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Testing CREATE at Community Colleges: An Examination of Faculty Perspectives and Diverse Student Gains
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Kenyon, Kristy L.; Onorato, Morgan E.; Gottesman, Alan J.; Hoque, Jamila; Hoskins, Sally G. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2016
CREATE (Consider, Read, Elucidate the hypotheses, Analyze and interpret the data, and Think of the next Experiment) is an innovative pedagogy for teaching science through the intensive analysis of scientific literature. Initiated at the City College of New York, a minority-serving institution, and regionally expanded in the New York/New…
Descriptors: Testing, Achievement Gains, Teacher Attitudes, Community Colleges
An Honors Interdisciplinary Community-Based Research Course
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Dunbar, David; Terlecki, Melissa; Watterson, Nancy; Ratmansky, Lisa – Honors in Practice, 2013
This article describes how two faculty members at Cabrini College--one from biology and the other from psychology--incorporated interdisciplinary community-based research in an honors course on environmental watershed issues. The course, Environmental Psychology, was team-taught in partnership with a local watershed organization, the Valley Creek…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Interdisciplinary Approach, Service Learning, Undergraduate Students
From Research to Practice: Towards the Development of an Integrated and Comprehensive Faculty Development Program
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Ragan, Lawrence C.; Bigatel, Paula Mae; Kennan, Shannon S.; Dillon, Janet May – Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 2012
This article describes the design and development of a professional development program based upon research on the competencies necessary for online teaching success conducted at Penn State University in 2009-2010. The article highlights how the results of this research are being aligned with various professional development courses comprising the…
Descriptors: Teacher Surveys, College Faculty, Distance Education, Online Courses
Decision-Making by School Psychologists: Use of the Representativeness Heuristic and Importance of Assessment Data in Determination of Special Education Eligibility
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Wilson, Sharise Mavis – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this project was to explore the decision-making approach and types of data that school psychologists use in determining special education classification. There were three research objectives: (a) to investigate the types of conditions and measures needed to test the use of the representativeness heuristic and assessment data, (b) to…
Descriptors: Research Design, School Psychologists, Heuristics, Difficulty Level
Talent Development High Schools. What Works Clearinghouse Intervention Report
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2007
"Talent Development High Schools" is a school reform model for restructuring large high schools with persistent attendance and discipline problems, poor student achievement, and high dropout rates. The model includes both structural and curriculum reforms. It calls for schools to reorganize into small "learning…
Descriptors: High Schools, Research Design, Intervention, Academic Standards
Post School Outcomes of University Graduates With Learning Disabilities and Their Peers Without Learning Disabilities
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Long, Ellen Moynihan – Online Submission, 2000
Due in part to legislation that was enacted over the last 25 years, the numbers of students with learning disabilities (LD) on college campuses are increasing. With these increasing numbers, it has become apparent that there is a need to focus on the post school outcomes of individuals with learning disabilities, particularly those who attend…
Descriptors: Employment, Life Satisfaction, Learning Disabilities, Community Involvement