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Direct linkRhodes, 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
Terrell, Karen L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Researchers have found that as students progress through school, the importance of language grows due to the content specificity that emerges, especially in the secondary grades, and due to the preparation of these students to enter adulthood once their schooling is completed. Even as students' instruction in various content areas becomes…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Mathematics
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
Overly, Kathleen B. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of conducting this study is to explore how student affairs professionals in professional schools acquire the knowledge and skill set to be effective in such positions. The need for such research arose after a review of the literature revealed inattention to the practice of student affairs in professional schools. Qualitative…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Services, Educational Opportunities, On the Job Training, Professional Development
Martin, Leigh Christine – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This research illuminated how five first-year teachers described the intercultural development that occurred while student teaching in a non-Western culture, and the value that those experiences abroad brought to their classrooms during their first year of teaching. The focus was to capture the essence of the experiences abroad as perceived and…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Student Teaching, Beginning Teachers, Student Teachers
Download full textVurdien, Ruby – European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL), 2012
Today Web 2.0 technologies, including blogs, are presenting both teachers and learners with new horizons in the field of language teaching and learning. A blog is an online journal which can be continuously updated by its users (Matheson, 2004). People can write their views at their own pace without space and time constraints. Blogs aid in the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Writing Skills, Electronic Publishing
Peer reviewedKaburise, P. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2012
This article, first, identifies the reading characteristics of students enrolled in the foundation provision of the extended degree; then determines the responsiveness of the English curriculum to these characteristics and thinking on literacy development. Using both qualitative and quantitative research methods, and the language ability framework…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Student Placement, Reading Skills, Statistical Analysis
Yu, Mingmei; Yuen, Allan H. K.; Park, Jae – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of the study is to explore the perspectives of students, teachers, and parents in using Web 2.0 technologies. Design/methodology/approach: This study is based on the focus group interview data collected from two groups of students, two groups of teachers, and one group of parents in a secondary school in Hong Kong. Findings:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Web 2.0 Technologies, Access to Computers, Technology Integration
Hill, Clifford – Teachers College Record, 2012
Background/Context: In 2010, I was invited to give the annual lecture that honors Lawrence Cremin, the historian of American education who became the seventh president of Teachers College, Columbia University. To pay tribute to the way in which Cremin used an academic discipline to bring rigor and depth to educational research, I described my own…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Intellectual Disciplines, Test Items, Teaching Methods
Wenger, Kerri J.; Dinsmore, Jan; Villagomez, Amanda – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2012
In this paper, we describe a 30-month qualitative exploration of diverse teachers' identities in a high-poverty, bilingual, K-8 public charter school in rural eastern Oregon. First, we use the perspectives of saberes docentes and a situated view of teacher development to document the life histories of monolingual and bilingual teachers at Vista…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Charter Schools, Educational Change, Biographies
Enn, Rosa – Multicultural Education & Technology Journal, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to an indigenous community that lives in the periphery of Taiwan. The Dao on Orchid Island have had to face serious abuse of their human rights in terms of ecological exploitation and environmental injustice. The article highlights the empowerment of the indigenous group through collective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Content Analysis, Student Empowerment
Schofield, Linda – Kairaranga, 2012
In this study, qualitative evidence is collected--through classroom observations and teacher and student interviews--to study the effect of metacognition and the interaction between students' observable cognitive behaviour and the instructional task. This qualitative data is analysed to identify what factors support and improve students'…
Descriptors: Evidence, Metacognition, Instructional Effectiveness, Teaching Methods
Mind the Gap: An Analysis of How Quality Assurance Processes Influence Programme Assessment Patterns
Jessop, Tansy; McNab, Nicole; Gubby, Laura – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2012
This article explores the relationship between the lack of visible attention to formative assessment in degree specifications and its marginalization in practice. Degree specification documents form part of the quality apparatus emphasizing the accountability and certification duties of assessment. Ironically, a framework designed to assure…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, Formative Evaluation, Evaluation Utilization
Mpofu, Vongai; Samukange, Tendai; Kusure, Lovemore M.; Zinyandu, Tinoidzwa M.; Denhere, Clever; Huggins, Nyakotyo; Wiseman, Chingombe; Ndlovu, Shakespear; Chiveya, Renias; Matavire, Monica; Mukavhi, Leckson; Gwizangwe, Isaac; Magombe, Elliot; Magomelo, Munyaradzi; Sithole, Fungai; Bindura University of Science Education (BUSE), – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2012
This paper reports on a study of the implementation of science teacher education through virtual and open distance learning in the Mashonaland Central Province, Zimbabwe. The study provides insight into challenges faced by students and lecturers on inception of the program at four centres. Data was collected from completed evaluation survey forms…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Qualitative Research, Science Teachers
Regan, Kelley; Evmenova, Anna; Baker, Pam; Jerome, Marci Kinas; Spencer, Vicky; Lawson, Holly; Werner, Terry – Internet and Higher Education, 2012
In an effort to expand existing research on the barriers of instructors experience in online learning environments (OLEs), a qualitative study was conducted at a large mid-Atlantic university. Six instructors teaching in different OLE formats (e.g., asynchronous, hybrid, and synchronous via videoconferencing) participated in two focus groups in…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Communities of Practice, Distance Education, Online Courses
