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White, Susan; Tyler, John – AIP Statistical Research Center, 2014
During the 2012-13 academic year, the authors collected data from a representative national sample of over 3,500 public and private high schools across the U.S. to inquire about physics availabilities and offerings. This report describes their findings.
Descriptors: Physics, Secondary School Teachers, High Schools, National Surveys
Alexander, Mark L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Online learning has caused a seismic shift in higher education since its rise beginning at the turn of the century. A portion of that impact has been on the ascent of the part-time employee teaching online. Adjunct instructors account for the overwhelming majority of the faculty providing education to these online learners. Because an instructor's…
Descriptors: Part Time Faculty, Part Time Employment, Web Based Instruction, Adjunct Faculty
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Robertson, Michael; Germov, John – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2015
Issues surrounding increasingly constrained resources and reducing levels of sector-based funding require consideration of a different Academic Work Allocation Model (AWAM) approach. Evidence from the literature indicates that an effective work allocation model is founded on the principles of equity and transparency in the distribution and…
Descriptors: Budgets, Case Studies, College Faculty, Universities
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Bruen, Jennifer; Crosbie, Veronica; Kelly, Niamh; Loftus, Maria; Maillot, Agnès; McGillicuddy, Áine; Péchenart, Juliette – Journal of Social Science Education, 2016
Purpose: This study had two main objectives: The first was to explore the extent to which a group of University lecturers feel that they are prepared to deal with controversial issues in their classrooms. The second was to elicit their views on a didactic approach known as Structured Academic Controversy (SAC). SAC is a constructivist teaching…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Humanities, Social Sciences
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McAlpine, Lynn; Amundsen, Cheryl – Higher Education Review, 2016
What are the motivations, needs and interests of academics entering mid-career? To answer this question, we drew on data from our longitudinal research program to examine the career trajectories of thirteen social scientists and scientists, five or more years post-PhD, in research-teaching positions. We used an identity framework to understand how…
Descriptors: Career Change, Teacher Motivation, Vocational Interests, Longitudinal Studies
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Evers, Arnoud T.; Yamkovenko, Bogdan; Van Amersfoort, Daniël – European Journal of Training and Development, 2017
Purpose: Education depends on high-quality teachers who are committed to professional development and do not get burned out. The purpose of this paper was to investigate how job demands and resources can affect the health and cognitive development of teachers using the Demand-Induced Strain Compensation model. Design/methodology/approach: A…
Descriptors: Least Squares Statistics, Job Satisfaction, Teaching Load, Stress Variables
British Columbia Teachers' Federation, 2018
As a significant number of British Columbia's Teachers of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (ToDHHs) reach retirement eligibility in the coming decade, this report highlights various educational, economic and workplace-related impediments to attracting and retaining qualified ToDHHs in British Columbia (BC) public schools. The report endeavours to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Deafness
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AlMutlaq, Abdullah; Dimitriadi, Yota; McCrindle, Rachel – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
Reinforcing the level of essentiality of understanding the factors that influence the involvement in TEL-oriented CPD and the challenges to the sustained expansion of their expertise not only for academics, but also professional bodies and educational developer for effective integration of digital technologies in teaching and learning remains is…
Descriptors: Professional Continuing Education, Faculty Development, College Faculty, Performance Factors
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Morgan, Clara – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2017
The article challenges the deficit view in which education in the Arab region is portrayed by examining the process of educational regionalisation. It takes as its case study the Arab Regional Agenda for Improving Educational Quality in order to explore the construction of an educational quality space that uses data as a governance model. Drawing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Arabs, Educational Quality, Geographic Regions
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Mulholland, Rosie; McKinlay, Andy; Sproule, John – Educational Review, 2017
To further understand differential perceptions of work and wellbeing this paper considers the influence of gender and years in current role (YCR). We surveyed 399 secondary school teachers (class teachers n = 185; middle managers n = 175 and senior managers n = 38) from the central belt of Scotland. Sixty-six per cent of middle managers reported…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes
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Gasparishvili, A. T.; Kruzhalin, V. I.; Krukhmaleva, O. V. – Russian Education & Society, 2014
Survey research on the opinions of Moscow's schoolteachers concerning changes in secondary education shows a lack of consensus on the reforms, and a far less positive view than that of planners and officials. [This article was translated by Kim Braithwaite.]
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Change, Secondary Education
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Quinlan, Andrea; Fogel, Curtis A. – Higher Education Studies, 2014
In 1970, education theorist Paulo Freire (1970) sharply critiqued dominant pedagogy--or what he called the banking model of education--for stripping students of their agency. In the banking model, he wrote, instructors are empowered as narrating subjects as students who become alienated as passive listening objects. In the decades since, research…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Active Learning, Class Size, Teaching Load
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Hülsmann, Thomas; Shabalala, Lindiwe – Distance Education, 2016
The principal contradiction of online distance education is the disparity that exists between economies of scale and the new interactive capabilities of digital technologies. This is particularly felt where mega-universities in developing countries seek to make better use of these affordances while at the same time protecting their economies of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Courses, Distance Education, Curriculum Design
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Parsons, Allison Ward; Parsons, Seth A.; Morewood, Aimee; Ankrum, Julie W. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2016
In this article, we describe lessons learned from three separate literacy professional learning initiatives that took place in elementary schools in three different locations: high-poverty urban, medium-poverty rural, and low-poverty suburban. The professional learning initiatives were also diverse in scope: one was a three-year, school-wide…
Descriptors: Barriers, Literacy, Elementary Schools, Professional Education
Aida, Misako; Watanabe, Satoshi P. – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2016
Universities throughout the world are trending toward more performance based methods to capture their strengths, weaknesses and productivity. Hiroshima University has developed an integrated objective measure for quantifying multifaceted faculty activities, namely the "Achievement-Motivated Key Performance Indicator" (A-KPI), in order to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Productivity, College Faculty, Job Performance
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