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Direct linkRoksa, Josipa; Arum, Richard – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2011
A recent study by the Higher Education Research Institute noted that virtually all faculty report that developing students' ability to think critically is a very important or essential goal of undergraduate education, as is promoting students' ability to write effectively. But even if faculty concur that students should develop critical thinking…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Time Factors (Learning), Educational Quality, Graduation Requirements
Lee, Moosung; Walker, Allan; Chui, Yuk Ling – Journal of Educational Administration, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of different dimensions of instructional leadership on student learning in Hong Kong secondary schools, whose broader institutional contexts are critically characterized by high accountability policy environments. Design/methodology/approach: This study utilizes standardized test scores…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Interaction Process Analysis, Standardized Tests, Educational Change
McCullick, Bryan A.; Lux, Karen M.; Belcher, Donald G.; Davies, Nigel – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2012
Background: The literature on those who choose to become PE teachers received healthy attention in the late twentieth century but has been largely ignored since. Querying those PETE majors in first decade of the new century enables PETE faculty to have updated and pertinent knowledge of their charges. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Evidence, Majors (Students), Teaching (Occupation), Middle Class
Jones, Jennifer L.; Hensley, Lisa R. – Educational Research Quarterly, 2012
This study explores the impact of classroom placement on students' self-determination, perception of social support from teachers and classmates, and student-teacher relationships. Participants included 51 middle school and high school students receiving special education services under the ID (intellectual disabilities) category, along with 12…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Self Contained Classrooms, Special Education, Classroom Environment
Peters, Scott J.; Gentry, Marcia – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2012
For more than 30 years, underrepresentation of certain racial, cultural, and income groups in gifted and talented programs has been documented as a serious problem. Not only does this issue make gifted programs appear as if they are designed solely for upper class, dominant-culture individuals, but it also means that talented students from diverse…
Descriptors: Gifted, Talent, Programs, Group Membership
Hamre, Bridget K.; Pianta, Robert C.; Burchinal, Margaret; Field, Samuel; LoCasale-Crouch, Jennifer; Downer, Jason T.; Howes, Carollee; LaParo, Karen; Scott-Little, Catherine – American Educational Research Journal, 2012
Among 440 early childhood teachers, half were randomly assigned to take a 14-week course on effective teacher-child interactions. This course used the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) as the basis to organize, describe, and demonstrate effective teacher-child interactions. Compared to teachers in a control condition, those exposed to…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Teacher Student Relationship, Beliefs, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Briggs, A. R. J.; Clark, J.; Hall, I. – Quality in Higher Education, 2012
This article explores challenges in ensuring effective student transition from school or college to university. It examines the complex liaison needed for students to progress to appropriate courses, settle into university life and succeed as higher education learners. Secondary data (international literature on transition and the formation of…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Foreign Countries, Transitional Programs, Performance Factors
Kennedy, Michael J.; Ihle, Frances M. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2012
The special educator in the content area classroom often experiences an ill-defined role, which can translate into marginalization within instructional settings. Indeed, most students with learning disabilities (LD) receive content area instruction from a general education teacher with the support of a special educator. However, the literacy…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Learning Disabilities, Special Education Teachers, Content Area Writing
Download full textSezen Balcikanli, Gulfem – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2012
It was the aim of this study to investigate physical education undergraduate students' views on the use of social networking, one of the most typical representations of Web 2.0 technologies. In order to do so, the researcher, who was the instructor of the class, entitled "Fair Play Education in Sport", introduced Ning and its educational…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Interaction
Allie, Saalih; Armien, Mogamat Noor; Burgoyne, Nicolette; Case, Jennifer M.; Collier-Reed, Brandon I.; Craig, Tracy S.; Deacon, Andrew; Fraser, Duncan M.; Geyer, Zulpha; Jacobs, Cecilia; Jawitz, Jeff; Kloot, Bruce; Kotta, Linda; Langdon, Genevieve; le Roux, Kate; Marshall, Delia; Mogashana, Disaapele; Shaw, Corrinne; Sheridan, Gillian; Wolmarans, Nicolette – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2010
In this paper we propose that learning in engineering involves taking on the discourse of an engineering community, which is intimately bound up with the identity of being a member of that community. This leads to the notion of discursive identity, which emphasises that students' identities are constituted through engaging in discourse. This view…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Teaching Methods, Vignettes, Discourse Communities
Bloom, Rachel Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The goal in differentiating instruction in mixed-ability classrooms is to maximize each student's learning potential. The mixed ability classroom serves learners with a wide range of academic abilities, learning styles, background knowledge, home support, and English language skills. This grounded theory research study examines the dynamics of the…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Constructivism (Learning), Multiple Intelligences, Teacher Collaboration
Bedore, Lisa M.; Pena, Elizabeth D.; Gillam, Ronald B.; Ho, Tsung-Han – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2010
Measures of productivity and sentence organization are useful metrics for quantifying language development and language impairments in monolingual and bilingual children. It is not yet known what measures within and across languages are most informative when evaluating the language skills of bilingual children. The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Language Impairments, Monolingualism, Language Skills
Ritter, Carol; Polnick, Barbara; Fink, Raymond, II; Oescher, Jeffery – Internet and Higher Education, 2010
In this study the authors investigated the perceptions of educational leadership graduate students with regard to how well their face-to-face, online and hybrid classes built a sense of classroom community. Perceptions were measured using the Classroom Community Scale (CCS), which included three measures: total classroom community, connectedness,…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Classroom Environment, Instructional Leadership
Ussher, Bill – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2010
Educating a student on teaching placement involves a "village", just as it takes a whole "village" to raise a child. Creating a "village" around each student teacher gives them greater agency, a sense of belonging and being valued as a member of that professional "village". Participating students, teachers…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Student Teachers, Teacher Placement, Distance Education
Meirink, Jacobiene A.; Imants, Jeroen; Meijer, Paulien C.; Verloop, Nico – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2010
In this study the relationship between teacher learning and collaboration in innovative teams was explored. A comparative case study was conducted in five temporary teams in secondary schools. Several quantitative and qualitative data collection methods were used to examine collaboration, teacher learning, and the context for learning and…
Descriptors: Site Analysis, Teacher Collaboration, Teamwork, Communities of Practice
