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Direct linkHoyt, DaVina J. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
It is often that during their academic pursuits, to become successful, low-income African-American women must learn to navigate an upstream current through higher education, where the established order in the academy is based on Western European values that often conflict with African-American values (Harper, Patton & Wooden, 2009; Phinney,…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, African American Students, Females, Womens Education
Curtis-Bey, Linda – ProQuest LLC, 2013
High achievement in mathematics is a critical part of the portfolios of students seeking admission to the best high schools and colleges; it is essential to a school's success at district, state, and national levels and to America's future as a global competitor. Elementary school leaders need to provide their students with a balanced,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Achievement, Principals
Heekin, Jonathan Ralph Calvin – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Biology faculty at an East Coast university believed their undergraduate students were not being well served by the existing academic advising program. The purpose of this mixed methods project study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the academic advising model in a biology department. Guided by system-based organizational theory, a learning…
Descriptors: Biology, Academic Advising, Undergraduate Students, Holistic Approach
Platt, Petra W. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Special educators must engage students with special needs in transition planning to help students set and achieve goals with regard to postsecondary education, vocation, community engagement, and independent living. Researchers have examined many aspects of transition planning, but few have examined how students with special needs experience the…
Descriptors: Special Education, Student Needs, Transitional Programs, Postsecondary Education
Ochieng-Sande, Beverly – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In education today there is a heightened emphasis on teacher accountability for improving student outcomes. The law requires that in order for a student to qualify as a student with a disability, the child's IEP team must ensure that the child's problem is not due to poor instructional programming. Therefore, the general education teacher is…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Case Studies, School Culture, Accountability
Auten, Marianne Adams – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Current research shows that students with a growth mindset are more motivated to learn, want to work harder, are less discouraged by difficulty, use more effective strategies for learning, and have higher academic performance in comparison to students without this mindset. Despite these promising findings, a growth mindset is sometimes not…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Learning Motivation, Student Motivation, Learning Strategies
Peer reviewedCarter, Erik W.; Asmus, Jennifer; Moss, Colleen K.; Biggs, Elizabeth E.; Bolt, Dan M.; Born, Tiffany L.; Brock, Matthew E.; Cattey, Gillian N.; Chen, Rui; Cooney, Molly; Fesperman, Ethan; Hochman, Julia M.; Huber, Heartley B.; Lequia, Jenna L.; Lyons, Gregory; Moyseenko, Kerrie A.; Riesch, Lindsay M.; Shalev, Rebecca A.; Vincent, Lori B.; Weir, Katie – Exceptional Children, 2016
Enhancing the social and learning experiences of students with severe disabilities in inclusive classrooms has been a long-standing focus of research, legislative, and advocacy efforts. The authors used a randomized controlled experimental design to examine the efficacy of peer support arrangements to improve academic and social outcomes for 51…
Descriptors: High School Students, Severe Disabilities, Randomized Controlled Trials, Peer Relationship
King, Betty Smith – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Despite a rural Georgia school district's effort to increase the academic performance of all students, the achievement gap persists between general education and special education students. The purpose of the study was to explore what factors hindered coteachers from consistently applying differentiated instruction in elementary inclusion…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Team Teaching, Teacher Attitudes, Knowledge Level
Ohajunwa, Chioma; Mckenzie, Judith; Hardy, Anneli; Lorenzo, Theresa – Perspectives in Education, 2014
Evidence suggests that the lack of inclusion of disability issues in the curricula of higher education institutions may result in the perpetuation of practices that discriminate against disabled people in the broader society. In light of this claim, this article investigates whether and how disability issues are included in the teaching and…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Colleges, Higher Education, Disability Discrimination
Russo-Gleicher, Rosalie J. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2014
This article provides qualitative insights into addressing the issue of student retention in online classes in higher education. Semi-structured, in-depth interviews were conducted at random with 16 faculty who teach online courses at a large community college in the Northeast about how to improve online student retention. Qualitative analysis…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Academic Persistence, School Holding Power, Online Courses
Download full textShields, Tracy Jill – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2014
The main goals of this article are twofold. The first is to explore whether the General Education Development (GED) program has the potential to meet the academic requirements cited by the scholarship in the area of mathematics for First Nations upgrading programs. Secondly, this paper explores how the GED program influences identity in students…
Descriptors: High School Equivalency Programs, Indigenous Populations, Mathematics Instruction, Adult Learning
Grundmeyer, Trent – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2014
Technology is changing education. School leaders are charged with purchasing and leveraging technology to maximize an ever-changing landscape of teaching and learning. They have many factors to consider as they make decisions about what specific technologies to purchase for their schools. Gartner's Hype Cycle is an annually published report that…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Technology Integration, High Schools
McDonnell, Andrea P.; Hawken, Leanne S.; Johnston, Susan S.; Kidder, Jaimee E.; Lynes, Marjorie J.; McDonnell, John J. – Education and Treatment of Children, 2014
A national mail survey of Head Start preschool teachers (N = 500) was conducted to assess their practices, the availability of specialist support, and their views related to emergent literacy instruction for Head Start children who have a disability or developmental delay. The responding teachers (n = 254) reported that (a) nearly one quarter of…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Early Intervention, Teacher Surveys, Teaching Methods
Mulcahy, Candace A.; Maccini, Paula; Wright, Kenneth; Miller, Jason – Behavioral Disorders, 2014
In this review, the authors offer a critical analysis of published interventions for improving mathematics performance among middle and high school students with EBD in light of the Common Core State Standards. An exhaustive review of literature from 1975 to December 2012 yielded 20 articles that met criteria for inclusion. The authors analyzed…
Descriptors: Intervention, Mathematics Achievement, Middle School Students, High School Students
Fulmer, Gavin W.; Liang, Ling L.; Liu, Xiufeng – International Journal of Science Education, 2014
This exploratory study applied a proposed force and motion learning progression (LP) to high-school and university students and to content involving both one- and two-dimensional force and motion situations. The Force Concept Inventory (FCI) was adapted, based on a previous content analysis and coding of the questions in the FCI in terms of the…
Descriptors: Secondary School Science, High School Students, College Science, College Students
