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Direct linkHaley Collins Lovell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In Texas, employing more adjunct faculty has helped meet staffing demands as community college enrollment has increased. However, training and retaining these part-time employees has created a unique challenge as adjunct faculty have less opportunities and motivation to participate in professional development (PD). Applying Vygotsky's…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, Faculty Development, Teacher Responsibility, Community Colleges
Paulo Jorge Vieira Pinto – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation had a three-pronged approach by examining (1) the role and sustainability of university-based intensive English programs (IEPs), (2) the value of a master's in Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), and (3) relevance of attending an IEP for international/English as a second language (ESL) students. IEPs face…
Descriptors: Intensive Language Courses, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Tyndall, Christy L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Adjunct faculty teach over 50% of courses in U.S. higher education but little is known about them as educators. Strong evidence has been found in the K-12 literature demonstrating the link between teachers' beliefs, instructional practices, and subsequent student outcomes. Teaching self-efficacy, beliefs in one's capabilities to perform specific…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, Self Efficacy
Heulett, Steven Talmadge – ProQuest LLC, 2013
A number of studies have documented a trend of higher grades awarded by postsecondary institutions in both the United States and Canada over the last two decades. Grade inflation in higher education is a potentially costly problem for a variety of reasons, but little empirical research about the causes of grade inflation has been conducted. This…
Descriptors: Grading, Community Colleges, Grade Inflation, College Faculty
Moorehead, Daniel L. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The growing use of part-time, non-tenure track faculty in higher education has become a nationwide phenomenon. The college-teaching part-time instructor is one who is working for low pay, has little job security, and has few benefits. College part-time instructors' employment is in a contingent state. They do not have the job protection provided…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Higher Education, College Faculty, Adjunct Faculty
Cashwell, Allison L. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
How do part-time faculty members in community colleges view their roles? Data from part-time faculty responses regarding their experiences in higher education vary. Valadez and Antony (2001) analyzed data from 6,811 part-time faculty collected from the National Center for Education Statistics' (NCES) 1992-1993 National Survey of Postsecondary…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Job Satisfaction, Health Insurance, Effect Size
