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Ilker Cingillioglu – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
This study provides an empirical approach to utilizing an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based system for identifying students' university choice factors that impact their matriculation decision. We created an AI-based chatbot that gathered both qualitative and quantitative data from nearly 1200 participants worldwide. The entire human-AI…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Decision Making, Student Attitudes, College Choice
Danica Donker – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Elementary students' literacy skills are decreasing nationwide ("The Nation's Report Card," 2019). This is concerning because as literacy skills slip, the literacy demands for American workers are steadily increasing (OECD, 2013). Unfortunately, adding to the situation is the fact that students' attitudes towards reading are worsening…
Descriptors: Reading Habits, Reading Attitudes, Recreational Reading, Reading Motivation
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Dawkins, April M.; Eidson, Emily C. – School Library Research, 2021
Selection policies are practical tools used by school librarians to guide them in their collection development plans. This investigation into district-level selection policies examined policies from 80 school districts across the United States. The policies were examined to determine the status of selection policies in school libraries and if the…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, School Districts, School Libraries, Library Materials
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Sandoval, Luis; Ormazábal, María – Tuning Journal for Higher Education, 2021
In recent decades in Chile, generic skills have been made explicit in the graduation profiles and curricula of all programs of higher education institutions, following global trends that relate to labor market expectations on the employability of graduates. The institutional characteristics, mission, educational model, and institutional seal…
Descriptors: Soft Skills, Skill Development, Employment Potential, Education Work Relationship
Jennifer Nicole Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative study explores the lack of African American students enrolled in AP Calculus courses in North Carolina public high schools. It considered the perception of student-counselor relationships, academic advising practices, and identity of high school counselor participants. In-depth interviews were conducted with three, African…
Descriptors: Calculus, Mathematics Instruction, Advanced Placement, School Counselors
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Alvaro Hofflinger; Cristóbal Villalobos; Loreto Cárdenas; Ernesto Treviño – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2024
A common criticisms of school choice programs is that, instead of improving student achievement, they would increase school segregation. Parents may use different criteria to choose a school, such as proximity, school quality, or the school's ethnic/racial composition. As a result, the system would be segregated based on the parent's preferences.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, School Choice, Ethnic Groups
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Warne, Russell T.; Larsen, Ross A. A. – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2022
Experts within gifted education have advocated for the use of local norms when selecting students for gifted programs, instead of national-level norms. Local norms compare students to their immediate peers to identify gifted students and are believed to produce a more diverse gifted program. However, district integration limits the ability of…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Gifted Education, Achievement Gap, Academic Achievement
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Koutsoukos, Marios – International Education Studies, 2022
Interest in mentoring, which is an innovative method in adult education (CEDEFOP, 2013), has been growing rapidly in Europe, especially since the Lisbon European Council in 2000. In Greece, this interest has found expression either through the development of educational material in the context of adult educator training programmes, or the…
Descriptors: Mentors, Adult Education, Positive Attitudes, Adult Students
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Stone-Johnson, Corrie; Gray, Corey; Wright, Casandra – Professional Development in Education, 2021
In spite of concerted improvement efforts to improve curricula, many university-based principal preparation programmes in the United States do not explicitly attend to issues of equity or social justice in a thorough way. While curricular efforts are important, they are not enough on their own; a working theory in the field of educational…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Principals, Social Justice, Equal Education
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Fyfield, Matthew; Henderson, Michael; Phillips, Michael – Learning, Media and Technology, 2021
"YouTube" hosts a vast catalogue of instructional videos that are increasingly used in formal education contexts. Teachers regularly use "YouTube" to select videos for students, but the processes they use to select these resources have been understudied. This study explores how teachers search for videos, and the role of…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Web 2.0 Technologies, Information Sources, Online Searching
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Dexter, Sara; Francisco, Aubrey; Luke Luna, Christina – Journal of Educational Administration, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to better understand K-12 district leaders' reasoning and processes for selecting and deploying EdTech instructional products, including which, if any, types of data are used to support decision-making. Design/methodology/approach: This multisite case study of educational technology (EdTech) decision-making…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Decision Making, Selection, Purchasing
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Renuka Ramroop – Education and Culture, 2024
Natural learning is a countercultural home education approach characterized by the notion of freedom and autonomy in life and learning, intertwined in cultural environments. Using purposive sampling, two single parents from a "township" culture provided an in-depth understanding of natural learning in their context. A case study design…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Decolonization, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Context
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Abalkheel, Albatool Mohammed – Arab World English Journal, 2020
This article compares and contrasts two dictionaries: "The American Heritage College Dictionary" and the "Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary." This review is written to provide English language learners -- and others -- who are taking undergraduate-level courses in linguistics, with in-depth advice on how to best support…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, Lexicography, Linguistics, English (Second Language)
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Davis, Josh P.; Bretfelean, L. Diandra; Belanova, Elena; Thompson, Trevor – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2020
Outstanding long-term face recognition of suspects is a hallmark of the exceptionally skilled police 'super-recognisers' (SRs). Yet, research investigating SR's memory for faces mainly employed brief retention intervals. Therefore, in Experiment 1, 597 participants (121 SRs) viewed 10 target videos and attempted identification of targets from 10…
Descriptors: Human Body, Recognition (Psychology), Identification, Memory
Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, 2020
This paper is the fourth revision of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges (ASCCC) paper on equivalency adopted by the delegates to the plenary session in Fall 1989. Previous revisions were adopted in 1999, 2006, and 2016. The original paper was intended to help local academic senates develop policies and procedures in response to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Teacher Selection, Employment Qualifications
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