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Lenhoff, Sarah Winchell; Ulmer, Jasmine B. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016
The ways in which the language of reformers intersects with and informs reform implementation is important to our understanding of how education policy impacts practice. To explore this issue, we employed critical discourse analysis (CDA) to analyze the language used by a 21st century skills-focused reform organization to promote its program…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), Educational Policy, Program Implementation, Policy Formation
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Farrell, Caitlin C.; Marsh, Julie A. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2016
Purpose: Supporting teachers' use of data has become a large part of educational leaders' instructional leadership. Drawing on sensemaking theory, we explore how features of data and teachers' perceptions of them may matter when teachers consider student learning data. Design: The article draws on a 1-year, comparative case study of five…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Comparative Analysis, Case Studies, Low Income Groups
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Akyol, Zehra; Vaughan, Norm; Garrison, D. Randy – Interactive Learning Environments, 2011
This study investigated the effect of time on the development of a community of inquiry by examining an online course offered over two different time periods. The study was guided by the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework (Garrison, Anderson, & Archer, "The Internet and Higher Education" 2000; 2(2-3): 87-105). The focus was on a graduate level…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Online Courses, Computer Mediated Communication, Discussion Groups
Abdellah, Antar Solhy – Online Submission, 2008
Subtitling or captioning the dialogues of English movies can be very helpful to EFL learners in the Arab world. The present study reviews the importance of subtitling for language learning in general and listening comprehension in particular. A comparison is made between different levels of listening comprehension and different genres of English…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Films, Transcripts (Written Records), Radio