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Onyura, Betty; Ng, Stella L.; Baker, Lindsay R.; Lieff, Susan; Millar, Barbara-Ann; Mori, Brenda – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2017
Demonstrating the impact of faculty development, is an increasingly mandated and ever elusive goal. Questions have been raised about the adequacy of current approaches. Here, we integrate realist and theory-driven evaluation approaches, to evaluate an intensive longitudinal program. Our aim is to elucidate how faculty development can work to…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Program Effectiveness, Evaluation Methods, Longitudinal Studies
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Craddock, Jaih B. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2017
The aim of this article is to address some of the questions Dr. Paula S. Nurius presents in her article, "Innovation and Emerging Scientific Careers: Is Social Work Prepared to Compete in Today?s Scientific Marketplace?" Specifically, this article will focus on what we can do to better prepare our emerging research scholars to be…
Descriptors: Innovation, Social Work, Social Integration, Graduate Students
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Pantas, Susanna; Miller, Sean A.; Kulkarni, Shanti J. – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2017
Social work students created a community activism project to raise awareness about trauma prevalence and impact. Trauma theory describes silencing as the mechanism that hinders individual and community healing. Therefore, students sought to create an interactive opportunity to heighten trauma visibility on campus. They created a physical mailbox…
Descriptors: Activism, Social Work, Counselor Training, Trauma
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Hairon, Salleh; Tan, Charlene – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2017
Professional learning communities (PLCs) have been recognised as having the potential to raise the quality of teachers, teaching and student learning through structured teacher collaboration, and have been featured prominently in Singapore and Shanghai--both considered top-performing Asian societies in the Program for International Student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Teacher Collaboration, Comparative Analysis
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Ho, Sammy K. – Educational Psychology, 2017
In this study, we report on the relationship between positive humour and burnout among 379 secondary school teachers in Hong Kong, and explore whether the relationship varies according to gender. The moderating effects of both affiliative and self-enhancing humour on each burnout component were then examined. High affiliative and self-enhancing…
Descriptors: Correlation, Stress Variables, Teacher Burnout, Humor
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Russo-Campisi, Jacqueline – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2017
Background: The research on evidence-based practices (EBP) in special education has shifted over the last decade from identifying efficacious interventions to exploring issues that impede implementation in the classroom. Common barriers to implementation include absence of training and resources, limited collaboration between researchers and…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Special Education, Theory Practice Relationship, Barriers
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Cahnmann-Taylor, Melisa; Bleyle, Susan; Hwang, Yohan; Zhang, Kuo – TESOL Journal, 2017
Teachers of World English are no longer charged with teaching a fixed set of grammar rules and lexical choices but with teaching creative ways to navigate varieties of English and other world languages according to a wide set of contextual variables. Although there is a great deal of advocacy for teaching creativity and strategy in TESOL…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Poetry, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Scudieri, Dena; Schwager, Susan – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2017
Time is a highly contested resource in today's schools. Proactive physical educators and savvy school administrators are acknowledging the benefits of devoting time during the school day, beyond regular physical education classes, for students to engage in physical activity with an eye toward enhancing student's health and well-being, as well as…
Descriptors: Recess Breaks, Physical Education, Physical Activities, Student Participation
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Kokotsaki, Dimitra – British Journal of Music Education, 2017
Pupil voice research has been recognised in the last 15 years for its potential to re-shape the conditions of learning and help raise child engagement and standards of achievement. In music education, however, there still seems to exist a misalignment between the content of the curriculum and pupils' learning expectations and interests. The aim of…
Descriptors: Music Education, Student Attitudes, Secondary School Students, Student Educational Objectives
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Alhalabi, Wadee; Alhalabi, Mobeen – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017
The Color Coded Cards system as a possibly effective class management tool is the focus of this research. The Color Coded Cards system involves each student being given a card with a specific color based on his or her behavior. The main objective of the research is to find out whether this system effectively improves students' behavior, thus…
Descriptors: Color, Visual Stimuli, Behavior Modification, Student Behavior
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Gunn, Frances; Lee, Seung Hwan; Steed, Madelyn – Marketing Education Review, 2017
In this exploratory research, the authors categorize the benefits and challenges of participating in a mentoring program from the perspectives of mentors and mentees. The authors use the mentoring framework proposed by Crisp and Cruz in 2009 to inform educators. The authors report the percentage of mention, the level of occurrence, and the effect…
Descriptors: Mentors, Peer Relationship, Student Attitudes, Student Participation
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Schmidt, Kathleen M.; Kelter, Paul – Science Educator, 2017
Little is known about the impact of science fair participation on student science inquiry learning. Furthermore, there is only a small research base relating to science fair participation and student attitudes toward science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers and coursework. In this study, 41 seventh-grade science fair…
Descriptors: Science Fairs, Inquiry, Active Learning, Student Attitudes
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Asmus, Jennifer M.; Carter, Erik W.; Moss, Colleen K.; Biggs, Elizabeth E.; Bolt, Daniel M.; Born, Tiffany L.; Bottema-Beutel, Kristen; Brock, Matthew E.; Cattey, Gillian N.; Cooney, Molly; Fesperman, Ethan S.; Hochman, Julia M.; Huber, Heartley B.; Lequia, Jenna L.; Lyons, Gregory L.; Vincent, Lori B.; Weir, Katie – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2017
This randomized controlled trial examined the efficacy of peer network interventions to improve the social connections of 47 high school students with severe disabilities. School staff invited, trained, and supported 192 peers without disabilities to participate in individualized social groups that met throughout one semester. Compared to…
Descriptors: High School Students, Severe Disabilities, Peer Relationship, Social Networks
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Nilchian, Firoozeh; Shakibaei, Fereshteh; Jarah, Zeinab Taghi – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2017
This study was aimed to evaluate the impact of visual pedagogy in dental check-ups and preventive practices among children with autism aged 6-12. In this randomized double-blind clinical trial, the cooperation of 40 children with autism age 6-12. The selected children were equally divided into two groups of case and control (n = 20). The obtained…
Descriptors: Autism, Children, Preadolescents, Cooperation
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Aarto-Pesonen, Leena; Tynjälä, Päivi – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2017
This article conceptualises adult learners' professional growth in a tailored, work-related, teacher-qualification programme in physical education. The study data consisted of the reflectivelearning diaries of 20 adult learners during a 2-year tertiary and work-related teacher-qualification programme. The data were analysed using data-driven open…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Teacher Education, Physical Education, Grounded Theory
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