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Bowers, Hugh Hawes, III – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Classrooms, both by design and by accident, have been used to teach and reinforce certain ethics and ideologies. Examining the actual structures of a classroom one can recognize forces often hidden or considered background revealing how students and instructors together are culturally bound by educational spaces. Considerable research exists that…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Two Year Colleges, Student Attitudes
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Potgieter, Amanda S. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2016
This paper reports the autobiographical narrative of Mr. L., as case-in-point example of the thresholding moment and the process of transitioning into Academia. The role of the lecturer-mentor and the multi-logic space that facilitates the process are clarified. I use hermeneutic phenomenology and interpretivism as methodological tools. This ex…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, Qualitative Research
Muldoon, Deirdre – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Three teachers and one assistant principal were recruited from a middle school in a large metropolitan area of the southwestern United States to implement evidence-based practices (EBP). The teachers implemented EBPs in self-continued classrooms to ameliorate the disruptive behavior of three students. The recruited teachers and assistant principal…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Behavior Problems, Middle School Teachers, Assistant Principals
Arslan, Cigdem; Erbay, Hatice Nur; Guner, Pinar – Online Submission, 2016
In the present study we try to highlight prospective mathematics teachers' ability to identify mistakes of sixth grade students related to angle concept. And also we examined prospective mathematics teachers' knowledge of angle concept. Study was carried out with 30 sixth-grade students and 38 prospective mathematics teachers. Sixth grade students…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Error Patterns, Grade 6
Tobin, Jessica I. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Being an educator in the moments that are the most challenging and the most defining involves a deep understanding of human relationships, self-awareness, and ultimately, human interconnection. There is significant literature regarding understandings and related practices for teachers to meet the needs of diverse student learners in schools.…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Teacher Education, Professional Identity, College Faculty
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Kinginger, Celeste – Research-publishing.net, 2016
This paper reviews major findings from qualitative and quantitative research on language learning in student mobility in order to consider how telecollaboration might contribute to the success of student sojourns abroad. Evidence is available to demonstrate the effectiveness of student mobility in every domain of language development. As may be…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Second Language Learning, Cooperation, Study Abroad
Smith-Groves, Michelle S. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Within the last decade, several school and government-level administrations have been attempting to circumvent the incidence of poor academic achievement in relation to school transition. Military children already challenged by frequent moves and parental absences may also be challenged with the impact on their academic achievement. Due to a lack…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Military Personnel, Qualitative Research, Transitional Programs
DeFrancesco, Jennifer A. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Healthcare organizations strive to adapt to the continuous change in what has become a fast-paced, high technology environment. Many organizations are charged to find efficiencies to better manage medical device assets. Increasingly, healthcare leaders opt to adopt a standardized medical device nomenclature under the purview of a set of national…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Health Services, Vocabulary, Equipment
Solak, Ekrem – Online Submission, 2016
Teachers play one of the most important roles in reaching learning objectives. The qualifications of teachers in an education system reflect the potential of that system and directly influence the learners' achievement. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to compare Danish and Swedish English teacher training programs with that of Turkey and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Teacher Education Programs, College Second Language Programs
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Plett, Barrette – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
This study was conducted for the researcher's Master's thesis on the lived experience of introverted adolescent female students in rural Nova Scotia, Canada. The aim of the research was to better understand these students' lived experiences in public school. Due to their introverted natures, these students' stories are not typically reported. The…
Descriptors: Extraversion Introversion, Adolescents, Females, School Counselors
Allen, Wendy Bickford – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Early care and education (ECE) services are necessary for a society because of a variety of ethical, economic, and developmental reasons. A well-developed field of practice is needed to ensure young children have access to high quality care and education settings. To promote a thriving profession, many are calling for the field of early care and…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Case Studies, Early Childhood Education, Faculty Development
Sheryl MacMath; Barbara Salingré – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
Our research examines the effectiveness of intake variables used by a Canadian post-degree teacher education program over the period of 3 years to select candidates for entry into the program. Using a mixed-methods approach, we compared intake variables (grade point average, written response, work experience, reference letters, academic…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Mixed Methods Research, Research Methodology, Foreign Countries
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Osler, James Edward – Journal of Educational Technology, 2014
This monograph provides an epistemological rational for the design of a novel post hoc statistical measure called "Tri-Center Analysis". This new statistic is designed to analyze the post hoc outcomes of the Tri-Squared Test. In Tri-Center Analysis trichotomous parametric inferential parametric statistical measures are calculated from…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Statistical Significance, Statistical Inference, Inquiry
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Leutar, Zdravka; Vitlov, Josipa; Leutar, Ivan – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2014
This article presents a qualitative study designed to gain insight into personal experience and perception of abuse in people with intellectual disabilities. Ten members of the organization for people with intellectual disabilities in Zadar, Croatia, who have a diagnosis of light or moderate intellectual disability, were included in the research.…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Qualitative Research, Experience, Antisocial Behavior
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Popova, Lucy; Kostygina, Ganna; Sheon, Nicolas M.; Ling, Pamela M. – Health Education Research, 2014
Cigarette companies increasingly promote novel smokeless tobacco products to smokers, encouraging them to use smokeless tobacco in smoke-free environments. New messages may counteract this promotion. We developed 12 initial anti-smokeless message ideas and tested them in eight online focus groups with 75 US smokers. Those smokers who never tried…
Descriptors: Smoking, Marketing, Focus Groups, Health Promotion
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