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Moses, Lindsey; Serafini, Frank; Loyd, Stacy – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2016
To fully consider the potential of informational texts to serve as mentor texts in the elementary classroom, the authors propose an inquiry about the intersections among the author's intentions, instructional contexts, a teacher's approaches, and students' responses to informational texts when contemplating the roles these texts might serve. In…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Childrens Literature, Picture Books, Authors
Zoch, Melody; Adams-Budde, Melissa; Langston-Demott, Brooke – Texas Journal of Literacy Education, 2016
The authors present the experiences of Wyatt, a nine-year-old whose mother described him as a struggling writer, in a summer digital writing camp. The authors consider how Wyatt was positioned as a writer at camp and how this may have differed from his experiences at school. They found that for Wyatt, being able to compose with digital tools along…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Student Writing Models, Electronic Publishing, Student Experience
Migliore, Maria-Cristina Giovanna – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to older workers (OWs)' subjective engagement in working and learning in the manufacturing industry. Workplace learning (WPL) literature rarely considers the subjective side of learning from a cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) account. Design/methodology/approach: The paper adopts a…
Descriptors: Older Workers, Workplace Learning, Manufacturing Industry, Learner Engagement
Cantalini-Williams, Maria; Curtis, Debra; Eden-DeGasperis, Kimberley; Esposto, Lauren; Guibert, Jenny; Papp, Heather; Roque, Carlos – Brock Education: A Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2015
This study examined a collaborative inquiry process, facilitated by university faculty in an elementary school, intended to develop a research community, foster knowledge mobilization, and enhance student engagement. The Collaborative Inquiry Team in Education (CITE) initiative consisted of five school-based sessions that included videos,…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Teamwork, College Faculty, Elementary School Teachers
Elvira, Quincy; Imants, Jeroen; deMaeyer, Sven; Segers, Mien – Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 2015
The ability to solve problems is a key skill and is essential to our day-to-day lives, at home, at school and at work. The present study explores the quality of managerial problem-solving of participants who are in secondary education. We studied 10th, 11th, and 12th graders following a business track in the Netherlands. Participants were asked to…
Descriptors: High School Students, Problem Solving, Expertise, Educational Quality
Park, Yangjoo – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2015
This study is about graduate students' discourse practices in classroom text-based synchronous computer mediated discussions (SCMD). Cultural historical activity theory (in short, Activity Theory) is the primary theoretical lens through which the data are analyzed. Engeström's (1987) Activity System model among the various theoretical positions or…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication, Educational Technology, Educational Practices
Skipp, Amy; Tanner, Emily – Education Endowment Foundation, 2015
The Visible Classroom project aimed to use lesson transcripts to promote effective teaching practice and improve the attainment of pupils in primary school. The approach used "real-time captioning" technology to generate a live transcript of teachers' speech in lessons and was developed by the University of Melbourne and technology…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Transcripts (Written Records), Elementary School Teachers
Hall, Barbara M. – Online Submission, 2014
Instructional designers need to be able to assess the level of knowledge construction generated by participants of a virtual learning community (VLC). Such participants include the learners engaged in threaded discussions within online courses. Assessing the level of knowledge construction enables course revisions that scaffold such knowledge…
Descriptors: Interaction Process Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Communities of Practice, Computer Mediated Communication
Sessler Branden, Pennie – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The nursing profession is entering an exciting time of new professional opportunities. As the United States of America (USA) deals with its health care crisis, nursing is positioned to determine the trajectory of health care and health policy. However, nurses are underrepresented in major forums where they could be change agents on this new path.…
Descriptors: Nurses, Nursing, Nursing Research, Advocacy
McCambly, Heather N.; Haley, Karen J. – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2016
The dual pressures of the national college completion agenda and diminished public investment in higher education have led to a growing reliance on performance-based policies. Using a policy implementation framework, this qualitative study examines the implementation of a performance-based budgeting model at a broad-access urban research…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Services, Budgeting, Budgets, Program Implementation
Arar, Khalid Husny; Oplatka, Izhar – Management in Education, 2016
The research aimed to understand the way in which high school principals' perceptions of social justice (SJ) are implemented in their daily educational work. A qualitative study employed in-depth semi-structured interviews to collect the narratives of two high school principals in Israel--one Arab-Muslim and one Jewish. The interview transcripts…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Jews, Arabs
Aslan, Dolgun – International Journal of Higher Education, 2016
The purpose of this study is to highlight the opinions of teachers with regard to the approaches of parental involvement in school. A case study design was used in this study conducted that is employed in studies of a qualitative nature. In the "case" under research, there was an attempt to determine the opinions of teachers regarding…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Qualitative Research, Elementary School Teachers, Case Studies
Brown, Sally – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2016
This year-long qualitative study draws from multimodal theory and New Literacies Studies to document the digital literacy experiences of a diverse group of 2nd-graders using e-readers. Twenty-first century classrooms must expand traditional notions of literacy to prepare students for the ever-changing, media-rich world. Students participated in…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Electronic Learning, Handheld Devices, Picture Books
Jacoby, JoAnn; Ward, David; Avery, Susan; Marcyk, Emilia – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2016
This article explores student, instructor, and librarian perceptions of chat reference in the context of an introductory composition course. Participants in a mixed-method study responded to an anonymized chat transcript. While student respondents valued speed and efficiency, they were willing to receive instruction and open to questions that…
Descriptors: Reference Services, Pilot Projects, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes
Ciampa, Katia; Gallagher, Tiffany L. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2016
This case study research reports on elementary (grade 8) and secondary school (grade 9) teachers' participation in job-embedded, professional learning and engagement in collaborative inquiry. Teachers constructed an inquiry-oriented media literacy unit following the collaborative inquiry model. The current study sought to investigate how…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Inquiry, Literacy, Self Efficacy