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Kamsa, Imane; Elouahbi, Rachid; El Khoukhi, Fatima – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2018
Learners' concentration is an essential factor for learning and acquisition. The duration of concentration varies from one individual to another. Some learners have a long duration of concentration; whereas, others have a short one. Leaving the learner in front of a screen for a random duration is a strategy that does not optimize online learning.…
Descriptors: Study Habits, Attention, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Blizzard, Kara; Becker, Yvonne; Goebel, Nancy – College Quarterly, 2018
A human library is an event in which "readers" listen to "human books" tell personal stories about specific topics related to prejudice and discrimination. At the Augustana Campus of the University of Alberta, the research team designed an assignment and collected associated data on the integration of the Augustana human…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Womens Studies, College Students, Personal Narratives
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Joshi, Rajendra; Kong, Jooyoung; Nykamp, Heidi; Fynewever, Herb – International Journal of Higher Education, 2018
The authors compare the experiences of faculty and students at universities in Nepal and New Zealand following earthquakes in 2015 and 2011, respectively. Questionnaire data from students at Kathmandu University are analyzed and compared with previously published data from the University of Canterbury. Prominent themes are developed within the…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Trauma, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies
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Cornish, Carlene – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2018
RPA (Raising of Participation Age) legislation re-positioned all youth in England to participate in post-16 education and training, the ultimate aim to develop 'human capital'. However, how does RPA play out in practice with previously NEET (not in education, employment or training) and so-called disengaged youth engaged on a Level 1…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Program Effectiveness, Reentry Students, Continuation Students
Weaver, D'Andre Jovan – ProQuest LLC, 2018
As a result of the national shift to a more standards-based model for education, principals across the country are leading organizational change in all aspects of curriculum, instruction, assessment, and leadership for student learning. One reform initiative, entitled standards-based grading (SBG), attempts to reimagine the way schools measure and…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Role, Grading, Standards
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Nguyen, Neal; Lyons, Catherine; Gelfer, Jeff; Leytham, Patrick; Nelson, Leslie; Krasch, Delilah; O'Hara, Katie – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
Play is one of the essential components in proper development of first-grade students. Since the adoption by various states of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), two outcomes have developed: (a) increased instructional time and (b) decreased public school recess periods across school districts. Given the complex nature of daily instructional…
Descriptors: Modeling (Psychology), Bibliotherapy, Prosocial Behavior, Elementary School Students
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Koundinya, Vikram; Klink, Jenna; Deming, Philip; Meyers, Andrew; Erb, Kevin – Journal of Extension, 2016
This article presents the analysis of evaluation methods used in a well-designed and comprehensive evaluation effort of a significant Extension program. The evaluation data collection methods were analyzed by questionnaire mode and timing of follow-up surveys. Response rates from the short- and long-term follow-ups and different questionnaire…
Descriptors: Test Format, Scheduling, Followup Studies, Program Evaluation
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Cash, Anne H.; Pianta, Robert C. – School Psychology Review, 2014
Observational assessment is being used on a large scale to evaluate the quality of interactions between teachers and children in classroom environments. When one performs observations at scale, features of the protocol such as the scheduling of observations can potentially influence observed scores. In this study interactions were observed for 88…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Interaction, Scheduling, Classroom Environment
Parsons, Eric; Koedel, Cory; Podgursky, Michael; Elhert, Mark; Xiang, P. Brett – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2015
There is increased policy interest in extending test-based evaluations in K-12 education to include student achievement in high school. High school achievement is typically measured by performance on end-of-course exams (EOCs), which test course-specific standards in a variety of subjects. However, unlike standardized tests in the early grades,…
Descriptors: Tests, Exit Examinations, Scheduling, Student Evaluation
Trawick-Smith, Joseph; Miles, Karen Hawley – Education Resource Strategies, 2020
With the new school year now well under way, staff, students and families are still in desperate need of a clear strategic direction and set of tools for promoting equity and excellence in a moment of crisis. Nationally, we see school systems stepping up in new ways to provide this clarity, and seizing the moment afforded by these unusual…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Pandemics, COVID-19, Equal Education
Malkus, Nat; Christensen, Cody – American Enterprise Institute, 2020
This report, which is the third in the American Enterprise Institute's (AEI's) "School District Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic" series, provides an update on the state of the nation's schools using the newest wave of COVID-19 Education Response Longitudinal Survey (C-ERLS) data. It describes how the nation's public school system has…
Descriptors: School Districts, School Closing, Access to Education, Distance Education
Paschall, Katherine; Halle, Tamara; Maxwell, Kelly – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2020
This report provides a descriptive comparison of the early care and education (ECE) landscape across rural, moderate-density urban (suburban), and high-density urban areas. The goal of this comparison was to understand whether ECE availability and characteristics in rural areas differ from those in more densely populated communities. We used…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Rural Areas, Child Care Centers
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Smidt, Thomas Brorsen; Pétursdóttir, Gyða Margrét; Einarsdóttir, Þorgerður – European Educational Research Journal, 2017
It is suggested that the realization of work-life balance policies at the University of Iceland is compromised by an emphasis on neoliberal notions of growth and performance measurements in the form of new public management strategies. This is sustained by overt and covert incentive mechanisms, which in turn create a range of different gendered…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Semi Structured Interviews, Neoliberalism, Family Work Relationship
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Al-Zboon, Eman K. – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
An appropriate curriculum for children with hearing impairments (HIs) is vital in establishing effective educational programmes for such children. This study aimed to describe the current status of the kindergarten (KG) curriculum for children with HIs in Jordan. Content analysis was applied to the curriculum plans and weekly schedules and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Hearing Impairments, Preschool Curriculum
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Mendes, Skyler H.; Fede, Jacquelyn H.; Wilks, Megan B. – Learning Assistance Review, 2017
The aim of this analysis was to determine from a pilot project whether a new style of course-connected learning support for students in gateway STEM courses could be more successful on the University of Rhode Island's campus than the traditional Supplemental Instruction (SI) model. The new model, Weekly Tutoring Groups (WTG), addressed several of…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, STEM Education, College Students, Teaching Methods
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