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Gandarilla, Maria; O'Donnell, Julie – Afterschool Matters, 2014
With 8.4 million children in the U.S. spending an average of eight hours a week in afterschool programs, afterschool providers are an important part of the network of caring adults who can help to keep children safe. In addition, afterschool staff are "mandated reporters." Whether or not the laws specifically mention afterschool staff,…
Descriptors: Child Safety, Child Abuse, After School Education, After School Programs
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Sutton, Anna; Taylor, David; Johnston, Carol – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2014
A clear understanding of how students view plagiarism is needed if the extensive efforts devoted to helping them engage in high-quality scholarship are to be worthwhile. There are a variety of views on this topic, but theoretical models to integrate the literature, take account of international differences and guide practitioners are limited.…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Familiarity, Models, Questionnaires
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Rintakorpi, Kati – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2016
The Finnish social pedagogical curriculum for early childhood education directs early childhood teachers to use documentation to assess and develop pedagogy and practise. This empirical study examines the challenges and benefits a group of Finnish preschool teachers experienced when they learned to document their work. Although the idea of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Documentation, Preschool Teachers, Educational Practices
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Swars, Susan Lee; Chestnutt, Cliff – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2015
This mixed methods study explored elementary teachers' (n = 73) experiences with and perspectives on the newly implemented CCSS-Mathematics at a high-needs, urban Professional Development School in a state where roll-out of the standards has been fraught with opposition. Analysis of the survey, questionnaire, and interview data reveals the…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Common Core State Standards
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Cattani, Allegra; Abbot-Smith, Kirsten; Farag, Rafalla; Krott, Andrea; Arreckx, Frédérique; Dennis, Ian; Floccia, Caroline – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2014
Background: Bilingual children are under-referred due to an ostensible expectation that they lag behind their monolingual peers in their English acquisition. The recommendations of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) state that bilingual children should be assessed in both the languages known by the children. However,…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods
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Sharrocks, Louise – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2014
An intervention was carried out with primary school staff to promote well-being with weekly sessions of a project which became known as Chill and Chat. Data were gathered via questionnaires completed before and after the project and from three focus groups (before, during and after the intervention), and were analysed using thematic analysis.…
Descriptors: Well Being, Intervention, Questionnaires, Focus Groups
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Akiri, Agharuwhe A. – eJEP: eJournal of Education Policy, 2013
The paper reviewed the concept of human rights, possible origin and relevance to human society in general and the school system in particular. It evaluated people's level of awareness of these rights amongst students and teachers of secondary schools in Delta Central Senatorial District. The stratified random sampling technique was adopted to…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Secondary School Curriculum, Secondary School Students, Questionnaires
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Guisasola, Jenaro; Almudi, Jose M.; Zuza, Kristina – International Journal of Science Education, 2013
This study examined engineering and physical science students' understanding of the electromagnetic induction (EMI) phenomena. It is assumed that significant knowledge of the EMI theory is a basic prerequisite when students have to think about electromagnetic phenomena. To analyse students' conceptions, we have taken into account the fact that…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Scientific Concepts, Questionnaires, Interviews
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de Laat, Stijn; Freriksen, Ellen; Vervloed, Mathijs P. J. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
This study aimed to explore Dutch students' attitudes toward deaf, blind, paralyzed or intellectually disabled persons and to determine whether age, self-esteem, gender, religion and familiarity with a disabled person have a significant effect on these attitudes. The attitudes of 200 high school and 144 university students were determined with two…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Student Attitudes, Self Esteem, Deafness
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Hall, Brian R. – Information Systems Education Journal, 2012
As digital natives continue rolling onto college campuses around the country, the questions surrounding digital ethics grow. Students do not know life without modern technology, computers, mobile devices, the Internet and their lifestyle has developed around this mass. Unlike their predecessors, they do not recognize a difference between the…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Familiarity, Technological Literacy, College Students
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Jafarian, Tahereh; Azizifar, Akbar; Gowhary, Habib; Jamalinesari, Ali – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
Publication of research articles (RAs) in English seems a challenging task for native and non-native writers. The acquisition of rhetorical structure and function grammar can be very helpful for academicians to achieve the wanted goal which is, of course, the publication of their RAs. This study aims to investigate the current level of familiarity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Familiarity, Rhetoric, Graduate Students
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Daugaard, Line Møller; Johansen, Martin Blok – Language and Education, 2014
When teachers and school librarians choose picture books for multilingual children, they often base their choice on an evaluation of linguistic comprehensibility, content familiarity and cultural appropriateness. This means that postmodern picture books may be excluded. This paper presents a case study of multilingual children's encounter with a…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Picture Books, Postmodernism, Case Studies
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Judge, Lawrence W.; Lee, Don; Surber, Karin; Bellar, David; Petersen, Jeffrey; Ivan, Emese; Kim, Hyeon Jung – ICHPER-SD Journal of Research, 2013
The Youth Olympic Games (YOG) was launched in part to reignite interest in Olympic sports in the midst of a generation of increasingly overweight and inactive adolescents. But since the initial announcement of the YOG by the International Olympic Committee in 2007, this new third addition to the Olympic family of events has provoked response from…
Descriptors: Athletics, Youth Programs, Adolescents, Obesity
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Motamedi, Vahid; Piri, Roghayeh – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Technology, 2014
In the paradigm of information society the structure and facts have become flexible and subjective. In the recent social-economic order, IT and communication have taken over the leading role. Distance learning in smart schools is one of the flexible realities in the education field that has crossed the format of the hard and inflexible traditional…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Case Studies, Teacher Surveys, Administrator Surveys
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Sermier Dessemontet, Rachel; Morin, Diane; Crocker, Anne G. – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2014
This study investigates the relations between teachers' attitudes towards persons with intellectual disability (ID), in-service training on ID, and prior contacts with persons with ID. A sample of Canadian elementary school teachers (N?=?118) completed the Attitudes Toward Intellectual Disability Questionnaire, which measures cognitive, affective…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Mental Retardation, Elementary School Teachers
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