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Dunham, Nicola – Australian Association for Research in Education, 2016
This overall aim of this paper is to report on PhD (Education) research critically examining the nature and significance of academic identity for students in early childhood field-based initial teacher education (FBITE) in Aotearoa New Zealand. Student academic identity is defined as the appropriation of academic values and practices within a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Self Concept, Preservice Teachers
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Wihlborg, Monne; Teelken, Christine – Policy Futures in Education, 2014
The implementation of the Bologna Process (BP) did not go as smoothly as the Bologna Follow-Up evaluations suggest, and the consequences of the BP for the various European higher education systems and universities are much more diverse than represented in these various studies. Relatively few research and policy documents taking a more critical…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Educational Quality, Academic Standards, Higher Education
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Miller, S. J. – Teacher Education and Practice, 2014
This study highlights one semester of ongoing research reflecting how preservice English students performed dispositions for social justice. This work draws on a postmethod approach, observing participants' artifacts and participation in a variety of classroom activities. By tapping into participants' funds of social justice knowledge, it explored…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, English Instruction, Social Justice, Performance Based Assessment
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Smith, Charity Fleming; Goodwin, Debbie – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2014
No Child left Behind, The ESEA Flexibility Program, and the Race to the Top contest have spurred a multitude of School Improvement programs, businesses, initiatives and more. The current emphasis on standardized testing, data gathering and analysis, and measuring effective schooling has caused many education agencies, state and local, to seek…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Empowerment, Audits (Verification), School Turnaround
Intanam, Narongrith; Wongwanich, Suwimon; Lawthong, Nuttaporn – Journal of Case Studies in Education, 2012
The objective of this study was to develop a model for building professional learning communities (PLCs) in schools. Samples were public primary schools that consisted of 1,826 teachers from 185 schools in Thailand. They randomized by using two-stage random sampling. The questionnaire was used to survey the level or magnitude of teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Program Development, Models
National Survey of Student Engagement, 2016
The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) and its companion projects serve colleges and universities committed to monitoring and improving the quality of the undergraduate experience. While participating institutions receive detailed customized reports, the "Annual Results" series presents noteworthy aggregate findings from the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, National Surveys, Educational Quality, Student Characteristics
National Survey of Student Engagement, 2015
In 2015, the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) collected responses from more than 315,000 first-year and senior students attending 585 bachelor's degree-granting colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. This report presents selected NSSE results from students at 541 U.S. institutions or subsets of that group where…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, National Surveys, Educational Quality, Student Characteristics