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Smedsrud, Jørgen; Nordahl-Hansen, Anders; Idsøe, Ella Maria; Ulvund, Stein Erik; Idsøe, Thormod; Lang-Ree, Ole Christian – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2019
Research regarding highly intelligent adolescents in Scandinavia is scarce. We know little about highly intelligent adolescents' experiences with the school-system and how they experience their social relationships and relationships with their teachers. We used survey and test data from approximately 16,000 respondents from the Norwegian Armed…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Intelligence, Interpersonal Relationship, Teacher Student Relationship
Nakell, Patsy – UNICEF, 2019
"Child Alert" is a briefing series that presents the core challenges for children in a given crisis location at a given time. This issue examines attacks on children's right to education in West and Central Africa, and provides examples of efforts to protect children and their learning opportunities in conflict-affected parts of the…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, School Safety, Conflict, Access to Education
DiNapoli, Timothy J. – US Government Accountability Office, 2019
The Department of Defense (DOD) spends hundreds of billions of dollars annually acquiring products and services. Since 1990, Congress and DOD have taken numerous steps to address issues related to the quality of DOD's acquisition workforce, which consists of contracting officers, cost estimators, and personnel in several other career fields. But…
Descriptors: Military Personnel, Armed Forces, Public Agencies, Costs
Wendt, Brea E. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The dissertation study is a basic qualitative study, which illuminates the educational experiences of active duty undergraduate army adult learners or active duty learners. The literature review for the study highlights themes of military education, of identity roles, of adult learnings and of how the brain learns. The study closed the gap in…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Military Personnel, Self Concept, Undergraduate Students
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Qazi, M. Habib – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2020
This qualitative study problematizes the interplay between Pakistan's national curriculum textbooks and students' militaristic national identity constructions in six state-schools. Drawing on field-data collected employing interviews with twelve teachers and focus-groups and participatory tools with four-hundred and twenty-four students, it also…
Descriptors: Correlation, Self Concept, National Curriculum, Textbooks
Clarisse Leong – Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2023
With the passage of House Bill 1599 in 2019, graduation pathways were established as one of the requirements for high school graduation. The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) is required by RCW 28A.655.260 to collect and report on graduation pathways data annually. This report includes the unique pathway options, a data…
Descriptors: Guided Pathways, High School Graduates, Graduation Requirements, State Legislation
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Osodlo, Vasyl; Rakhmanov, Vitalii; Krykun, Viktoriia; Tarasenko, Nataliya; Aristarkhova, Marharyta – Review of Education, 2022
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a blended learning method on the development of foreign language communicative competence of the officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the educational and information environment of a Higher Military Educational Institution. The foreign language training was carried out at 11 military…
Descriptors: Military Training, Military Personnel, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Rissanen, Antti; Saastamoinen, Kalle – International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education, 2019
In many technology related courses in addition to the new content, previously learned knowledge about science and science related supportive tools are simultaneously studied. In the field of applied sciences, the aim is to apply technology applications derived from these scientific methods and models to the operating environment. From the point of…
Descriptors: Tests, Technology Education, Teaching Methods, Armed Forces
Williams, Jeremy Lloyd – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study of perceptions of campus climate for Personal and Social Responsibility (PSR) evaluated the extent to which observable differences existed among campuses that had or did not have military cadets as their primary student population. Specifically, it looked at civilian colleges and universities and collegiate military academies such as…
Descriptors: Integrity, Ethics, Student Attitudes, Armed Forces
Lloyd, Griselda M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Junior enlisted Marines are getting married at a faster rate than their civilian counterparts and nearly twice that of senior personnel (Gomulka, 2010; Cohen, Passel, Wang, & Livingston, 2011). With the high rate of marriage, these same junior Marines have a disproportionately high divorce rate. While the high rate of divorce is a significant…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Program Evaluation, Marriage, Divorce
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Martinez, Eligio; Huerta, Adrian H. – Education and Urban Society, 2020
Chicanos/Latinos comprise the largest racial and ethnic population in the U.S. public K-12 schools, yet hold some of the largest rates of academic underperformance in high school and college completion. This study aims at understanding the academic trajectories of five Chicano/Latino males and their decision to enlist in the military after high…
Descriptors: Social Mobility, Hispanic American Students, Underachievement, Decision Making
Shannon Stimpson – ProQuest LLC, 2020
In the United States from 1941-1945, wartime teachers of English faced public and institutional pressure to evaluate, prioritize, and demonstrate the value of English education to the war effort and to higher education's commitment to the nation's defense program. During this time, college English teachers published hundreds of articles that…
Descriptors: War, English Teachers, English Instruction, Professional Identity
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Smit, Julie; Millett, Stephanie – Teacher Educator, 2021
This single intrinsic case study utilized complexity theory to explore a complicated narrative of in-service professional learning for teachers undergoing improvement plans in underperforming schools. This study is bounded within a master's level online graduate course. We focused on the literacy learning of one student in the course, a U.S. Army…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Institutional Characteristics, Teaching Methods, Literacy Education
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Spencer, Stephanie – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2016
This article focuses on the series of 11 books about a young female pilot, "Worrals of the WAAF," by W.E. Johns, creator of Biggles. The Worrals books were published from 1941 when recruitment for the Women's Auxiliary Air Force was falling. Johns chose to ignore that the WAAF supported pilots through their work on the ground and did not…
Descriptors: Fiction, Books, Females, War
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Ledesma, María C. – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2017
By focusing on the U.S. military's support of affirmative action in recent affirmative action cases, this conceptual article posits that there are lessons to be learned from the military by postsecondary scholars, practitioners, and policy makers who support race-conscious policies in higher education. This suggestion rests on two points--first,…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Affirmative Action, Educational Policy, Military Personnel
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