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Merrill, Lisa – Research Alliance for New York City Schools, 2020
Earning a college degree is widely recognized as the most reliable pathway to economic stability (Carnevale, Smith, & Strohl, 2013). But it is known from a wide range of research that access to college is neither easy nor equitable, and that traditionally underrepresented students (including low-income students and Black and Latino students)…
Descriptors: Mentors, Social Emotional Learning, College Attendance, Access to Education
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Poursalim, Abbas; Arefi, Mahbobe; Fathi Vajargah, Kourosh – Online Submission, 2020
The purpose of this study was to explore and delineate the curriculum of global citizenship education in elementary schools of Iran's educational system and to develop an exploratory model. In this exploratory research, based on the grounded theory, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 34 active members in the field of global…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Citizenship Education, Curriculum Development, Elementary School Students
Office of Head Start, US Department of Health and Human Services, 2020
The Head Start Act mandates that each Head Start grantee receive a monitoring review at least once every 3 years; each newly designated grantee be reviewed after the completion of its first year (and then at least once every 3 years thereafter); and all grantees that "fail to meet the standards" receive Follow-up reviews. Reviewers…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Federal Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education
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van Lieshout, Sanne; Mevissen, Fraukje; de Waal, Esri; Kok, Gerjo – Health Education Research, 2017
Schools are a common setting for adolescents to receive health education, but implementation of these programs with high levels of completeness and fidelity is not self-evident. Programs that are only partially implemented (completeness) or not implemented as instructed (fidelity) are unlikely to be effective. Therefore, it is important to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Students, Science Teachers
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Ilaria, Daniel – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2017
Online teacher professional development is becoming more prevalent as the ability to harness technology to bring teachers and resources together becomes easier. Research is needed, however, to determine the effectiveness of models and to share practices that increase teacher knowledge of content and pedagogy. This study examines how a hybrid…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Faculty Development, Blended Learning, Models
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Prins, Renate; Avraamidou, Lucy; Goedhart, Martin – Educational Media International, 2017
Grounded within literature pointing to the value of narrative in communicating scientific information, the purpose of this study was to examine the use of stories as a tool for teaching about natural selection in the context of school science. The study utilizes a mixed method, case study approach which focuses on the design, implementation, and…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Evolution, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Zapolski, Tamika C. B.; Smith, Gregory T. – Journal of School Nursing, 2017
A significant proportion of youth engage in health risk behaviors, which are of concern, as they are associated with adverse health consequences across development. Two factors associated with engagement in such behaviors are emotion dysregulation and impulsivity. Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) is an effective intervention that enhances…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Early Adolescents, Middle School Students, Pretests Posttests
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Hordern, Jim – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2017
This paper focuses on the proposals for the introduction of "technical degrees" in English higher education institutions advanced by the Labour Party's Liam Byrne in a document entitled "Robbins Rebooted" which was published in August 2014 by the Social Market Foundation. The context and rationale for the proposed technical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technical Education, Vocational Education, Higher Education
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Cooper, Linda; Ralphs, Alan; Harris, Judy – Studies in Continuing Education, 2017
This article provides some insight into the constraints on the potential of recognition of prior learning (RPL) to widen access to educational qualifications. Its focus is on a conceptual framework that emerged from a South African study of RPL practices across four different learning contexts. Working from a social realist perspective, it argues…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Inclusion, Foreign Countries, Program Implementation
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Moll, Jochen; Kretzschmar, Louise – Journal of Leadership Education, 2017
Due to the many changes that have occurred over the last two decades, especially in connection with the "new managerialism", academia is a complex working environment. Multiple skills are demanded from professors, such as acting as entrepreneurs and mentors with designated leadership competences. This paper investigates the leadership…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership Styles, College Faculty, Teacher Leadership
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Thompson, Gene; Yanagita, Mayuno – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2017
How can Japanese teachers of English go about introducing more communicative activities suitable for their contexts? This article discusses an attempt by a high school teacher to implement communicative language teaching (CLT) in her classes while responding to institutional pressure to use "yakudoku" (a traditional grammar translation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Schools, Program Implementation, Communicative Competence (Languages)
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Erasmus, Barney; Naidoo, Lynette; Joubert, Pierre – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017
The war for talent remains a challenge that many organisations face but more so for distance education institutions to deliver on its mandate to provide effective online academic offerings. The question that remains is: How can intellectual capital be managed effectively in order to recruit and retain talent that is necessary for success? This…
Descriptors: Talent Development, Open Education, Distance Education, Higher Education
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El-Maaddawy, Tamer; Deneen, Christopher – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2017
This paper aims to demonstrate how assessment tasks can function within an outcomes-based learning framework to evaluate student attainment of learning outcomes. An outcomes-based learning framework designed to integrate teaching, learning, and assessment activities was developed and implemented in a civil engineering master-level course. The…
Descriptors: Outcome Based Education, College Outcomes Assessment, Student Evaluation, Graduate Students
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Stanford, Courtney; Cole, Renee; Froyd, Jeff; Henderson, Charles; Friedrichsen, Debra; Khatri, Raina – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2017
Increasing adoption and adaptation of promising instructional strategies and materials has been identified as a critical component needed to improve science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. This paper examines typical propagation practices and resulting outcomes of proposals written by developers of educational…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Educational Development, Educational Strategies, Program Proposals
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Ní Fhloinn, Eabhnat; Carr, Michael – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2017
In this paper, we present a range of formative assessment types for engineering mathematics, including in-class exercises, homework, mock examination questions, table quizzes, presentations, critical analyses of statistical papers, peer-to-peer teaching, online assessments and electronic voting systems. We provide practical tips for the…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Formative Evaluation, Peer Teaching, Tutoring
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