Internships are considered "high-impact practices" offering students transformative opportunities to develop new skills and professional identities while immersed in workplace culture. They have also been pinpointed as key to improving student success and employment within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.…

The evolution of the role of higher education institutions (HEIs) from knowledge generation to societal transformation has heightened the focus on how internship programs serve diverse student populations (Altbach et al., 2019). In Sub-Saharan Africa, there has been a notable trend toward incorporating structured and mandated internship programs…

The purpose of this convergent mixed-methods study was to understand the extent to which inclusive practices were explicit in teacher residency curricula and the potential effects of four different urban teacher residency (UTR) programs on perceptions of teacher residents' self-efficacy for implementing inclusive practices in the general education…

This dissertation thesis describes a research inquiry that took place at a large Midwestern University, in the Fall semester of 2009, is comprised of three case studies, and attempts to respond to the question: "How do prospective teachers perceive, think about, and respond to the instructionally relevant variation of their students".…

This phenomenological study provided the essence of the meaning that three media professionals with disabilities assigned to their postsecondary journalism and mass communications (JMC) educational experiences and their transition from college to career. Because previous research on people with disabilities has primarily been quantitative, a…