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Arko-Achemfuor, Akwasi – Cogent Education, 2019
This article reports on a community engagement project by the University of South Africa's Department of Adult Basic Education to address the challenges faced by new literates in establishing and managing projects and small businesses. The main objective of the article was to assess how capacity and training workshops have been used as tools to…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Small Businesses, Business Administration, Action Research
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Haj-Broussard, Michelle; Keefer, Natalie; Hébert, Dustin; Grivet, Candice – NECTFL Review, 2019
Research on stakeholder perspectives in language immersion contexts is relatively new (Padron & Waxman, 2016; Whitacre, 2015). This current qualitative research examined perspectives of stakeholders at a mini-conference for immersion educators and administrators called Conversations in Immersion. The mini-conference encouraged immersion…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Attitudes
Goldhaber, Dan; Long, Mark; Person, Ann E.; Rooklyn, Jordan – Center for Education Data & Research, 2019
We investigate factors influencing student sign-ups for Washington State's College Bound Scholarship (CBS) program and consider whether there is scope for the program to change college enrollment expectations. We find that student characteristics associated with signing the scholarship closely parallel characteristics of low-income students who…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Student Attitudes, Expectation, Predictor Variables
Ward, C.; St. Martin, K.; Horner, R.; Duda, M.; Ingram-West, K.; Tedesco, M.; Putnam, D.; Buenrostro, M.; Chaparro, E. – National Implementation Research Network, 2019
The primary purpose of the District Capacity Assessment (DCA) is to assist school districts to implement effective innovations that benefit students. The "capacity" of a district to facilitate building-level implementation refers to the systems, activities, and resources that are necessary for schools to successfully adopt and sustain…
Descriptors: School Districts, Program Implementation, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
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Warner, Laura A.; Vavrina, Charlie S.; Campbell, Mary L.; Elliott, Monica L.; Northrop, Robert J.; Place, Nick T. – Journal of Extension, 2017
Florida's Strategic Plan for Extension in Metropolitan Regions reflects an adaptive management approach to the state's urban Extension mission within the context of establishing essential elements, performance indicators, key outcomes, and suggested alternatives for action. Extension leadership has adopted the strategic plan, and implementation…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Program Implementation, Program Administration, Extension Education
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Baldwin, Leslie – Foreign Language Annals, 2021
This article presents findings of a larger research project regarding effective leadership practices in language immersion programs. The purpose of this study was to discover actions, knowledge, and skills that immersion leaders of successful programs exhibit. Using a basic qualitative model, immersion leaders, teachers, and parents at three…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Instructional Leadership, Trust (Psychology), Faculty Development
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Liu, Junshuan – English Language Teaching, 2021
This article reports on a case study that explores the views of four EFL program administrators of a university located in central China about the hiring and workplace situations of foreign English teachers. It was found that the administrators as a whole buy into the conventional pro-nativeness ideology with regard to hiring foreign English…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Administrator Attitudes, Teacher Selection, Language Teachers
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Capurso, Michele; Buratta, Livia; Pazzagli, Chiara; Pagano Salmi, Luciana; Casucci, Simone; Finauro, Stefania; Potenza, Cristina; Mazzeschi, Claudia – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic raised concerns regarding millions of children's mental health. For schools, the real challenge has been how to manage the situation in terms of education and development. The present investigation was carried out to evaluate a school re-entry program that supported teachers and students with activities aimed at processing…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers
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Aldemar, Segura-Escobar; Alfonso, López-Vega – English Language Teaching, 2018
This article presents the results of a study about the attitudes by the learners from a bachelor in basic education with emphasis on arts, in Colombia, regarding the quality of academic management of this program. The importance of this study appears considers that its results will be useful to contrast the agreement or disagreement between the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Bachelors Degrees, Educational Quality
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Saleem, Tooba; Mehmood, Nasir – Journal of Education and Educational Development, 2018
The nature of supervisory relationship is dynamic that changes over the course of candidacy. Subsequently, the supervision demands of supervisees also change to help them in performing certain tasks at specific research stages. In this context, this research is proposed to investigate the supervision experiences of supervisees in four different…
Descriptors: Supervision, Student Experience, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students
Campbell, Charles L. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this research study was to examine several specific factors that could influence a project manager's behavioral intention to use e-learning technology for professional development learning activities. This study extended the technology acceptance model (TAM) with an external variable, computer self-efficacy, which was analyzed as a…
Descriptors: Influences, Intention, Computer Attitudes, Positive Attitudes
Shohfi, Kyle D. – Congressional Research Service, 2019
To address concerns about the public postsecondary education offerings available to District of Columbia residents, the District of Columbia College Access Act of 1999 (P.L. 106-98) established the District of Columbia Tuition Assistance Grant (DCTAG) program. The program is meant to provide college-bound DC residents with a greater array of…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Tuition Grants, College Bound Students, Undergraduate Students
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Carolyn Strand Norman; Nancy A. Bagranoff – Advances in Accounting Education: Teaching and Curriculum Innovations, 2019
Since at least the 1980s, the accounting profession has discussed and written about the gap between academics and the practice of accounting. More recently, accounting academics have joined the call for increased faculty engagement with the accounting profession. As a result, the 2018 Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business…
Descriptors: Accounting, Advisory Committees, Professional Personnel, Cooperation
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Swinson, Ronnie; Clark, Aaron C.; Ernst, Jeremy V.; Sutton, Kevin – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2016
"Employers want individuals who are self-motivated, are driven, and can effectively communicate this to their work groups and supervisors" (Pence & Rowe, 2012, p. 50). Projects assigned by teachers or bosses can seem monumental, but by breaking them down into individual parts they can be managed to completion. There are many jobs…
Descriptors: Technical Occupations, Engineering, Teaching Methods, Technological Literacy
Fichera, Christopher E. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
A majority of large IT projects fail to meet scheduled deadlines, are over budget and do not satisfy the end user. Many projects fail in spite of utilizing traditional project management techniques. Research of project management has not identified the use of a visual workspace as a feature affecting or influencing the success of a project during…
Descriptors: Program Administration, Work Environment, Information Technology, Success
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