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Hu, Die – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2021
This study focused on Chinese doctoral recipients in social science disciplines in the U.S. and their decision making about returning to China upon graduation. In interviews of Chinese faculty who studied in the U.S. and Chinese PhD students currently in the U.S., we found that plans to return were associated with a blend of cultural, family, and…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Doctoral Students, Foreign Countries, College Choice
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Wolkowitz, Amanda A. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2021
Decision consistency (DC) is the reliability of a classification decision based on a test score. In professional credentialing, the decision is often a high-stakes pass/fail decision. The current methods for estimating DC are computationally complex. The purpose of this research is to provide a computationally and conceptually simple method for…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Reliability, Classification, Scores
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Snow, Carrie C. – Harvard Educational Review, 2021
In this Voices: Reflective Accounts of Education essay, Carrie C. Snow reflects on her experiences as both a recipient of pull-out services as a young child and as a special educator. She highlights the complex nature of special education services and how their provision is rife with gray areas. Negotiating various tensions in decision-making…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Public Schools, Public Education, Special Education
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Passmore, Susan R.; Jamison, Amelia M.; Abdelwadoud, Moaz; Rogers, Taylor B.; Wiggan, Morgan; Mullins, Daniel C.; Thomas, Stephen B. – Field Methods, 2021
To explore the willingness to participate in genomics research among African Americans, we developed a technique specifically suited to a relaxed social setting. The "Qualitative Story Deck," (QSD) is a gamified, structured elicitation technique that allows for the spontaneous creation of scenarios with variable attributes. We used the…
Descriptors: African Americans, Participation, Vignettes, Influences
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Lyons, Michael D.; Edwards, Kelly D.; Fallavollita, Westley L. – School Psychology, 2021
School-based mentoring programs are one of the most popular types of prevention programs offered to support students' social-emotional and academic success. Because a high-quality mentoring relationship is thought to be a mechanism for improving youth outcomes, we investigated how mentor- and mentee-relationship quality develops over time. In…
Descriptors: Mentors, Interpersonal Relationship, Participative Decision Making, National Programs
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Mikwamba, Kingsley; Dessein, Joost; Kambewa, Daimon; Messely, Lies; Strong, Robert – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2021
Purpose: An Agricultural Innovation System (AIS) is a collaborative governance (CG) arrangement which brings together several actors in the agriculture sector forming an innovation platform (IP). This study presents findings of CG dynamics obtained from an IP. Design/Methodology/Approach: A qualitative study used focus group discussions, key…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Extension, Governance, Stakeholders
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Draper, Michael; Lancaster, Thomas; Dann, Sandie; Crockett, Robin; Glendinning, Irene – International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2021
Very few parts of the world have legislation that prohibits the operation or the promotion of contract cheating services. This means that commercial companies providing such services can formally register and operate in most countries. If a student enters into an agreement with a contract cheating provider, what rights do they have to change their…
Descriptors: Contracts, Cheating, Essays, Decision Making
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Newson, Robyn S.; Rychetnik, Lucie; King, Lesley; Milat, Andrew J.; Bauman, Adrian E. – Research Evaluation, 2021
Current assessments of research impact have been criticized for capturing what can be easily counted not what actually counts. To empirically examine this issue, we approached measuring research impact from two directions, tracing forwards from research and backwards from policy, within a defined research-policy system (childhood obesity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evaluation Research, Research Projects, Research Utilization
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Dübbers, Felix; Schmidt-Daffy, Martin – Cogent Education, 2021
While teachers' core responsibility is to provide high-quality instruction, they are also expected to engage in data-based decision-making (DBDM), e.g., to analyse and use data to improve instruction. We developed a relevance intervention to promote student teachers' self-determined motivation and application intentions for DBDM and implemented it…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Student Motivation, Data Use, Decision Making
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Nuttgens, Simon – Research Ethics, 2021
Ethical decision-making is inherent to the research ethics committee (REC) deliberation process. While ethical codes, regulations, and research standards are indispensable in guiding this process, decision-making is nonetheless susceptible to nonrational factors that can undermined the quality, consistency, and perceived fairness REC decisions. In…
Descriptors: Research, Ethics, Decision Making, Research Committees
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Collins, Jonathan – Peabody Journal of Education, 2021
Should school boards be in charge of schools? School boards serve as sites for local democracy, but their power has been under siege for over half a century. This study provides results from an original survey in order to assess who Americans want in charge of their schools. Given that the strength of school boards is supposed to be their ability…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Meetings, Participative Decision Making, Governance
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Wang, Shenshen; Sun, Chao; Tian, Ye; Breheny, Richard – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2021
In the long history of psycholinguistic research on verifying negative sentences, an often-reported finding is that participants take longer to correctly judge negative sentences true than false, while being faster to judge their positive counterparts true (e.g. Clark & Chase, Cogn Psychol 3(3):472-517, 1972; Carpenter & Just, Psychol Rev…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Morphemes, Language Processing, Sentence Structure
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Marra, Mita – American Journal of Evaluation, 2021
Drawing on the extensive ethnographic research I conducted on Italy's performance evaluation system, this article highlights the cognitive biases associated with evidence use in decision making and institution working. Framing effects, status quo bias, motivated reasoning, and tacit conflicts between personal and organizational interests were only…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evaluation, Public Administration, Public Policy
Musiowsky-Borneman, Tamera; Arnold, C. Y. – ASCD, 2021
Tamera Musiowsky-Borneman and C. Y. Arnold have developed a way to bring a minimalist mindset to the classroom and shed the burden of too many initiatives, strategies, and "things" in general. Their Triple P process helps teachers declutter in three steps: identify something's "purpose," "prioritize" what is…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Classroom Environment
White, Mark; Carter, Dwight L. – Corwin, 2021
The updated edition of this handbook couldn't have come at a better time. Focusing on lessons learned from the disruptions of 2020, including the COVID school closures and the renewed pursuit of social justice, the authors show school leaders how to prepare for and respond to disruptions that are leading to a "new normal." Educators are…
Descriptors: Leadership, Educational Change, School Closing, COVID-19
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