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Elizabeth Victoria Tinius – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Due to several factors including advances in technology and the global pandemic, online and virtual professional development (OPD) opportunities have rapidly increased in demand and number. Uncertainty has surfaced as to whether the quality of the content of OPD is as high as the quality of content of in-person professional development in-person.…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Quality, Faculty Development
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Khalidi, Rana; Ramsey, John – Environmental Education Research, 2021
This study investigates climate change perceptions of secondary science teachers in a Blue state and a Red state. A total of 832 secondary science teachers, 456 from California, and 376 from Texas public schools responded to an online questionnaire regarding their climate change perceptions. Findings indicate that a significant proportion of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Climate
Matt Giani; Franchesca Lyra; Adam Tyner – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2025
While calculus remains the gold standard of academic rigor in most college admissions offices, educators and employers increasingly champion advanced statistics as critical for navigating today's data-driven workforce. So which math pathway actually shapes long-term success? To find out, we asked UT Austin Associate Professor Matt Giani, graduate…
Descriptors: Calculus, Statistics, Mathematics Education, Public Schools
James Davis Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
School leaders fail to recognize parents' and teachers' perceptions of factors that affect children's learning in elementary schools, resulting in the problem of low parental involvement and academic achievement. The purpose of this quantitative method comparative design study was to examine the perception of parents and teachers concerning…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Low Income Students, Teacher Attitudes, Parent Attitudes
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Mundy, Marie-Anne; Hernandez, Jose; Green, Marybeth – Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, 2019
Augmented reality continues to be lauded as a disruptive innovation in education. This research examines the perspectives of AR using educators who are Innovators and First Adopters in Roger's Diffusion of Innovation Scale. Attitudes towards AR were examined through a survey that included Likert-scale items and open-ended qualitative items.…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Computer Software, Teaching Methods, Comparative Analysis
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Benavidez, Samantha; Flores, Sylvia L.; Garza, Jose; Hudson, Gina; Leal, Rebecca Ybarra; Morales, Jessica; Ramos, Abigail; Munoz, Vanessa – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2020
This paper will include details on knowledge and ambition levels found between Latino-ethnic K-5 students located in a Southern Region of Texas from a college going culture presentation. The purpose is to understand how ambition and knowledge about higher education was influenced among Latino-ethnic K-5 students in impoverished areas. A low-income…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Kindergarten, Elementary School Students, Academic Aspiration
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Kaufman, Julia H.; Doan, Sy; Fernandez, Maria-Paz – RAND Corporation, 2021
Much research has noted the misalignment between kindergarten through 12th grade (K-12) academic standards and curriculum materials used in classrooms. Many states and education organizations have been pushing for greater use of standards-aligned curriculum, especially during the past several years. In this report, the authors share results…
Descriptors: Standards, Alignment (Education), Teaching Methods, Instructional Materials
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Dasher, Holly; Pilgrim, Jodi – Texas Journal of Literacy Education, 2022
Schools around the nation are increasingly offering online testing options. House Bill (HB) 3906, passed by the 86th Texas Legislature in 2019, resulted in the STAAR redesign, which will be administered in the 2022--2023 school year. The STAAR redesign includes several components including an online test administration for the STAAR. With the…
Descriptors: Test Format, Reading Tests, School Districts, Achievement Tests
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Edgerton, Adam Kirk; Desimone, Laura M. – American Journal of Education, 2019
Critics of standards-based reform often cite an accountability policy environment that disproportionately affects teachers compared with principals and district officials. We directly examine this disproportionality. In our three study states of Texas, Ohio, and Kentucky, we use survey analysis to understand how policy environments for district…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Edgerton, Adam Kirk; Desimone, Laura M. – Grantee Submission, 2019
Critics of standards-based reform often cite an accountability policy environment that disproportionately affects teachers compared with principals and district officials. We directly examine this disproportionality. In our three study states of Texas, Ohio, and Kentucky, we use survey analysis to understand how policy environments for district…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Accountability, Educational Policy
Masomeh Mahzoon-Hagheghi – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this study was to analyze the effectiveness of scripted biology curriculum as a means of providing students with the information required to increase content knowledge, while comparing curriculum developed by the teacher that utilizes the Understanding by Design (UbD) framework (2005). The study is guided by two research questions:…
Descriptors: Science Curriculum, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Biology
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Abbasian, Reza O.; Czuchry, Mike – PRIMUS, 2021
In this paper, we will introduce partial results from our 3-year NSF funded grant titled "Inverted and Active Learning Pedagogies (IALP) for Student Success." We will present our results comparing student achievement between inverted (flipped) classrooms and traditional lecture formats in statistics classes at Texas Lutheran University.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Active Learning, Introductory Courses, Statistics Education
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Wright, Kim B.; Shields, Samantha M.; Black, Katie; Waxman, Hersh C. – School Community Journal, 2018
This study's purpose was to determine if a teacher home visit program implemented by a Texas-based charter school system resulted in differences in K-12 students' classroom behavior, academic achievement, and parent involvement in school. Study findings indicate positive behavioral, academic, and parent involvement outcomes for students who…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Academic Achievement, Parent Participation, Charter Schools
Edgerton, Adam; Polikof, Morgan; Desimone, Laura – Center on Children and Families at Brookings, 2017
Five-plus years into the experiment with new "college- and career-ready standards" (of which Common Core is the most notable and most controversial example), we know little about teachers' implementation and the ways policy can support that implementation. This paper uses new state-representative teacher survey data to characterize the…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Teaching Methods, Teacher Surveys, Program Implementation
Denis, John Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purposes of this descriptive survey research study were (a) to describe novice band directors' perceptions of the importance of skills/knowledge used n effective music teaching, (b) to describe novice band directors' perception of the difficulty of acquiring each skill or knowledge component, (c) to compare novice band directors' perceptions…
Descriptors: Music Teachers, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Musicians
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