Objective: Is dietary education, incentivized by financial rewards, effective in achieving improved dietary intake behavior of college students? Participants: Fifty-seven undergraduates (18-24 years old), non-nutrition major students. Methods: The intervention group participated in weekly nutrition education meetings which focused on MyPlate for…

As employers look for skilled individuals to fill high-demand jobs, registered apprenticeships provide opportunities for people to engage in dedicated on-the-job training in conjunction with related classroom instruction that directly links to a career path. The benefit of related instruction in tandem to on-the-job training is clear; however, the…

Background: Many countries use market forces to drive reform across disability supports and services. Over the last few decades, many countries have individualised budgets and devolved these to people with disability, so that they can purchase their own choice of supports from an available market of services. Key points for discussion: Such…

History organizations through structural inclusion and outreach since the 1990s have been inclusive of community college faulty.

In this study, it was aimed to examine the effect of a core training program that was applied on football players on some performance parameters. In total, 40 football players, aged between 18 and 24 years old, who regularly trained in football and were from various amateur football teams participated: 20 athletes in the training group and 20…

This article, prepared in the form of a conversation among the authors, discusses the role of a museum's repatriation of human remains or sacred objects to Indigenous communities in their efforts around Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion (DEAI). Presenting case studies from their museums or from their own research in Germany and the…

We present this brief reflection on key aspects of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the implications of the worldwide focus on achieving the sustainable development goals as external observers of the evaluation endeavor around the world. We have conducted and participated in evaluations, but it is not our primary field of work and…

Effective research in educational settings requires collaboration between researchers and school-based practitioners to codesign instruction and assessment, analyze findings to inform subsequent iterations, and make thoughtful revisions. This innovative reference and course text examines the theory and practice of design-based research (DBR), an…

The National Center for Families Learning's (NCFL) mission is to eradicate poverty through education solutions for families. For over 30 years, Family Learning programs have been ideal spaces for community members to activate their collective voices and organize to address community issues. Community Development is the practice of residents,…

Programs using public funds for children to attend private schools of their choice are on the rise in the United States. As of 2019, 25 states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, had voucher or scholarship programs, many of them targeted to specific populations, such as students with disabilities or low-income students. Numerous other…

Problem: The fact that evangelism in the Unorganized Territories of the Chinese Union Mission was done mainly as personal evangelism and that public evangelism was limited to a one-day seed sowing meeting had led to a serious need for equipping pastors in effective public evangelism methods. It required a model of public evangelism, which is…

A critical component of school systems that contributes to impactful student outcomes is teacher retention and the support structures designed to improve teacher retention. There has been substantial research into teacher attrition and retention rates in the K-12 public-school sector (Brill & McCartney, 2008; Ingersoll, 2012; Ingersoll &…

Historically, paraprofessionals and those trained outside the counseling field have provided addiction counseling services to people struggling with addictions. In 2009, CACREP introduced standardized addictions training for counselors. Within the CACREP standards, no formalized structure exists to guide addiction content integration into…

The purpose of this study was to discover what defines a writing center by interviewing directors of writing centers in the Southern Appalachian area. This qualitative study was based on a single round of recorded telephone interviews with 13 writing center directors who meet the criteria for inclusion in the study. Many researchers have written…

This capstone provides an examination and review of organizational change management within higher education and the processes related to facilitating change within a higher education environment. A review of related literature was conducted to research change management and the intersection of organizational oversight and a proposal created to…