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NWEA, 2017
In New Mexico's Rio Rancho school district, students and educators at Puesta del Sol Elementary take inspiration from Spirit the Eagle's ability to soar. The mascot, who presides over approximately 750 students and 100 staff members, embodies the vision and tenaciousness that lifted the suburban Albuquerque school from a disappointing state report…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Achievement Gains, Elementary School Students, Academic Achievement
Washington State Department of Early Learning, 2017
In January 2017 Washington State Department of Early Learning (DEL) surveyed child care centers and family homes on the impact of Initiative 1433 ("I-1433") raising Washington's minimum wage. The data collected indicates that providers were broadly impacted by the initiative. For family home providers, 46% reported that they had paid…
Descriptors: Wages, Child Care Centers, Child Caregivers, Compensation (Remuneration)
Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, European Commission, 2017
The academic calendar contains national data on how the academic year is structured (beginning of the academic year, term times, holidays and examination periods). Differences between university and non-university study programmes are also highlighted. The information is available for 37 countries. [For the previous report "The Organisation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Schedules, Universities, Public Colleges
Irvin, Jay Andrew – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate and identify possible relationships between academic achievement, as measured by high school graduation rate and ACT composite scores of individual school districts within the state of Tennessee, and the per-pupil expenditure of each district. Research was conducted to determine whether a significant…
Descriptors: Expenditure per Student, Graduation Rate, College Entrance Examinations, Scores
Priya, J. Johnsi; Lawrence, A. S. Arul – Online Submission, 2017
The present study aims to examine the relationship between social maturity and risk taking behaviour of the prospective teachers. Survey method of research has been used in this present study. Using the simple random sampling technique, 300 prospective teachers (141 male and 159 female) were selected from different colleges of education from…
Descriptors: Maturity (Individuals), Preservice Teachers, Risk, Correlation
Crain, Danielle; Long, Terry; Munk, Tom; Nadkarni, Swati; Smith, Steve; Snyder, Laura; Thacker, Chris – IDEA Data Center, 2017
The Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) added four new data elements related to the local education agency (LEA) Maintenance of Effort (MOE) provisions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) in the MOE Reduction and Coordinated Early Intervening Services (CEIS) data collection. This resource, produced by The IDEA Data…
Descriptors: School Districts, Data Collection, Disclosure, Disabilities
James, E. Alana; Leasure, David – Online Submission, 2017
Postgraduate education is poised for rapid development and if Deans and administrators will embrace lessons from industry it can actually be a smooth transition. The cost of doing nothing is greater than it has ever been before. Hit and miss development has left Postgraduate Schools (PGS) with disjointed student analytics and student experience is…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Technology Uses in Education, Graduate Students, Student Experience
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Aasebø, Turid Skarre – Online Submission, 2017
Are students offered possibilities to experience democratic practice in classrooms? Using an analysis of empirical data from classroom discussions in lower secondary school, this article identifies and explores two different types of classroom discussions which give students different positions: a conversation in which students are positioned as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Classroom Communication, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
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Caroline Doyle; Anthea McCarthy-Jones – Qualitative Research Journal, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the importance of adaptive methods for junior researchers undertaking research in volatile and dangerous environments. Design/methodology/approach: Through the presentation of two case studies of the authors' own experiences in the field, the authors demonstrate the way the use of adaptive methods…
Descriptors: Research Projects, Research Methodology, Doctoral Students, Data Collection
Waters, John K. – Campus Technology, 2013
The latest data alert: By 2020, the amount of data generated daily will reach 40 zettabytes, or roughly 5,247 gigabytes for every person on earth. That's one of the findings in a new report published by IT industry analysts at IDC. The study casts doubt on the ability to capture the value of all this data, especially since schools barely tapped…
Descriptors: Information Management, Data, Data Collection, Data Processing
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Anyan, Frederick – Qualitative Report, 2013
This paper analyzes the power relation between the interviewer and the interviewee in the qualitative research interview methodology. The paper sets out to grapple with the extent to which the dynamisms in power shifts influence data collection and analysis in the interview methodology. The exploration of power shifts in the qualitative research…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Interviews, Interpersonal Relationship, Qualitative Research
Ortiz, Jorge Jose – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This thesis examines the state of the art of building information systems and evaluates their architecture in the context of emerging technologies and applications for deep analysis of the built environment. We observe that modern building information systems are difficult to extend, do not provide general services for application development, do…
Descriptors: Buildings, Architecture, Data Processing, Information Systems
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Cafarella, Brian V. – Research & Teaching in Developmental Education, 2016
Due to poor student success rates in developmental mathematics, many institutions have implemented various forms of redesign into their developmental math curricula. Since the goal of redesign is to increase student success, it is salient to explore all aspects of the redesign process. Many studies have focused on the positive outcomes of redesign…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Instructional Design, Developmental Programs, Mathematics Education
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Parker, Elizabeth Cassidy – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2016
The purpose of this intrinsic case study was to explore four midwestern choral teachers' experiences of creating and sustaining community within their public school choirs. Research questions included (1) how choral teachers describe their experiences of creating choral communities, (2) how the teacher-student relationship is experienced, and (3)…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Public Schools, Singing, Teaching Experience
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Al-Azawei, Ahmed; Parslow, Patrick; Lundqvist, Karsten – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016
Although the implementation of e-learning initiatives has reached advanced stages in developed countries, it is still in its infancy in many developing nations and the Middle East in particular. Recently, few public universities in Iraq have initiated limited attempts to use e-learning alongside traditional classrooms. However, different obstacles…
Descriptors: Barriers, Educational Opportunities, Electronic Learning, Program Implementation
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