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Joyce B. Main; Christina Pantoja; Susan M. Lord; Catherine Mobley; Catherine Brawner – Journal of Engineering Education, 2025
Background: In the United States, there is increased demand to expand the engineering workforce. Many military veterans have received technical training that can be leveraged in engineering. Their pursuit of engineering degrees has great potential to expand and diversify the engineering workforce. Purpose: This study examines the pathways of US…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Veterans, Prior Learning, High School Graduates
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Hornor, Tara – College Student Journal, 2021
The purpose of this study was to examine veterans' educational intentions as well as the factors influencing their college choices. Individual interviews were conducted with 30 veterans separating from military service who were eligible for military educational benefits. Results indicated 80 percent of veterans planned to utilize their military…
Descriptors: Veterans, Veterans Education, College Choice, Student Educational Objectives
Matilde Tchinda Tsayem – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of cognitive and non-cognitive factors on the academic achievement of female veteran students in a four-year university. Specifically, this research was interested in the influence of High School Grade Point Average (GPA), standardized test scores: Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) and American…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Veterans, Females, Veterans Education
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Dos Santos, Luis Miguel – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2022
Special and disabled services are important issues for improving teaching practices and the provision of facilities for disabled people. Disabilities among military-veteran teaching staff are not widely discussed, despite the importance of the experiences that veteran STEM teachers can bring to the classroom. The purpose of this study is to…
Descriptors: Veterans, Secondary School Teachers, Career Change, Teacher Shortage
Paul, S.; Rogers, S.; Bach, S.; Houtenville, A. J. – Institute on Disability, University of New Hampshire, 2023
The "Annual Disability Statistics Compendium" and its complement, the "Annual Disability Statistics Supplement" (ED628631), are summaries of statistics about people with disabilities and about the government programs which serve them. The Compendium, presents key overall statistics on topics including the prevalence of…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Postsecondary Education, Employment Level, Students with Disabilities
Stewart, Reginald L. – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2014
In this article, Reginald L. Stewart asks: "What is the true value of higher education to military veterans?" Military veterans may be underrepresented in higher education due to life adversities including homelessness, medical disabilities, substance abuse, family hardships, and deficient academic skills, however, with the transition of…
Descriptors: Veterans, Veterans Education, Higher Education, College Bound Students
Paul, S.; Rafal, M.; Houtenville, A. – Institute on Disability, University of New Hampshire, 2020
The "Annual Disability Statistics Compendium" and its complement, the "Annual Disability Statistics Supplement" (ED613090) are summaries of statistics about people with disabilities and about the government programs which serve them. The compendium presents key overall statistics on topics including the prevalence of…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Incidence, Employment Level, Income
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Goldberg, Mary; Cooper, Rory; Milleville, Maria; Barry, Anne; Schein, Michelle L. – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2015
This article describes a workshop with academic professionals and military leaders and includes the case study of a veterans' transition program that served as a resource for identifying best practices for programs for Veterans with Disabilities in STEM Degree Programs. The information collected during this workshop, along with the theoretical…
Descriptors: Veterans, Disabilities, STEM Education, Workshops
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Smit, Julie; Millett, Stephanie – Teacher Educator, 2021
This single intrinsic case study utilized complexity theory to explore a complicated narrative of in-service professional learning for teachers undergoing improvement plans in underperforming schools. This study is bounded within a master's level online graduate course. We focused on the literacy learning of one student in the course, a U.S. Army…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Institutional Characteristics, Teaching Methods, Literacy Education
Paul, S.; Rafal, M. C.; Houtenville, A. J. – Institute on Disability, University of New Hampshire, 2021
The "Annual Disability Statistics Compendium" and its complement, the "Annual Disability Statistics Supplement" (ED620436), are summaries of statistics about people with disabilities and about the government programs which serve them. The Compendium, presents key overall statistics on topics including the prevalence of…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Incidence, Employment Level, Institutionalized Persons
Lauer, E. A.; Boege, S. L.; Houtenville, A. J. – Institute on Disability, University of New Hampshire, 2020
The "Annual Disability Statistics Compendium" and its complement, the "Annual Disability Statistics Supplement" (ED605683) are summaries of statistics about people with disabilities and about the government programs which serve them. The compendium presents key overall statistics on topics including the prevalence of…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Incidence, Employment Level, Income
Paul, S.; Rafal, M.; Houtenville, A. – Institute on Disability, University of New Hampshire, 2020
The "Annual Disability Statistics Supplement" is a companion report to the "Annual Disability Statistics Compendium." The "Supplement" presents statistics on the same topics as the Compendium with additional categorizations by demographic characteristics including age, gender and race/ethnicity. In addition to the…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Incidence, Employment Level, Income
Lauer, E. A.; Boege, S. L.; Houtenville, A. J. – Institute on Disability, University of New Hampshire, 2020
The "Annual Disability Statistics Supplement" is a companion report to the "Annual Disability Statistics Compendium" (ED605680). The "Supplement" presents statistics on the same topics as the "Compendium" with additional categorizations by demographic characteristics including age, gender and race/ethnicity.…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Incidence, Employment Level, Income
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Dutt-Doner, Karen M.; Allen, Susan; Campanaro, Kathryn – Social Studies, 2016
Oral histories are a powerful pedagogical tool in developing historical understanding and important learning skills simultaneously. Teachers use firsthand accounts of historical time periods and/or events to help develop students' sense of history. In addition to gaining historical understanding, students are able to bring history alive by…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Teaching Methods, Oral History, Student Attitudes
Osuch, Kurt Stanley – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this causal-comparative study is to examine the impact of Troops to Teachers (TTT) participants on student achievement by comparing the mean scores of Texas students in the eighth grade during the 2011-2012 academic year taught by TTT participants with the mean scores of all other Texas eighth grade students on each of four…
Descriptors: Veterans, Federal Programs, Alternative Teacher Certification, Comparative Analysis
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