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Download full textPolster, Patty Poppe – Online Submission, 2011
School district leaders are faced with numerous decisions in the administration of America's schools. One crucial decision that must be made is the selection of elementary reading or math curricular materials. The curricular materials purchased for classroom use are often influential in determining instructional practices and often guide the…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Media Selection, Public Schools, Evidence Based Practice
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Direct linkLuo, Yi; Pan, Rui; Choi, Jea H.; Mellish, Linda; Strobel, Johannes – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2011
Existing research on choice of online learning utilized factors such as perceived level of control, independence, and satisfaction, yet the relationship among these factors is under-researched. Due to the value of "learning anytime," biological factors underlying "choice of time" might provide additional insights. This article…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Statistical Significance, Computer Uses in Education
Wopperer, Emily – Knowledge Quest, 2011
Literature for children and young adults is written for many different reasons. It is written purely to entertain, to help children and young adults understand the world they live in, or to help cope with problems they face. It can also be written to introduce new places, ideas, or situations to its readers, or to portray characters with whom…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Young Adults, Childrens Literature, Adolescent Literature
Bocanegra, Bruno R.; Zeelenberg, Rene – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2011
It is generally assumed that emotion facilitates human vision in order to promote adaptive responses to a potential threat in the environment. Surprisingly, we recently found that emotion in some cases impairs the perception of elementary visual features (Bocanegra & Zeelenberg, 2009b). Here, we demonstrate that emotion improves fast temporal…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Reading Material Selection, Vision, Cues
Gardner, Joby – Urban Education, 2011
A persistent problem in educational policy and research concerns how social (dis)advantage is reproduced in free societies built on ideologies of equality, opportunity, and social mobility. In this article, the author examines narratives by and for incarcerated young men about how they "got caught up" in illegal activity and eventually…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Adolescents, Males, Disadvantaged Youth
Bryan, Sharon – Australian Library Journal, 2011
Extensive Reading is a resource heavy technique used in second language acquisition in which language learners read large amounts of texts for enjoyment, with the expectation that they will improve their vocabulary and fluency as a result of exposure to the written language. Narrow Reading is a similar technique in which the texts have a common…
Descriptors: Evidence, Second Languages, Language Acquisition, Reading Fluency
Chitty, Clyde – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2011
This article is based on a talk that was given by the author at the Institute of Historical Research on 3 February 2011, on the Victorian polymath Francis Galton and the malign legacy of his eugenic theories. It pays tribute to the pioneering work of the late Brian Simon in challenging the whole idea of "fixed innate intelligence" and in…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Genetics, Selection, Racial Attitudes
Huber, Stephan Gerhard; Hiltmann, Maren – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2011
The professional demands on school leaders have changed drastically and have become highly complex in the last few years. The professionalization of school leaders is high on the agenda. Human resource management includes different aspects of professionalization. One major domain is the preparation, induction and continuous professional…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Personnel Selection, Foreign Countries, Profiles
Liakopoulou, Maria – European Journal of Education, 2011
Since 1980, the recruitment of teachers in many countries has followed a systematic certification procedure, i.e. a selection procedure according to criteria set by the State which are considered the minimum qualification for entrance into the profession. The term used in the last few years to define the desired level of qualification of teachers…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Evaluation, Qualifications, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Cook, Daniella Ann; Dixson, Adrienne D. – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2013
Using a critical race theory lens, the authors propose a way of writing race research using composite counterstories. Drawing on data from a yearlong study of school rebuilding in the time period immediately after Hurricane Katrina devastated the City of New Orleans, the authors examine the experiences of African-American educators in the school…
Descriptors: Race, Critical Theory, African American Teachers, Educational Change
Britton, Willoughby B.; Brown, Anne-Catharine; Kaplan, Christopher T.; Goldman, Roberta E.; DeLuca, Marie; Rojiani, Rahil; Reis, Harry; Xi, Mandy; Chou, Jonathan C.; McKenna, Faye; Hitchcock, Peter; Rocha, Tomas A.; Himmelfarb, Josh; Margolis, David M.; Niles, Halsey F.; Eckert, Allison M.; Frank, Tana – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2013
Contemplative practices, which engage the subjective or "first-person" perspective, are being incorporated into systems of higher education that have traditionally relied on didactic or "third-person" approaches (Dederer 2007; Kroll 2010; Repetti 2010; Roth 2006; Shapiro, Brown, and Astin 2011; Smith 2006; Zajonc 2006). The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Metacognition
Newkirk, Brad – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Because of national, state, and local accountability to prepare students to be college and career-ready, secondary schools are looking for ways to maximize student academic growth while in high school. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between academic growth as measured by the changes in performance from students' 8th…
Descriptors: Correlation, Student Development, Achievement Gains, Grade 8
Shannon, Christopher C. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The selection and retention assessment process is dynamic. Dipboye, Smith, and Howell (1994) argued that the most influential portion of the final hiring process is the result of the interviewer's impression of the applicants. The Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program is responsible for selecting, retaining and ultimately hiring…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Military Personnel, Military Training, Interviews
Eutsler, Mark L. – Online Submission, 2013
Indiana's declining SAT scores prompted the publisher of a statewide magazine covering the literary, performing, and visual arts to take action and create a program to use the magazine as a supplemental resource for students. It was believed that such a supplemental resource could enhance critical thinking and writing skills and help raise SAT…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Writing Skills, Instructional Materials, Teaching Methods
Rowlett, Joel Everett – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This case study examined the beliefs of African American males on the psychosocial and pedagogical factors contributing to the underrepresentation of African American males in advanced high school math courses. Six 11th grade African American male juniors from a large, comprehensive, Southeastern high school served as individual cases. Within- and…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, African American Students, Males, Disproportionate Representation
