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Bernadowski, Carianne; Perry, Ronald; Del Greco, Robert – International Journal of Instruction, 2013
University students have been barraged with service learning opportunities both as course required and as volunteer opportunities in recent years. Currently, many universities now require students to participate in engaged learning as a graduation requirement. Situated in Bandura's theory of self-efficacy, this study examines the effects service…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Best Practices, Service Learning, Preservice Teachers
Starnes, Ronald Jay – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This descriptive study identifies: 1) the factors which motivated Pennsylvania teachers to begin the National Board Certification process; 2) the factors of persistence which led teachers to successful achievement of National Board Certification and; 3) the personal transformation which took place in the process. Quantitative and qualitative…
Descriptors: Teacher Certification, Teacher Motivation, Teacher Persistence, Success
Bernadowski, Carianne; Perry, Ronald; Del Greco, Robert – Online Submission, 2013
University students have been barraged with service learning opportunities both as course required and as volunteer opportunities in recent years. Currently, many universities now require students to participate in engaged learning as a graduation requirement. Situated in Bandura's theory of self-efficacy, this study examines the effects service…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Best Practices, Service Learning, Preservice Teachers
Kieres, Katherine H.; Gutmore, Daniel – Education Leadership Review of Doctoral Research, 2014
Based on Bass and Riggio's (2006) Augmentation Model of Transactional and Transformational Leadership, this quantitative study sought to identify the amount of variance in teacher job satisfaction and organizational commitment that can be explained by principals' transformational leadership behaviors, above and beyond the influence of…
Descriptors: Transformational Leadership, Job Satisfaction, Teacher Attitudes, Sense of Community
Polka, Walter S.; Litchka, Peter R.; Calzi, Frank F.; Denig, Stephen J.; Mete, Rosina E. – International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 2014
The major focus of this paper is a gender-based analysis of school superintendent decision-making and problem-solving as well as an investigation of contemporary leadership dilemmas. The findings are based on responses from 258 superintendents of K-12 school districts in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania collected over a…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Superintendents, Decision Making, Problem Solving
Grosseman, Suely; Hojat, Mohammadreza; Duke, Pamela M.; Mennin, Stewart; Rosenzweig, Steven; Novack, Dennis – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2014
We administered the Jefferson Scale of Empathy and the Groningen Reflection Ability Scale to 61 of 64 entering medical students who self-selected a problem-based learning curricular track and to 163 of 198 who self-selected a lecture-based track (response rates of 95.3% and 82.3%, respectively, with no statistically significant differences in mean…
Descriptors: Student Surveys, Medical Students, Problem Based Learning, Lecture Method
Olthouse, Jill – Roeper Review, 2014
One hundred twenty-four undergraduate education majors completed the phrase "a gifted student is ______ " using a metaphor and then explained their choice of metaphor. Qualitative metaphor analysis influenced by Dai's (2009) essential tensions determined that preservice teachers conceive of giftedness as rapid memorization of content…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Undergraduate Students, Academically Gifted, Student Teacher Attitudes
Columna, Luis; Cook, Allison; Foley, John T.; Bailey, JoEllen – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to systematically develop and validate an instrument to assess parental perceptions toward adapted physical education (APE) teachers, who work with children with autism. Methods: Participants included two expert panels and parents of children and youth with autism. The survey used a Likert-scale design where…
Descriptors: Adapted Physical Education, Parents, Parent Surveys, Parent Attitudes
Kennedy, Amy Lynn Siegfried – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this study was to uncover pre-service teacher's reading habits and attitudes and to examine if participants' attitudes changed after taking a course in children's literature. In this case study, data was analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively will be used. The reading habits of pre-service and in-service teachers have been…
Descriptors: Reading Habits, Reading Attitudes, Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes
Freeland, Julia; Hernandez, Alex – Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, 2014
What software tools do school systems actually want? Demand-side analyses typically reflect the loudest voices in the market that companies are eager to please--in the case of education technology, the largest urban districts with the largest technology budgets. But half of the nation's 48 million public school students attend approximately 3,700…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Public Schools
Stecher, Brian M.; Garet, Michael – RAND Corporation, 2014
On November 19, 2009, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced that it would invest $290 million to support effective teaching as a means to ensure all students receive the education they need to succeed in high school and beyond. The foundation made six-year grants to support four Intensive Partnership for Effective Teaching (IP) sites…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Longitudinal Studies
Kennedy, Sarah A. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2016
The green chemistry course taught at Westminster College (PA) incorporates nontraditional teaching techniques and texts to educate future chemists about the importance of using green chemistry principles. The course is designed to introduce green chemistry concepts and demonstrate their inherent necessity by discussing historical missteps by the…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Undergraduate Students, Environmental Education, Chemistry
Lemons, Christopher J.; Kloo, Amanda; Zigmond, Naomi; Fulmer, Deborah; Lupp, Lynda – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2012
One of the primary challenges in developing effective accountability systems is determining how best to include students with disabilities. The purpose of this paper is to report on the initial implementation of one option for including students with disabilities into the accountability system in the United States. In 2007, federal guidance…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Academic Achievement, Disabilities, Accountability
Lindsey, Beth A.; Nagel, Megan L. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2015
We have conducted an investigation into how well students in introductory science classes (both physics and chemistry) are able to predict which questions they will or will not be able to answer correctly on an upcoming assessment. An examination of the data at the level of students' overall scores reveals results consistent with the…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Metacognition, Prediction
Frantz-Fry, Karen A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Due process of the law is a guarantee under the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution. If a disagreement arises between parents and their school district, either party may request a special education due process hearing. However, several alternate options are available and encouraged for parties to consider for resolution of conflicts prior to…
Descriptors: Special Education, Conflict Resolution, Phenomenology, Parent School Relationship