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Rock, Andrew – MDRC, 2022
Data from past economic downturns show that "recession graduates"--those graduating from high school or college during a recession--may have worse outcomes in earnings and health for years or even decades to come. MDRC sought to work with stakeholders to better understand the challenges recent graduates are facing in the current context…
Descriptors: Career Development, Partnerships in Education, High School Graduates, Economic Climate
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Cornman, Stephen Q.; O'Reilly, Nora; Ampadu, Osei; Caskey, Melinda; Vidal, Phil – National Center for Education Statistics, 2022
In 2019, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) began exploratory data collection for the School Pension Survey (SPS). The SPS is a new data collection of elementary/secondary school teacher pension data collected at the school district level. The SPS was developed primarily in response to public demand for data on teacher and other…
Descriptors: Retirement Benefits, Teacher Retirement, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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Evan E. Dean; Mayumi Hagiwara; Jennifer Jones; Kami Gallus; Karrie A. Shogren – Inclusion, 2022
This article describes a pilot project focused on creating opportunities for self-determination to enhance the community participation outcomes of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities using the Self-Determined Learning Model of Instruction (SDLMI). The pilot project grew out of a partnership between researchers at a university…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Adults, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities
Dena Novak – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Students with disabilities are often underserved by existing support structures in higher education, and accommodations alone are insufficient to meet the needs of this population. Instead, Universal Design-based approaches are needed to proactively reduce barriers to access for all learners. In response to this need, Rutgers University adopted a…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accessibility (for Disabled), Students with Disabilities, Higher Education
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Edwards, Mark; Ross, Pauline J.; Styger, Lee E. J. – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2018
A system can only be improved if it is measured. In order to adequately measure a system, that system needs to be mapped and all key inter-nodal linkages, constraints and pathways recorded. Commercial supply chains demonstrate similar characteristics to other systems. Much has been written about mapping supply systems, where typically, the product…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Networks, Nonprofit Organizations, Nongovernmental Organizations
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Graven, Mellony; Venkat, Hamsa – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2021
In this paper, we share the results of the piloting of national diagnostic assessments for strategic calculation with Grade 3 learners in South Africa. The diagnostic assessment pilot intervention was focused on promoting strategic use of calculation strategies and aimed to move learners on from the concrete one-to-one counting methods that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Diagnostic Tests, Computation, Grade 3
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Sekhon, Natasha; Beach, Tim; Krause, Samantha; Eshleman, Sara – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2021
In our current period of escalating climate change, we urgently need to better understand the modern climate and climate drivers in understudied regions of the world. This article provides a succinct and current literature review of one such region: the Maya Lowlands. The region has a long history of study on human--climatic interaction but little…
Descriptors: Climate, Trend Analysis, Geography Instruction, Higher Education
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Dozier, Vanjury – Education Libraries, 2021
This case study will describe the labor and collaborative efforts, to-date, of an embedded librarian to pilot an OER textbook creation and/or adoption program in her liaison area--a school of education serving approximately 850 graduate and 150 undergraduates at a private Catholic university on the West Coast of the U.S.A. This case study will…
Descriptors: Librarian Teacher Cooperation, Experience, Pilot Projects, Open Educational Resources
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Roncoroni, Julia; Hernandez-Julian, Rey; Hendrix, Tayler; Whitaker, Salina Wu – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2021
STEM achievement gaps between Latinx and their non-Hispanic White (NHW) counterparts emerge in early childhood and persist through adulthood. Culturally relevant STEM interventions can help counter some of the Latinx higher attrition rates in STEM, especially if they are initiated in elementary school. This study assesses the feasibility,…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Pilot Projects, STEM Education, Intervention
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O'Sullivan, June – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2021
This paper examines how 15 London social enterprise nurseries undertook a short pilot study to ascertain how to successfully replace a formal reading scheme with the Whitehurst and Lonigan dialogic reading (DR) approach. DR has shown to work very successfully with children from poor and disadvantaged backgrounds, which is the focus group of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschools, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods
Chu, Jessica; Galvis, Maria A.; Kotonya, Juliet – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2021
NFER conducted an independent evaluation of the Inspect and Improve (I&I) pilot project in Eastern Uganda. I&I is a school inspections and improvement programme implemented by Promoting Equality in African Schools (PEAS) in partnership with Uganda's Directorate of Education Standards (DES), under the Ministry of Education and Sports…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Educational Improvement, Inspection, Equal Education
Palisse, Jennifer; King, Deborah; MacLean, Mark – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2021
Comparative judgement is a relatively new way of facilitating peer-assessment where students are shown pairs of other students' work and judge which of the two is better. Literature on example-based learning suggests that students should be able to learn from comparative judgement. We present the case of one student, Josie, whose understanding of…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Case Studies, Peer Evaluation, Comparative Analysis
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Gagnon, Joel; Dionne, Frédérick; Raymond, Guillaume; Grégoire, Simon – Journal of American College Health, 2019
Objective: This pilot study pursued two aims. The first was to investigate the feasibility and acceptability of a Web-based acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) intervention to reduce academic procrastination among university students. The second aim was to test the effectiveness of the intervention on procrastination and committed actions.…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Intervention, College Students, Time Management
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Hanrahan, R.; Smith, E.; Johnson, H.; Constantin, A.; Brosnan, M. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2020
Social stories is a widely used intervention for children on the autism spectrum, particularly within an educational context. To date, systematic reviews and meta analyses of the research evaluating social stories has produced mixed results, often due to a lack of methodological rigour and variability in the development and delivery of the social…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Randomized Controlled Trials, Story Telling, Autism
Parcell, Abby; Elander, Cate – MDC, 2020
Family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) care is child care provided by family members, friends, neighbors, or babysitters, and it is often defined by what it's not. It's not licensed child care, which is provided by teachers and child care workers in child care centers or family child care homes that follow regulations set by the state regarding…
Descriptors: Child Care, Social Support Groups, Infants, Preschool Children
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