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Akello, Lucy Dora; Timmerman, M. C. Greetje – Educational Action Research, 2018
This paper documents teachers' assessment practices and pupils' learning to read and write in large classes. To gain insights into the assessment practices and pupils' learning, the principles of Vygotsky's zone of proximal development and participatory action research (PAR) design were adopted. Collaboratively, teachers reflected on their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Formative Evaluation, Participatory Research, Action Research
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Meloncon, Lisa; England, Peter; Ilyasova, Alex – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2016
We report the results of a pilot study that offers the field of technical and professional communication its first look at material working conditions of contingent faculty, such as course loads, compensation, and professional support. Findings include that contingent faculty are more enduring with stable full-time, multi-year contracts; they…
Descriptors: Nontenured Faculty, College Faculty, Pilot Projects, Work Environment
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Klassen, Robert; Wilson, Elaine; Siu, Angela F. Y.; Hannok, Wanwisa; Wong, Marina W.; Wongsri, Nongkran; Sonthisap, Panwadee; Pibulchol, Chaleosri; Buranachaitavee, Yanisa; Jansem, Anchalee – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2013
In this study, we examine the teaching-related stress, self-efficacy, and occupational commitment of preservice teachers from two culturally western and two culturally eastern countries. The sample included 1,187 participants from Canada (n?=?379), England (n?=?203), Hong Kong (n?=?211), and Thailand (n?=?394). Self-efficacy partially reduced…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Anxiety, Self Efficacy
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Shine, Kathryn – Issues in Educational Research, 2015
Many developed countries, including Australia, struggle to recruit and retain adequate numbers of school teachers. Over the past decade every Australian state has experienced teacher shortages and, at various times, there has been a national shortfall of qualified teaching staff. This paper considers the reporting of teacher shortage in four…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Shortage, Teacher Supply and Demand, News Reporting
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Lucal, Betsy – Teaching Sociology, 2015
This article argues that neoliberalism is a critical public issue influencing the apparently private troubles of college students and teachers. For example, earning a college degree has become ever more important for success; yet, because of declining state support for public education, students are taking on extraordinary levels of debt. As a…
Descriptors: Sociology, Neoliberalism, Educational Policy, Politics of Education
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Hladchenko, Myroslava; Westerheijden, Don F. – European Journal of Higher Education, 2018
This article aims to explore the academic identities under the conditions of means-ends decoupling at the nation-state level. For empirical evidence we choose Ukraine. In 2014, after the Revolution of Dignity despite the adoption of the policies aimed to construct academic identities like in the Western universities the intended outcomes were not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Educational Change, Organizational Change
Yordy, Kelly A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the effects of career related stress on higher education faculty members' achievement of a healthy balance between their personal lives and professional lives. Data from the 2013-2014 HERI Faculty Survey were analyzed to determine if any of the eight independent variables--lack of personal…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Family Work Relationship, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
Powell, Anna; Montoya, Elena; Austin, Lea J. E.; Kim, Yoonjeon; Muruvi, Wanzi; Copeman Petig, Abby – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, 2023
Early care and education (ECE) programs for children prior to kindergarten in California are provided through a mixed delivery system that includes licensed home- and center-based programs as well as school settings. The requirements, experience, and supports for educators vary widely across settings, depending more on funding sources and…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preschool Education, Child Care, Child Care Centers
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Sides, Meredith – NADE Digest, 2016
With the increasing adoption of accelerated models of learning comes the necessary step of adapting these models to fit the unique needs of the student population at each individual institution. One such college adapted the ALP (Accelerated Learning Program) model and made specific changes to the target population, structure and scheduling, and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Acceleration (Education), Models, Student Needs
Illinois Community College Board, 2016
Data about compensation received by employees in Illinois' 48 Illinois public community colleges are gathered by the Illinois Community College Board (ICCB). Data in the "Fiscal Year 2016 Salary Report" reflect the census date of October 1, 2015. In an attempt to minimize the number of separate requests for salary data received by public…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Teacher Salaries, Salaries
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Huang, Futao – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
By analyzing relevant findings from two national surveys which were carried out in 1992 and 2011 with dozens of similar questions, the study explores changes in Japanese academics' major teaching and research activities and their views of these activities from 1992 to 2011. The study begins with a brief introduction to context and main policies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, National Surveys, Educational Policy
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Curry, Jennifer R.; Webb, Angela W.; Latham, Samantha J. – Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2016
The powerful nature of novice teachers' experiences in their first years of teaching has been well documented. However, the variance in novices' initial immersion in the school environment is largely dependent on perceived personal and professional support as well as the environmental inducements that lend to novice teachers' success in the…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Beginning Teacher Induction, Alternative Teacher Certification, Work Environment
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Manwa, Lilian; Mukeredzi, Tabitha Grace; Manwa, Lokadhia – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2016
The first year of teaching is the most formative period in a teacher's career. Support is therefore crucial if they are to develop the competencies, confidence and attitudes that will help keep them contented and effective in the classroom. One way of enhancing these aspects is through induction and mentoring. This will help ensure a firm…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Education, Rural Schools, Beginning Teachers
Worth, Jack; Lynch, Sarah; Hilary, Jude; Rennie, Connie; Andrade, Joana – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2018
With rising pupil numbers, shortfalls in the number of trainee teachers and an increasing proportion of teachers leaving the profession, retaining teachers who are already in the profession is vital for managing the current and future supply of teachers. This report draws out a number of key factors impacting on teacher retention and makes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Persistence, Faculty Mobility, Elementary School Teachers
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Greene, Kiersten – Learning, Media and Technology, 2017
K-12 teachers who write about their daily work on blogs and other social media platforms share local knowledge and wisdom from the immediate view of the classroom. These first-hand retellings of everyday classroom life offer a unique critique of educational policy from the teachers' perspective. Reporting on the analysis of 14 public-facing blogs…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Urban Teaching, Electronic Journals, Social Media
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