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Mensah Prince Osiesi; Monica Ngozi Odinko; Sylvan Blignaut – Discover Education, 2024
This study aimed to evaluate the Teachers' Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) Mandatory Continuing Professional Development Programme (MCPDP) for Primary School Teachers in Ekiti State, Nigeria, between 2011 and 2021. Seventy public primary schools were purposively selected with teachers who attended MCPDP in Ekiti State, while 166 teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Professional Continuing Education, Elementary School Teachers
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Rochelle Gregory; Kristen Weinzapfel – Journal of College Academic Support Programs, 2024
Like many of its contemporaries across the state, North Central Texas College's (NCTC) English and math faculty were committed to the promise of corequisite education and its students' success as outlined by the Dana Center, but they also understood the obstacles to implementing, assessing, and scaling its corequisite courses. NCTC's English and…
Descriptors: Required Courses, Mathematics Teachers, English Teachers, College Faculty
Austin, Tori – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Organizations spend millions of dollars training employees in ways to improve their skills--recently through mandatory professional development delivered virtually or through online asynchronous platforms. This research investigated how social exchange theory and self-efficacy theory inform faculty participants' motivation to transfer such…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Required Courses, Online Courses
Shannon Miller-Mace – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Many incoming college freshmen who do not meet minimum standardized exam cut-score requirements are often determined to be not ready for college level coursework and registered for pre-requisite, multi-semester, remedial course sequences. The goal of pre-requisite courses is to prepare students for college-level courses prior to enrollment in…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, College Freshmen, College Faculty, Required Courses
Sherry Rocchio – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Anywhere from 40 to 68% of first-year students, over 1.7 million, enroll in at least one or more remedial or developmental course for reading, writing, or mathematics before being able to continue into the mainstream of college coursework (Barnett, 2018; Complete College America, 2016; Logue, 2018 WV HEPC Academic Readiness Report, 2019). An…
Descriptors: Remedial Instruction, Developmental Studies Programs, Required Courses, State Legislation
Orr, Aline – Online Submission, 2019
This report includes findings regarding demographic characteristics and academic outcomes of Twilight program students; highlights emerging topics from the student, teacher, and staff surveys; and provides recommendations for future program implementation.
Descriptors: School Districts, High School Students, Middle School Students, At Risk Students
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Osborne, Jo; Dibben, Mark – Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning, 2017
Universities are increasingly recognising the need to broaden the experience and understanding of their students beyond a single disciplinary approach, to produce graduates more capable of solving the problems of a multidisciplinary world. At the University of Tasmania, a "breadth unit" programme is underway with the dual purpose of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blended Learning, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Mokher, Christine; Jacobson, Louis – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
There is a nationwide concern that too many students leave high school unprepared for college-level coursework and that students lack awareness of their level of preparation. Florida enacted Senate Bill 1908 creating a statewide program, the Florida College and Career Readiness Initiative (FCCRI), to reduce the need for postsecondary remediation.…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, State Legislation, Educational Legislation
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Gossman, Peter; Horder, Sue – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2016
This article examines 28 teachers' views about their teacher education requirements. The participants were enrolled on a one-year full-time pre-service teacher education programme with a focus on post-compulsory education and training. The study examines how student teachers' self-evaluations against aspects of teaching professional practice…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Attitudes, Required Courses
Palisoc, Randolph P. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This qualitative study applied the theory that reading skills are predictive of high school graduation to examine the impact that reading proficiency has on student success in online credit recovery programs for credit deficient students, many of whom struggle with reading. Since reading proficiency impacts academic achievement in general, this…
Descriptors: Repetition, Required Courses, High School Students, Reading Skills
Park, Vickie Bin – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Similar to its neighboring countries of China, South Korea, and Japan, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) (also known as North Korea) has made English a compulsory subject for middle school to university level students, and teacher training programs based on the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approach have also been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Oliver, Kevin; Osborne, Jason; Patel, Ruchi; Kleiman, Glenn – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2009
The North Carolina Virtual Public School completed its first session during the summer of 2007. Evaluation results revealed differences between accelerated and credit recovery students, including a significantly higher likelihood for accelerated students to rate their courses as high quality, to express interest in taking another online course,…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Public Schools, Online Courses, Educational Technology
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Moody, Gwyneth; Alkaff, Huda; Garrison, Dawn; Golley, Frank – Journal of Environmental Education, 2005
The University of Georgia (UGA) is one of the first universities in the United States to require that every undergraduate student complete an environmental literacy requirement (ELR). The ELR has been in place since 1993. Three students examined the ELR through formal and informal studies and surveys. Their results showed that students were…
Descriptors: Universities, Environmental Education, Program Effectiveness, Required Courses
Shepard, Delbert A.; Mitchell, Robert A. – 1986
A study assessed the effectiveness of the delivery and content of the Human Relations course and the technical updating activities for postsecondary, full-time preparatory program instructors in Iowa. Faculty members from 15 community and technical colleges were asked to identify how necessary they feel each competency is to the teaching process,…
Descriptors: Community Education, Delivery Systems, Educational Research, Human Relations