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Postholm, May Britt – Educational Action Research, 2011
This article focuses on teachers' learning in a research and development (R&D) work project. The teachers are working in a lower secondary school, and the cooperation between them and the researcher lasted for two years. The aim of this article is to show what teachers can learn and how they can learn during such a project. In the qualitative…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Teacher Education, Learning Processes, Secondary School Teachers
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Duffy, Ryan D.; Manuel, R. Stephen; Borges, Nicole J.; Bott, Elizabeth M. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2011
The present study investigated the relation of calling to the vocational development and well-being of a sample of medical students. Students were surveyed at two time points: prior to beginning the first year of medical school and prior to beginning the third year of medical school. At each time point, calling moderately correlated with positive…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Life Satisfaction, Medical Schools, Well Being
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Stockdill, Darin; Moore, David W. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2011
Darin Stockdill was a secondary school English and social studies teacher in Detroit. His early research with classroom instruction and professional development motivated him to begin doctoral study to explore how schools serving as research sites can become sites for professional development and collaboration. He finds an epistemic perspective on…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Interviews, Profiles, Teacher Collaboration
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Freedman, Matthew – Journal of Human Resources, 2013
This paper uses a regression discontinuity design to examine the effects of geographically targeted business incentives on local labor markets. Unlike elsewhere in the United States, enterprise zone (EZ) designations in Texas are determined in part by a cutoff rule based on census block group poverty rates. Exploiting this discontinuity as a…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Personnel Selection, Incentives, Poverty
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Hansen, Barbara A.; Morrow, Linda E. – Journal of Invitational Theory and Practice, 2012
This article invites all educators to consider the implementation of the tenets of Invitational Education (IE) as a firm foundation and precursor upon which can be built an Inclusive Education climate and mindset which encourages success for all students. This eighteen month study of two professors from Ohio's Muskingum University shares from…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Special Needs Students, Research and Development, Teacher Response
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Mahraj, Katy – Public Services Quarterly, 2012
It is a truth not yet universally acknowledged that a venture based on information must be in want of a librarian. Librarians offer expertise in organizing and managing information, clarifying and supporting people's information needs, and enhancing people's information literacy skills. There are innumerable endeavors today in education, health,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Information Needs, Information Literacy, Online Courses
Wilson, Robin – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
Life as an associate professor with tenure can be even more isolating and overwhelming than being an assistant professor on the tenure track. The path to achieving what amounts to higher education's golden ring is well marked and includes guidance from more-experienced peers. But once a professor earns tenure, that guidance disappears, the amount…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Tenure, Grants, College Faculty
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Dulmus, Catherine N.; Cristalli, Maria E. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2012
Human service organizations are uniquely positioned, given their scope of practice and access to consumers with the widest range of needs to significantly increase the national capacity for research if they were effectively equipped with the knowledge, skills, and funding to integrate research and development into their ongoing organizational…
Descriptors: Expertise, Research and Development, Participatory Research, Human Services
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Shera, Wes; Dill, Katharine – Research on Social Work Practice, 2012
Practice and Research Together (PART) is an Ontario-based research utilization initiative, the core function of which is to distil and disseminate practice-relevant research findings to child welfare practitioners. This article addresses (a) the mission and goals of the PART program; (b) the key components of the program design; (c) the conceptual…
Descriptors: Evidence, Program Design, Research and Development, Formative Evaluation
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di Fuccia, David; Witteck, Torsten; Markic, Silvija; Eilks, Ingo – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2012
By the 1970s a fundamental shift had taken place in German science education. This was a shift away from the learning of more-or-less isolated facts and facets in Biology, Chemistry, and Physics towards a restructuring of science teaching along the general principles of the respective science domains. The changes included also the addition of…
Descriptors: Evidence, Research and Development, Scientific Principles, Problem Based Learning
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Sulaiman V., Rasheed; Hall, Andy; Kalaivani, N. J.; Dorai, Kumuda; Reddy, T. S. Vamsidhar – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2012
Purpose: This article reviews the experience of ICT applications as a tool for putting research derived knowledge into use for innovation in South Asia. Design/methodology/approach: The article uses the contemporary understanding of communication and innovation in reviewing the experience of ICTs in putting new knowledge into use in South Asia.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research and Development, Resource Allocation, Communications
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Abel, Rob – Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning, 2010
This paper considers some of the factors that affect learning technology specifications and standards development and how they have changed in 2010 versus 1995. Three factors are considered: The evolving learning technology standards development environment; the state of mainstream adoption of learning technology; and the context of global…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Standards, Research and Development, Information Services
Bowskill, Nicholas – Online Submission, 2010
This paper introduces the practice and theoretical framework for a new generative learning environment that creates shareable electronic artefacts from reflective dialogue across a whole-group. These artefacts are quantitative and qualitative representations of student experience. By grouping these student-generated products new measures of…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Student Experience, Voting, Intention
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Lea, Russ – Academe, 2010
April 20, 2010, and the days following, provided the world with graphic images of a burning oil rig, a perception that the oil industry and state and federal governments were helpless, and a pervasive sense of the devastation wrought on coastal residents by the rig explosion and the oil spill. The residents of the Gulf Coast soon realized that…
Descriptors: School Business Relationship, Contracts, College Faculty, Academic Freedom
Makhema, Joseph – Journal of Research Administration, 2010
The closing keynote address given by Dr. Joseph Makhema highlights the important issues that need to be understood in international research collaborations. Dr. Makhema uses his extensive experience in international research collaborations to illustrate the various challenges that collaborating partners in international research may face. He…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Schools, Global Approach, International Cooperation
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