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Hegazy, Tarek; Mostafa, Kareem; Esfahani, Mansour Esnaashary – Journal of Civil Engineering Education, 2020
This paper presents a case study of a hands-on exercise to improve students' project management skills on repetitive infrastructure/modular projects. The exercise was to construct a large foam-board model of the University of Waterloo campus, involving over 40 buildings. The exercise design involved training on the integrated life-cycle decisions…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Construction Management, Decision Making, Quality Control
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de Villiers, Johann U.; Roux, Elze-Mar – Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning, 2019
An increasing number of individuals will be unable to retire comfortably amidst an international retirement savings crisis. Research suggests that behavioral factors contribute to inadequate retirement savings. We present a procedure that reframes the retirement savings decision, aimed at alleviating some of the negative effects of the behavioral…
Descriptors: Money Management, Retirement, Sustainability, Life Style
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Sensoy, Gözde; Siyez, Digdem M. – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2019
The purpose of this study is to adapt the career distress scale for Turkish university students. Participants are 493 undergraduate students. Results indicated that the two-factor structure better fit the data. For discriminant and concurrent validity, correlation coefficients with Positive and Negative Affect Schedule and Career Decision…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Career Planning, Correlation
Hartman, Curtis James – ProQuest LLC, 2019
When the standards reform movement was introduced, researchers postulated the dual methods of rigorous standards and assessment to measure performance on those standards. Through the early part of the 21st century, the standards corpus has grown, and so too have the accompanying testing regimes (Delandshere and Arens, 2001). However, in…
Descriptors: Social Studies, State Standards, High School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Bartl, Walter – Education Sciences, 2022
Given that education infrastructure has been a crucial element of the infrastructural power of the welfare state, surprisingly little is known about how spatial disparities in school infrastructure have been governed. While emphasis has recently been placed on the role of numbers in governing the education system, there have been contradictory…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Administration, Governance, Equal Education
Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE), 2022
The Comprehensive Local Needs Assessment (CLNA) was an exciting and innovative change under the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (Perkins V). The CLNA was identified to support data-driven decision-making and more closely align planning, spending and accountability activities under Perkins V. After the…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Vocational Education, Decision Making
Cerna, Oscar; Dukes, Dominique; Perera, Sumner – MDRC, 2022
Implementing institution-wide, systemic change is typically a long and often challenging task for college leaders to undertake. Because each institution is different, the combination of internal and external factors that drive institutional change can vary greatly from college to college, and from moment to moment. Achieving the Dream (ATD), which…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Achievement Gap, Colleges, Community Colleges
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Choi, Heekyung – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
This study examines how English has penetrated the Korean language by analyzing Anglicisms in weekly news magazine articles, with special reference to translation as a mode of language contact. For this purpose, it conducts a diachronic quantitative analysis of the occurrence of Anglicisms by compiling and utilizing corpora consisting of…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Korean
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Guo, Yan – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2021
Language policy research puts little emphasis on parental agency in language policy decision-making for English as an Additional Language (EAL) students. This study investigates how migrant parents and community members interpreted and experienced the effects and outcomes of EAL policies. Through qualitative interviews with 35 migrant parents and…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Language Planning, Decision Making, Immigrants
Parnia, Alex – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2021
In the past few months, a plethora of reports have documented the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global business, and these are generally not something to be happy about. As expected, the international education sector has not been spared. Because of border closures and stringent travel protocols implemented by many countries, international…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Recruitment, College Students, International Education
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Wexler, Lindsay Joseph – Professional Development in Education, 2020
This study investigates the role of educative mentors as two novices learn to teach, following them from their yearlong student teaching (2015-2016) through their first-year teaching (2016-2017). During student teaching, each novice was paired with a mentor teacher who received preparation and support to engage in educative mentoring practices.…
Descriptors: Mentors, Teacher Role, Beginning Teachers, Student Teachers
Zemmahi, Hicham – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Youth houses in Morocco are public institutions that focus on the integration of Moroccan youth in the social and economic fabric of society. The Moroccan Ministry of Youth and Sports made evaluation a pivotal component of its 2030 vision. Yet, it does not involve any mandates for internal evaluations. Given the fierce competition for grants and…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Accountability, Grants, Financial Support
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Bautista-Puig, Núria; Orduña-Malea, Enrique; Perez-Esparrells, Carmen – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: This study aims to analyse and evaluate the methodology followed by the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings (THE-IR), as well as the coverage obtained and the data offered by this ranking, to determine if its methodology reflects the degree of sustainability of universities, and whether their results are accurate enough to be used as a…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Higher Education, Reputation, Institutional Characteristics
Kirby, Gretchen; Caronongan, Pia; Burwick, Andrew; Monahan, Shannon; Poznyak, Dmitriy; Schulte, Theresa; Lyskawa, Julia; Kelly, Annalee – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2022
The goals of the Implementation and Cost of High Quality Early Care and Education (ECE-ICHQ) are to (1) produce technically sound, systematic measures of the implementation and costs of education and care in center-based settings that serve children from birth to age 5; (2) produce implementation and cost measures to examine the variation in ECE…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Measurement, Costs, Educational Quality
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Joanna C. Weaver; Cynthia Bertelsen; Kaylani Othman – Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence, 2022
Creating a habit of reflective practice promotes ongoing and sustainable instructional improvement for preservice teachers. Furthermore, reflection enables teachers to strengthen their instruction through critical analysis of student learning and engagement. While reflection may be intuitive for an in-service teacher, preservice teachers need this…
Descriptors: Reflection, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Improvement, Instruction
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