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Wylie, Cathy; Coblentz, David – New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2022
The "Teaching, School, and Principal Leadership Practices Survey" (TSP) was developed to give schools robust data about key practices that research has shown are worth paying attention to because of their direct and indirect effects on student learning. Drawing the data together from all participants schools in any given year creates a…
Descriptors: Surveys, Educational Practices, Instruction, Schools
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Chen-Levi, Tamar; Buskila, Yaffa – Athens Journal of Education, 2022
This article is part of a wide-scope research examining teachers' perceptions regarding the organizational profile of their school. Research participants were asked about nine parameters that outline the school's organizational structure (Chen-Levi, 2019). Main research questions were: How do the three different groups of position-holders in the…
Descriptors: School Organization, Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Systems Approach
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Deignan, Tim; Morton, Tom – ELT Journal, 2022
English medium instruction (EMI) is seen as a site for improving students' English language, yet the role of the EMI lecturer in achieving this is contested. Views on what constitutes appropriate training and professional development for EMI lecturers also differ regarding English language skills and EMI-specific methodology. Using Q methodology,…
Descriptors: Q Methodology, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction
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Kaasila, Raimo; Lutovac, Sonja; Komulainen, Jyrki; Maikkola, Merja – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2021
Academics have multiple identities, and their professional identities can sometimes be fragmented. This can lead to identity tensions and hinder their development as teachers. Our data consists of interviews with seven academics at a research-intensive university and the teaching portfolios created during their teaching practicums. All academics…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Professional Identity, Teacher Attitudes, Practicums
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Macfarlane, Bruce; Erikson, Martin G. – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2021
The right to teach at university is a distinctive philosophical and legal conundrum but a largely unexplored question. Drawing on Humboltdian principles, the legitimacy of the university teacher stems from their continuing engagement in research rather than possession of academic and teaching qualifications alone. This means that the right to…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Universities, College Faculty, Teaching Methods
Rubner Sobalvarro – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This quantitative study addressed some of the challenges associated with teacher turnover and highly effective teachers as well as the relationship between perceived stress, teacher stress, and teacher self-efficacy. The measurement instruments, offered in an online survey, included the Teacher Stress Inventory (TSI), the Perceived Stress Scale-10…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Self Efficacy, Teacher Persistence, Labor Turnover
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Poláchová Vašt'atková, Jana; Dopita, Miroslav – Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 2021
Purpose: The article explores the current as well as the future concepts of university teaching by the academics/the "leaders of educational sciences" in the context of the changes of the academia that have affected the academic professionalization. Design/methodology/approach: The Delphi method was implemented to answer a research…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Professionalism, Delphi Technique, Teaching Methods
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Al Hashlamoun, Nafeth; Daouk, Lina – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
This research explores the ways in which Information Technology (IT) teachers experience the use of online communities of practice (CoP) in teaching a computer course called Computer Skills 2 (WRCO2). This course is the second of two computer skills courses in the Work Readiness Program (WRP) running at a Higher Education Institution in the Middle…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Computer Science Education, Teacher Attitudes, Communities of Practice
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Flavell, Helen; Roberts, Lynne; Fyfe, Georgina; Broughton, Michelle – Australian Educational Researcher, 2018
This qualitative study reports on findings from interviews with ten academics in an Australian university six to twelve months following academic workforce reshaping and the widespread introduction of teaching academic roles. The research aimed to determine how the workforce reshaping impacted on the capacity of academics with teaching…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Workload
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Cooper, Lori J.; Laster-Loftus, Amanda; Mandernach, B. Jean – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2019
Higher education faculty have numerous responsibilities that are not limited to instruction of classes. While it is well established in literature that faculty have a diverse set of responsibilities that extend well beyond a 40-hour work week, this information has yet to be cohesively transferred into suggestions for institutions to utilize when…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Online Courses, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Brew, Angela; Boud, David; Lucas, Lisa; Crawford, Karin – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2018
In the changing context of universities, organisational structures for teaching and research problematise academic roles. This paper draws on a critical realist analysis of surveys and interviews with academics from universities in England and Australia. It identifies important academic work, not captured simply in descriptions of teaching or…
Descriptors: Research Universities, College Faculty, Artists, Teaching Methods
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Palau, Ramon; Fuentes, Marta; Mogas, Jordi; Cebrián, Gisela – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2021
Most countries around the world have temporarily closed educational institutions with the aim of containing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. How have schools overcome these challenges and delivered education during the confinement period? The purpose of this research was to analyse how primary and secondary schools in Catalonia (Spain)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
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Hogan, Jarrod P.; White, Peta J. – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2021
Isolation, organisational pressures, and role-related distress, can result in teachers, particularly early career teachers (ECTs), experiencing greater risk of burnout. For many ECTs, a lack of practical strategies for dealing with these conditions contributes to this. Using self-study methodology, this research unpacks why ECTs experience…
Descriptors: Teacher Burnout, Experienced Teachers, Coping, Beginning Teachers
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Pather, Nalini; Blyth, Phil; Chapman, Jamie A.; Dayal, Manisha R.; Flack, Natasha A.M.S.; Fogg, Quentin A.; Green, Rodney A.; Hulme, Anneliese K.; Johnson, Ian P.; Meyer, Amanda J.; Morley, John W.; Shortland, Peter J.; Štrkalj, Goran; Štrkalj, Mirjana; Valter, Krisztina; Webb, Alexandra L.; Woodley, Stephanie J.; Lazarus, Michelle D. – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2020
Australian and New Zealand universities commenced a new academic year in February/March 2020 largely with "business as usual." The subsequent Covid-19 pandemic imposed unexpected disruptions to anatomical educational practice. Rapid change occurred due to government-imposed physical distancing regulations from March 2020 that…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Science Instruction, Educational Practices, Disease Incidence
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Yasué, Maï; Jeno, Lucas M.; Langdon, Jody L. – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2019
We extended the research on autonomy-supportive teaching to universities and examined the relationships between autonomous motivation to teach and autonomy-supportive teaching. Autonomously motivated university instructors were more autonomy-supportive instructors. The freedom to make pedagogical decisions was negatively correlated with external…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, College Faculty, Class Size, Faculty Workload
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