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Gillard, Sharlett; Bailey, Denice; Nolan, Ernest – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2008
Professionals in the information technology field are bombarded with an incessant stream of innovations in hardware and software as well as practices, methods, and techniques. IT educators are among the first targets in the market and must decide if and when to adopt these innovations in their instruction of students and professional endeavors.…
Descriptors: Resistance to Change, Change Agents, Information Technology, Educational Change
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Crosland, Kimberly A.; Dunlap, Glen; Sager, Wayne; Neff, Bryon; Wilcox, Catherine; Blanco, Alfredo; Giddings, Tamela – Research on Social Work Practice, 2008
Objectives: An extensive literature base exists for behavioral parent training; however, few studies have focused on training direct care staff at group home and residential facilities for children. This study was conducted to determine whether a behavioral staff training program consisting of classroom training and in-home feedback would improve…
Descriptors: Group Homes, Social Work, Foster Care, Staff Development
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de Brey, Cristobal; Snyder, Thomas D.; Zhang, Anlan; Dillow, Sally A. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2021
The 2019 edition of the "Digest of Education Statistics" is the 55th in a series of publications initiated in 1962. The purpose of the "Digest" is to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American education from prekindergarten through graduate school. It contains data on a variety of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education, Federal Aid, Educational Finance
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Walker, Steve; Creanor, Linda – Educational Technology & Society, 2009
In this paper, we go beyond what have been described as "mechanistic" accounts of e-learning to explore the complexity of relationships between people and technology as encountered in cases of networked learning. We introduce from the social informatics literature the concept of sociotechnical interaction networks which focus on the…
Descriptors: Labor Education, Interaction, Unions, Information Science
Christen, Amy – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J1), 2009
Today's hyper-connected students live in a world of instant interpersonal communications and virtually infinite access to information and educational resources. But this networked world, and the powerful learning tools it offers, has yet to penetrate the typical classroom. In many ways educational institutions are spinning their curricular wheels,…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Partnerships in Education, School Business Relationship, Program Descriptions
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Science Scope, 2002
For NSTA, 2001-2002 was a productive year as they worked to fulfill their mission and meet the presidential goals of "Learning Science and the Science of Learning." They enhanced many of their traditional offerings while bringing several new popular programs and initiatives to fruition. As always, they aimed to give teachers a variety of rich…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Professional Development, Material Development, Educational Resources
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Gambrill, Eileen – Research on Social Work Practice, 2007
The author suggests that transparency in all venues, including social work education, practice and policy, and the conduct and reporting of related research, will be required to advance the effectiveness of professional education. Possibilities for improving the quality of professional education differ in terms of how evidence-informed practice is…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Social Work, Teaching Methods, Professional Education
Baek, Youngkyun; Whitton, Nicola – IGI Global, 2013
In K-12 classrooms, as well as on the college and university level, the incorporation of digital games has played a vital role in the educational system. While introducing teachers to new fields, these digital games have been designed and implemented for the classroom and have shown positive results at a variety of educational levels. Cases on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning
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Hall, William P. – Learning Organization, 2005
Purpose: To develop a biological approach to the analysis of learning organisations based on complexity theory, autopoiesis, and evolutionary epistemology. Design/methodology/approach: This paper synthesises ideas from disciplines ranging from physics, epistemology and philosophy of science to military affairs, to sketch a scientific framework in…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Learning Processes, Organizational Development, Social Theories
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Sato, Mistilina; Wei, Ruth Chung; Darling-Hammond, Linda – American Educational Research Journal, 2008
This study examines how mathematics and science teachers' classroom assessment practices were affected by the National Board Certification process. Using a 3-year, longitudinal, comparison group design, evidence of changes in teachers' classroom practice were measured on six dimensions of formative assessment. The National Board candidates began…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Teacher Certification, Science Teachers
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Mehta, Michael D. – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2008
This article argues that advances in nanotechnology in general, and lab-on-chip technology in particular, have the potential to benefit the developing world in its quest to control risks to human health and the environment. Based on the "risk society" thesis of Ulrich Beck, it is argued that the developed world must realign its science and…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Research and Development, Science and Society, Health Needs
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Simon, Jennifer L.; Morris, Edward K.; Smith, Nathaniel G. – Behavior Analyst, 2007
We examined women's participation, relative to men's, at the annual meetings of the Association for Behavior Analysis (ABA) between 1975 and 2005. Among our findings are upward trends in female presenters across formats (e.g., posters), types of authorship (e.g., first authors), and specialty areas (e.g., autism). Where women have attained…
Descriptors: Females, Trend Analysis, Womens Studies, Professional Associations
Roberts, T. Grady; Harlin, Julie F.; Briers, Gary E. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2007
The purpose of this study was to determine if a relationship exists between teaching efficacy and personality type of agricultural science cooperating teachers. The target population was agricultural science teachers who served as cooperating teachers. A convenience sample of those teachers who attended an optional cooperating teacher meeting at…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Teacher Effectiveness, Personality, Science Teachers
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Schulze, S. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2007
This study explores the usefulness of reflexive photography for qualitative research in the human and social sciences. The investigation was done in the context of how male academics construct their world in a university during transformation. A group of white, male academics in the human sciences were provided with a camera and were requested to…
Descriptors: Photography, Social Sciences, Work Environment, Content Analysis
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Mamlok-Naaman, Rachel; Hofstein, Avi; Penick, John – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2007
We describe a workshop in which 10 teachers from 10 schools, located in central Israel, participated in the development of alternative assessment tools in the context of implementing a new science curriculum for senior high-school students, namely "Science for All" (an STS type curriculum). In order to assist a group of teachers (who…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Assignments, Research Tools, Learning Problems
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