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Zhang, Jia; Pang, Nicholas Sun-Keung – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2016
This mixed-method study explored the characteristics of professional learning communities (PLCs) in Chinese schools. Informed by the existing literature on PLCs, the authors conducted a questionnaire survey of teachers in seven schools in Shanghai to explore the characteristics of Chinese PLCs. Follow-up qualitative interviews were also conducted…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Communities of Practice, Qualitative Research, Interviews
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Brown, Samuel D.; Hallam, Pamela R.; Hite, Steven J.; Hite, Julie M. – Education and Society, 2016
This study examined "propensity to trust" of students studying at a foreign university. Responses were collected from 576 international students from 71 countries attending a large private institution of higher education in the Midwestern United States. Findings indicated that students who were not native speakers of the dominant…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Foreign Students, Demography, Gender Differences
Drummond, Dian – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to ascertain the perceptions of second- through fourth-grade teachers' knowledge of inference, strategies used by teachers for developing inference, and the instructional tools that teachers use to teach their students to make inferences. The participants in this study were eight…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Inferences
Clark, LaWanda M. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
If schools are to succeed, children must be provided with more support than a school can accomplish alone (Barbour et al., 2001). The need to involve community in the educational process to offer services that make students successful and to have these services within the school building are all critical aspects of the community school model…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Parent Role, Neighborhoods, School Community Relationship
Morris, Janine – ProQuest LLC, 2016
"Contexts of Digital Reading: How Genres Affect Reading Practices" is a study of the different ways university students use digital devices to read. Many mainstream representations of digital reading fail to distinguish between different contexts or genres of reading, making digital reading appear transparent rather than mediated by…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, College Students, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Cater, Roshelle – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this research project was designed to test the hypothesis that students taking part in this study would increase their reading comprehension and reading fluency skills by taking part in the Daily 5 Model and The CAFÉ System during the literacy block. The researcher sought to answer the question, "What impact do The Daily 5…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Reading Fluency, Accuracy
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Clark, Tedra F.; Goddard, Roger – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
Effective school reform requires communication with and buy-in from key stakeholders. In recent years, stakeholder surveys have become increasingly prominent tools for promoting better understanding of how school factors contribute to student success. The key purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between Victorian school scores on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Personnel, Opinions, Surveys
Iden, Ronald – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The multigenerational workforce presents a critical challenge for business managers, and each generation has different expectations. A human resource management study of organizations with more than 500 employees reported 58% of the managers experiencing conflict between younger and older workers. The purpose of this single case study was to…
Descriptors: Organizational Climate, Organizational Culture, Generational Differences, Manufacturing Industry
Gentry, Ruben; Stokes, Dorothy – Online Submission, 2016
Many African Americans were imbued with the cliché that they must work twice as hard as others to be a success in life. Entering college, students with this belief put extensive effort into earning top grades to ensure quality preparation for their chosen career; yet, some fail to earn top scores. Why? This is the million dollar question, but the…
Descriptors: African American Students, College Students, Scores, Academic Achievement
Osterbye, Renee R. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Reading is key in all aspects of education and improving reading instruction continues to be an issue of national focus. Although there is considerable research on the nature of teaching reading from a variety of viewpoints, little has focused on student perspectives, particularly at younger levels. The purpose of this case study is to describe…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Early Reading, Reading Improvement, Student Attitudes
Shogren, Karrie A.; Garnier Villarreal, Mauricio; Dowsett, Chantelle; Little, Todd D. – Grantee Submission, 2016
This study conducted secondary analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 (NLTS2) to examine the degree to which student, family, and school constructs predicted self-determination outcomes. Multi-group structural equation modeling was used to examine predictive relationships between 5 students, 4 family, and 7 school…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Predictor Variables, Family Characteristics, Student Characteristics
Cole-Foppe, Leslie A. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The principal needs to be a strong instructional leader and foster a healthy school climate while having sufficient time to dedicate to these roles with all that is expected of the position. This quantitative-based research study examined the relationship between the perceptions of elementary and high school principals and elementary and high…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Principals, Academic Achievement, Educational Environment
Ulum, Ömer Gökhan – Online Submission, 2016
While there are just a limited number of situation analysis studies, there is almost no situation analysis study referring to the physical conditions of an ELT Department. With this in mind, in this paper, the physical state of an ELT department in one of the oldest and rooted universities of Turkey was tried to be analyzed. The picture drawn by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Interviews
Bezem, Pablo; Cogan, Leland S. – Education Policy Center at Michigan State University, 2016
The purpose of this annotated bibliography was to inform an effort to create instruments that would yield indicators of the extent to which the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics or similar standards are implemented in classroom instruction. Reviewed here are instruments reflecting: coverage of classroom content, use of specific…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Textbooks
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Kemmerle, Melissa – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2016
Students ask a variety of questions during mathematics lessons. Some questions focus on procedures or formal notation, while others focus on ideas, connections, or representations. Student questions are important as they provide vastly different learning opportunities for students. In order to support teachers as they help students learn to ask…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Classification, Secondary School Mathematics, Secondary School Students
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