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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
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Cheng, 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
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Hoque, 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Salajan, Florin D.; Welch, Anita G.; Ray, Chris M.; Peterson, Claudette – International Journal on E-Learning, 2015
This study's primary investigation is the impact of "peer influence" and "perceived quality of teaching" on faculty members' usage of web-based learning management systems within the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) framework. These factors are entered into an extended TAM as external variables impacting on the core constructs…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Teacher Attitudes, Technology Integration, Technology Uses in Education
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Robins, Jennifer – School Library Research, 2015
Successful school library programs occur through careful planning and reflection. This reflective process is improved when it is applied in a systematic way through action research. The action research described in this paper enabled school librarians to reflect based on evidence, using data they had collected. This study presents examples of the…
Descriptors: Action Research, Empowerment, School Libraries, Librarians
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Burke, April M. – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2015
Indiana English learners (ELs) constitute a rapidly growing portion of the state's school-aged population, and those classified as limited English proficient are low performers on the state test. The purpose of this embedded mixed methods study was to understand how school personnel respond to accountability mandates, interpret test scores, and…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Rural Schools, Educational Policy, Mixed Methods Research
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