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Direct linkErin Garcia – ProQuest LLC, 2024
It has become imperative for teachers to receive support to meet the challenges of virtual learning practices as the number of virtual schools increases. This qualitative case study explored virtual instructional coaches' educational experiences within an online virtual charter school in the Central Southwest utilizing Garrison et al.'s (2000)…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Electronic Learning, Readiness, Educational Change
Peer reviewedLeanne McIver; Michael Bettencourt – British Educational Research Journal, 2024
The 'virtual school' is an approach to supporting care-experienced children and young people in education. The Virtual School Head (VSH) has been a statutory role within the education landscape in England since 2014. In Scotland, where the education, social care and legal systems are distinct from those in England, there has been a recent increase…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foster Care, Virtual Schools, Principals
Cassandra Lanell Arnold – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Social anxiety is a mental illness and can lead to problematic behaviors in adolescents, which can have a detrimental effect on student academic success. The purpose of this study was to determine if a correlation existed between social anxiety and academic achievement emotions in virtual high school students. I used the control-value theory of…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Academic Achievement, Correlation, High School Students
Colleen S. Richardson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In the dynamic realm of virtual education, the successful execution of Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) becomes essential for promoting student achievement. This study examines a particular aspect of this educational framework, explicitly investigating the teachers' perceptions of the fidelity of implementing an MTSS framework within an…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Fidelity, Teacher Attitudes, Multi Tiered Systems of Support
Kyungmee Lee; Olaf Zawacki-Richter; Berrin Cefa Sari – Studies in Continuing Education, 2024
Alongside the growing demand for doctoral degrees, there has been an increasing number of online doctoral programmes and online doctoral students enrolled across the globe. While the importance of mediating roles that communication technology plays in online doctoral education has been extensively documented, a comprehensive account of how and for…
Descriptors: Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Doctoral Students, Online Courses
Ashley Anne Kaan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The problem this qualitative case study addressed is how poor online teacher communication has resulted in students enrolled in full-time virtual schools underperforming academically with assignment completion. The purpose of this study was to explore teachers' perceptions of how their online communication strategies contribute to the timeliness…
Descriptors: High Schools, Virtual Schools, Electronic Learning, Teacher Student Relationship
Bradlee Ross – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative case study explores teacher support and persistence in a large virtual charter school in the midwestern part of the United States. Using self-determination theory as a theoretical lens, this study examines how the psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness of teachers in a virtual charter school are supported or…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Virtual Schools, Charter Schools, Needs
Jennifer L. Alder – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study was to compare virtual school students' learning outcomes with traditional school students' learning outcomes in Texas. The research design was a quantitative study using a retrospective causal-comparative design. The researcher used archival state assessment data to compare the learning outcomes of K-12 virtual school…
Descriptors: Virtual Schools, Outcomes of Education, Traditional Schools, Grade 8
Josep Figueroa-Cañas; Teresa Sancho-Vinuesa – Open Learning, 2024
Practitioners of the statistics course embedded in a computer science programme at a fully online university were concerned with the high dropout rate. In the academic year 2018-19, they decided to carry out a two-phase project in order to address this issue. In the first phase, an early classifier to identify students at risk of dropping out of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Virtual Schools, Online Courses
Mark Jeremy Colwell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Middle-management leaders are in a crucible. In addition to managing their extensive regular duties and leading groups toward common goals, they must navigate conflicting expectations and competing demands from their superiors and subordinates. The challenges in middle-management leadership are exacerbated in fast-paced, high stakes, large-scale…
Descriptors: Middle Management, Organizational Change, Leadership, Virtual Schools
Allison Galvin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Even with the increase in virtual learning, there remains a stigma that virtual schools are not successfully supporting students based on traditionally lower graduate rates and state assessment data. The problem is statewide educational decision-makers lacked an understanding of the prior academic performance, specifically credit attainment, among…
Descriptors: Virtual Schools, Public Schools, Charter Schools, High School Students
Download full textYeol Huh; Dabae Lee; Charles M. Reigeluth – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2024
Studies have indicated that self-regulated learning is critical for 21st century learners and lifelong learners, and it can also explain students' learning outcomes. In the current learner-centered instruction, especially in online learning environments, self-regulated learning has become a more critical element for students' success. Given the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Virtual Schools, Self Management, Technology Uses in Education
Dennis Beck – Cogent Education, 2024
At-risk students face a variety of challenges that encompass cultural, social and environmental contexts and identities. Full time virtual schools offer help for at-risk students through the provision of a personalized learning option where students can catch up with past work or complete school work in a non-traditional environment. The purpose…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, At Risk Students, Parent Attitudes, Virtual Schools
Paulina Aravena-Bravo; Alejandrina Cristia; Rowena Garcia; Hiromasa Kotera; Ramona Kunene Nicolas; Ronel Laranjo; Bolanle Elizabeth Arokoyo; Silvia Benavides-Varela; Titia Benders; Natalie Boll-Avetisyan; Margaret Cychosz; Rodrigo Dal Ben; Yatma Diop; Catalina Durán-Urzúa; Naomi Havron; Marie Manalili; Bhuvana Narasimhan; Paul Okyere Omane; Caroline Rowland; Leticia Schiavon Kolberg; Andrew Sentoogo Ssemata; Suzy J. Styles; Belén Troncoso-Acosta; Fei Ting Woon – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2024
With a long-term aim of empowering researchers everywhere to contribute to work on language development, we organized the First Truly Global /L+/ International Summer/Winter School on Language Acquisition, a free 5-day virtual school for early career researchers. In this paper, we describe the school, our experience organizing it, and lessons…
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Acquisition, Virtual Schools, Educational Researchers
Sherry Inez Bumpus-Barnett – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this quantitative non-experimental correlational study is to test the relationship between children having special needs and the rate of homeschooling and to test the relationship between parental dissatisfaction with the learning environments in public or private schools and the choice to homeschool. The theoretical framework in…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Parent Attitudes, Parent Child Relationship, Special Needs Students
