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Direct linkBliss, T. J. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The cost of textbooks is a financial burden on many college students. Fortunately the advent of open educational resources (OER) has allowed for the development of textbooks and other materials at significantly reduced costs to students. Many faculty are using OER to develop customized textbooks for their students, usually published digitally…
Descriptors: Shared Resources and Services, Textbooks, Electronic Publishing, Teacher Developed Materials
Galligan, Christopher J. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study addressed the economic challenges confronting public institutions of higher education by examining a viable, alternative revenue stream: alumni giving. The purpose of this study was to examine differences in factors that influence feelings of connectivity and reasons for giving of alumni of varying eras at a public, regional…
Descriptors: Alumni, Generational Differences, Private Financial Support, Educational Finance
An Action Research Intervention for Improving Soldiers' Success in Their Off-Duty Education Pursuits
Ferby, Clifford Jerome – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Many soldiers are interested in pursuing their college education but discover there are barriers and roadblocks that hamper their ability to take college courses. The notion of taking the classroom to the soldiers within their military unit should be studied further. The reason for this research was to improve soldiers' success in pursuing their…
Descriptors: Action Research, Intervention, Military Personnel, Academic Achievement
Kick, Laura C. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In 2007, Lisa Carter created the Total Instructional Alignment system--a process that aligns standards, curriculum, assessment, and instruction. Employed in several hundred school systems, the TIA process is a successful professional development program. The researcher developed an instrument to measure the success of the TIA process with the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Measurement, Alignment (Education), Educational Practices
Cribbs, Aimee M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study focused on the relationships between educator reading fluency constructs, reading fluency instruction and oral reading fluency assessment. Survey responses from sixty-six elementary educators in rural and urban north Georgia were analyzed to reach an understanding of why educators are likely to equate reading fluency with reading fast…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Oral Reading, Reading Instruction, Elementary School Teachers
Groll, Lorie – ProQuest LLC, 2013
One of the most sought after abilities in matriculating engineering students is the ability to negotiate cultural differences and build sustainable partnerships with others. This core attribute of the National Academy of Engineers' Engineer of 2020 is one of the least researched areas in engineering education literature. The ABET Engineering…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Lifelong Learning
Iddings, Joshua Glenn – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to investigate twelfth grade writing instruction at one high school in the Northeastern Kentucky Appalachian region. At the time of the study, Kentucky schools were in a pivotal transitional period as they were adopting the Common Core State Standards while also removing the mandatory portfolio-based writing…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Grade 12, High Schools, Mixed Methods Research
Schmitz, Kurt W. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Information Technology projects have migrated toward two dominant Project Management (PM) methodologies. Plan-driven practices provide organizational control through highly structured plans, schedules, and specifications that facilitate oversight by hierarchical bureaucracies. In contrast, agile practices emphasize empowered teams using flexible…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Program Administration, Models, Mixed Methods Research
Peer reviewedCheng, Liying; Fox, Janna – Language Teaching, 2013
This paper reviews a selected sample of 24 doctoral dissertations in language assessment (broadly defined), completed between 2006 and 2011 in Canadian universities. These dissertations fall into five thematic categories: 1) reliability, validity and factors affecting test performance; 2) washback (impact) and ethics; 3) raters, rating and rating…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Dissertations, Mixed Methods Research, Language Research
Download full textHoque, Mohammed Shamsul; Idrus, Rozhan M.; Islam, Yousuf Mahbubul – English Language Teaching, 2018
Bangladesh ELT situation has been deteriorating for the last four decades. Regional and national projects including ELTIP and EIA proved to be futile in improving this situation, especially, in the Bangladesh rural primary schools with almost 0% properly trained English teachers to implement the current CLT curriculum. This article investigates…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, Elementary Education, Mixed Methods Research
Lin, Chi-Jen; Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Fu, Qing-Ke; Chen, Jing-Fang – Educational Technology & Society, 2018
English business writing is an important and challenging course for English as Foreign Language (EFL) students since it is not only related to English writing skills, but also to business knowledge. Context-game based learning seems to be a good approach to situating students in a meaningful and interesting practicing environment, which could…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Business Communication
Vera, Elizabeth; Hook, Kimberly; Daskalova, Plamena; Hill, Lincoln; Galvin, Sarah; Fritsche, Sarah; Catellier, Jessica; Haywood, Shaakira; Raziuddin, Abdul; Anderson, Bernasha; Roche, Meghan; Floro, Marissa; Mutuyemariya, Celine; Thomas, Kathryn; Heerwagen, Kathryn; Camacho, Daniel; Boots, Tonya; Gruber, Elisabeth Ondrey – Journal of Educational & Psychological Consultation, 2018
This mixed-methods study examined the socioemotional experiences of 57 alumni of language support programs (i.e., English as a second language, bilingual education) to identify effects of being English learners (ELs). Findings revealed the need for multicultural sensitivity to ELs, bullying episodes, social exclusion, and not disclosing negative…
Descriptors: Social Experience, Emotional Experience, Student Experience, English Language Learners
Schafer-Mayse, Diane L. – Journal of Online Learning Research, 2015
In this study, 7th grade students were observed completing a series of lessons in an online science course to explore their thinking and strategies for: (1) using curriculum resources for learning, (2) developing thinking and strategies for self-assessing "assessment readiness," and (3) exploring the relationship between resource use and…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Middle School Students, Online Courses, Mixed Methods Research
Exploring Market and Competitive Intelligence Research as a Source for Enhancing Innovation Capacity
Bajaj, Deepak – College Quarterly, 2015
The purpose of this study was to assess the role of Competitive and Market Intelligence (CI/MI) Research as a potential source for improving the innovation capability of Small and Medium Enterprises (SME's) leading to successful new product/services/processes/capabilities development (Cooper & Edgett, 2002). This report highlights the…
Descriptors: Small Businesses, Capacity Building, Research and Development, Innovation
Hipsky, Shellie; Younes, Wiam – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2015
In a time when discussions about information privacy dominate the media, research on Cybersafety education reveals that K-12 teachers and staff are concerned about information privacy in schools and they seek to learn more about the protection of their students' and own personal information online. Privacy topics are typically introduced to the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Privacy
