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Boers, Frank; Bryfonski, Lara; Faez, Farahnaz; McKay, Todd – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
Meta-analytic reviews collect available empirical studies on a specified domain and calculate the average effect of a factor. Educators as well as researchers exploring a new domain of inquiry may rely on the conclusions from meta-analytic reviews rather than reading multiple primary studies. This article calls for caution in this regard because…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Literature Reviews, Effect Size, Computation
Jonathan Ross – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This qualitative case study explored the perceptions of hiring administrators in a suburban Pennsylvania school district regarding the influence of the Danielson Framework for Teaching (DFT) on the district teacher hiring practices. At the time of this study, research had shown that, out of all other factors, teachers had the largest influence on…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Teacher Selection, School Districts, Suburban Schools
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Qiyang Zhang; Amanda J. Neitzel; Robert Slavin – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2021
Background: Rigorous meta-analysis holds promise to answer the ultimate important question in education: which interventions work and for whom? Evidence-based reform in education has contributed to a proliferation of well-designed experiments in recent years, which calls for updated systematic reviews. However, this proliferation is a double-edged…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Literature Reviews, Meta Analysis, Selection Tools
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Biegelbauer, Peter; Palfinger, Thomas; Mayer, Sabine – Research Evaluation, 2020
Innovation agencies, that is organizations with the primary focus of funding applied research and technological development, evaluate project proposals to select the most promising proposals for funding. At the moment, there is only little verified knowledge available on project evaluation and selection processes of innovation agencies. We want to…
Descriptors: Innovation, Program Proposals, Selection Criteria, Evaluators
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Lammert, Catherine; DeJulio, Samuel R.; Hiebert, Elfrieda H. – Reading Psychology, 2023
This study reports the knowledge of text complexity held by preservice teachers prior to coursework. The goal of this research is to determine what strengths and what learning needs preservice teachers have related to text selection with the intention of informing programmatic redesign. In this preliminary component of a design-development study,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Textbook Evaluation, Textbook Selection, Selection Criteria
Ezra Jonah Greene – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The problem is that secondary school students within an education system in a small island Caribbean state are not performing at the required academic standard. The purpose of the study was to explore the perceptions of the Ministry of Education and Public Service Commission regarding the recruitment and selection of prospective principals with…
Descriptors: Principals, Personnel Selection, Administrator Attitudes, Secondary School Students
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Sukhada Samudra; Cynney Walters; Destiny Williams-Dobosz; Aarati Shah; Peggy Brickman – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
The cognitive and performance benefits of group work in undergraduate courses depend on understanding how to structure groups to promote communication and comfort while also promoting diversity and reducing conflict. The current study utilized social network analysis combined with self-reported survey data from 555 students in 155 groups to…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Team Training, Group Experience, Group Dynamics
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João M. Santos – Research Evaluation, 2024
The allocation of scientific funding through grant programs is crucial for research advancement. While independent peer panels typically handle evaluations, their decisions can lean on personal preferences that go beyond the stated criteria, leading to inconsistencies and potential biases. Given these concerns, our study employs a novel method,…
Descriptors: Grants, Program Proposals, Funding Formulas, Scientific Research
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Whitney McIntyre Miller; Lisa Hilt; Rabab Atwi; Nick Irwin – Journal of Peace Education, 2024
In 2020, Euphrates Institute piloted the Peace Practice Alliance (PPA), a virtual six-month program that brings together an international cohort of peacebuilders to learn peace leadership theories and develop related skills and practices. The program framework is based on integral peace leadership, which focuses on four interrelated areas of…
Descriptors: Peace, Teaching Methods, Leadership Training, Communities of Practice
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Sam Bamkin – Ethnography and Education, 2024
The iterative process of ethnography not only constructs theory, but its methodology should embody theory. Developing a theoretical framework often demands adjustments in methodology, to leverage previous work and to avoid assumptions compounding through the magnification of blind spots. New theory in policy-engaged ethnography has emphasised the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teachers, Ethnography, Sampling
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Liera, Román; Hernandez, Theresa E. – Review of Higher Education, 2021
This case study examined how color-evasive racism operated through search committee members' practices in ways that undermined university policy created to centralize racial equity in faculty hiring. Findings show that abstract liberalism, racialized decoupling, and racialized agency impeded the realization of an equitable search process. Faculty…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Teacher Selection, College Faculty, Barriers
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Teixeira da Silva, Jaime A. – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2022
"Predatory" publishing is a non-binary academic phenomenon, but personal and professional biases may influence the criteria used to create associated blacklists and whitelists. Academic librarians, as scholarly communicators, play an essential role in transmitting accurate information about "predatory" publishing to students,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Role, Librarians, Information Dissemination
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T. J. D'Agostino; Jonas Vernimmen; Audrey Feldman – Peabody Journal of Education, 2024
This study offers a comparative examination of desegregation policy reforms in Belgium, Chile, and the Netherlands, addressing equity reforms to universal school choice systems. Through an analysis of the reform trajectories, we explore the evolution of policies, the causal mechanisms of change, efforts to institutionalize policies, and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Diversity (Institutional), Selection Criteria
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Zhang, Rong; Wessel-Powell, Christy – Journal of Children's Literature, 2023
Diversity, equity, and inclusion has long been the focus of educational scholarship. This study explores the potential of wordless books with protagonists of color for children to access portraits of diverse characters and engage with various stories. To expand the existing body of literature on diversity in picturebooks, this study offers two…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Picture Books, Childrens Literature, Inclusion
Robin Zape-tah-hol-ah Minthorn; Natalie Rose Youngbull – Region 16 Comprehensive Center, 2023
This research builds a narrative of a nationwide study on tuition waiver and tuition assistance programs. The authors administered a survey to long-standing and newly implemented tuition waiver programs within universities that identified limitations and opportunities. The purpose of this study is to highlight the varied approaches to…
Descriptors: Tuition Grants, Tuition, American Indian Students, Alaska Natives
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