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Catherine Brown – National College Attainment Network, 2023
State financial aid is a critical piece of college affordability for students from low-income backgrounds. Nearly three quarters of all students attend college in their home state - which is typically a requirement for state-based financial aid - and first-generation and students from low-income backgrounds are even more likely than their peers to…
Descriptors: State Aid, Paying for College, Low Income Students, Student Financial Aid
Olszewski-Kubilius, Paula, Ed.; Subotnik, Rena F., Ed.; Worrell, Frank C., Ed. – Prufrock Press Inc., 2018
"Talent development" is a phrase often used in reference to the education of gifted children. Recently, it has been presented by researchers to refer to a specific approach to the delivery of gifted education services. Much of this discussion has been at the conceptual level, and there is a need for translation of the model into concrete…
Descriptors: Talent Development, Academically Gifted, Best Practices, Educational Practices
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Gillanders, Cristina; Bonnely, Blanca; Valenzuela Hasenohr, M. Francisca; Varela Londoño, Sandra P.; Quiroga Otálora, Crisanto; Valentín-Martínez, Bilda; Viviani, María; Diaz-Posada, Leidy-Evelyn – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2020
The purpose of this article is to describe the efforts of three Latin American countries (Chile, Colombia, and Dominican Republic) to develop their own early childhood teacher preparation standards. The authors explain the demographic and historical environmental conditions, the sociopolitical climate that gave impetus to the development of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
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Chancey, Jaclyn M.; Butts, Jennifer Lease – International Journal for Talent Development and Creativity, 2020
This article explores the theoretical underpinnings of life-transformative education and gifted education and applies them to a university honors program. Life-transformative education requires authentic learning experiences and rich mentorship relationships to promote happiness, well-being, and a sense of purpose. This is intended for all…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Honors Curriculum, Transformative Learning, Academically Gifted
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Leonard, Jack – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2020
Massachusetts introduced the first high-stakes performance assessment for principal certification in 2014. Using student surveys from six institutions and interviews with program directors from ten out of 23 state-approved programs, the author asked, "How are Massachusetts principal preparation programs changing in response to the new…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Principals, Licensing Examinations (Professions), High Stakes Tests
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Limeri, Lisa B.; Musgrove, Miranda M. Chen; Henry, Meredith A.; Schussler, Elisabeth E. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2020
To promote undergraduate education reform, teaching professional development (TPD) efforts aim to encourage instructors to adopt evidence-based practices. However, many instructors do not attend TPD. There may be many reasons for this, including low intrinsic motivation to participate in TPD. Psychologists have dealt with motivational barriers in…
Descriptors: Intervention, Teacher Motivation, Teacher Participation, Faculty Development
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Jacoby, Barbara – Journal of College and Character, 2020
The existing literature offers little insight into the participation of commuter, adult, and part-time students in the myriad civic engagement initiatives of higher education institutions. The landscape related to both the foci of this article has become more complex over time, and the issues have become more acute. This article describes the…
Descriptors: Commuting Students, Student Empowerment, Citizen Participation, College Students
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Pendakur, Vijay – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2020
As higher education settles into the 21st century, the industry is facing numerous tensions and potentially significant disruptions. From enrollment shortfalls to graduation challenges to a crisis of relevance in core curricula, the industry is being asked to transform on several fronts. One of those important transformations must be a fundamental…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Personnel Services, Equal Education, Educational Change
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Conway, Colleen; Marra, Christopher; Marra, Jessica Vaughan – Journal of Music Teacher Education, 2020
The key research question for this qualitative study was as follows: How do program directors in selected schools describe the successes and challenges related to the design of their Master of Music degree in music education? Data sources included website content for 21 NASM-accredited programs and individual interviews with program directors from…
Descriptors: Music Education, Graduate Study, Masters Programs, Program Design
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Harding, Julie; Shepard, Ryan – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2020
In 2016, the University of Maryland Global Campus Library began a redesign of its core information literacy tutorial in response to substantive curricular changes, the technological obsolescence of an older tutorial, and an improving understanding of student needs based on an analysis of reference questions received. This article describes the…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Library Instruction, Student Research, Program Design
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Gilbert, Stacy; Grover, Rachel – Knowledge Quest, 2020
School librarians can still support readers with the school library space is closed. Even though it might take some creative thinking, "the school library has the ability to provide continuous access to resources" and can ensure that the love of reading and access to materials continues (AASL 2018, 56-57). This article details ways…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Access to Information, Access to Education, Reading
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Gabrielle Foran; Kris Knorr; Rebecca L. Taylor – International Journal for Students as Partners, 2020
McMaster University pioneered its Course Design/Delivery Consultants Program (CDDCP) in fall 2016. This program pairs an instructor partner who is teaching or preparing to teach a course with a student partner to obtain a student's perspective on teaching and learning in their classroom. Although the CDDCP was based on Healey, Flint, and…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, College Students, College Faculty, Foreign Countries
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Bear, Stephen E.; Behson, Scott – Management Teaching Review, 2019
We present an experiential exercise to teach key principles of training design. Selected students participate in a self-learning cardiopulmonary resuscitation training program, CPR Anytime®, offered by the American Heart Association, while the rest of the class observes. The class then assesses the use of several training design principles in the…
Descriptors: First Aid, Experiential Learning, Educational Principles, Program Design
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Zabotkina, Vera; Korovkina, Marina; Sudakova, Olga – Tuning Journal for Higher Education, 2019
The article demonstrates the application of the modular competence-based approach for the design of a Master degree programme in translation studies. The case study is based on output materials produced during the lifetime of the Tuning Russia project involving a number of Russian universities, one of which is the Russian State University for the…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Masters Programs, Translation, Foreign Countries
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Cosner, Shelby – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2019
What makes a leadership preparation program exemplary? All three exemplary programs featured in this special issue evidence strong learning orientations and more sustained improvement work in their pursuit of exemplary preparation. I therefore examine exemplary preparation from a process perspective that emphasizes continuous improvement. To help…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Program Improvement
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