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Download full textDiPerna, Paul – Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, 2011
The "Alaska K-12 & School Choice Survey" project, commissioned by The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice and conducted by Braun Research Incorporated (BRI), measures Alaska registered voters' familiarity and views on a range of K-12 education issues and school choice reforms. The author and his colleagues report response…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Opinions, School Choice
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Direct linkPoon-McBrayer, Kim Fong – British Journal of Special Education, 2012
Monitoring mechanisms of support services for students with special needs can be broadly classified as external and internal. Resembling the UK model, Hong Kong has adopted an internal mechanism through the establishment of the SENCo post. This investigation, written by Dr Kim Fong Poon-McBrayer, of the Hong Kong Institute of Education, explores…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Leadership Styles, Interviews, Foreign Countries
Schwab, Susanne; Gebhardt, Markus; Ederer-Fick, Elfriede M.; Gasteiger Klicpera, Barbara – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2012
The "Attitudes Towards Integration Scale" (ATIS) assesses the attitude of the general public towards the school integration of children with disabilities. The scale was empirically created in a pilot study (n=351) and later used to survey 2158 people. The data from both surveys are analysed in the present paper; the results show that the…
Descriptors: Inclusion, School Desegregation, Negative Attitudes, Familiarity
Evans, Neus; Whitehouse, Hilary; Hickey, Ruth – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2012
Environmental education researchers argue that pre-service teachers have a limited understanding of education for sustainability. The research described in this article applies a phenomenographic approach to investigating variations in how a representative cohort of 30 pre-service teachers, at various stages of completing an education degree at a…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Sustainability, Preservice Teacher Education
Cole, Cassandra M.; Robinson, James N.; Ansaldo, Jim; Whiteman, Rodney S.; Spradlin, Terry E. – Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, Indiana University, 2012
As one part of a broad reform package, the 2011 Indiana General Assembly passed Senate Enrolled Act 001 (Public Law 90), a bill that significantly changed the way Indiana teachers will be evaluated and compensated. An earlier Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) policy brief, "Revamping the Teacher Evaluation Process"…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Compensation (Remuneration), Educational Change, State Legislation
Canfield, James P.; Teasley, Martell L.; Abell, Neil; Randolph, Karen A. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2012
Objective: The McKinney-Vento Act (MVA) is the primary federal policy addressing homelessness in America with specific mandates designed to ameliorate the effects homelessness has on educational attainment for school-age children. The extent to which this policy is implemented may have far-reaching effects for homeless children. The MVA…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Measures (Individuals), Social Work, School Social Workers
Brown, Philip M. – Journal of Research in Character Education, 2009
In this commentary for the special issue on the social and character development (SACD) research program, the author identifies some of the dilemmas facing practitioners attempting to do evaluation research in SACD in schools and discusses some of the related concerns raised in this issue's papers. His familiarity with the SACD program derives…
Descriptors: Evaluation Research, Research Projects, Familiarity, Child Development
Vidergor, Hava E.; Eilam, Billie – Gifted and Talented International, 2011
The aim of the present study was to assess the impact of the Israeli certification program for teachers of gifted children. Pre- and post-tests addressed Israeli teachers' perceptions of unique teaching-learning situations in pullout centers, the desired characteristics of teachers of the gifted, as well as knowledge of gifted and instructional…
Descriptors: Gifted, Measures (Individuals), Program Effectiveness, Teacher Certification
Pantic, Natasa; Wubbels, Theo; Mainhard, Tim – Comparative Education Review, 2011
Orientation of teacher preparation toward the development of competence has recently been suggested as a worthwhile direction of change in teacher education in the Western Balkan countries. In this study, 2,354 teachers, teacher educators, and student teachers from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia responded to a…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Child Rearing, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Larke, Patricia J. – Teacher Education and Practice, 2012
The metaphor of the popular television shows "CSI: New York," "CSI: Miami," and "CSI: Las Vegas" (CSI stands for "crime scene investigation") is applicable to investigating issues of immigrant children in teacher preparation programs (TPP). One of the fundamental principles of CSI is to solve the crime by…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Special Needs Students, Goal Orientation, Teacher Effectiveness
DiPerna, Paul – Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, 2012
The "Washington K-12 & School Choice Survey" project, commissioned by the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice and conducted by Braun Research Incorporated (BRI), measures Washington registered voters' familiarity and views on a range of K-12 education topics and school choice reforms. The author and his colleagues report…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Opinions, School Choice
Wang, Mian; Zan, Fei; Liu, Jiaqiu; Liu, Chunling; Sharma, Umesh – Journal of International Special Needs Education, 2012
A survey study was conducted to a total of 323 in-service teachers (110 special education teachers and 213 general education teachers) in Shanghai regarding their self-efficacy and concerns about inclusive education. Multivariate analysis results reveal that special teachers have significantly higher self-efficacy about inclusive education than…
Descriptors: Inclusion, General Education, Self Efficacy, Special Education
Cannata, Marisa – National Center on School Choice, Vanderbilt University (NJ1), 2010
Charter schools have been the subject of much education policy research, particularly related to student achievement, governance, funding, and student composition. Although high-quality teachers are essential for the educational success of any school, much less research exists on charter schools' ability to recruit talented teachers. This study…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Familiarity, Labor Market, Social Networks
Gu, Xiaoqing; Zhu, Yuankun; Guo, Xiaofeng – Educational Technology & Society, 2013
The past few decades have witnessed the rapid development of information and communication technology around the world, as well as continuing efforts to introduce technology into K12 schools. To gauge the success of integrating technology into classrooms, how end users, including teachers and students, accept and use technology while overcoming a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Integration, Technology Uses in Education, Teacher Attitudes
Ntombela, Sithabile – Improving Schools, 2011
Education policies tend to evoke mixed feelings: excitement amongst advocates of change or uncertainty and stress among teachers expected to implement them. Reactions to the Education White Paper 6: Special Needs Education--Building an Inclusive Education and Training System have been no different. Emanating from a PhD study, this article…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Position Papers, Foreign Countries, Politics of Education
