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Grueber, David; Özgün-Koca, S. Asli – Teacher Education and Practice, 2013
Latest standards-based reform documents from mathematics and science education organizations and communities bring forward one important issue--higher-order thinking skills, namely reasoning. In this article, we share our experiences and our approach to developing an integrated course for mathematics and science prospective teachers centered on…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Career Change, Student Teacher Attitudes
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Holstein, Krista A.; Keene, Karen Allen – Teacher Education and Practice, 2013
There have been recent calls for the integration of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) in K-12 education. In this collective case study, we describe three teachers' implementations of a new STEM curriculum that integrates mathematics, engineering, and technology. These teachers ranged in their faithfulness to the curriculum…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Curriculum Implementation, Barriers, Performance Factors
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Song, Yingquan; Loyalka, Prashant; Wei, Jianguo – Chinese Education and Society, 2013
This article analyzes rural middle school students' tracking intentions (academic high school, vocational high school, or going to work), actual education choices, and the factors affecting them, using a random sampled baseline survey and follow-up survey of 2,216 second-year students residing outside of county seats in forty-one impoverished…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Junior High School Students, Rural Schools, Rural Areas
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Li, Ling; Huang, Yuanyuan; Xu, Xingchun; Han, Yumei – Chinese Education and Society, 2013
This study used expectancy-value theory to better understand no-fee teacher education and improve the relevant educational methods and policies. It applies a self-developed scale, derived from the theory, to identify entry motivation and professional satisfaction levels among no-fee teacher education students (N = 700) at Southwest University. The…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Participant Satisfaction, Fees, Teacher Education Programs
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Kim, Daesang; Rueckert, Daniel; Kim, Dong-Joong; Seo, Daeryong – Language Learning & Technology, 2013
This study focused on how students perceive the use of mobile devices to create a personalized learning experience outside the classroom. Fifty-three students in three graduate TESOL classes participated in this study. All participants completed five class projects designed to help them explore mobile learning experiences with their own mobile…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Graduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Bradshaw, Peter; Younie, Sarah; Jones, Sarah – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2013
Purpose: This paper aims to report on an externally-funded project and forms part of its dissemination. Design/methodology/approach: The objectives are achieved through a theoretical framing of the project and an alignment of these with the contexts for the project--namely the Professional Standards Framework of the HEA, its use in postgraduate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Source Technology, Program Descriptions, Teacher Education Curriculum
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Britton, Willoughby B.; Brown, Anne-Catharine; Kaplan, Christopher T.; Goldman, Roberta E.; DeLuca, Marie; Rojiani, Rahil; Reis, Harry; Xi, Mandy; Chou, Jonathan C.; McKenna, Faye; Hitchcock, Peter; Rocha, Tomas A.; Himmelfarb, Josh; Margolis, David M.; Niles, Halsey F.; Eckert, Allison M.; Frank, Tana – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2013
Contemplative practices, which engage the subjective or "first-person" perspective, are being incorporated into systems of higher education that have traditionally relied on didactic or "third-person" approaches (Dederer 2007; Kroll 2010; Repetti 2010; Roth 2006; Shapiro, Brown, and Astin 2011; Smith 2006; Zajonc 2006). The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Metacognition
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Mohamed, Naashia – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2013
In the era of globalisation, language-in-education policies continue to present challenges as policy-makers across the globe aim to balance the emphasis given to students' first language and the pressing need for students to be proficient in English as the global "lingua franca" [Hanna, P. (2011). Gaining global perspective: Educational…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Civil Rights, Cognitive Development, Affective Behavior
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Pfiffner, Linda J.; Villodas, Miguel; Kaiser, Nina; Rooney, Mary; McBurnett, Keith – School Psychology Quarterly, 2013
This study evaluated educationally relevant outcomes from a newly developed collaborative school-home intervention (Collaborative Life Skills Program [CLS]) for youth with attention and/or behavior problems. Participants included 17 girls and 40 boys in second through fifth grades (mean age = 8.1 years) from diverse ethnic backgrounds. CLS was…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grades (Scholastic), Report Cards, Learner Engagement
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Snell, Emily K.; Castells, Nina; Duncan, Greg; Gennetian, Lisa; Magnuson, Katherine; Morris, Pamela – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2013
This study uses geocoded address data and information about parents' economic behavior and children's development from four random-assignment welfare and anti-poverty experiments conducted during the 1990s. We find that the impacts of these welfare and anti-poverty programs on boys' and girls' developmental outcomes during the transition to early…
Descriptors: Poverty, Neighborhoods, Males, Child Development
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Kendrick, Maureen; Early, Margaret; Chemjor, Walter – Research in the Teaching of English, 2013
Our purpose in this paper is to foreground contextual issues in studies of situated writing practices. During a year-long case study in a rural Kenyan secondary school, we applied a number of ethnographic techniques to document how 32 girls (aged 14-18 years) used local cultural and digital resources (i.e., donated digital cameras, voice…
Descriptors: Literacy, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Rural Schools
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Werblow, Jacob; Urick, Angela; Duesbery, Luke – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2013
Academic tracking has been shown to limit the quality of student instructional opportunities, decrease students' perceptions of their abilities, and negatively influence student achievement. These factors associated with academic tracking also may influence students in lower tracks to learn less and ultimately to drop out of high school. Few…
Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Academic Failure, Educational Practices, Educational Policy
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Tucker, Constance R.; Winsor, Denise L. – Negro Educational Review, 2013
In order to increase the number of health care providers in underserved communities, numerous efforts are being made to increase the number of Black students in the health professions. Research supports the idea that individuals from minority populations seek doctors of the same race or culture. In an effort to provide increased health care to…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, College Students, Persistence, Career Development
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Smith, Calvin Douglas; Worsfold, Kate; Davies, Lynda; Fisher, Ron; McPhail, Ruth – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2013
In this paper, we report on a study to quantify the impact on student learning and on student assessment literacy of a brief assessment literacy intervention. We first define "assessment literacy" then report on the development and validation of an assessment literacy measurement instrument. Using a pseudo-experimental design, we…
Descriptors: Intervention, Measurement Techniques, Program Validation, Psychometrics
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Dougherty Stahl, Katherine A.; Keane, Annette E.; Simic, Ognjen – Urban Education, 2013
This mixed methods study explores the pilot implementation of a Response to Intervention framework in the first grade classrooms in three urban schools. Two schools in a fully implemented condition (FI) with a facilitator and a partially implemented condition (PI) without a facilitator were investigated using student achievement data, field notes,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Teaching Methods, Questionnaires, Response to Intervention
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