Paraeducators often support students with the most intensive academic, life, and behavioral needs, which includes students with intellectual and other developmental disabilities (IDD; e.g., autism spectrum disorder; ASD), yet they typically enter the classroom with inadequate preparation to perform their roles effectively. Using a…

Fostering accurate musical self-perceptions may be particularly challenging when developing singing technique, where self-assessment is complicated by the close physiological and emotional relationship between the performer and the body-instrument. The aim of the present study was to investigate how vocal students' beliefs in their performance…

The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown education in turmoil, globally, resulting in many challenges for quality education and associated activities, such as sports, to continue. This study's foci are on what detrimental effects of discontinued athletics have on the learner athletes; how information communication technology (ICT) utilisation can mitigate…

Teaching research methods to tertiary students is fraught with challenges including the absence of an established pedagogy in teaching research, the complexity of research concepts and activities, and mixed levels of student engagement. This study provides a five-year review of an undergraduate health research subject to examine teaching…

Student ratings of instruction (SRI) are commonly used to evaluate courses and teaching in higher education. Much debate about their validity in evaluating teaching exists, which is due to concerns of bias by factors unrelated to teaching quality (Spooren et al., 2013). Our objective was to identify peer-reviewed original research published in…

Purpose: This study aims to uncover divergent collaboration in makerspaces using social network analysis to examine ongoing social relations and sequential data pattern mining to invesitgate temporal changes in social activities. Design/methodology/approach: While there is a significant body of qualitative work on makerspaces, there is a lack of…

Limited entrepreneurial training programs are offered in higher education that address the hurdles, issues, knowledge, and experiences of female entrepreneurs. In addition, few opportunities are available for the intrapersonal skill and self-efficacy development needed by female entrepreneurs to be successful. Few theoretical studies on female…

In 2002 the Council of the Great City Schools and its members set out to develop performance measures that could be used to improve business operations in urban public school districts. The Council launched the Performance Measurement and Benchmarking Project to achieve these objectives. The purposes of the project were to: (1) Establish a common…

This quantitative causal-comparative study investigated the growth performance scores of English learners in grades three through five in reading, mathematics, and science in four English language educational programs: English as Second Language (ESL), Transitional Bilingual Education (TBE), Dual-Language Immersion (DLI), and No Services. I used…

This report provides a project snapshot of the Study of Coaching Practices in Early Care and Education Settings (SCOPE) from 2016-2021. The primary goal in the SCOPE project was to learn more about the ways coaching is implemented to improve instructional practice in early care and education (ECE). SCOPE focused on coaching in center-based…

Coaching is a common approach to professional development and support for quality in early care and education (ECE) settings, and is an especially important part of professional development because it can be tailored to meet teachers' and family child care (FCC) providers' needs and can positively affect instructional practices, the quality of the…

This Fast Five defines the role of accelerated learning to support all students, but specifically students with disabilities. This Fast Five provides considerations and ideas to support LEA's to plan for and implement accelerated learning.

This chapter considers many of the major directions, issues, and themes that will play an important part in the future of coaching adult populations.

While performance-based compensation systems in primary and secondary education are no longer a novelty in the US, they are still not yet common in the UK. Research from the US finds mixed results regarding the effects of performance-related pay on pupil achievement, but there is limited evidence around this concept from the UK. Therefore, RAND…

Background: Key elements of instructional quality include the teacher's ability to immediately react in domain-specific classroom situations. Such skills -- defined as action-related skills -- can only be validly assessed using authentic representations of real-life teaching practice. However, research has not yet explained how teachers apply…