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Grier, Jeanne M.; Johnston, Carol C. – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2009
National shortages of math and science teachers have led to a variety of strategies and programs to attract second career professionals into teaching. This qualitative study explores the development of professional teaching identities in six STEM career changers in a post-baccalaureate pre-service teacher credential program in California. Findings…
Descriptors: Career Change, Science Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Recruitment
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Shammas, Diane S. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2009
Apart from the widescale media attention that Arabs and Muslims have received in the United States and abroad since 9/11, these two target populations have been largely unexamined at both the two-year and four-year college levels. This study represents a pioneering effort in investigating whether the post-9/11 backlash against Arabs and Muslims…
Descriptors: College Students, Campuses, Muslims, Community Colleges
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Beghetto, Ronald A. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2009
This study had the goal of exploring factors associated with elementary students' (N = 585) reports of intellectual risk taking in science. Intellectual risk taking (IRT) was defined as engaging in adaptive learning behaviors (sharing tentative ideas, asking questions, attempting to do and learn new things) that placed the learner at risk of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Self Efficacy, Science Interests, Science Instruction
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Dimmitt, Carey; Carey, Jay – Professional School Counseling, 2007
The American School Counselor Association has developed the ASCA National Model[R] in order to provide school counselors with a structure for effective practice. The ASCA National Model can help school counselors think proactively about how they can best serve the students in their schools, and it contains ideas and tools for developing…
Descriptors: School Counselors, School Counseling, Program Development, Models
Gracey, Dorothy M. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This mixed-method study identifies cyber high school graduates' perceptions of the effect of a cyber high school education on successful transition to a traditional university. The study examined students' perceptions of the advantages and disadvantages their cyber education experience contributed to their academic and social transition to…
Descriptors: High Schools, Online Courses, High School Graduates, Student Attitudes
Pham, Minh Trung – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The increased growth of online instruction has been well documented by various studies. As the result of the proliferation of online instruction, students from outside of the United States are now able to obtain an American education without having to leave their home country. While online course designs have been well researched and documented to…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Instructional Design, Qualitative Research, Online Courses
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O'Reilly, Aileen; Ryan, Dermot; Hickey, Tina – Journal of College Student Development, 2010
This article reports on an empirical study of the psychosocial adaptation of international students in Ireland. Using measures of social support, loneliness, stress, psychological well-being, and sociocultural adaptation, data were obtained from international students and a comparison sample of Irish students. The study found that, although…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Well Being
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Torenbeek, Marjolein; Jansen, Ellen; Hofman, Adriaan – Studies in Higher Education, 2010
Central in this study is the role of student variables and the fit between secondary education and university education in the explanation of first-year student achievement. The fit between two levels of education can be defined in different ways. In this study the focus is on four fit-aspects: appropriateness of expectations, and the degree to…
Descriptors: Productivity, Student Employment, Social Integration, Structural Equation Models
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Clark, Jim; Dodd, Dave; Coll, Richard K. – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2008
Two earlier papers in this special issue detail staff and student perceptions of their higher education science and engineering learning communities for the New Zealand university and polytechnic sectors (Campbell et al. 2008; Cronje and Coll 2008). These findings suggest the students in these communities gradually come to share some of the views…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Engineering Education, Acculturation
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Hue, Ming-Tak – Ethnography and Education, 2008
Many schools in Hong Kong are concerned with the growing number of enrolments of students from Mainland China. This article examines the immigrant students' constructs of their cross-cultural identities. It reveals how these students experience a journey of transformation in language, culture and identity. Qualitative data were collected from…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Enrollment
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Wildenger, Leah K.; McIntyre, Laura Lee; Fiese, Barbara H.; Eckert, Tanya L. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2008
Routines are an important feature of family life and functioning in families with young children. Common daily routines such as dinnertime, bedtime, and waking activities are powerful organizers of family behavior and may be instrumental to children and families during times of transition, such as elementary school entry. Daily routines were…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Early Childhood Education, Family Life, Young Children
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Lash, Martha – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2008
This study reflects a naturalistic, interpretive 5-month study in a public school morning kindergarten regarding the children's social development and creation of a peer culture during the transitional months into public education. The main focus of the research was the children's perspectives on these transitions and their evolving classroom…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Social Development, Public Education, Change
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von Frank, Valerie – Journal of Staff Development, 2008
This article takes a look at Dearborn school district, a district which has successfully educated English language learners (ELLs) with an emphasis on cultural respect for all its students. In Dearborn, where fifteen of its 33 schools have students populations of at least 50 percent ELLS, students are free to wear hajibs--head scarves. The…
Descriptors: School Districts, Immigrants, Cultural Pluralism, English (Second Language)
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Kabir, Nahid Afrose – Australian Journal of Education, 2008
Recently politicians in Australia have raised concerns that some Muslims are not adopting Australian values to a sufficient extent. In this paper I explore the notion of Australian values with respect to immigrant youth. By analysing interviews with 32 Muslim students who are 15-18 years of age and of diverse backgrounds in two state schools in…
Descriptors: State Schools, Muslims, Foreign Countries, Youth
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Schuetz, Pam – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2008
This mixed-methods study develops, operationalizes, and tests a new conceptual model of community college student engagement. Themes emerging from participant observations and semistructured interviews with 30 adult students enrolled at a Large Best Practices Community College (LBPCC) over the 2005-2006 academic year are used to guide selection of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Structural Equation Models, Adult Students, Student Participation
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