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Freilich, Joshua D.; Chermak, Steven M.; Connell, Nadine M.; Klein, Brent R.; Greene-Colozzi, Emily A. – Journal of School Violence, 2022
This study uses open source information to examine school shootings in the United States for the 1990-2016 period. We innovatively created a national-level database to address the gaps in existing research and identified 652 school shootings. These shootings included 473 intentional shootings (encompassing 354 with known offenders and 119 with…
Descriptors: Weapons, School Violence, Homicide, Information Sources
Farley-Ripple, Elizabeth; Van Horne, Sam; Tilley, Kati; Shewchuk, Samantha; May, Henry; Micklos, Deborah Amsden; Blackman, Horatio – Center for Research Use in Education, 2022
In the United States, increased pressure through accountability policy and through the production and dissemination of scientifically based research are intended to create conditions for improving research use. Concurrently, researchers, education agencies, and funders have mounted efforts to strengthen relationships between research and…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Utilization, Educational Practices, Evidence
Davina Quichocho – ProQuest LLC, 2022
A new mobile application (app) was developed by the Military REACH team. It delivered research-backed professional development content to practicing human and family service providers over the course of eight weeks. The app aimed to enhance their ability to provide services that meet the unique needs of Service member, Veteran, and military family…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Computer Software, Professional Development, Research Utilization
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Saux, Gaston; Ros, Christine; Britt, M. Anne; Stadtler, Marc; Burin, Debora I.; Rouet, Jean-François – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2018
In two experiments, undergraduate students read short texts containing two embedded sources that could either agree or disagree with each other. Participants' memory for the sources' identity (i.e., occupation) and features (i.e., the source's access to knowledge and the source's physical appearance) was examined as a function of the consistency…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Reading, Undergraduate Students, Information Sources
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Karakaya, Ferhat; Yilmaz, Mehmet; Adigüzel, Merve – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2021
Biology is a complex science that includes different subjects. As a result, misconceptions, confusion and misleading are common problems in biology education. In this study, it was aimed to determine the learning of pre-service science teachers about food web. The research, using the case study, was conducted in 2019-2020. The study group of the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Undergraduate Students, Science Education, Scientific Concepts
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Prentice, Caitlin M.; Ott, Eleanor – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2021
Schools play a key role in the lives of young refugees and asylum seekers, yet it is unclear to what extent educators are prepared to effectively teach this population. In this study, we examined how educators acquire knowledge relevant to teaching refugee pupils through a survey (n = 295) and nestled case studies of 17 teachers at two schools in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Teaching Methods, Teacher Education
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Skoumios, Michael; Skoumpourdi, Chrysanthi – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2021
The research for teachers' conceptions of the outside educational materials, that they discover and use, is very limited. In addition, there is also particularly limited research comparing teachers' conceptions of the use of educational materials on the basis of the subject they teach. The present paper aims at investigating and comparing primary…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Science Instruction, Mathematics Instruction, Instructional Material Evaluation
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Nyarko, Samuel Cornelius; Petcovic, Heather L. – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
Training a scientific workforce in order to mitigate the impacts of climate change drives an international need for climate science education, including in Ghana. How preservice teachers understand climate change, and the often misunderstood relationship between ozone depletion and global warming, critically impacts the students they will teach.…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary Education, Science Education, Scientific Literacy
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Sümer Dodur, H. Miray; Altindag Kumas, Özlem – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2021
Dyslexia is a specific learning disability that is neurobiological in origin, is characterised by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities and is encountered in one in every five children. Teachers' pedagogical knowledge plays an important role in the education of students with dyslexia.…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Students with Disabilities, Elementary School Teachers, Knowledge Level
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Tuluk, Güler; Akyüz, Halil Ibrahim – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2021
This study aims to examine the knowledge-seeking competencies of prospective philosophy teachers who have received pedagogical training in an online environment according to their "reflective thoughts" and "Inventory of Online Information Search Strategies". The methodology of the study was the single-group pretest-posttest…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Philosophy, Online Searching, Search Strategies
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Alahmadi, Adnan A. S.; Abdeen, Rawan H. – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2021
The coronavirus (COVID-2019) has spread very rapidly over many countries around the world, producing an outbreak of acute infectious pneumonia. Medical imaging devices play a vital role in early diagnosis, evaluating severity and disease prognosis of confirmed patients with COVID-19. The aim of the study is to evaluate the awareness level of…
Descriptors: Radiology, Allied Health Occupations Education, Clinical Diagnosis, Patients
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Terrile, Vikki C. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
While limited research on the information behaviors of community college students exists, the theories of Elfreda Chatman have not been used to develop understanding of this population. Community college students are more likely to be people of color and/or lower income than their peers in four-year colleges, making them potentially more likely to…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Information Seeking, Information Skills, Users (Information)
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Rasheed, Fatima; Guo, Lingling – Asian Journal of Contemporary Education, 2020
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of knowledge acquisition, application and its utilisation influences to enhance the institutional learning in Pakistan. As numerous Pakistani managers hesitant for the acquisition of technology-based knowledge management, its application and after that its utilization in their organizations…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Universities, Knowledge Management, College Students
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Soicher, Raechel N.; Becker-Blease, Kathryn A. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2020
Structure building refers to the way in which people construct meaning from incoming information by creating a foundation of mental nodes, mapping incoming information to the foundational structure, and shifting to a new structure when necessary. Structure building ability has been shown to moderate learning both in laboratory-based and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Publishing Industry, Introductory Courses, Psychology
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Blissett, Richard S. L. – Educational Policy, 2020
Research suggests that individuals may make choices about the information they consume that are influenced by what they already believe. In this study, I investigate this process in a particularly contentious policy arena: charter schools. What kinds of information are important to people as they evaluate charter school policy? Are their choices…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Policy, Information Seeking, Information Skills
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