This paper provides an analysis of interviews with seven faculty members who engaged in creating Open textbooks funded by government grants at a university in Canada in 2018. Using four values--access and equity, community and connection, agency and ownership, and risk and responsibility--identified by Sinkinson (2018), McAndrew (2018), and…

With the increasing data security awareness of mobile crowdsensing (MCS) participants, smartphone app developers are continually developing technical security protections, but with little consideration on human behaviors. Information technology (IT) advancements seen in the introduction of homomorphic encryption and privacy preserving…

The purpose of the current study was to illuminate the lived experiences of K-12 teachers who attended teacher professional development sessions hosted by informal education institutions for consecutive or multiple years. The current study was a hermeneutic phenomenological study. The data collection and analysis process was conducted in three…

The problem addressed in this study was that despite the development and implementation of the national standards for family-school engagement, some teachers and parents still struggle to establish relationships. The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to determine if there was a relationship between a teachers' perceptions of the…

The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to investigate how highly engaged employees in a large staff group at a large public U.S. university describe how their experiences influenced their perceptions of meaningfulness, psychological safety, psychological availability, and employee engagement. In response to many calls to fully…

International student enrollment in U.S. higher education institutions is steadily increasing. In 2018/2019, more than one million international students were pursuing their higher education in the U.S. This study aims to discover and learn more about the academic and cultural perceptions, as well as on-campus experiences of the international…

Two-year athletic programs bring many unique elements to a college campus, many of which help to create a comprehensive student experience. Quantifying this experience is difficult as little data has been collected historically on two-year college athletes. The purpose of conducting this study was to create a profile of a rural two-year college…

Understanding the experiences of elementary principals is important due to the rising number of special education students educated in general education classrooms. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore elementary principals' involvement in special education, barriers faced implementing special education, and the types of support…

The purpose of this quantitative causal-comparative study was to examine if, and to what extent, there is a difference between students who participated in Career Technical Education (CTE) and students that participate in GE delivery models on academic achievement, while controlling for the demographic variables of gender (male or female),…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the primary characteristics of engineering college students' involvement in out-of-class activities (OA) at one private college in China through the use of the translated and culturally adapted Chinese version of the Postsecondary Student Engagement Survey (PosSES 2.1). This study provides the…

The purpose of this mixed-methods explanatory sequential design study is to better understand university-level foreign students' motivations for attending tutoring sessions. Forty-eight university students were selected based on their enrollment in a university's intensive English language learning program. This study involved two phases of data…

Service learning (SL) is often considered a powerful way of reforming education practices by connecting communities and schools. The majority of colleges and universities in the U.S. offer students some form of SL experience during their undergraduate education. Students who take SL courses in college have demonstrated gains above and beyond those…

The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of parental participation through the lens of administrators who serve and parents/grandparents who have children enrolled in a low-performing elementary school. Through this understanding of the different perspectives, supports were identified that could lead to increased parental…

The growing number of teaching professional development (TPD) programs in most major universities shows higher education institutions' determination to improve the quality of classroom teaching with the support of contemporary instructional strategies and advanced technology. However, TPD programs at research universities often face the struggle…

Future Forward (FF) is an early elementary literacy program that pairs one-on-one tutoring with parent engagement. In 2017, Education Analytics (EA) received an Education Innovation and Research (EIR) Mid-Phase grant to expand FF to 14 schools in seven school districts across three states. The randomized control trial (RCT) study of the 2019-20 FF…