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Liu, Yanhui; Sulaimani, Mona F.; Henning, John E. – Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2020
The earliest experiences of children can ensure their future success, and parenting is noted to be an influential factor (Bronfenbrenner, 1979; Lamb et al., 2002). Many researchers theorized that parental involvement could encourage children to actively engage and improve their academic achievement in schools (Epstein, 2018). However, less…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Infants, Child Development, Infant Care
Hermann, Hans – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2019
Changes in their brains, combined with a greater awareness of peers and events around them, make adolescence a key time for students to figure out who they are, what they aspire to be, and what they want to do in the world. This Alliance for Excellent Education report explores how human identity and self-regulation develop during adolescence and…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Metacognition, Self Control, Adolescent Development
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Lawrenz, Frances; King, Jean A.; Ooms, Ann – New Directions for Evaluation, 2011
A cross-case analysis of four National Science Foundation (NSF) case studies identified both unique details and common themes related to promoting the use and influence of multisite evaluations. The analysis provided evidence of diverse evaluation use by stakeholders and suggested that people taking part in the multisite evaluations perceived…
Descriptors: Role Perception, Participation, Case Studies, Program Evaluation
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Siskar, John; Theobald, Paul – Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education, 2008
Place and community are terms used with ever more frequency in discussions, reports, and research related to education, yet there is little agreement related to what these terms mean. This article examines the concepts of place and community in an attempt to bring more clarity to the role they may play in educational theory and, ultimately,…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Educational Policy, Role Perception, Community
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Bowling, Nathan A. – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2008
Student ratings of teaching effectiveness are widely used to make judgments of faculty teaching performance. Research, however, has found that such ratings may not be accurate indicators of teaching performance because they are contaminated by course easiness. Using student ratings of 9855 professors employed at 79 different colleges and…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Correlation, Robustness (Statistics), Item Analysis