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Oyelude, Adetoun A.; Bamigbola, Alice A. – Online Submission, 2013
In the last few decades, there has been steady increasing awareness of the need to empower women in order to improve their socioeconomic status to be able to cope and also contribute effectively in this period of economic crisis. ATI (access to information) provision is a vital factor in empowerment, thus, many organizations, such as library,…
Descriptors: Females, Access to Information, Information Needs, Womens Education
More, Cori M.; Hart, Juliet E.; Cheatham, Gregory A. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2013
The special education field is challenged by a lack of attention to and recruitment of well-trained language interpreters in schools. As such, special education teachers need to take a leadership role in working with interpreters to ensure diverse families are collaborative members of individualized education program (IEP) teams. Using the…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Ethnic Diversity, Student Diversity, Teacher Role
McLendon, Michael K.; Hearn, James C. – Teachers College Record, 2010
Background/Context: Every state in the nation has legal requirements, state "sunshine laws," to ensure accountability and fairness in institutions receiving state funds and operating under state authority. These laws have come to significantly influence the ways in which the business of higher education is conducted. Purpose/Objective/Research…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Access to Information, Information Policy, Higher Education
Layng, T. V. Joe – Behavior Analyst, 2010
In "Buying Green," Joe Layng recognizes that, like all choices we make, our decisions as consumers are more likely to be influenced by their short-term consequences for us as individuals (price, quality) than they are by their long-term consequences for society (environmental impact). He believes that the equation can be tilted in favor of greener…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Social Responsibility, Consumer Economics, Access to Information
Data for Action, 2011
Nearly every high-priority item in national, federal, state, and local discussions about education--and policy proposals across the political spectrum--requires high-quality longitudinal data to inform its design, implementation, and evaluation. This factsheet shares Data Quality Campaign's (DQC's) analysis of what "Data for Action 2011: DQC's…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Research Utilization, State Government, Parents
Rockwell, Mark – Community College Journal, 2011
Textbooks are a crushingly substantial portion of students' costs every semester, and they're getting more expensive every year. With the cost of some individual textbooks surpassing a monthly cable television bill, students are moving to relieve that economic pressure by renting textbooks instead of buying them new or used. The idea of renting…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Community Colleges, Economic Climate, Economic Impact
Duin, Ann Hill; Cawley, Steve; Gulachek, Bernard; O'Sullivan, Douglas M.; Wollner, Diane – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2011
Globalization, immersive research and learning environments, unlimited access to information and analytics, and fiscal realities continue to impact higher education--and higher education IT. Although IT organizations face immense pressure to meet significantly greater expectations at significantly less cost, with such pressure comes the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Information, Leadership, Power Structure
Shoham, Idan – Campus Technology, 2011
An Identity and Access Management (IAM) project on campus can feel like a Sisyphean task: Just when access rights have finally been sorted out, the semester ends--and users change roles, leave campus, or require new processes. IT departments face a constantly changing technical landscape: (1) integrating new applications and retiring old ones; (2)…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Access to Information, Technology Planning, Information Management
Cullen, Rowena; Chawner, Brenda – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2011
The Open Access movement of the past decade, and institutional repositories developed by universities and academic libraries as a part of that movement, have openly challenged the traditional scholarly communication system. This article examines the growth of repositories around the world, and summarizes a growing body of evidence of the response…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Conflict, Academic Libraries, Access to Information
Ruffalo Noel Levitz, 2019
Higher education has seen significant changes in the student experience in the past 10 years. For the past decade, everything from student attitudes about college to the technology they use every day has impacted their satisfaction with, and perception of, the college experience. This report is a comparison of student satisfaction, separated by 10…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Satisfaction, Student Attitudes, Public Colleges
Lin, Charlie; Yu, Wei-Chieh Wayne; Wang, Jenny – World Journal of Education, 2014
Cloud computing technologies, such as Google Docs, Adobe Creative Cloud, Dropbox, and Microsoft Windows Live, have become increasingly appreciated to the next generation digital learning tools. Cloud computing technologies encourage students' active engagement, collaboration, and participation in their learning, facilitate group work, and support…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Information Storage, Information Management
Gwandu, T.; Mtambanengwe, F.; Mapfumo, P.; Mashavave, T. C.; Chikowo, R.; Nezomba, H. – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2014
Purpose: The study evaluated how farmer acquisition, sharing and use patterns of information and knowledge interact with different socioeconomic factors to influence integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) technology uptake. Design/methodology/approach: The study was conducted as part of an evaluation of field-based farmer learning approaches…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Influences, Agricultural Occupations, Agribusiness, Foreign Countries
Grover, Kenda S. – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2014
This study employed qualitative research methodology to explore the experiences of mothers who self-directed their learning following their child's stroke diagnosis. Paediatric stroke, although rare, is among the top 10 causes of death in children in the USA, but information about the cause, treatment and long-term impact are difficult to…
Descriptors: Learning Experience, Independent Study, Mothers, Pediatrics
DeArmond, Michael; Jochim, Ashley; Lake, Robin – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2014
School choice is increasingly the new normal in urban education. But in cities with multiple public school options, how can civic leaders create a choice system that works for all families, whether they choose a charter or district public school? To answer this question, the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) researchers surveyed 4,000…
Descriptors: School Choice, Urban Education, Parent Surveys, Public Education
Cai, Li; Monroe, Scott – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2014
We propose a new limited-information goodness of fit test statistic C[subscript 2] for ordinal IRT models. The construction of the new statistic lies formally between the M[subscript 2] statistic of Maydeu-Olivares and Joe (2006), which utilizes first and second order marginal probabilities, and the M*[subscript 2] statistic of Cai and Hansen…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Models, Goodness of Fit, Probability