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Amy Lovin Henecke – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Several factors contribute to the challenges community college leaders face in maintaining and sustaining noncredit workforce development programming. For example, these factors include funding reductions from state legislators and corporations using internal training departments for workforce development. There are community colleges that do…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Noncredit Courses, Labor Force Development, Sustainable Development
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Jeremy E. Sawyer – American Journal of Play, 2023
Jeremy Sawyer recounts that, after Lev S. Vygotsky's death, Jean Piaget conceded the Russian psychologist correctly understood the social origins, functions, and developmental trajectory of children's egocentric speech (now called private speech) but dismissed this work as irrelevant to children's egocentrism or nondifferentiation of perspectives.…
Descriptors: Piagetian Theory, Developmental Stages, Play, Speech Habits
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Said Hadjerrouit; Celestine Ifeanyi Nnagbo – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2023
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the affordances of the e-assessment system Numbas from an Activity Theory perspective. The study follows a qualitative research design combined with semi-structured interviews with six students and two teachers. The findings reveal that the students were able to perceive and actualise several affordances…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Computer Assisted Testing, Social Theories, Feedback (Response)
Alecia M. Redway – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Extant literature lacks an explanation of the thought processes used by secondary school science teachers to interpret students' scientific models that are comprised of drawing activities. In this exploratory study, a constructivist grounded theory (CGT) was developed to generate an interpretive understanding. The CGT was generated from…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Freehand Drawing, Models, Constructivism (Learning)
Michelle Flores Holz – ProQuest LLC, 2023
America's schools are more diverse than ever, but the teachers are still mostly White. Overwhelmingly, the research says that Teachers of Color in classrooms provide numerous benefits for all students (e.g., Ahmad & Boser, 2014; Archinstein et al., 2010; Cherng & Halpin, 2016; Partelow et al., 2017; Perlman et., 2016; Villegas & Lucas,…
Descriptors: Principals, Barriers, Teacher Recruitment, Personnel Selection
Velazquez-Smith, Tyana Rene – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Elementary-aged Black girls in predominantly white schools often exist within the constructions of racist and sexist conditions. These conditions inform their school experiences and subject them to a magnitude of social, physical, mental, and psychological violence. Despite the harm that predominately white schools produce onto the bodies of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, African American Students, Racial Composition, Educational Environment
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Larsen, Inge Birkbak; Blenker, Per; Neergaard, Helle – Education & Training, 2023
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to examine the usefulness of the stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) model for systematizing and further exploring the knowledge of the role of entrepreneurship education (EE) in fostering students' entrepreneurial mindset (EM). Current research studying the EM in an educational setting often fails to conceptualize…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, College Students, Business Education, Models
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Sturgell, Adelle K.; Van Norman, Ethan R. – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2023
Problem-solving frameworks have the potential to promote objective data-based decisions that increase the likelihood students are matched to appropriate evidence-based interventions. Unfortunately, cognitive biases, heuristics, and fallacies can lead to erroneous conclusions within problem-solving frameworks. Some of these effects have been…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Problem Solving, Guidelines, Evidence Based Practice
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Read, Stuart; Parfitt, Anne; Macer, Mel – Oxford Review of Education, 2023
In England, Pupil Premium Plus is additional funding to help address the educational attainment gap experienced by looked after children. This paper explores the experiences of virtual school heads and designated teachers (n = 140) as they access Pupil Premium Plus-related information, guidance and training to support their practice; navigate the…
Descriptors: Social Theories, Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Educational Attainment
Jacqueline Cochran – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Problem: In Midwest, suburban primary care clinics within large health systems, there was a lack of time for thorough diabetes education with a primary care provider (PCP), a lack of educational resources that took advantage of current patient wait times in primary care settings, and a lack of attendance at affiliated diabetes self-management…
Descriptors: Diabetes, Patient Education, Primary Health Care, Television
Adrianna Gonzalez – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore through platica (conversation), the life experiences of Latinx students who prepared for and completed the High School Equivalency Test (HiSET) to critically understand both the risk and protective factors related to their ability to persist until the completion of their certificate.…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, High School Equivalency Programs, Equivalency Tests, High School Students
Rachael Schilling – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Prevention of sexual violence is of vital importance, especially on university campuses where sexual violence occurs at particularly high rates. Universities are federally required to implement prevention programming, but little is known about retention over time. In addition, research has not analyzed the relationship between sexual violence…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Violence, College Environment, School Safety
Janell Venita Geddis – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this quantitative correlative study was to determine what, if any, statistically significant correlations exist between undergraduate STEM students' perception of transactional distance and their level of engagement in an online learning environment at two-year community colleges. The theoretical foundations for the study included…
Descriptors: Community College Students, STEM Education, Learner Engagement, Electronic Learning
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Santiago Betancor-Falcon – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2023
The literature on autonomous language learning reveals both, scholars' great enthusiasm for the revolutionary potential of learner autonomy as well as pessimism for its continual depoliticization within higher education. Similar to how 'learner autonomy' is still today an unfinished construct that raises considerable confusion among scholars, the…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Personal Autonomy, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Hannah E. Luce; Kristin M. Villanueva – Center for Educational Measurement and Evaluation, 2023
This grounded theory study seeks to 1) understand what barriers North Carolina kindergarten teachers experience as they implement a new authentic formative assessment, the North Carolina Early Learning Inventory (NC ELI), and 2) identify factors that increase implementation fidelity with the new measure. Data were collected from 10 teachers, from…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Fidelity, Teaching Methods, Grounded Theory
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