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Kim, Sung Un – Knowledge Quest, 2012
The number of linguistically and culturally diverse students has been rapidly increasing in the United States. English language learner (ELL) enrollment has increased more than 50 percent from 1995-1996 to 2005-2006, composing about 10 percent of the total number of Pre-K-12 enrollment. The U.S. Census Bureau projects that 40 percent of the…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Elementary Secondary Education, Research Projects, Learning Experience
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Burkholder, Peter – History Teacher, 2010
In an attempt to increase college history majors' ability to analyze primary sources, the author set up a unique research project designed to tap into his students' personal interests, and which would utilize a specific method requiring them to grapple with primary source materials in an unfamiliar, though hopefully more profitable fashion. The…
Descriptors: United States History, History Instruction, Majors (Students), College Students
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Jasman, Anne M. – Professional Development in Education, 2010
Continuing learning is central to the professions of teaching and teacher education. Research that explores the nature of professional learning and the conditions that promote it is limited. In this paper I examine my own involvement and that of other teachers and teacher educators in five practice-based research studies in terms of our…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Teacher Educators, Professional Continuing Education
Gafoor, K. Abdul – Online Submission, 2008
Identifying an area of research a topic, deciding on a problem, and formulating it in to a researchable question are very difficult stages in the whole research process at least for beginners. Few books on research methodology elaborates the various process involved in problem selection and clarification. Viewing research and problem selection as…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Research, Research Projects, Researchers
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Smith-Stoner, Marilyn; Gonzalez, Evelyn – International Research and Review, 2011
Providing experiences for international travel is an important aspect of higher education, and creating high-quality international exchanges can be a challenge. Developing appropriate experiences for nursing students may be especially difficult due to the complexity of regulatory and accreditation requirements. However, it is possible to find…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Nursing Education, Student Exchange Programs, International Educational Exchange
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Rainey, Isobel – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2011
This study examines the action research topics and topic preferences of two groups of grassroots teachers: active researchers, and potential researchers. The analysis of the topics appears to indicate that, over the past decade, action research at the teaching of English at the grassroots level to speakers of other languages has been principally…
Descriptors: Action Research, English (Second Language), Professional Development, Teaching Methods
Snowling, Margaret J.; Hulme, Charles; Bailey, Alison M.; Stothard, Susan E.; Lindsay, Geoff – Department for Education, 2011
It is well-established that language skills are amongst the best predictors of educational success. Consistent with this, findings from a population-based longitudinal study of parents and children in the UK indicate that language development at the age of two years predicts children's performance on entering primary school. Moreover, children who…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Research Projects, Educational Attainment, Identification
Caspe, Margaret; Lopez, M. Elena; Chu, Ashley; Weiss, Heather B. – Harvard Family Research Project, 2011
Since the 1997 publication of "New Skills for New Schools" by Harvard Family Research Project, the education reform landscape has changed dramatically, making it necessary to align teacher preparation and professional learning for family engagement with the goals of a twenty-first century education. Harvard Family Research Project is currently…
Descriptors: Research Projects, Educational Change, Best Practices, Educational Practices
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Smith, Steven C.; Gronseth, Darren L. – Research Management Review, 2011
In order for research programs at academic medical centers and universities to survive and thrive in the increasingly challenging economic, political and regulatory environment, successful transformation is extremely important. Transformation and quality management techniques are increasingly well established in medical practice organizations. In…
Descriptors: Management Information Systems, Management Systems, Research Projects, Quality Assurance
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Minerick, Adrienne R. – Chemical Engineering Education, 2011
This contribution outlines a strategy to counteract literature lethargy and train beginning and continuing undergraduate and graduate researchers in a professor's research group to efficiently learn from and critique archival journal articles. Journal Club is a weekly one-credit-hour class where a research article related to each research…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Research Projects, Clubs, Journal Articles
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Mohamed, Carmen – Education 3-13, 2011
The project on which this report is based set out to establish how exploring children's musicality might encourage adults to consider their engagement with the musical play and learning of children under the age of five. Through reflection and evaluation the participants became aware that they were challenging their own teaching style in response…
Descriptors: Music Education, Teaching Styles, Teacher Characteristics, Educational Research
Daugherty, Jenny – National Center for Engineering and Technology Education, 2012
Engineering has gained considerable traction in many K-12 schools. However, there are several obstacles or challenges to an effective approach that leads to student learning. Questions such as where engineering best fits in the curriculum; how to include it authentically and appropriately; toward what educational end; and how best to prepare…
Descriptors: Engineering, Biological Sciences, Physical Sciences, Elementary Secondary Education
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Mentz, Elsa; Bailey, Roxanne; Havenga, Marietjie; Breed, Betty; Govender, Desmond; Govender, Irene; Dignum, Frank; Dignum, Virginia – Perspectives in Education, 2012
This article reflects on the first phase of a research project aimed at the empowerment of Information Technology (IT) teachers in black rural schools in the North-West province of South Africa. In order to empower these IT teachers, the first phase aimed at understanding their unique challenges and needs. Qualitative research methodology was used…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Educational Needs, Qualitative Research, Information Technology
Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy, 2009
This paper outlines a possible approach to implementing the Social Entrepreneurship initiative, focused on building a body of research-proven program models/strategies, and scaling them up, so as to produce major progress in education, poverty reduction, crime prevention, and other areas. The paper summarizes the rationale for this approach, then…
Descriptors: Poverty, Crime, Models, Crime Prevention
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Montgomery, Catherine – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2009
This article considers how student views of collaborative study in a diverse international academic context may have changed in the past decade. A retrospective is provided on a research project carried out in 1998 that investigated students' views of working in international groups; this is linked with research carried out by the author in 2008.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Higher Education, Research Projects, Multicultural Education
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