Work-integrated learning (WIL) is a feature of university courses, both in professional areas, where it is commonplace, but also across many different disciplines. Assessment of WIL can be complex as it involves parties and settings external to the university, and it can be problematic because of difficulties in aligning learning activities during…

The recent abundance of film adaptations and stage productions of Shakespearean drama as well as of digital platforms offering access to texts and to scholarly resources may impact the teaching of Shakespeare's plays significantly, especially for learners geographically remote from traditional centres of Shakespeare studies and from live…

Most standardized reading assessments used with deaf and hard-of-hearing (d/Dhh) students do not accommodate their frequent lack of spoken language fluency. Such tests are rarely normed on d/Dhh individuals and do not adjust for potentially biased test items. Yet, accurate and valid measures of reading skills are essential for making appropriate…

Writing skills are essential for students' academic and career development. Writing helps students to organize their thoughts and ideas. Students benefit not only from learning process-related strategies such as drafting and revising a paper, but also reflective strategies that can have an impact upon writing quality and productivity. In this…

The aim of this study is to determine moral decision making attitudes of youth athletes and sportspersonship behavior levels of their coaches; and to test them in terms of certain variables. The study is in a descriptive research model; the sample group consists of 294 certified athletes playing in youth sports teams; the ages range between 11 and…

The Collegiate Leadership Competition (CLC) is a fast-growing tool for post-secondary student leadership development. There, teams practice with a coach for several months, then compete against teams from other institutions to win competitions based on achieving outcomes and demonstrating effective leadership practices (e.g., authentic…

This paper examines the perspectives of Jamaican teachers on performance-based evaluation as a mode of compensation for Jamaican teachers. The paper is written against the backdrop of continued unsatisfactory results of the Jamaican Education System. In 2015, having completed inspections of all 953 public schools, the National Education…

This article evaluates whether providing coaching between practice sessions in teacher education courses leads to more rapid development of skills and changes in teachers' beliefs about student behavior, using mixed-reality simulations as a practice space and standardized assessment platform. We randomly assigned 105 prospective teachers to…

Student perceptions of instructor availability outside of class are examined both as a predictor of instructor quality and as an outcome of student, instructor, and course characteristics. Data represent a 30-year case study record of course evaluations and instructor professional and personal variables. Student perceptions of instructor…

Empirical research on consequential edTPA implementation with university programs, teacher candidates, and cooperating teachers is plentiful in general education literature. However, to date no empirical literature exists on edTPA and physical education as a specific program area. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of edTPA on…

This study examines transfer students in our teacher education programs and their comparative success on the Educative Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA®), a content pedagogy assessment currently required by many states for professional educator licensure and program completion. A two-sample t-test using edTPA scores from 2015 to 2019 revealed…

There is growing interest in providing students and others with information about the performance of postsecondary education and training programs. Currently, if one wants to know how many students get jobs and what those jobs pay, one cannot find comparable information for programs across the nation. Consumer reports, which display information…

Intermediate School District 287 (ISD 287) provides intensive educational supports to its students. Like many school districts across the nation and in Minnesota, IDS 287 has contracted with police departments to station police officers (called "School Resource Officers") in school buildings. However, ISD 287 ended these contracts and,…

Research confirms what effective educators and policymakers know from practice: The implementation of a "high-quality" curriculum, aligned to rigorous state standards, leads to notable student learning gains. Yet less than half of teachers report they are using curricula that are "high-quality and well aligned to learning…

The Focus On College and University Success (FOCUS) Act of 2016 changed the scope of higher education in Tennessee by eliminating the shared governance of six public state universities. These six locally-governed universities (LGUs) were empowered to make programmatic decisions, pass their own budgets, and oversee standard university operations…