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Salley, Witt; Shaw, Melanie – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2015
A continued need exists for community college administrators to develop and implement strategies to ensure sufficient staffing to meet demand for online courses and promote student success. The problem this study addressed was threefold. First, online instructors in the local setting are overextended and are consequently unable to implement best…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Employment Level
Carter, Bruce J. – Online Submission, 2017
A problem recognized in the United States is that a K-12 public education in urban communities is more likely to support existing patterns of inequality than to serve as a pathway to opportunity. The specific focus of this research was on the poor academic performance in U.S. K-12 urban communities. Using Benet's polarities of democracy theory as…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Statistical Analysis, Benchmarking, Achievement Tests
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Korte, Leon; Lavin, Angeline; Davies, Thomas – Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 2013
Undergraduate and graduate students at an AACSB International accredited Midwestern business school were surveyed about their perceptions of traits that might contribute to good teaching. Thirty-five traits were presented for evaluation. Students scored each trait and identified the items they perceived as the five most important and the five…
Descriptors: Investigations, Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Effectiveness, Best Practices
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Ferguson, W. Ker – Industry and Higher Education, 2011
This empirical study investigates the hypothesized relationship between US federally funded university research and development (R&D) and its resulting economic impact, as measured by the level of licensing revenue generated by US universities. The author also examines the key operating statistics of the top-ten licensing income-producing…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Research and Development, Income, Technology Transfer
Koch-Patterson, Penelope – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Society is more and more interconnected and interdependent. This results in a plethora of complex social problems and thereby creates the need for individuals with strong decision-making skills. This quantitative study examined the relationship between undergraduate students' participation in academic service-learning and their levels of…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Decision Making Skills, Undergraduate Students, Student Participation
Winkler, Rodney Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2011
K-12 teachers lack training in best practices of interactive lesson development. It is essential that teachers utilize interactive whiteboards effectively. Using a collaborative mentor training, this factorial between-within groups study investigated how student achievement was impacted when teachers applied a set of effective interactive…
Descriptors: Intervention, Secondary Education, Observation, Statistical Significance