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Ennis, Michael – Online Submission, 2019
Most academics learn how to write research articles informally and implicitly through exposure in academia. This experience with a pilot English for Academic Purposes course suggests that drawing attention to linguistic features can greatly improve the writing of both early career and experienced researchers. ["ESP News" is published by…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, English for Academic Purposes, Foreign Countries, Course Descriptions
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Hurtado, Ghaffar A.; Olson, Kathleen A.; de Davila, Silvia Alvarez; Campoverde, Victoria – Journal of Extension, 2018
Parent-school engagement is a contributor to student achievement, but few relevant programs exist for immigrant Latino families. This article describes the design, pilot implementation, and evaluation of a parent-engagement Extension program, developed and implemented in Spanish. The purpose of the program is to help parents develop and/or…
Descriptors: Parent School Relationship, Hispanic American Students, Parent Participation, Curriculum Development
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Langley, Cheri; Barbee, Anita P.; Antle, Becky; Christensen, Dana; Archuleta, Adrian; Sar, Bibhuti K.; Karam, Eli; van Zyl, Riaan; Cunningham, Michael R.; Borders, Kevin – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2015
To ensure that "Reducing the Risk," a successful teen pregnancy prevention education curriculum, remains relevant for today's youth, covers all information youth need to know in order to make better choices, and is delivered in a standardized way, adaptations were made and enhancements were added. This article describes results of a…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Curriculum Development, Early Parenthood, Pregnancy
Shapiro, Cory Adam – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose for this doctoral action research study was to discover if and how an updated training and development curriculum benefited residential student organization advisers at Arizona State University (ASU). Eleven advisers of residential student organizations completed a pilot training and development program and agreed to participate in a…
Descriptors: Action Research, Doctoral Programs, Student Organizations, Resident Advisers
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Hua, Zhong; Harris, Ann; Ollin, Ros – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2011
This article reports on research into Chinese students' perceptions of a pilot key skills' communication course introduced in three vocational education institutions in China. The course was based on key skills' criteria formulated in 2004 by China's Vocational Qualification Appraisal Committee and produced in response to the changing demands of…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Focus Groups, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education
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Alexander, Leslie B.; Richman, Kenneth A. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2008
This article addresses ethical dilemmas experienced by street-level research and evaluation workers recruiting and gathering data in community-based research projects. The authors focus on a subgroup of street-level research workers, whom they call research extenders (REs), employed because they share important characteristics with the target…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Indigenous Personnel, Indigenous Knowledge, Research Problems