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Confait, Steve – Cogent Education, 2015
This article explores the context and experiences of three beginning teachers in their effort to improve their teaching and to implement and align themselves with their schools' expectations of effective teaching practices. Research findings emerging from a sociocultural-ethnographic framework revealed that participants challenged their own…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Practices, Expectation
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Rontu, Heidi; Tuomi, Ulla-Kristiina – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2015
Language centres in higher education are facing new challenges as they plan curricula for an increasingly diverse student body and undertake new tasks in support of the multiform internationalisation of universities. Continuing professional development clearly needs to be taken to a new level, and one way of doing this is to include research in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Resources Centers, Teacher Researchers, Higher Education
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Kuo, Nai-Cheng – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2015
Response to intervention (RTI) is an approach that has been implemented in more than 90% of the states in the U.S. The purpose of the study is to advance understanding of what efforts need to be made in order to increase the likelihood that special education professionals will accept RTI. Data used in this study include individual interviews with…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Stakeholders, Early Intervention, Program Implementation
Luschei, Thomas F.; Vega, Laura – Phi Delta Kappan, 2015
The United States has long struggled with the challenge of educating children experiencing extreme disadvantage, including the poor, ethnic and racial minorities, English language learners, and foster children. In this article, we argue that solutions to this problem lie not to the east or west, but to the south. Specifically, we offer the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged, English Language Learners, Foster Care
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O'Neill, Margaret – Journal of Social Work Education, 2015
Social work education is increasingly driven by the established movement of evidence-based practice (EBP) that drives the delivery of mental health care with the promise of providing treatments that work and greater efficiency. This emphasis on EBP coexists with the profession's expressed commitment to social justice. Social work literature rarely…
Descriptors: Social Work, Guidelines, Decision Making, Social Justice
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Sayeski, Kristin L.; Gormley Budin, Shannon E.; Bennett, Katie – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2015
The majority of students with disabilities require support in the area of reading. Given the importance of reading instruction, it is essential that special education teacher preparation programs prepare candidates who are knowledgeable about reading development and skilled in the delivery of reading instruction. The purpose of this article is…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Special Education Teachers, Special Education, Best Practices
Porter, Cynthia K. – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Researchers support a positive correlation between specific parenting strategies and student motivation and between student motivation and academic achievement. This study focused on determining correlative presence between research-based parenting strategies and scholarship award to post-secondary education. The examination of the educational…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Scholarships, Correlation, Postsecondary Education
Dynarski, Mark – Center on Children and Families at Brookings, 2015
The Every Student Succeeds Act, the new reauthorization of the federal program designed to support the education of disadvantaged students, requires that states and districts use evidence-based interventions to support school improvement. Researchers have studied the effectiveness of education programs for decades and that effort is now producing…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Disadvantaged Youth, Equal Education, Educational Quality
Barton, Erin E.; Smith, Barbara J. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2015
Inclusion is clearly related to better outcomes for young children--but reports from the US Department of Education show the practice has grown by just 5% over the past 27 years. This is the how-to book preschool administrators, school district leaders, child care directors, and faculty need to step up the progress of early childhood inclusion…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Inclusion, Program Development
Bull, Ally – New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2015
Science capabilities are a set of ideas for teachers to think with about science education. There are five: gathering and interpreting data, using evidence, critiquing evidence, interpreting representations of science, and engaging with science. This paper explores what student progress in developing capabilities might look like. It draws on…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Science Education, Data Collection, Data Interpretation
Cholewicki, Judith Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2015
With the rapid increase in the rate of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), there has been a surge in treatment interventions and outcome measures. Treatment interventions consist of evidence-based practices and programs that lack scientific validation. Parents' selection of a treatment or multiple treatments is often based on…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Quality of Life, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children
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Beland, Kathy – Journal of Character Education, 2014
Mitigating the perils of transition to early adolescence, while also supporting the promise of this stage of human development, has been a major focus of middle school reform (Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development, 1989; Jackson & Davis, 2000). As a result, there are many classroom-based educational programs that target the social and…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Social Development, Emotional Development, Educational Change
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Zwart, Mary Beth; Olson, Bernadette – Athletic Training Education Journal, 2014
Context: It is the responsibility of athletic training educators, through curriculum and clinical experiences, to engage students towards adopting evidence-based practice (EBP) into their practice. The initial task of implementing EBP into a curriculum or course can seem like a large task for educators and students. As a way to start scaffolding…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Formative Evaluation, Teaching Methods, Athletics
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Raymond G. Romanczyk; Emily H. Callahan; Laura B. Turner; Rachel N. S. Cavalari – Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2014
The complex and extensive deficits associated with Autism Spectrum Disorders, in concert with the substantial increase in prevalence over the last three decades, combine to present a challenge to individuals, families, communities, and government that has few parallels. This challenge is complicated by debate among service providers concerning…
Descriptors: Intervention, Behavior Modification, Young Children, Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Schaefer, John M.; Cannella-Malone, Helen; Brock, Matthew E. – Remedial and Special Education, 2018
Peer support arrangements are an evidence-based practice for increasing interactions between students with severe disabilities and their peers in general education classrooms, but it is unclear how interactions vary across instructional formats or generalize outside the classroom. In this single-case design study, we tested the efficacy of peer…
Descriptors: Severe Disabilities, Peer Influence, Educational Environment, Intellectual Disability
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