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Diggs, Schnequa N. – Teaching Public Administration, 2022
Learning how to engage students in educationally purposeful activities has been a challenge for instructors in higher education. It is often hard to push through institutionalized pedagogical boundaries rooted in traditional "teach-at-you" approaches to learning. The demands of a more diverse student body and more effective measures of…
Descriptors: College Students, Learner Engagement, Educational Practices, Experiential Learning
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Jana Obrovská; Martin Majcík; Jaroslava Simonová – British Educational Research Journal, 2025
Educational inequalities persist between students of low socioeconomic status and their more affluent peers. At the same time, there is evidence of positive relations between student engagement and achievement. This multiple case study investigates a national project aimed at increasing student engagement and achievement through post-COVID-19…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Low Income Students, Disadvantaged Schools, Disadvantaged Youth
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Cosner, Shelby – Journal of School Leadership, 2014
Emphasis on improving student learning has brought increased attention to the execution of schoolwide instructional reforms in general and the use of data by teacher teams in particular as an expected element of a school's instructional reform strategy. With this in mind, the purpose of this article is to focus important attention on the work…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Strategies, Change Strategies, Data
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Creemers, Bert; Kyriakides, Leonidas – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2015
This paper argues that the dynamic model of educational effectiveness can be used to establish stronger links between educational effectiveness research (EER) and school improvement. It provides research evidence to support the validity of the model. Thus, the importance of using the dynamic model to establish an evidence-based and theory-driven…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Educational Improvement
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Lindeman, Karen Wise; Magiera, Kathleen – Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 2014
This article relates the story of a first grade teacher and a child who was the only deaf student in the entire school. Because he had no one who could communicate with him--not teachers, not students, no one, this situation tugged at the hearts of a committed team of professionals. A teacher of the deaf, a first grade general education teacher, a…
Descriptors: Team Teaching, Teaching Models, Inclusion, Expectation
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Lemons, Christopher J.; Kloo, Amanda; Zigmond, Naomi; Fulmer, Deborah; Lupp, Lynda – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2012
One of the primary challenges in developing effective accountability systems is determining how best to include students with disabilities. The purpose of this paper is to report on the initial implementation of one option for including students with disabilities into the accountability system in the United States. In 2007, federal guidance…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Academic Achievement, Disabilities, Accountability
New Leaders for New Schools (NJ1), 2011
New Leaders for New Schools created the Effective Practice Incentive Community (EPIC) initiative in 2006 to learn from educators driving achievement gains in high-need urban schools. EPIC identifies school leaders and teachers whose students are making significant achievement gains and financially rewards these educators in exchange for sharing…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Leadership Training, Principals, Assistant Principals
Center for Mental Health in Schools at UCLA, 2011
A great deal has been written about immigrant children and youth. This brief focuses on implications for school improvement policy and practice. Discussed are (1) different reasons families migrate, (2) concerns that arise related to immigrant students, (3) prevailing school practices for addressing immigrant concerns, (4) a framework for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Immigrants, Educational Improvement, Educational Policy
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Manaf, Nor Aziah Abdul; Ishak, Zuaini; Hussin, Wan Nordin Wan – Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction, 2011
Purpose: This paper aims to share experiences in teaching a Financial Accounting Principles course using a hybrid problem based learning (PBL) method. The three specific objectives of this paper are to document how the PBL project for this course was developed and managed in class, to compare the academic performance of PBL students with non-PBL…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Money Management, Accounting, Educational Principles
Huang, Grace Hui-Chen; Mason, Kimberly L. – Multicultural Education, 2008
A growing body of research supports the view that parents' attitudes, behaviors, and activities related to children's education influences students' learning and educational success. To date, research studying parental involvement in their children's schooling included elementary through middle school aged populations. There have been a few…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Parent Participation, Motivation, Educational Practices
Alberta Education, 2009
This report presents the outcomes of the analysis of Grade Level of Achievement (GLA) data at the provincial level to inform the program planning and evaluation needs of Alberta Education as well as school and central office based administrators. GLA data reported to Alberta Education is a teacher's judgment of a student's academic progress. GLA…
Descriptors: Evaluation Needs, Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
Jordan, Catherine, Ed.; Parker, Joe, Ed.; Donnelly, Deborah, Ed.; Rudo, Zena, Ed. – SEDL, 2009
This Guide is intended to share the insights of SEDL's National Partnership for Quality Afterschool Learning (the National Partnership) as well as information about both the academic and the organizational and management practices that successful afterschool programs use. The authors have organized these practices into the following four focus…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, After School Programs, Educational Practices, Educational Objectives
Stankard, Martin, Jr. – 1968
The lack of tested models of the instructional process is the prime hindrance to significant management science in educational research. The nature of education, with long timelags between ultimate performance and present activity, makes the modeling most difficult. This paper reports on one of several efforts which have been made to develop…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Practices, Educational Research, Learning Processes
Hoffman, Patricia; Dahlman, Anne; Zierdt, Ginger – School-University Partnerships, 2009
This article details a strategic planning model and concurrent 3-year research study focusing on the benefits of preK-16 professional development school learning communities for the participating preK-16 educational leaders in a midwestern school-university partnership network. Results of the study, along with the strategic plan's success at…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Professional Development Schools, School Readiness, Academic Achievement
Raywid, Mary Anne – 1994
In spite of a widespread commitment to the comprehensive high school, the nation has long had specialty or theme schools and schools that target particular children. Magnet schools, alternative schools, and Catholic schools illustrate that the idea of specialized schools is not new. Recently, the concept has received a boost from a study by the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Catholic Schools, Educational Practices, High Schools
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