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Hogan, Sean; Hutson, J. – Journal of Access Services, 2018
The University of Baltimore's Langsdale Library underwent its five-year review in FY2016 (1 July 2015-30 June 2016). A basic, integral and necessary element of this process was the development of an assessment plan. Langsdale Library developed a five-year assessment plan based on the five-year review. The plan aligns the library's collections and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Materials, Library Services, Strategic Planning
Markelz, Andrew; Riden, Benjamin; Rizzo, Karen – Beyond Behavior, 2018
Students with emotional and behavioral disorders exhibit high levels of inappropriate behaviors. Although many teachers are aware of the benefits of teacher praise, its use in classrooms remains low. Training students to recruit praise is a method to counter suppressing contingencies and increase praise rates for desired classroom behaviors. With…
Descriptors: Emotional Problems, Behavior Problems, Positive Reinforcement, Training
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Kautto, Niina; Trundle, Alexei; McEvoy, Darryn – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2018
Purpose: There is a growing interest in climate change action in the higher education sector. Higher education institutions (HEIs) play an important role as property owners, employers, education and research hubs as well as leaders of societal transformations. The purpose of this paper was therefore to benchmark how universities globally are…
Descriptors: Climate, Higher Education, Benchmarking, Strategic Planning
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Kelley, Bruce – To Improve the Academy, 2018
We have been asked to describe One Thing that guides us as educational developers. For me, this is the strategic planning process described in Jim Collins' Good to Great (2001). Collins provides a model that helps leaders navigate through change to build effective and influential centers. This framework has allowed me to develop a successful…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Strategic Planning, Models, Change Strategies
Bentin, Moana; McGonegal, Joe – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2018
Eventbrite listed about 400 "women's conferences" in 2017, many inspired when the term #MeToo took off. In Fall 2017, MIT developed the "MIT Women's 'unConference'" based on the idea of just inviting a crowdsourced agenda, saying yes to the alumnae community's ideas, aligning with other women's entities and events, and inviting…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Females, Information Technology, Electronic Publishing
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Nic Giolla Mhichíl, Mairéad; Lynn, Theo; Rosati, Pierangelo – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
This paper considers agentic-activities relating to the Irish language on Twitter and who is engaged with them? To answer this question, this study draws on Twitter data and filters it using the linguistic identifiers, '#Gaeilge' and the word 'Gaeilge' (Irish language). Tweets with these identifiers are conceptually considered as formulations of…
Descriptors: Irish, Social Media, Language Minorities, Language Planning
Education Resource Strategies, 2018
Building on more than a decade of experience working with a diverse array of school systems, our extensive collection of district data, and published research on what works best for students, Education Resource Strategies (ERS) has developed a diagnostic that can guide district leaders from assessment to strategic planning. The Strategic System…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Leaders, School Districts, Comparative Analysis
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Sun, Qi; Chang, Bo – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2019
This paper charts the historical and political contexts for the evolution of Chinese adult and continuing education over the past 40 years, focusing on the national adult education reforms and relevant policies, and establishing the national lifelong education system. The progress and transformations of Chinese adult education, including how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Continuing Education, Educational Change
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Stensaker, Bjørn; Lee, Jenny J.; Rhoades, Gary; Ghosh, Sowmya; Castiello-Gutiérrez, Santiago; Vance, Hillary; Çalikoglu, Alper; Kramer, Vannessa; Liu, Shuiyun; Marei, Mahmoud Sayed; O'Toole, Leslie; Pavlyutkin, Ivan; Peel, Cassandra – Journal of Higher Education, 2019
Globalizing forces have both transformed the higher education sector and made it increasingly homogenous. Growing similarities among universities have been attributed to isomorphic pressures to ensure and/or enhance legitimacy by imitating higher education institutions that are perceived as successful internationally, particularly universities…
Descriptors: Universities, Strategic Planning, Institutional Characteristics, Organizational Theories
Medina Coronado, Daniela; Nagamine Miyashiro, Mercedes María – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2019
When observing in the high school as well as higher education classrooms, the way adolescents and young people study, the idea of knowing if they have strategies for autonomous learning and if this variable explained to some extent a critical problem in Peru arose: reading comprehension. That is why it was proposed as a purpose of the study, to…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Personal Autonomy, Reading Comprehension, High School Students
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Taylor, Whitney D.; Cobigo, Virginie; Ouellette-Kuntz, Hélène – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2019
Background: This study explored the way families support self-determination in young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) during life transitions. Method: Qualitative case studies were conducted with two Canadian families who participated in semi-structured interviews and ethnographic observations every quarter for one…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Self Determination, Young Adults, Intellectual Disability
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Scheuermann, Brenda; Parsons, Madeline; Hayes, Karena – Beyond Behavior, 2019
The success of positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS) in typical schools has led to interest in applying PBIS in alternative settings, including secure care programs for incarcerated juveniles. PBIS holds promise for positively impacting youth behavior in this context. In this discussion article, we describe unique characteristics…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Juvenile Justice, Sustainability, Institutionalized Persons
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Bergquist, Daniel; Hempel, Christine A.; Lööf Green, John – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2019
Purpose: This paper aims to describe an exploratory research and design process that uses illustrative techniques to bridge the gap between theoretical principles of systems ecology, stakeholder input and a workable physical planning strategy for Ultuna Campus in Uppsala, Sweden. Design/methodology/approach: Stakeholder interviews provide the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Agricultural Colleges, Agricultural Education
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Reynolds, Michelle C.; Palmer, Susan B.; Barton, Kelli N. – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 2019
Individuals with severe disabilities and their families can engage in person-centered and family-centered planning for aging using a life course view. Viewing aging within the context of the family and disability is essential because many people with severe disabilities depend on their families for supports in daily living, social relationships,…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Severe Disabilities, Planning, Family Relationship
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Bütün, Mesut – World Journal of Education, 2019
The purpose of this study was to reveal the challenges and advantages of the implementation of the lesson study model in Turkish middle schools. This study was a case study and the participants of the study was 11 middle school mathematics teachers in three different school in a city at central Anatolia region of Turkey. Three lesson study cycles…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Teachers, Communities of Practice, Faculty Development
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