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Muammar, Omar M.; Alkathiri, Mohammed S. – International Journal for Academic Development, 2022
This study aimed to identify which factors have the greatest influence on the satisfaction of faculty members who attended higher education professional development programs in teaching. The study included 2,330 cases collected over a three-year period. The results highlighted seven factors that explained 72% of satisfaction and had the greatest…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Development, Teacher Attitudes, Participant Satisfaction
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Annalee Kelly; Dominic F. Gullo; Yange Xue – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2024
This study examined child demographics and teacher background and beliefs that may be associated with teacher reports of externalizing behaviors in preschool children. Reports of these behaviors are associated with preschool suspension or expulsion. Head Start teacher and child data were used to investigate how teacher-reported child behavior…
Descriptors: Social Services, Low Income Students, Federal Programs, Teacher Characteristics
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Graue, Elizabeth; Ryan, Sharon; Wilinski, Bethany; Northey, Kaitlin; Nocera, Amato – Teachers College Record, 2018
Background/Context: Early childhood education joined the standards movement in 2002 with the Good Start, Grow Smart initiative (Brown, 2007), with advocates arguing that standards were a tool for creating more continuity and coherence in PreK systems (Bowman, 2006; Kagan 2012). Critics posed concerns about a perceived poor fit between…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Education, Federal Programs, Academic Standards
Shuey, Elizabeth A.; Kankaraš, Miloš – OECD Publishing, 2018
Early learning matters and can be strengthened and supported through contexts where children spend much of their time. Strong early learning experiences provide young children with opportunities to enjoy exploring their own interests and growing capabilities. Strong early learning also positively predicts well-being across a range of indicators in…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Well Being, Predictor Variables
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Atiles, Julia T.; Gresham, Talley M.; Washburn, Isaac – Educational Research Quarterly, 2017
The purpose of this study was to determine whether teachers' sense of efficacy influences their attitude towards the use of physical punishment in schools. There were two groups of participants in the study: pre-service and in-service early childhood teachers. The sample was made up of 78 in-service teachers from two different school districts and…
Descriptors: Values, Beliefs, School Culture, Teacher Response
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Talbert, Joan E.; David, Jane L. – Learning Policy Institute, 2019
Located just southeast of Fresno in California's Central Valley, Sanger Unified School District (USD) serves approximately 12,000 students in 20 schools. Sanger USD students are predominately from low-income families (73%); most are Latino/a (70%), and about one in five (18%) are English learners. During the accountability era of No Child Left…
Descriptors: School Districts, Minority Group Students, Racial Differences, Ethnicity