This narrative inquiry shares the stories of two teachers' collaborative experiences with their counterparts in social studies and English. The primary objective was to learn about how these teachers, within separate teaching dyads, understand and attempt to accomplish the goals of both colleagues' disciplines while planning instruction. Field…

In this article, I offer a critical reading of the higher education field-imaginary and its orienting assumptions, inspired by decolonial and abolitionist critiques. These critiques identify the constitutive and ongoing violence that underwrites modern institutions of higher education and, thus, the higher education field itself. In so doing, they…

This report examines R&D performed by U.S. higher education institutions. It discusses funding by source and S&E field for R&D activities and equipment and provides information on research space. It benchmarks the United States against other nations, and it looks at how academic R&D investments relate to investments in education…

Increasingly, universities are screening candidates for professorships on their commitment to "diversity, equity, and inclusion" (DEI). In 2018, Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Heather Mac Donald drew attention, in a "Los Angeles Times" op-ed, to the decision at the University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA) to require…

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether a relationship existed between early-career teachers' performance on the Educative Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA) as a measure for improving readiness to teach and their Level of Effectiveness (LOE) score once they begin teaching, and to investigate perceptions of early-career teachers…

This quantitative study addressed some of the challenges associated with teacher turnover and highly effective teachers as well as the relationship between perceived stress, teacher stress, and teacher self-efficacy. The measurement instruments, offered in an online survey, included the Teacher Stress Inventory (TSI), the Perceived Stress Scale-10…

Curriculum literacy is in the forefront to increase the professional competence of teachers. Based on this, the study focuses on the extent of pre-service teachers' curriculum literacy level on their teacher readiness. The study is designed in a predictive correlation model. Thus, it is focused on whether pre-service teachers' curriculum literacy…

Purpose: This paper aims to analyze the trends and contents of flipped classroom research based on 48 selected empirical articles published during 2017 and 2018. Design/methodology/approach: The inductive content analysis was used as a methodology to investigate the content of flipped classroom research, including subject-specific areas,…

The study analyzes how chat reference providers refer patrons to subject specialists in 467 interactions from two years at a university library. Qualitative analysis showed variation in how referrals are presented: as an option versus a recommendation, putting follow-up in the hands of patrons versus librarians, and apologizing versus promoting…

Download rates of academic journals have joined citation counts as commonly used indicators of the value of journal subscriptions. While citations reflect worldwide influence, the value of a journal subscription to a single library is more reliably measured by the rate at which it is downloaded by local users. If reported download rates accurately…

Discipline-specific literacy instruction is key to supporting adolescents' overall literacy development. Job-embedded professional development that supports teachers' discipline-specific literacy instruction via instructional coaching is a promising approach to enacting disciplinary literacy instruction in English language arts (ELA) classrooms.…

Many students face a number of challenges when they enter into their undergraduate years. Career planning courses allow students to explore various major and career of interests along with their decision-making skills. These kinds of courses can either be general or focused to a specific discipline. The current study examined career…

The aim of this study is to examine the teacher candidates' technology competencies and perceptions in terms of various variables (gender, type of education, department, whether they have their own computers or not, the situation of connecting to the Internet). The study is a survey model, and the research group consists of five hundred eighteen…

The aim of the study was to determine the relationship between deontic justice attitudes among prospective teachers and their tendencies towards academic dishonesty. Participants in the study were 403 university students attending different departments of the Education Faculty of the Hacettepe University, a state university in the Central Anatolia…

This research study examines how undergraduate researchers conceptualize the purpose of research. Researchers distributed surveys to students who participated in a campus-wide research symposium to learn about student perceptions of research. The findings suggest that students recognize the importance of sharing scholarship and view research as a…