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Gottfried, Michael A.; Plasman, Jay Stratte – American Educational Research Journal, 2018
While prior studies have examined the efficacy of career and technical education (CTE) courses on high school students' outcomes, there is little knowledge on timing of these courses and a potential link to student outcomes. We asked if the timing of these courses predicted differences in the likelihood of dropout and on-time high school…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Dropouts, College Bound Students, High School Students
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Stenbom, Stefan; Jansson, Malin; Hulkko, Annelie – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016
In online learning research, the theoretical community of inquiry framework has been used extensively to analyze processes of inquiry among learners and instructors within a community. This paper examines a special case of community of inquiry consisting of only one learner and one instructor. Together they engage in an online coaching discourse…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
Serbanescu, Laura; Chircu, Sorina – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
In the present article we aim to present the general framework related to the laws and practice of mentorship in Romania, as well as the results of a related investigation of the POSDRU project concerning the training of professional insertion mentors, "From start to success--national program for the professional insertion mentorship of…
Descriptors: Mentors, Supervisory Training, Efficiency, Electronic Learning
O'Brien, Heather L.; Freund, Luanne; Jantzi, Leanna; Sinanan, Samantha – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2014
This research explores the professionalization of Library and Information Science (LIS) students who participated in a peer-tutoring service, "Research Rescue." Research Rescue was a collaboration of the Chapman Learning Commons and the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS) at the University of British Columbia. The…
Descriptors: Investigations, Service Learning, Models, Information Science Education
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Lampen, Erna – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2011
Meaning in statistics is fundamentally related to contexts, which poses the challenge to teach statistics in contexts, taking everyday reasoning as the basis from which to develop statistical reasoning. I investigate how 13 teachers-as-learners in an introductory statistics course co-structure their situation models toward a shared real model that…
Descriptors: Statistics, Models, Statistical Analysis, Logical Thinking
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Goguen, Jeannette; Knight, Melanie; Tiberius, Richard – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2008
This study examined the degree of acceptance of qualitative research by medical trainees and physicians, and explored the causes for any differences in their support of qualitative versus quantitative research. Thirty-two individuals at four levels of medical training were studied. Eight philosophers of science served for construct validation.…
Descriptors: Science Projects, Qualitative Research, Physicians, Construct Validity