NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing 481 to 495 of 4,025 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Sharon, Dganit; Gonen, Ayala; Linetsky, Ira – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2020
Sexuality has an essential part in human lives and can be affected by changes in one's health status. Since the nursing profession delivers holistic care for patients, nurses must have the knowledge and skills to deliver care concerning sexuality. Evidence from the professional literature demonstrates that nurses do not address sexuality care…
Descriptors: Nursing Students, Sex Education, Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Little, Gawain – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2020
Forty years ago, leading communist educationalist and "FORUM" editor Brian Simon wrote a chapter entitled 'Why No Pedagogy in England?' In it, he argued that English education had failed to develop a science of learning, due to its class-divided history, and that the time was ripe for the development of such a science. This article…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Social Class, Political Attitudes, Editing
Allen, Jeff M. – ACT, Inc., 2020
This Data Byte presents a summary of findings among students in the 2020 ACT-tested graduating class, over 225,000 of whom took the PreACT® test before taking the ACT® test. Five findings are highlighted: (1) PreACT-tested students scored higher on the ACT test; (2) Average gain from the PreACT to the ACT varies across subjects; (3) Average gain…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Academic Achievement, Scores, Achievement Gains
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Sunny X. Niu; Weiping Wang; Grace Y. Zheng; Yu Xiao – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2025
Scholars explain low levels of social engagement of disadvantaged students as self-isolation because they are endowed with lower levels of cultural and social capital. It renders a hopeless class reproduction conclusion, and it also reflects an implicit assumption that students engage academically and socially in parallel. To contribute both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, Learner Engagement, Urban Schools
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Sidra Noreen; Zafar Iqbal – European Education, 2025
The present paper sought to offer a theoretical perspective on the social practice approach (SPA) in adult literacy since its conceptualization in the early 1980s. It aims to provide a holistic understanding of SPA by examining its objectives, development, and practical applications. The analysis highlights how the SPA differs from traditional…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Literacy Education, Futures (of Society), Holistic Approach
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Chopra, Harshita; Lin, Yiwen; Samadi, Mohammad Amin; Cavazos, Jacqueline G.; Yu, Renzhe; Jaquay, Spencer; Nixon, Nia – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2023
Exploring students' discourse in academic settings over time can provide valuable insight into the evolution of learner engagement and participation in online learning. In this study, we propose an analytical framework to capture topics and the temporal progression of learner discourse. We employed a Contextualized Topic Modeling technique on…
Descriptors: Semantics, Computer Mediated Communication, Pandemics, COVID-19
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Lee, Jungup; Hong, Jun Sung; Choi, Mijin; Lee, Jumi – School Mental Health, 2023
Socioeconomic inequality is a persistent societal problem affecting various aspects of adolescent development. Existing studies have revealed that low socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with a higher prevalence of internalizing symptoms. However, little is known about the underlying factors that may mediate this relationship. The current…
Descriptors: Victims, Computer Mediated Communication, Bullying, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Keller Nicol, Marilyn; Sherrod, Ambra – Texas Education Review, 2023
This conceptual paper explored the fundamental barriers to successful equity training and professional development for teachers. This was done to show the need for a professional development series, based on Ting-Toomey and Chung's (2012) cultural value pattern analysis. Using the theoretical lens of post-colonial theory, the authors posit the…
Descriptors: Teachers, Young Children, Barriers, Equal Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
de Roo, Nina; Amede, Tewodros; Elias, Eyasu; Almekinders, Conny; Leeuwis, Cees – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2023
Purpose: Agricultural extension services in poor countries often identify opinion leaders based on criteria such as wealth and social status. We explore the effectiveness of this top-down approach by analysing the role of so-called model and nodal farmers in the diffusion of malt barley in a highland community in Ethiopia. Research approach: We…
Descriptors: Network Analysis, Social Status, Rural Extension, Case Studies
Dustin Lee Julius – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this research is to determine whether the achievement gap between Black and White students differs significantly between Minnesota public charter schools and traditional Minnesota public schools. The reading and math proficiency gaps between Black and White students in Minnesota are among the largest in the nation. Despite the fact…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Public Schools, Charter Schools
Stephanie Owen – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
The Advanced Placement (AP) program is nearly ubiquitous in American high schools and is often touted as a way to close racial and socioeconomic gaps in educational outcomes. Using administrative data from Michigan, I exploit variation within high schools across time in AP course offerings to identify the causal effect of AP course availability on…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Equal Education, Socioeconomic Status, Social Differences
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Stephen Roulston; Sally Cook – Irish Educational Studies, 2024
Home-school transport is an expensive component within many education systems, and is particularly costly in countries where school choice is encouraged. Within divided societies like Northern Ireland, a combination of school choice, academic selection and a divided society results in educational divisions which pose an even larger problem for the…
Descriptors: Geographic Information Systems, Geographic Distribution, Population Distribution, Travel
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Erwin Jiayuan Khoo; Lo Yee Miin; Ng Xin Yin; Mark Kar Man; Leonna Lim Suk Hui; Lee Pei May; Colette Teng Wee; Kurubaran Ganasegeran – Child Care in Practice, 2024
Introduction: In today's highly demanding health care industry, paediatricians realise the need to focus on what matters to parents as a means to improve their service quality and health care delivery. This study aimed to identify which key choice elements were important for parents when choosing a paediatric general practice service for their…
Descriptors: Family Attitudes, Decision Making, Children, Pediatrics
Yuhyun Park – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation explores the experiences of East Asian international doctoral students in clinical supervision within counselor education programs in the United States. With the increasing enrollment of international students in these programs, understanding their unique challenges and strategies for success in supervision is essential. Using a…
Descriptors: Asians, Foreign Students, Counselor Training, Supervision
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Kevin J. Dougherty – Teachers College Record, 2024
Background: Choice is a key part of the culture of the United States. Americans believe deeply in the personal and social usefulness of being able to make many choices. Hence, all sorts of efforts have been made to increase students' options, whether by creating many different kinds of schools and colleges, offering a great array of majors and…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Sociology, Selection, Decision Making
Pages: 1  |  ...  |  29  |  30  |  31  |  32  |  33  |  34  |  35  |  36  |  37  |  ...  |  269