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Neimeier, Charlann K. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Schools in America are required to provide all students with a quality education regardless of race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic background, demonstrated through test scores mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act. Knowledge about factors that influence students' academic performance and serve to reduce the achievement gap between Hispanic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Schools, Urban Schools, At Risk Students
Wadlington, Charles – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this exploratory study was to analyze the perceptions (through survey data) of Disability Support Services (DSS) personnel regarding the transition process, documentation requirements to receive services, and services for students with invisible disabilities (Autism Spectrum Disorder [ASD], Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Transitional Programs, National Surveys, Documentation
Rhodes, Wendy – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Attrition is a problem among special education teachers in an urban high school in a southern part of the United States. A high school special education department served as the local setting. The department was unique due to a high teacher attrition rate and high percentage of teachers with less than five years of teaching experience. The purpose…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Urban Schools, High Schools, Secondary School Teachers
Owens, Dorothea Jody – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This ethnographic case study examines the dynamic relationship between culture and environmental education within the context of a specific Florida-based public education program. The School District of Hillsborough County (SDHC) offers the program through a three-day field trip to the study site, Nature's Classroom, and accompanying classroom…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Environmental Education, Case Studies, Cultural Influences
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Martinez-Garcia, Agustina; Corti, Louise – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2012
This article discusses how the idea of higher education students as producers of knowledge rather than consumers can be operationalised by means of student research projects, in which processes of research archiving and analysis are enabled through the use of semantic technologies. It discusses how existing digital repository frameworks can be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Study, Student Research, Semantics
Ning, Zhen-ye – Online Submission, 2008
This paper presents an empirical study of move structures and personal pronouns of fifty English RA (research article) abstracts based on the model of Bhatia (1990). It revealed that three other move patterns were ascertained besides ten out of the analyzed abstracts following his move order. The analysis of personal pronouns showed that…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Form Classes (Languages), Documentation, Journal Articles
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Kinzie, Jillian; Schuh, John H. – NASPA Journal, 2008
The value of establishing a strong community in institutions of higher education has been in the forefront of the thinking of educators for a number of years. As colleges and universities have grown in complexity, establishing and sustaining strong campus communities has been described as challenging and difficult. John Gardner has provided a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Group Unity, Educational Practices, Documentation
Shipulina, Olga V.; Campbell, Stephen R.; Cimen, Arda O. – Online Submission, 2009
This paper reports on the potential roles and importance of electrooculography (EOG) for mathematics educational neuroscience research. EOG enables accurate measurements of eye-related behavior (i.e., blinks & movements) by recording changes in voltage potentials generated by eye-related behavior. We identify and discuss three main uses of EOG.…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Eye Movements, Documentation, Mathematics Education
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Benson, Allen C. – Journal of Archival Organization, 2009
This article explores ontological principles and their potential applications in the formal description of archival photographs. Current archival descriptive practices are reviewed and the larger question is addressed: do archivists who are engaged in describing photographs need a more formalized system of representation, or do existing encoding…
Descriptors: Photography, Visual Aids, Archives, Semantics
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Muir, Clive – Business Communication Quarterly, 2009
Can job references play an active role in shaping one's career plans? Would individuals consider their references as part of their personal and professional network? Although most professionals may respond with a resounding "Yes, of course!" to these questions, the author realized that many of his students were skeptical about job references. To…
Descriptors: Job Applicants, Social Networks, Documentation, Career Development
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Ngcobo, Jabulani; Muthukrishna, Nithi – South African Journal of Education, 2011
With the release of Education White Paper 6: Special Needs Education--Building an Inclusive Education and Training System the issue of inclusive schooling has formed a growing part of the education debate in South Africa. There have been inclusive education pilot projects undertaken by the national and provincial education departments and various…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disabilities, Inclusion, Mainstreaming
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Higbee, Jeanne L.; Schultz, Jennifer L.; Sanford, Thomas – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2011
A previous study conducted a decade ago determined that there can be considerable disagreement--not only between students and faculty, but also among students and among faculty--regarding behaviors that constitute cheating. This article reports the results of a research study that replicated the student survey administered for the previous study,…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Cheating, Student Surveys, Teacher Attitudes
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Morsink, Paul M.; Hagerman, Michelle Schira; Heintz, Anne; Boyer, D. Matthew; Harris, Robin; Kereluik, Kristen; Hartman, Douglas K.; Wood, Anne; White, Amber; Woodruff, Carmen; Anderson, Tracey; Goldstein, Shelly; Hamm, Beth; Lewis, Cindy; Lewis, Paul; Mitchell, Cindy; Murphy, Jill; Rogers, Lyn; Sherrieb, Anne; Siegler, Tammy; Withey, Kevin – Journal of Education, 2011
This study examined the initial learning trajectories of 13 upper elementary teachers as they developed technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge during a 7-month professional development program to integrate technology into classroom practice. The program was collaborative and non-prescriptive; teachers worked on self-chosen summer…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Technological Literacy, Teacher Competencies, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Krolak, Lisa – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2011
ALADIN, the Adult Learning Documentation and Information Network, is a well-developed, well-defined and lasting follow-up initiative of CONFINTEA V (Fifth International Conference on Adult Education), which was held in 1997. This global network was brought to life by UIL and the efforts of many adult learning documentation and information centres.…
Descriptors: Directories, Group Membership, Adult Learning, Documentation
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Nichols, Sue – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2011
An ecological approach, emphasizing the importance of understanding multiple contexts for learning, underpins this study of libraries as activity spaces for young children's literacy participation. Five libraries serving a diversity of communities were the subject of ethnographic investigation incorporating participant observation, visual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Emergent Literacy, Libraries
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