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Bornfreund, Laura; Ewen, Danielle – Phi Delta Kappan, 2021
Every year, children enter PreK and kindergarten with varied early education experiences, and the COVID-19 pandemic has heightened the problem. The need to respond to students' changing situations gives school districts and states an opportunity to reconsider how they are helping children and their families make the transition into kindergarten.…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Kindergarten, Transitional Programs, Alignment (Education)
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Gelfuso, Andrea – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2021
This paper reports findings from a formative design experiment during which the practical problem of how to support 31 preservice teachers as they approximated planning for ambitious literacy instruction was examined. Collaborative planning conversations between the PSTs and a teacher educator were analyzed. Discourse analysis revealed a…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship, Decision Making
Fox, Heather L.; Thrill, Chauntee; Keist, Jason – Office of Community College Research and Leadership, 2018
Through its program review process, the Illinois Community College Board (ICCB) coordinates a statewide system of review of programs of study provided by community colleges in Illinois. The intent of this review process is to support colleges in making campus-level planning and decision-making related to the quality, cost effectiveness,…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Community Colleges, Decision Making, Educational Planning
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Panda, Swati; Pandey, Satyendra C.; Bennett, Andrea; Tian, Xiaoguang – International Journal of Educational Management, 2019
Purpose: Given the competitive landscape in the higher education setting, it is important that universities adopt strategies that create competitive advantage for them. Universities must leverage their resources efficiently to address this goal. Creating a positive brand image is one such strategy. The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize…
Descriptors: Marketing, Reputation, Institutional Characteristics, Competition
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Neeleman, Annemarie – Journal of Educational Change, 2019
In many countries, education systems are moving towards a combination of increased school autonomy and intensified accountability. In the wake of that shift, decision-making at the school level has become paramount, and the role of the school leader has gained in importance. Despite these trends, surprisingly little is known about how schools and…
Descriptors: Intervention, Classification, Institutional Autonomy, Accountability
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Linden, Ane Isabel; Bitencourt, Claudia; Muller Neto, Hugo Fridolino – Learning Organization, 2019
Purpose: This paper aims to discuss the contribution of knowing in practice (KP) to the development of dynamic capabilities (DC) in the context of health-care organizations. Design/methodology/approach: The authors develop a case study in a Brazilian hospital in three stages using the data collection techniques of interviews, focus groups,…
Descriptors: Health Services, Case Studies, Hospitals, Employee Attitudes
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Abetz, Jenna S. – Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education, 2019
Doctoral study is a vulnerable time when students are faced with the task of establishing a new professional identity in a competitive environment, with financial stress, an uncertain future, and low status. This significant period of uncertainty is a particularly ripe context for higher education researchers to explore, as it simultaneously falls…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Mothers, Mother Attitudes, Professional Identity
Dierker, Wayne J.; Crawford, Jane C.; Bergeson, Ryan M. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The problem statement for this project based learning was loose coupling, when applied to the PBIS framework, translates into major gaps with district wide implementation of Tier II and Tier III interventions. Additionally, lack of superintendent adaptive schools' knowledge and practices impact fidelity of implementation. Tier II and Tier III…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Positive Behavior Supports, Program Implementation, School Districts
Patricia Benavides-Dominguez – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Student enrollment at community colleges within the U.S. has remained flat or decreased for over a decade (AACC, 2019). Before COVID-19, community colleges had been experiencing a steady decline in enrollment for approximately ten years (Irwin et al., 2021). The purpose was to determine whether demographic, environmental, and academic variables…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Enrollment Management, Strategic Planning, School Holding Power
Knudson, Joel – California Collaborative on District Reform, 2016
California educators continue in their struggle to communicate district plans to parents, teachers, and other members of the school community. Local Control Accountability Plans (LCAPs), have ballooned into jargon-laden stacks of tables, impenetrable to all but the most sophisticated reader. Envisioned as a tool to improve transparency, the LCAP…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, School District Autonomy, Accountability, Educational Planning
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Hogan, Owen; Kortt, Michael A.; Charles, Michael B. – Education & Training, 2020
Purpose: To identify key factors that are contributing to vulnerability in business schools in Australian public universities and determine the degree of vulnerability exhibited by these schools. Design/methodology/approach: Using a multi-criteria assessment (MCA) approach, a framework is developed to determine which business schools are most…
Descriptors: Business Schools, State Universities, Foreign Students, Guidelines
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Dick, Geoffrey N.; Akbulut, Asli Yagmur – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2020
Aim/Purpose: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) simulation (ERPsim) games have been used in Information Systems courses to teach students ERP systems and business processes. This study investigates whether the use of ERPsim games can be extended to other management disciplines. More specifically, this study reports on using the ERPsim games…
Descriptors: Planning, Management Development, Decision Making, Undergraduate Students
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McCollow, Meaghan M.; Hoffman, Holly H. – Young Exceptional Children, 2020
Implementing evidence-based practices requires not only knowledge of various interventions and practices but also professional judgment in selecting and applying an intervention that best meets the needs of the child and the family. Previous work on decision-making in evidence-based practices has focused on describing evidence-based practices, how…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Decision Making, Best Practices, Intervention
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Ekanem, Ekpenyong E.; Etor, Comfort R.; Ukpong, Nse N. – International Education Studies, 2020
Introduction: Lack of accountability demands in university business administration may be as a result of less attention given to genuine learning approach in university education. This study was undertaken to assess the causal effects of task-based approach to learning risk management on effective business decision making and outcome appraisal of…
Descriptors: Risk Management, Decision Making, Accountability, Foreign Countries
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Pham, Nhung Thi Tuyet – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to share quality process experience from a US comprehensive university to use both direct (participation rate and assessment quality) and indirect assessment measures (assessment survey) to evaluate the quality process. Design/methodology/approach: A mixed method design was used to evaluate the quality…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Organizational Effectiveness, Feedback (Response), Institutional Evaluation
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