evaluation
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Chen, Jie-Qi; Masur, Ann; McNamee, Gillian – Early Child Development and Care, 2011
Recognising school readiness as a national priority, the National Education Goals Panel identified the development of young children's approaches to learning as essential for achieving readiness. Approaches to learning include inclinations, attitudes, and learning styles. Despite wide agreement that learning approaches are critical for school…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Sociocultural Patterns, Preschool Children, Kindergarten
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Fleischmann, Kenneth R.; Robbins, Russell W.; Wallace, William A. – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2011
How can we prepare information systems students to face the ethical challenges of a globalized world? This paper describes a three-step approach for addressing these challenges. First, we have designed undergraduate and graduate information ethics courses that expand the range of learning of ethical theories beyond the traditional Western canon to…
Descriptors: Information Systems, Ethics, Information Science Education, Information Technology
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Leland, Christine H.; Harste, Jerome C.; Davis, Abby; Haas, Celeste; McDaniel, Kathryn; Parsons, Mitzi; Strawmyer, Melinda – Journal of Reading Education, 2003
Considers how a critical literacy perspective encourages readers to use language as a tool for interrogating and critiquing the difficult things that happen in the world around them. Reports the findings of five teacher education interns who explored the use of critical literacy text sets with elementary and middle school children. Describes…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Curriculum Design, Educational Strategies, Elementary Education
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Lawson, Kenneth H. – Studies in Adult Education, 1973
Article explores some of the issues involved in a consideration of educational objectives. (Editor)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Concept Formation, Curriculum Design, Decision Making
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