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Mary Mathis Burnett – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This study employed Participatory Action Research (PAR) which applied critical pedagogy, actor-network theory, and social network theory to create and implement an "Application Framework for Critical Pedagogy" (AFCP) with the goal of making critical pedagogy more broadly accessible to a wider range of faculty in higher education.…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Teaching Methods, Higher Education, College Faculty
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Raneri, April; Young, Lisa – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
With a reduced number of students purchasing required and necessary textbooks, higher education leaders must look to new opportunities to increase student success. While open educational resources have addressed this issue, they have not received widespread support from faculty, staff, and administrators. The Maricopa Millions OER Project: Scaling…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Textbooks, Resource Units, Models
Mars, Matthew M.; Ball, Anna L. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2016
The mainstream agricultural literacy movement has been mostly focused on school-based learning through formal curricula and standardized non-formal models (e.g., FFA, 4-H). The purpose of the current study is to qualitatively explore through a grounded theory approach, the development, sharing, and translation of diverse forms of agricultural…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Epistemology, Informal Education, Literacy
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Foulger, Teresa S.; Zambo, Debby – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2015
This action research study involves two cycles of investigation of Research Day an event at the end of each semester where doctoral students share their latest cycle of action research focused on a problem of practice they are facing. The study sought to understand students' perspectives of Research Day in terms of its instructional intention, how…
Descriptors: Action Research, Student Attitudes, Investigations, Doctoral Programs
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D'Agostino, Jerome; Karpinski, Aryn; Welsh, Megan – International Journal of Testing, 2011
After a test is developed, most content validation analyses shift from ascertaining domain definition to studying domain representation and relevance because the domain is assumed to be set once a test exists. We present an approach that allows for the examination of alternative domain structures based on extant test items. In our example based on…
Descriptors: Expertise, Test Items, Mathematics Tests, Factor Analysis
Kass, Corrine E.; Maddux, Cleborne D. – Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Ltd, 2005
This book presents a human development model for understanding and treating age related deficits that seem to be characteristic of individuals with learning disabilities. It is the culmination of years of clinical experience, qualitative research, and scholarship in the search for a framework that would be useful for the treatment of learning…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Problems, Identification, Qualitative Research