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Itani, Razzan – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Intercultural competence is a skill required by those who teach in transnational education--that is, at branch campuses located in foreign countries (Crabtree & Sapp, 2004; Dunn & Wallace, 2004; Gribble & Ziguras, 2003; Leask, 2004). Despite the strong emphasis that has been put on the importance of having classrooms facilitated by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Awareness, Teacher Competencies, Faculty Development
Smith, Monica Paulette – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate Historically Black College and University (HBCU) presidents' perceptions of their role in preserving and promoting civic engagement at their institutions. HBCU presidents from six institutions with exemplary civic engagement initiatives responded to semi-structured interview questions. These questions…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, College Presidents, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role
Johnson, Zachary Tyler – ProQuest LLC, 2017
One of the greatest challenges within education is a growing shortage of teachers (Epps & Foor, 2015). Various factors can be attributed to this phenomenon; however, two major factors that influence teachers to leave the profession are accountability and administrator leadership styles (Weinbaum, Weis, & Beaver, 2012). These two factors…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Job Satisfaction, Teaching Conditions, Leadership Styles
Coleman, Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This is a study of secondary mathematics teachers' use of a digitally enhanced educational technology called Interactive Diagrams (IDs). This study is concerned with the ways in which mathematics teachers use IDs as they plan and enact classroom activities involving this technology, as well as the factors that affect their ID use. Qualitative…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Mathematics, Teaching Methods, Visual Aids
Miller, Jodie; Larkin, Kevin – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2017
In this paper, we present data from a study exploring the use of coding to promote mathematical thinking. A teaching experiment was undertaken with 40 Year 2 students participating in six 45-minute lessons of coding (one lesson per week for six weeks). All lessons were video-recorded and analysed to determine students' mathematical thinking.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Perspective Taking, Video Technology
Morgan, Hope E. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Kenyan Sign Language (KSL) is a thriving national sign language used by tens of thousands of signers in Kenya, and which emerged out of two deaf schools in western Kenya in the early 1960s. In this thesis, I provide a thorough description and analysis of the basic phonological components of the KSL lexicon used in the southwestern region of Kenya…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Phonology, Sign Language, Dialects
Hamlett, Laura E. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Mass murder in the United States is increasing, yet understanding of mass murderers is still relatively limited. Many perpetrators compose manifestos, which include journals, blogs, letters, videos, and other writings. Previous research has indicated that personal messages are of great social and psychological importance; however, there remains an…
Descriptors: Homicide, Criminals, Psycholinguistics, Language Usage
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Rona-Tas, Akos; Cornuéjols, Antoine; Blanchemanche, Sandrine; Duroy, Antonin; Martin, Christine – Sociological Methods & Research, 2019
Recently, both sociology of science and policy research have shown increased interest in scientific uncertainty. To contribute to these debates and create an empirical measure of scientific uncertainty, we inductively devised two systems of classification or ontologies to describe scientific uncertainty in a large corpus of food safety risk…
Descriptors: Food, Risk, Safety, Classification
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Kanellopoulou, Catherine; Kermanidis, Katia Lida; Giannakoulopoulos, Andreas – Education Sciences, 2019
The use of multimedia has often been suggested as a teaching tool in foreign language teaching and learning. In foreign language education, exciting new multimedia applications have appeared over the last years, especially for young learners, but many of these do not seem to produce the desired effect in language development. This article looks…
Descriptors: Multimedia Instruction, Learning Theories, Multimedia Materials, Coding
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Vieira, Camilo; Magana, Alejandra J.; Roy, Anindya; Falk, Michael L. – Cognition and Instruction, 2019
Creating explanations is an important process for students, not only to make connections between novel information and background knowledge, but also to be able to communicate their understanding of any given topic. This article explores students' explanations in the context of computational science and engineering, an important interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Comprehension, Computation, Programming
Gutierrez, Akira S.; Krachman, Sara B.; Scherer, Ethan; West, Martin R.; Gabrieli, John D. – Transforming Education, 2019
This paper, authored in collaboration with researchers from Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, reviews findings from a randomized controlled trial (RCT) at a partner school, focused on understanding the effects of a direct-to-student intervention on students' mindfulness…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Teaching Methods, Intervention, Middle School Students
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Ke, Fengfeng; Whalon, Kelly; Yun, Joonmo – Review of Educational Research, 2018
This article is intended to synthesize the broader literature investigating the effectiveness and salient features of interventions designed to enhance the social competence of youth and adults with autism spectrum disorder. Outcomes for adults with autism spectrum disorder remain poor with only minimal improvement shown for decades. Among 796…
Descriptors: Intervention, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Interpersonal Competence
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Hull, Glynda; Hellmich, Emily – Teachers College Record, 2018
Background: Educators in the United States and internationally have become increasingly interested in incorporating international perspectives into curricula, programs, and policy (Hayden, 2011; Parker, 2011). Rooted in a long history of international education (Dolby & Rahman, 2008), these efforts have been described variously as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Education, Institutional Mission, Curriculum
Schertz, Hannah H.; Call-Cummings, Meagan; Horn, Kathryn; Quest, Kelsey; Law, Rhiannon Steffen – Journal of Early Intervention, 2018
A qualitative study of three parents and their toddlers with autism was conducted to investigate the communicative functions underlying parent-toddler interactions and how the instrumental or social nature of one partner's actions influenced the other's engagement. Parent-child interaction videos collected from a separate intervention study were…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Social Development, Child Development
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Mershad, Khaleel; Wakim, Pilar – Journal of Education and Learning, 2018
A breakthrough in the development of online learning occurred with the utilization of Learning Management Systems (LMS) as a tool for creating, distributing, tracking, and managing various types of educational and training material. Since the appearance of the first LMS, major technological enhancements transformed this tool into a powerful…
Descriptors: Integrated Learning Systems, Internet, Computer Oriented Programs, Online Courses
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