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Stephanie A. Hawkes – NACADA Review: Academic Advising Praxis and Perspectives, 2022
This phenomenological study aimed to understand the lived experiences of undergraduates admitted to a four-year college or university via an alternative admissions program, as well as how and why students make it into an alternative admit pathway and what individual characteristics, backgrounds, and university support structures may contribute to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Undergraduate Students, African American Students, College Admission
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Aja Louise Murray; Diana Taut; Adriana Baban; Chad Lance Hemady; Susan Walker; Joseph Osafo; Siham Sikander; Mark Tomlinson; Stefani Du Toit; Marguerite Marlow; Catherine L. Ward; Asvini Fernando; Bernadette Madrid; Vo Van Thang; Hoang Dinh Tuyen; Michael Dunne; Claire Hughes; Pasco Fearon; Sara Valdebenito; Manuel Eisner – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2022
Objective: ADHD symptoms can adversely impact functioning in a range of domains relevant for maternal well-being and fetal development; however, there has been almost no research examining their impact during pregnancy. We aimed to address this gap. Method: We used data (n = 1,204) from a longitudinal birth cohort study spanning eight countries to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pregnancy, Prenatal Care, Prenatal Influences
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Shu-Shing Lee; Peter Seow – Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, 2022
Singapore is a centralized--decentralized education system which recognizes that learning needs to integrate content--disciplinary understandings with twenty-first-century orientations and outcomes. Schools are given autonomy for innovations. One such initiative is FutureSchools. FutureSchools are exemplar schools with successes in…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Educational Innovation, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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Zhiyong Zhang; Jun Teng; Wenxin Qi – International Perspectives on Education and Society, 2022
Faced with the outbreak of the pandemic, Chinese government quickly postponed the opening of schools and advocated "classes suspended but learning continues" project through online learning. In order to understand the teaching effect of online learning and explore a possible transformation of the application of educational information…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
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Kefah A. Barham; Rachel Clarke – SAGE Open, 2022
Mobile technologies have been shown to be potential aids in improving language learning a long with computer technology, The purpose of this study was to examine students' perceptions of their socio-affective learning practices when utilizing dictionary applications on their mobile phones. Twenty-five undergraduates were chosen at random from a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dictionaries, Computer Oriented Programs, Handheld Devices
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Mitchell, Rosamond – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2015
Language students in the UK undertake their "year abroad" with high hopes for a linguistic and social "immersion" experience. However, past research shows that language learning success, while real, can be uneven, and that many Erasmus exchange students form social relations largely with other international students. New…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Residential Programs, Immersion Programs
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Dean, Yasmin; London, Chad; Carston, Cathy; Salyers, Vincent – International Journal for Leadership in Learning, 2015
This study explored the expectations, motivations, and experiences of Canadian faculty members undertaking development and implementation of global education initiatives (GEI) for students in the form of exchange and study abroad programs, supervised practical coursework, and experiential learning in international settings. Findings revealed that…
Descriptors: Mentors, Global Education, Faculty Development, Student Exchange Programs
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Creemers, Bert; Kyriakides, Leonidas – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2015
This paper argues that the dynamic model of educational effectiveness can be used to establish stronger links between educational effectiveness research (EER) and school improvement. It provides research evidence to support the validity of the model. Thus, the importance of using the dynamic model to establish an evidence-based and theory-driven…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Educational Improvement
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DeLuca, Christopher; Godden, Lorraine; Hutchinson, Nancy L.; Versnel, Joan – Educational Research, 2015
Background: The current global cohort of youth has been called "a generation at-risk", marked by a dramatic rise in youth who are not in employment, education or training programmes. In 2010, youth were three times as likely as adults to be unemployed, with youth unemployment worsening in 2012 and 2013. Accordingly, there is an urgent…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Youth Opportunities, Youth Programs, Youth Employment
Doolittle, Martha; Orr, Aline – Online Submission, 2015
This report summarizes highlights from December 2015 discussions, or "platicas," held with Austin Independent School District elementary principals about the district's dual language program. Principals provided their opinions about the program and gave suggestions for improvements.
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, School Districts, Elementary Schools
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Cobb, Wendy; Haisman-Smith, Nick; Jordan-Daus, Kerry – Teacher Education Advancement Network Journal, 2017
'Working in partnership to transform society through education' is the inspirational mission statement of our Faculty of Education. But what can and does 'working in partnership' mean in practice? This paper outlines a partnership development story with a charity and a university Faculty. There is limited research surrounding academic partnerships…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Change Agents, Partnerships in Education, Teacher Educators
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Spowart, Lucy; Winter, Jennie; Turner, Rebecca; Muneer, Reema; McKenna, Colleen; Kneale, Pauline – International Journal for Academic Development, 2017
In this paper we report the outcomes of a national survey of academic development staff in a range of UK HE Institutions to consider the approaches adopted to evaluate teaching-related continual professional development (CPD). Despite the increasing drive towards accountability, the majority of respondents undertook no benchmarking to establish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Professional Continuing Education, Faculty Development
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Yolcu, Hüseyin; Kartal, Sadik – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The aim of this study is to examine the in-service training activities organized by the Ministry of Education of Turkey for the last 15 years (between 2001 and 2015). Two main starting points were identified in commentaries on in-service training; (1) Teacher needs which are part of the field of teacher training (2) Technological developments…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Learning Activities, Program Evaluation, Faculty Development
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Zirawaga, Victor Samuel; Olusanya, Adeleye Idowu; Maduku, Tinovimbanashe – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
The use of current and emerging tools in education is becoming a blistering topic among educators and educational institutions. Gaming in education may be viewed as an interference to learning but its role in education is to increase students' motivation and engagement, to enhance visual skills, to improve students' interaction and collaboration…
Descriptors: Educational Games, History Instruction, Program Implementation, Instructional Design
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McDonald, Mary – Learning Assistance Review, 2017
For over four years, students enrolled in remedial writing classes who attended eight writing center tutorials directly linked to their assignments had an average pass rate of 95.6 percent, whereas students who did not attend any writing center tutorials had an average pass rate of 39.4 percent. These correlations are just that--correlations that…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), Remedial Programs, Tutorial Programs, Writing Improvement
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