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Payton, Anna; Knight, Genevieve – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2018
In simple terms, it's about new ideas being put into practice, and it underpins human progress, while in economic terms it can drive long-term productivity growth (Australian Department of Industry, Innovation and Science 2017). The opportunities underpinning the largest growth 'will come from knowledge-intensive companies that innovate and…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Job Training, Foreign Countries, Job Skills
Gándara, Patricia – American Educator, 2017
By now, it is pretty much common knowledge that Latinos comprise the nation's largest minority group, both as a percentage of the population (17.6 percent) and as a percentage of school-age students (25 percent). That is, one in four K-12 students in the United States is Latino or Latina. While the related challenges are often overemphasized, the…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Demography, Barriers, Educational Opportunities
Ozturk Tasci, Fulya; Oguz Unver, Ayse – Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health, 2017
Understanding what disaster means will not only raise our awareness but will also bring us closer to knowing how to protect ourselves in the face of their destructive effects. The aim of this study is to understand how the concept of disaster is perceived in different demographics/subgroups of the population and by defining the term, to determine…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Definitions, Natural Disasters, Statistical Analysis
Dorner, Lisa M.; Crawford, Emily R.; Jennings, Joel; Sandoval, J. S. Onésimo; Hager, Emily – Educational Policy, 2017
To understand how educational policies are created and supported for immigrants and their children, we must explore how community members make sense of broader immigrant/immigration discourses. Guided by theories of "boundary work," grounded analyses of 27 interviews with U.S.-born residents in metropolitan St. Louis (a community with…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Community Attitudes, Public Opinion, Immigrants
Pujadas Botey, Anna; Vinturache, Angela; Bayrampour, Hamideh; Breitkreuz, Rhonda; Bukutu, Cecilia; Gibbard, Ben; Tough, Suzanne – Child Care in Practice, 2017
Parents and non-parental adults who interact with children influence child development. This study evaluates the knowledge of child development in two large and diverse samples of adults from Alberta in 2007 and 2013. Telephone interviews were completed by two random samples (1,443 in 2007; 1,451 in 2013). Participants were asked when specific…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Development, Knowledge Level, Familiarity
Banda, Rosa Maria; Flowers, Alonzo M.; Robinson, Petra – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2017
Purpose: Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs), like other universities, are faced with challenges related to faculty diversity. The literature related to faculty at HSIs is scant and so this paper aims to address this gap by problematizing faculty diversity at these institutions. Design/methodology/approach: By means of a document analysis, the…
Descriptors: Diversity (Faculty), Higher Education, Institutional Characteristics, Demography
Richards, K. Andrew R.; Washburn, Nicholas; Carson, Russell L.; Hemphill, Michael A. – Quest, 2017
While stress has always been present in the teaching profession, recent trends such as standardized testing and school and teacher accountability may be making teachers' work more stressful. Teacher satisfaction research has emerged as a popular lens through which to understand how teachers experience their work. This scoping review sought to…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Job Satisfaction, Educational Research, Periodicals
Kuzu, Okan; Çaliskan, Nihat; Kuzu, Yasemin – College Student Journal, 2017
In this study, we evaluated teacher candidates' (TCs') behavior patterns according to the organization people pattern for some demographics such as gender, educational status, accommodation and income levels. We administered to 875 TCs the organization people pattern rating scale (OPPRS) and investigated whether behavior patterns differed…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Evaluation, Behavior Patterns, Demography
Miller, Hilary E.; Vlach, Haley A.; Simmering, Vanessa R. – Child Development, 2017
Prior research has investigated the relation between children's language and spatial cognition by assessing the quantity of children's spatial word production, with limited attention to the context in which children use such words. This study tested whether 4-year-olds children's (N = 41, primarily white middle class) adaptive use of task-relevant…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Spatial Ability, Child Language, Preschool Children
DeSanto, Dan; Nichols, Aaron – College & Research Libraries, 2017
This article presents the results of a faculty survey conducted at the University of Vermont during academic year 2014-2015. The survey asked faculty about: familiarity with scholarly metrics, metric-seeking habits, help-seeking habits, and the role of metrics in their department's tenure and promotion process. The survey also gathered faculty…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Surveys, Knowledge Level, Use Studies
Swanson, Joan Ann; Renes, Susan L.; Strange, Anthony T. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2017
Participants in this study (N = 1,986) were college students from four different regions of the United States: northeastern, southeastern, southwestern, and northwestern. Using survey methodology, participants indicated technology preferences and frequency of use as well as demographic information. Findings reveal a strong preference for print…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Preferences, Printed Materials
Kaynak, Kerimhan; Turan, Mehmet Behzat; Karaoglu, Baris; Pepe, Osman – Online Submission, 2017
The purpose of this research is to analyse Professional maturity levels of candidates who take special talent tests at Erciyes University The School of Physical Education and Sports by some variables. 705 of 1395 candidates, who have taken special talent tests at Erciyes University The School of Physical Education and Sports, have been chosen…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Maturity (Individuals), Aptitude Tests, College Students
Brinkman, Sally; Vu, Binh Thanh – World Bank, 2017
"Early Childhood Development in Tonga: Baseline Results from the Tongan Early Human Capability Index" offers a comprehensive assessment of early child development across Tonga. This book reports on a census of child development using the Tongan Early Human Capability Index. The data includes information on more than 6,600 children ages 3…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Preschool Children
Kanim, Stephen; Cid, Ximena C. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
Is physics education research based on a representative sample of students? To answer this question we skimmed physics education research papers from three journals for the years 1970-2015 looking for the number of research subjects, the course the subjects were enrolled in, and the institution where the research was conducted. We combined this…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Education, Educational Research, Demography
Susewind, Raphael – Field Methods, 2015
Fine-grained data on religious communities are often considered sensitive in South Asia and consequently remain inaccessible. Yet without such data, statistical research on communal relations and group-based inequality remains superficial, hampering the development of appropriate policy measures to prevent further social exclusion on the basis of…
Descriptors: Probability, Statistical Inference, Religious Cultural Groups, Mathematics