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Bowden, Randall – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2012
Considerable effort has been placed on understanding and enhancing online interaction to increase student learning, examine teaching strategies, and build learning communities. This research explored another aspect of interaction: the emergence of scholarship by graduate students through asynchronous discussion. Qualitative analysis of archived…
Descriptors: Expertise, Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Computer Mediated Communication
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Casey, Michelle M.; Prasad, Shailendra; Klingner, Jill; Moscovice, Ira – Journal of Rural Health, 2012
Context: Quality measures focused on outpatient settings are of increasing interest to policy makers, but little research has been conducted on hospital outpatient quality measures, especially in rural settings. Purpose: To evaluate the relevance of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) outpatient quality measures for rural hospitals,…
Descriptors: Expertise, Hospitals, Measurement Techniques, Surgery
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Cochran, Deborah C.; Gallagher, Peggy A.; Stayton, Vicki D.; Dinnebeil, Laurie A.; Lifter, Karin; Chandler, Lynette K.; Christensen, Kimberly A. – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2012
Results of the field validation survey of the revised initial and new advanced Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) Division for Early Childhood (DEC) early childhood special education (ECSE)/early intervention (EI) personnel standards are presented. Personnel standards are used as part of educational accountability systems and in teacher…
Descriptors: Expertise, Early Intervention, Early Childhood Education, Disabilities
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Kumashiro, Kevin K. – Academe, 2012
For years, critics have pointed to the decreasing ability of health-care professionals to make decisions and provide services because of the demands of insurance companies and health-management organizations to sustain profits. Health-care decisions are increasingly being made by the wrong people and for the wrong reasons. So, too, with public…
Descriptors: Expertise, Urban Schools, Privatization, Educational Change
Harris, Delphine; Manns, Derrick; Katsinas, Stephen – Facilities Manager, 2012
This study investigated the relationship of key issues related to capital and operating budget practices of state tax appropriations and policies at the state level, including new facilities construction, renovation, replacement and renewal which may exist between and among states by governance structure. Recognized "good practices" in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Education, Expenditures, Educational Facilities
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Cam, Aylin; Topcu, Mustafa Sami; Sulun, Yusuf; Guven, Gokhan; Arabacioglu, Sertac – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2012
The purpose of this study was to translate the original version of the Epistemic Belief Inventory developed by Schraw, Bendixen, and Dunkle (2002) for pre-service teachers in a Turkish context and validate its construct. Studies on the epistemological beliefs of Turkish students have been heretofore limited in number and have been largely…
Descriptors: Expertise, Beliefs, Measures (Individuals), Epistemology
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Balan, Peter; Metcalfe, Mike – Education & Training, 2012
Purpose: Entrepreneurship education particularly requires student engagement because of the complexity of the entrepreneurship process. The purpose of this paper is to describe how an established measure of engagement can be used to identify relevant teaching methods that could be used to engage any group of entrepreneurship students.…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Expertise, Weighted Scores, Entrepreneurship
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Wuetherick, Brad; Ewert-Bauer, Tereigh – International Journal for Academic Development, 2012
The question of whether neutrality is possible in academic development invites us to explore the particular place of academic development in our institutions and how academic development is positioned in our particular national and institutional environments. This paper, which reports on a small pilot study of how Canadian academic development is…
Descriptors: Expertise, Academic Achievement, Interdisciplinary Approach, Foreign Countries
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Choi, Serene H.-J.; Nieminen, Timo A.; Townson, Peter – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2012
Since physics research is an activity of an active international community, international visits are a common way for physicists to share scientific knowledge and skills. International mobility of physicists is also important for PhD physics study and research training. We investigated personal and social factors that influenced the decision for…
Descriptors: Expertise, Physics, Foreign Countries, Study Abroad
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Kim, Min Kyu – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2012
It is generally accepted that the cognitive development for a wide range of students can be improved through adaptive instruction-learning environments optimized to suit individual needs (e.g., Cronbach, Am Psychol 12:671-684, 1957; Lee and Park, in Handbook of research for educational communications and technology, Taylor & Francis Group,…
Descriptors: Expertise, Problem Solving, Cognitive Development, Student Evaluation
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Mack, Elizabeth; Augare, Helen; Cloud-Jones, Linda Different; David, Dominique; Gaddie, Helene Quiver; Honey, Rose E.; Kawagley, Angayuqaq O.; Plume-Weatherwax, Melissa Little; Fight, Lisa Lone; Meier, Gene; Pete, Tachini; Leaf, James Rattling; Returns From Scout, Elvin; Sachatello-Sawyer, Bonnie; Shibata, Hi'ilani; Valdez, Shelly; Wippert, Rachel – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2012
There are a growing number of informal science education (ISE) programs in Native communities that engage youth in science education and that are grounded in Native ways of knowing. There is also a growing body of research focusing on the relationship between culture, traditional knowledge, and science education. However, there is little research…
Descriptors: Expertise, American Indian Education, Science Education, Indigenous Populations
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Kovacevic, Jasmina; Macesic-Petrovic, Dragana – International Journal of Educational Development, 2012
This descriptive study finds out the problems most frequently facing the children with special needs in regular schooling. The sample included 500 teachers in elementary schools from Serbia. The results point out the problems in inclusive education. Most educational problems occur in relations and communications with their peers in typical…
Descriptors: Expertise, Inclusion, Disabilities, Foreign Countries
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Williams, Robert F. – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2012
An embodied view of mathematical cognition should account not only for how we use our bodies to think and communicate mathematically but also how our bodies equip us to conceive of mathematical ideas. Research in cognitive semantics claims that the human conceptual capacity rests on a foundation of image schemas: topological patterns of spatial…
Descriptors: Schemata (Cognition), Expertise, Semantics, Ethnography
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Engel, Rafael J.; Bechtold, Jody; Kim, Yoonmi; Mulvaney, Elizabeth – Journal of Social Work Education, 2012
As gambling opportunities proliferate, social workers are likely to see clients with gambling-related problems, but they often lack the expertise to address these concerns. This descriptive study assessed the inclusion of content on gambling-related problems in graduate social work curricula. Responses to an online survey from 86 (43.7%) of the…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Social Work, Expertise, Counselor Training
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Chan, Selena – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2012
This article reports on a study of the perspectives of new tutors teaching traditional vocational trades who recently commenced teaching in the Institutes of Technologies and Polytechnics (ITPs) sector in New Zealand. The perspectives are collated from questionnaires and interviews of 13 tutors, from five ITPs, who have been teaching full-time for…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Tutors
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