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Fogarty, Diane – ProQuest LLC, 2017
To examine to what extent current general education pre-service teachers within a teacher preparation program at a private institution of higher education know and understand the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), expert focus groups were conducted. General education program syllabi were examined for UDL content and found to be…
Descriptors: Access to Education, General Education, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
Grigg, Alan – ProQuest LLC, 2016
As the enrollment of Chinese international students (CIS) increased at a private institution in the Midwest, so did suspected cases of plagiarism. This study addressed the problem of how faculty members grappled with CIS' interpretation and application of Western-based views of plagiarism. The purpose of the study was to identify similarities and…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Foreign Students, Private Colleges, Asians
Fink, Susan Jo Breakenridge – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to explore how instructors at a mid-sized Midwest four-year undergraduate private university view the purpose, structure, format and use of their course syllabi. The theory of structural functionalism and a quantitative research approach were employed. A group administration approach was used to distribute the paper…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Private Colleges, College Faculty, Teacher Surveys
Ruettgers, Mary Margaret – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Are graduates of teacher preparation programs adequately prepared with the skills and knowledge to teach in the 21st century classroom? This study consisted of a quantitative content analysis to investigate the presence of 21st century knowledge and skills within a stratified random sample of teacher preparation programs in the United States as…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Education, Elementary Education, Statistical Analysis
Langston, Kathy Jones – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study yields a broader understanding of the "development of rhetorical instruction in the American college" (Gold 15) by focusing on the composition programs at two little studied universities. This dissertation addresses the descriptions of composition courses as these appear in the course catalogs of two different kinds of…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Rhetoric, Research Universities, English Departments
Lin, Baysan – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This exploratory, qualitative research explored the extent that course syllabi in the Departments of English in 13 public and 9 private universities in Taiwan reflect the inclusion of syllabus components to promote learning as recommended in the literature in the United States. Research questions included: what components can be inferred from the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Qualitative Research, Universities, Private Colleges
Iudica, Angela M. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to determine the degree of alignment to national and state standards in public and private university educational leadership certification programs in the state of Florida. The standards used were the National Educational Technology Standards for Administrators (NETS-A) and the Florida Principal Leadership Standard…
Descriptors: State Standards, National Standards, Educational Technology, Experiential Learning