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Pete, Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The problem addressed by this project study was low levels of adjunct faculty compliance and satisfaction with the professional development program at a local college. The purpose of the study was to determine if an alternative delivery method would yield higher levels of compliance and satisfaction than would a traditional professional…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, Professional Development, Andragogy, Independent Study
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Cicco, Gina – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2013
This article will discuss the need for experimental research to document the effectiveness of online counseling skills courses. There are relatively few published studies that have investigated faculty and student performance outcomes when counseling skills and techniques courses are taught through a completely online modality. Various studies…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Instructional Effectiveness, Counselor Training, Training Methods
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Lam, Tony Chiu Ming; Kolomitro, Klodiana; Alamparambil, Flanny C. – Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 2011
Background: Empathy is an individual's capacity to understand the behavior of others, to experience their feelings, and to express that understanding to them. Empathic ability is an asset professionally for individuals, such as teachers, physicians and social workers, who work with people. Being empathetic is also critical to our being able to…
Descriptors: Empathy, Training Methods, Evaluation Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
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Henson, Robin K.; Hull, Darrell M.; Williams, Cynthia S. – Educational Researcher, 2010
How doctoral programs train future researchers in quantitative methods has important implications for the quality of scientifically based research in education. The purpose of this article, therefore, is to examine how quantitative methods are used in the literature and taught in doctoral programs. Evidence points to deficiencies in quantitative…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Educational Research, Researchers, Research Design
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Alber, Sheila R.; Nelson, Janet S. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2010
The research to practice gap continues to be a prominent concern among professionals in the field of education. Traditional staff development in which teachers attend presentations and workshops for a few days each year has been one method for attempting to bring empirically validated instructional practices into the classroom. Unfortunately,…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Theory Practice Relationship, Teacher Researchers, Rural Schools
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Fernando, Delini M.; Hulse-Killacky, Diana – Counselor Education and Supervision, 2006
This article contributes to the research training environment literature by presenting a method to guide the development of a dissertation research question. The method relies on 2 essential components: (a) informal doctoral student research team meetings to provide a mentoring environment in which conversation and discussion about dissertation…
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Student Research, Research Methodology, Group Discussion