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Finkel, Ed – Community College Journal, 2020
Community college presidencies don't last forever. Sometimes they do last until retirement, but in other cases, leaders decide they want to make at least one move before then, which usually entails a move to another institution. This involves a diplomatic dance, with decisions to be made about whom to tell and when about the possible opportunity,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Presidents, Decision Making, Administrator Attitudes
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Rowe, Dawn A. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2020
Educators are often tasked with making decisions based on a body of evidence and a sound data-based decision-making process. Teachers examine data from assessments (e.g., curriculum-based measures, formal assessments, informal interviews with students' general education teachers, writing samples, and other assessment data) and find many students…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Planning, Evidence Based Practice, Teaching Methods
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Reiser, Elana – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2021
The two most popular decision-making processes are tossing a coin and playing rock, paper, scissors. In the activity described in this article, students find the theoretical probabilities of winning a coin toss and a round of the rock, paper, scissors game. They next devise strategies to win and test them out. Students then compare the theoretical…
Descriptors: Probability, Mathematics Instruction, Decision Making, Learning Activities
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Jie Wang; Hideo Akabayashi; Masayuki Kobayashi; Shinpei Sano – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
Since the late 1990s, the number of college student loan debtors has increased rapidly in Japan. Despite the uniqueness of Japanese higher education policies in terms of tuition levels and heavy reliance on educational loans rather than grants, few studies have focused on the influence of student loans on adult youths' lives. This study is the…
Descriptors: Student Loan Programs, Debt (Financial), Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
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Malgorzata Dziminska – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
This article aims to explore the innovation-related qualities of an ideal-type university as perceived by Polish academics at a public university who are characterized by attachment to the tradition of academic self-governance, Humboldtian ideals, autonomy, and academic freedom. The study employs Weberian ideal-type methodology and analyzes…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Innovation, Self Efficacy
Young, James R. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This narrative phenomenological study examined the experiences of public school teachers in three rural East Texas school districts to understand how facilities effect the attitude of teachers as it applies to their job. The intent of this study was to answer, do facilities in a school district affect the attitudes teachers have about their jobs?…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Phenomenology, Educational Facilities, Public School Teachers
Brohammer, Margene E.; Cygan, Jesica J.; Stoppel, Kaleb A.; Turner, Marquia M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this problem-based learning project was to explore how superintendents make decisions regarding school facility resource deployment in order to inform the process of decision-making, leading to facilities leadership better aligned with best practices. Through interviews with 12 superintendents from school districts, comparable in…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Decision Making, Educational Facilities, Interviews
Chen, Xiuwen; Tao, Jian; Zhao, Ke – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2021
In contrast to the waning interest in learning languages other than English (LOTEs) worldwide, mainland China is pursuing to diversify LOTE education because of the 'Belt and Road Initiative.' In response to language policy shifts, individual stakeholders in local contexts such as universities have to take actions to initiate LOTE programs or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Willis, Jason; Krausen, Kelsey; McClellan, Patrick – WestEd, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic offers an opportunity to reconsider the approach and delivery of public education. With a large infusion of one-time federal relief aid and a depth of need among students most impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic that the system is still trying to understand, state and local education leaders will need to plan for both (1)…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, COVID-19
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van Hest, Ella; De Wilde, July; Van Hoof, Sarah – Language Policy, 2023
This paper investigates an abortion clinic's procedural choices regarding the management of linguistic diversity. It focuses in particular on how language serves as capital for clients' agency in decision-making regarding their abortion treatment. Based on linguistic-ethnographic fieldwork in a Flemish abortion clinic, we analyse the clinic's…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Pregnancy, Clinics, Language Attitudes
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Davidson, Frank D.; Schwanenberger, Michael; Wiggall, Richard – Education Leadership Review, 2019
In the fall of 2018, all school superintendents in a state in the southwest were invited to take part in a survey which included a section related to superintendent perceptions of the board's evaluation process for superintendents. The present article addresses the factors perceived to be important in evaluations of superintendents by governing…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Attitudes, Governing Boards
Lal, Roshni Devi – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this qualitative study that used a phenomenological research approach is to understand how higher education career services practitioners design and deliver career planning and professional development for Pacific Islander students at 4-year non-profit institutions within the continental United States. This study aimed to discover…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, College Students, Pacific Islanders, Cultural Awareness
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Quinlan, Kathleen M.; Renninger, K. Ann – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2022
As universities prioritise employability, there is increased attention to promoting students' career decidedness. In this mixed method, cross-sectional study, we explore whether and how students' interest in their academic subject affects their career decidedness. Using surveys of 428 undergraduates studying sciences in a UK university (60% F,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Interests, Majors (Students)
Gudith, Jeannie A. – Online Submission, 2022
The topic of this scholarly research is "Examining a Framework for Starting a K-12 Private School; Varying Modalities of Applying the Framework." Starting a private school requires a great deal of critical-thinking, knowledge-seeking, and decision making. There are numerous factors to consider before starting a private school, which the…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools, Private Schools
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Yaghi, Abdulfattah; Alabed, Nizar – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2021
Purpose : The study adapted the Career Decision Making Difficulties Questionnaire for the Arab world. The purpose of the study was to test a popular but scientifically unverified belief that people who were employed could experience less CDD. Design/methodology/approach: Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire was administered to a…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Planning, Decision Making, Questionnaires
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