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Andrée Rathemacher; Evan Preisser; Luzi Shi; Judy Van Wyk – Online Submission, 2024
At the University of Rhode Island (URI), the URI Open Access Fund Committee met in early 2024 to advise the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs on the continuation of the URI Open Access Fund. The URI Open Access Fund was created in 2013 to reimburse URI authors for Article Processing Charges when they published in qualifying…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Advisory Committees, Educational Finance, Writing for Publication
Sahin, Mehmet – Online Submission, 2018
In this study, a decision taken by the Ministry of Education of the implementation of school-aged children's cognitive, physical and sensory effects on the development of physical education is aimed to discuss the future of the teaching profession. In 2014, the Ministry of Education took a decision in favor of the gradual abolition of Technical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Exercise, Physical Education, Vocational High Schools
Arpacioglu, Isil Tuzun; Can, Ertug; Aktas, Fatma Oya – Online Submission, 2019
With a regulation made in 2001, vocational and technical secondary education graduates were given the right to enroll to vocational colleges without taking the national central exam. However, this regulation was repealed in 2016. If the students are placed in an associate degree program in the same field, additional points are added to the points…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Vocational Schools, College Students
Gordon, Lynn Melby – Online Submission, 2012
This paper was the keynote address at the June 6, 2012 Occidental College completion ceremony for new teachers completing their teacher credential program. This occasion was momentous because it was the final new teacher graduation that Occidental College would hold, due to the previously announced closure of the teacher preparation program by the…
Descriptors: Schools of Education, Teacher Education, Credentials, Program Termination
Lauer, Lisa M. – Online Submission, 2011
High-stakes testing combined with the notion that indoor and outdoor spontaneous play are a "waste of time" have contributed to the condition known as "play deprivation". This paper defines the term play deprivation and explores its negative effects on children and adults. Negative effects resulting from play deprivation…
Descriptors: Play, Rating Scales, Disadvantaged Environment, Health Related Fitness
Paul J. Porwoll – Online Submission, 1979
For half a century, merit pay for teachers has been intensely debated in school systems of various sizes and in virtually every state in the nation. Yet current data on the extent to which merit pay and incentives are actually used in education have not been available. To help fill this void, Educational Research Service conducted the most…
Descriptors: Merit Pay, School Personnel, Incentives, Compensation (Remuneration)