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'Why Do I Have to Learn This?'
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Eric M. Anderman; Yue Sheng; Wonjoon Cha – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
Students' valuing of academic content impacts their engagement in learning and plays a pivotal role in shaping their future academic and career choices. Fortunately, practicing educators can integrate many readily applicable strategies into teaching to enhance students' valuing of academic content. Drawing from expectancy-value theory, Eric M.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Student Motivation, Learner Engagement, Student Attitudes
The Role of Micro-Credentials in Lifelong Learning and Development: Empowering Learners, Empowering Organizations
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Marilys Galindo; Rita Fennelly-Atkinson; Kristen Franklin; Christina Luke Luna – Digital Promise, 2024
The Role of Micro-Credentials in Lifelong Learning and Development: Empowering Learners, Empowering Organizations serves as a comprehensive resource accessible to all interested in understanding micro-credentials. It focuses on several important aspects critical to understanding micro-credentials, starting with Digital Promise's definition of…
Descriptors: Microcredentials, Lifelong Learning, Student Empowerment, Organizations (Groups)
Investigating the Potential Use of Long-Term School and College Destination Measures. Technical Report
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Julius, Jenna; Hillary, Jude; Faulkner-Ellis, Henry – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2022
This technical report provides an overview of the datasets and methodology used in the main report, "Investigating the Potential Use of Long-Term School and College Destination Measures. Final Report" (see ED619071). The purpose of the main report is to investigate the potential for using Department for Education's (DfE's) Longitudinal…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Outcomes of Education, Young Adults, Foreign Countries
Expertise on Offer: Why Isn't Anyone Buying?
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Braun, Henry – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2023
It is a much-lamented fact that research with the potential to inform or influence education policy instead remains policy inert. There are many reasons for this frustrating state of affairs, including a lack of strategic thinking on the part of researchers on how to successfully accomplish outreach--as opposed to communication with peers…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Research, Educational Researchers, Persuasive Discourse
Chapter 4: Physical Education Teacher Education Initial Certification--Meeting the Challenges
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Ward, Phillip; Mitchell, Murray F.; Lawson, Hal A.; van der Mars, Hans – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2021
The physical education teacher education (PETE) faculty charged with oversight and delivery of initial teacher licensure programs confront several challenges. Some necessitate responses to revised and new standards, while others can be reframed as timely opportunities for improvement and innovation, whether in response to or in anticipation of…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Barriers, Skill Development
The Returns to College(s): Relative Value-Added and Match Effects in Higher Education. Working Paper 29276
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Mountjoy, Jack; Hickman Brent R. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2021
Students who attend different colleges in the U.S. end up with vastly different economic outcomes. We study the role of relative value-added across colleges within student choice sets in producing these outcome disparities. Linking high school, college, and earnings registries spanning the state of Texas, we identify relative college value-added…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Higher Education, State Universities, Decision Making