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Matthew Weirick Johnson – College & Research Libraries, 2025
Providing library instruction, often via one-shots in someone else's classroom, may reduce feelings of agency or job control for academic instruction librarians. This study addresses potential differences in job control across core responsibilities, specifically looking at the difference between job duties overall and instruction responsibilities.…
Descriptors: Librarian Attitudes, Academic Libraries, Library Instruction, Librarians
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Lee, Ji Young; Sung, Jihyun – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2023
Background: Improving childcare quality is an important goal in South Korea as many infants attend childcare centers. The quality of teacher-child interactions is a common and crucial predictor of childcare quality. Thus, it is imperative to identify the relative contributions of the variables associated with improving the interaction quality of…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Foreign Countries, Caregiver Child Relationship, Interaction
Stipek, Deborah – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2020
The use of the Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) to improve early childhood education program quality is based in part on assumptions that the quality of programs can be measured and that quality ratings are associated with meaningful differences in learning outcomes for children. This report reviews all of the state QRIS validation…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Educational Improvement, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality
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Bilodeaua, Edward; Carson, Pamela – Education for Information, 2015
This study was undertaken to better understand the range of learning practices that academic librarians use throughout their careers, and to explore the ways library schools give students the opportunities to engage in learning methods that they are likely to use in their careers as librarians. The study uses semi-structured interviews with…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Professional Education, Academic Libraries, Librarians
Fisher, Darrell L.; And Others – 1986
This paper begins with an overview of several instruments for assessing the school environment, focusing on Moos's Work Environment Scale (WES). Although the WES was designed for use in any work milieu, its 10 dimensions of work environment (involvement, peer cohesion, staff support, autonomy, task orientation, work pressure, clarity, control,…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Educational Environment, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
Strickland, A.; Simons, M.; Harris, R.; Robertson, I.; Harford, M.; Edwards, A. – 2001
A study explored learning and assessment experiences of Australian apprentices and trainees (A&Ts) using focus groups of 66 stakeholders in every state and territory; case study analyses of 20 diverse sites; and a national questionnaire of 595 A&Ts in motor mechanics and hospitality work. Stakeholders viewed apprenticeships and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Apprenticeships, Auto Mechanics