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Jane Asantewaa Appiah-Okyere – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study investigated the interplay of digital capacity building (skills) and infrastructure (Internet access) in shaping teaching and learning practices in a rural community. Educators in rural areas, especially in developing nations, face difficulties in accessing digital resources and Internet connectivity, which hinder the integration of…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Information Technology, Technology Integration, Rural Schools
Hunter, Annette I. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Faculty-student interaction is beneficial to adult learners' success. Past studies of faculty interaction with adult learners have focused on the relationship between faculty interaction with adult learners and student success at two-year community colleges and four-year institutions. However, limited research analyzed the relationship between…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Interaction, Adult Students, Nontraditional Students
Hosch, Mary L. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Many adults are obstructed from specialized professions based on their anxiety of math. Math anxiety has been extensively researched for over 3 decades. Scholars have attempted to define its origins as well as the means to eliminate its often-debilitating effect on learners. Research indicates that learners with math anxiety often give up career…
Descriptors: Teaching Styles, Mathematics Anxiety, Adult Students, Two Year College Students
Bryan, Karla Needham – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this quasi-experimental, quantitative study was to investigate the effectiveness of supplemental instruction (SI) as a means to address the existing high attrition and low graduation rates evidenced at a rural southern community college. The research problem addressed the high attrition rates in barrier courses and low graduation…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Supplementary Education, Student Attrition, Grade Point Average
Crider, Robert B. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of the study is to investigate the relationship between the use of character education programming and school health. Measuring and improving school health is a process that supports social, emotional, ethical and civic education. Hoy, Tarter, and Kottkamp define this concept as a healthy school is one in which the institutional,…
Descriptors: Values Education, School Culture, Educational Environment, Organizational Climate
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Pfannenstiel, Judy; Lente-Jojola, Debbie – Journal of American Indian Education, 2011
This study investigates the effects of the Family and Child Education (FACE) prekindergarten program on school readiness. The FACE program is located in Bureau of Indian Education-funded schools on some of the most rural American Indian (AI) reservations in the United States. It explicitly integrates the language and culture of the communities in…
Descriptors: School Readiness, American Indians, Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement