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Capobianco, Brenda M.; Ní Ríordáin, Máire – Educational Action Research, 2015
Action research provides valuable opportunities for preservice teachers to improve their practice, their understanding of their practice, and the situation in which their practice takes place. Moreover, action research empowers preservice teachers to critically examine an experience that demonstrates their potential to be influential researchers…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Science Teachers, Mathematics Teachers
MacColl, John; Jubb, Michael – OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 2011
Last year, OCLC Research and the UK's Research Information Network (RIN) undertook a pair of parallel studies in the US and the UK on the theme of research support services in universities (Kroll and Forsman 2010; CIBER 2010). In the US, the library and scholarly information consultancy Kroll Research Associates was commissioned, and in the UK the…
Descriptors: Research Administration, Information Networks, Researchers, Research Universities
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Locke, Terry; Whitehead, David; Dix, Stephanie; Cawkwell, Gail – Teacher Development, 2011
This article draws on early data from a two-year project (2009-11) being undertaken in the New Zealand context by the authors entitled: "Teachers as Writers: Transforming Professional Identity and Classroom Practice". Based on the National Writing Project in the USA (and in New Zealand in the 1980s) its hypothesis is that when teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Instruction, Professional Development, Writing Workshops
Pope, Amber Leighann – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Diverse types of intimate committed relationships, namely cohabiting same-sex and opposite-sex partnerships, are increasingly prevalent in the United States (Bumpass & Lu, 2000; Garber, 2005; U.S. Census Bureau, 2000). Given the rise in the number of individuals participating in intimate committed relationships outside of the marital context,…
Descriptors: Intimacy, Interpersonal Relationship, Homosexuality, Sexuality
Head, Allison J. – Project Information Literacy, 2012
Qualitative findings about the information-seeking behavior of today's college graduates as they transition from the campus to the workplace. Included are findings from interviews with 23 US employers and focus groups with 33 recent graduates from four US colleges and universities, conducted as an exploratory study for Project Information…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Information Literacy, Information Seeking, Influence of Technology
Smith, Beth Ann – Online Submission, 2007
The purpose of this study was to increase the comfort level of teachers toward inclusion of students with learning, behavioral, and physical disabilities in general-education classrooms for one high school. Participants included 3 focus groups of teachers with 2 groups consisting of 6 teachers and 1 group consisting of 7 teachers. One…
Descriptors: Researchers, Physical Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Human Services