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Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, US Department of Education, 2017
English learners (ELs) are among the fastest-growing populations of students in our nation's public schools. This diverse subgroup of approximately 4.5 million students brings important cultural and linguistic assets to the public education system, but also faces a greater likelihood of lower graduation rates, academic achievement, and college…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Accountability, Resource Materials, Educational Legislation
Miles, R. Mark – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Universities and colleges have developed an over-reliance on adjunct faculty, and as a result, researchers have begun to study adjunct faculty satisfaction as it relates to their working conditions. Current research indicates that professional development is a source that can contribute to satisfaction at work (Hoyt, 2012). However, the research…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, Faculty Development, Teaching Experience, Community Colleges
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Preston, Courtney; Goff, Peter Trabert; Finch, Maida A. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
We use a comprehensive database of teacher application data from Wisconsin to examine the job preferences of teachers with no experience. We examine both whether these preferences vary by teacher education credentials and over their time on the labor market and if credentials and job search behaviors predict success. Overall, we find that teachers…
Descriptors: Preferences, Beginning Teachers, Job Application, Job Search Methods
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Tao, Wei – English Language Teaching, 2019
This paper analyzes the phenomenon that reducing hours of EFL instruction to non-English majors in Chinese universities gets no response. It first depicts the phenomenon, pointing out that this phenomenon differs greatly from people's response to similar events that happened in the past. It then analyzes the complicated underlying factors from…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Jabsheh, Abd-Al-Hameed Mustafa; Abu Saa, Jafar Wasfi – Online Submission, 2019
The aim of this study was to investigate about the study skills which are mostly practiced by (PTUK), freshmen and sophomores, Arabic-speaking students who are learning English language introductory courses, namely, Remedial English (no.15200099), English (1)- (no.15200106), and English (2)- (no.15200112). This study also aimed at investigating…
Descriptors: Study Skills, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Semitic Languages
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Baker, Kimberly M. – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2016
Peer review is an established strategy for improving the quality of students' writing. This study moves beyond the focus on outcomes to assess the peer-review process. In particular, this study focuses on the timing of the peer review, a highly structured feedback form, and student writers' revisions after engaging in peer review. This study draws…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Writing Improvement, Peer Evaluation, Feedback (Response)
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Wu, Pei-Fang; Wheaton, Joe E.; Cannella-Malone, Helen I. – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2016
The current study investigated whether four Deaf students with developmental disabilities could learn a chain of independent living skills and follow activity schedules using a combination of the two iPod Touch applications (apps): inPromptu and First Then Visual Schedule. Using a multiple probe across participants design, the study examined the…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Prompting, Daily Living Skills, Deafness
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Jaafar, Reem; Toce, Andi; Polnariev, Bernard A. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
The United States lags behind many countries in mathematics proficiency. Quite often, students after graduating from high school are not prepared to enter college and are required to take remedial courses before taking credit-bearing math courses. This is particularly true at two-year institutions such as LaGuardia Community College, which…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Mathematics, Tutorial Programs, Remedial Mathematics
Kaya, Suat; Aksu, Meral – Online Submission, 2016
Recently, the Turkish educational system has gone through a transition from the 8+4 educational model to the new 4+4+4 system, which has mandated elective courses to be taken by the students increasing number of class hours taken in a week from 30 to 37 hours. This has caused some problems in scheduling of schools in Turkey where double shift…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Block Scheduling
Pawaskar, Sachin S. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In the context of the big picture as energy demands rise due to growing economies and growing populations, there will be greater emphasis on sustainable supply, conservation, and efficient usage of this vital resource. Even at a smaller level, the need for minimizing energy consumption continues to be compelling in embedded, mobile, and server…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Computers, Energy Conservation, Energy Management
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Burdick, Dakin; Doherty, Tim; Schoenfeld, Naomi – To Improve the Academy, 2015
For faculty development events to have the greatest impact on campus practice, faculty developers need to attract and include as many faculty members as possible at their events. This article describes the testing of a checklist regarding faculty attendance at professional development events through a survey of 238 faculty members at small…
Descriptors: Teacher Participation, Faculty Development, Teacher Surveys, Check Lists
Bahargam, Sanaz; Erdos, Dóra; Bestavros, Azer; Terzi, Evimaria – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2015
Whether teaching in a classroom or a Massive Online Open Course it is crucial to present the material in a way that benefits the audience as a whole. We identify two important tasks to solve towards this objective; (1) group students so that they can maximally benefit from peer interaction and (2) find an optimal schedule of the educational…
Descriptors: Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Scheduling, Time Factors (Learning), Individualized Instruction
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Brodhead, Matthew T.; Higbee, Thomas S.; Pollard, Joy S.; Akers, Jessica S.; Gerencser, Kristina R. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2014
Linked activity schedules were used to establish appropriate game play in children with autism during a game of hide-and-seek. All 6 participants demonstrated acquisition of appropriate play skills in the presence of the activity schedules and maintained responding during subsequent phases. When the schedules were removed, responding decreased to…
Descriptors: Scheduling, Activities, Play, Games
Jamieson, Carlos; Whinnery, Erin – Education Commission of the States, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed the lives of millions of schoolchildren and exacerbated existing educational inequities. Most schools rapidly transitioned to remote instruction in March 2020 and continued operating under fully remote or hybrid learning conditions for the 2020-21 school year. This rapid transition to, and subsequent…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Equal Education, Distance Education, Educational Change
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Sánchez Solarte, Ana Clara; Obando Guerrero, Gabriel Vicente; Ibarra Santacruz, Diana – HOW, 2017
This article reports the results of a study whose goal was to determine the views of undergraduate students regarding the English as a foreign language courses they must take as a requirement for graduation at a public university in Colombia. One hundred and thirty students from 10 undergraduate programs were surveyed and their responses were…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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