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Bonshor, Michael – Research Studies in Music Education, 2017
This article is based on the findings of a qualitative exploration of factors influencing confidence levels among adult amateur choral singers. Three focus group interviews, involving 18 singers in total, and 16 individual interviews were carried out. These provided over 40 hours of recorded verbal data, which then underwent a process of…
Descriptors: Singing, Feedback (Response), Foreign Countries, Music
Varadharajan, Meera; Buchanan, John – International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 2017
Increased migration of people(s), goods, ideas and ideologies necessitate global understanding, empathies and responses on the part of teachers and their students. This paper investigates the effects on 100 primary pre-service teachers' understandings of and attitudes toward a semester-long course exploring, inter alia, global development. The…
Descriptors: Altruism, Student Attitudes, Global Education, Citizenship
Winstone, Naomi E.; Nash, Robert A.; Rowntree, James; Parker, Michael – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
For feedback to be effective, it must be used by the receiver. Prior research has outlined numerous reasons why students' use of feedback is sometimes limited, but there has been little systematic exploration of these barriers. In 11 activity-oriented focus groups, 31 undergraduate Psychology students discussed how they use assessment feedback.…
Descriptors: Barriers, Feedback (Response), Intervention, Focus Groups
Jessiman, Tricia; Cameron, Ailsa – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2017
Background: Police custody sergeants have a duty to secure an AA to safeguard the rights and welfare of vulnerable people detained or questioned by the police. This study focuses on the role of the AA in supporting vulnerable adults and seeks to examine what stakeholders would expect from an effective AA service. Methods: This was a qualitative…
Descriptors: Adults, Qualitative Research, Interviews, Police
MacMath, Sheryl; Sivia, Awneet; Britton, Vandy – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2017
This study examines teacher perceptions of their experiences with Project Based Learning (PBL) at a secondary school in Western Canada. This PBL initiative included English language arts, mathematics, science, and digital literacy courses and all the grade nines at this large secondary school. This article reports on two teacher focus group…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Active Learning, Student Projects
Kunnath, Joshua P. – American Secondary Education, 2017
This mixed-methods study applied a decision-making theoretical framework to an investigation of teacher grading in a large urban school district in California. A sample of 251 high school teachers of core subjects were surveyed, and 15 teachers participated in four focus group interviews in order provide data on the influences, rationale, and…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, High Schools, Grading, Decision Making
Shim, Jenna Min – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2017
Reading psychoanalytic theory of the unconscious desire for wholeness in the light of the notion of white racial supremacy, this study explores a constituted difficulty that self-reflection around the issues of race and racism confronts by exploring three white male pre-service teachers' emotional experiences inscribed in their responses to the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Preservice Teachers, Reflection, Racial Attitudes
Lari, Pooneh; Barton, Denise H. – International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, 2017
Building an effective mentoring program for community college faculty is a complex and multifaceted task. There are multiple layers of stakeholders and levels of involvement, which at times makes navigating the mentoring relationships challenging and complicates the decision of what types of information to provide to the faculty as part of their…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Mentors, College Faculty, Community Colleges
Mincey, Krista; Turner, Brian L.; Brown, Amber; Maurice, Sheldon – Journal of American College Health, 2017
Objective: Due to the short life expectancy of black men, it is important to understand what impacts health behaviors in this group so that interventions and programs can be developed to improve their health behaviors which may help in increasing the life expectancy of black men. The purpose of this study was to understand what perceived barriers…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, Barriers, Health Behavior
Koivunen, Julie; Van Alst, Donna; Ocasio, Kerrie; Allegra, Christine – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2017
The purpose of this study was to examine the experiences of mental health clinicians in providing services in the preschool setting. Clinicians provided services for 3 years in urban, northern New Jersey preschools, in order to expand access to mental health services for vulnerable children. At the conclusion of the three-year period, focus groups…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Mental Health, School Health Services, Preschool Education
Burbaugh, Bradley; Seibel, Seibel,; Archibald, Thomas – Journal of Leadership Education, 2017
The linkages between interventions and outcomes of leadership initiatives have been insufficiently studied. To better understand these links, the Virginia agricultural leadership program conducted a pathway mapping session to investigate the program's theory of change. In this novel process, program participants engaged in collaborative…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Intervention, Agricultural Education, Learning Activities
Sahin, Neslihan; Eraslan, Ali – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2017
In parallel with mathematical modeling studies that have gradually drawn interest in recent years, the aim of this study is to investigate the thought processes of fourth-grade students in the Butter Beans Problem and to identify possible challenges in this process. For this purpose, a qualitative study was conducted at a university-foundation…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Cognitive Processes, Mathematical Models
Yukselturk, Erman; Altiok, Serhat – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2017
The purpose of this study was to analyze the effects of programming with Scratch on the views of preservice Information Technology (IT) teachers towards computer programming. The study sample consisted of 151 preservice IT teachers who took an elective course including a Scratch module in the 2013-14 academic year. Three online questionnaires…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Information Technology, Programming, Questionnaires
Gordon, Stephanie Arlene – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Postsecondary education is constantly changing and the role of the chief student affairs officer must evolve to meet the demands of the shifting social, political, and administrative needs of their student population and institution. The intent of this study was to identify the knowledge, skills, and competencies required of chief student affairs…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Workers, Administrators, Higher Education, Administrator Effectiveness
Brewer, Daniel R. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The world today faces enormous challenges on the environmental front. Schools may be part of the problem as they use enormous amounts of energy, create thousands of tons of waste, and often operate in less than ideal environments, all of which may negatively impact the health and welfare of students. Some environmental educators and researchers…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Conservation (Environment), Program Effectiveness, Teacher Attitudes