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Nurik, Inna – ProQuest LLC, 2015
There are numerous variations surrounding the utilization of instructional coaches in education. This paper quantitatively examined the relationship between principals and outside instructional coaches and how this relationship impacts the principals' perception of the coaches' support on the school improvement within the large urban K-12 New York…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Educational Improvement, Coaching (Performance)
Wu, Yi-Chin – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This dissertation examined the relationship between Asian international doctoral students' self-regulation on academic and social integration and explored how acculturation tendencies function as a mediator between self-regulated learning and academic and social integration. Previous research has indicated that self-regulated learning has a great…
Descriptors: Correlation, Metacognition, Asians, Foreign Students
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Zhelnina, A. A.; Zinov'ev, A. A.; Kuleva, M. I. – Russian Education & Society, 2015
The article presents the results of a pilot survey devoted to the behavior of young people in the public places of residential districts in St. Petersburg. These places are viewed as the spaces of potential interaction among the various urban publics in which the processes of self-identification and the establishment of social differences take…
Descriptors: Surveys, Foreign Countries, Urban Areas, Youth
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Droms, Courtney; Stephen, Sheryl-Ann K. – Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 2015
Individual and corporate social responsibility has been gaining more and more attention over the last several years. We examine the effectiveness of incorporating social responsibility courses into the curriculum in higher education, with a specific look at Butler University. In general, the results indicate that implementing this type of…
Descriptors: Social Responsibility, Courses, Higher Education, Student Attitudes
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Erdt, Mojisola; Fernandez, Alejandro; Rensing, Christoph – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2015
The increasing number of publications on recommender systems for Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) evidence a growing interest in their development and deployment. In order to support learning, recommender systems for TEL need to consider specific requirements, which differ from the requirements for recommender systems in other domains like…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Evaluation Methods, Statistical Analysis, Surveys
Shallenberger, David – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2015
It is commonly accepted that we should and often do learn from our mistakes, and it is also quite common to be afraid of making mistakes. International educators are no exception to the experience of learning from mistakes. This author describes a professional meeting where several of the attendees who had been in their field for decades shared…
Descriptors: International Education, Online Surveys, Interviews, Study Abroad
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Priest, Susanna Hornig; Greenhalgh, Ted; Neill, Helen R.; Young, Gabriel Reuben – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2015
Diffusion theory, developed and popularized within communication research by Everett Rogers, is a venerable approach with much to recommend it as a theoretical foundation for applied communication research. In developing an applied project for a home energy conservation (energy efficiency retrofit) program in the state of Nevada, we utilized key…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Adoption (Ideas), Energy Conservation, Housing
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Trauth, Erin – Community Literacy Journal, 2015
In the face of the $44 billion market--and rising--for foods labeled as "natural" (despite any formal regulatory oversight on the use of this term), this article examines multiple complex layers of community literacies and movements involving foods labeled as "natural," including an increasing availability of…
Descriptors: Foods Instruction, Nutrition Instruction, Food, Nutrition
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Deochand, Neil; Conway, Alissa A.; Fuqua, R. Wayne – Support for Learning, 2015
Individuals with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) who display severe and challenging behaviour sometimes require centre-based intensive applied behaviour analysis (ABA) therapy to meet their health, safety and educational needs. Unfortunately, despite the need for centre-based treatment, there is a paucity of empirical research on building and…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Behavior Modification, Clinics
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Martin, Andrew J.; Liem, Gregory Arief D. – Geographical Education, 2015
Adaptability is our capacity to respond to change, uncertainty, and variability. We report on recent research investigating how young people's adaptability is related to their environmental awareness, environmental concerns, and pro-environmental attitudes that support the need for policy and action to sustain the environment.
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Climate, Environment, Perception
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Burch, Michael J.; Swails, Patricia; Mills, Randy – Education, 2015
The servant leadership model is often touted as the best model for Administrators to use at Christian schools of higher education. Research indicated, however, that a disconnection between how leaders of an organization perceived the strengths and weaknesses of their leadership skills and how followers perceived those skills can be detrimental to…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Leadership Qualities, Christianity, Church Related Colleges
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Piotrowski, Chris – College Student Journal, 2015
There is a dearth of studies on how college students prepare for the threat of natural disasters. This study surveyed college students' preferences in mass media use prior to an approaching hurricane. The convenience sample (n = 76) were from a university located in the hurricane-prone area of the central Gulf of Mexico coast. Interestingly,…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, College Students, Readiness, Student Surveys
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Zerbo, Ousseny; Massolo, Maria L.; Qian, Yinge; Croen, Lisa A. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2015
We conducted an online survey of adult health care providers at Kaiser Permanente Northern California and semi-structured interviews with a subset of physicians. The survey assessed providers' ability to recognize autism spectrum disorder (ASD), asked them to rate their autism knowledge, comfort level in treating affected patients, and evaluated…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Physicians, Knowledge Level
Farrow, Robert; de los Arcos, Beatriz; Pitt, Rebecca; Weller, Martin – European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2015
Open educational resources (OER) have been identified as having the potential to extend opportunities for learning to non-formal learners. However, little research has been conducted into the impact of OER on non-formal learners. This paper presents the results of a systematic survey of more than 3,000 users of open educational resources (OER).…
Descriptors: Nonformal Education, Comparative Analysis, Resource Units, Computer Uses in Education
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Ding, Lin; Mollohan, Katherine N. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2015
This article describes a survey study of college students' epistemologies about biology and learning biology. Specifically, the authors examined the differences between science and nonscience majors and their changes in epistemologies over the course of a semester of instruction.
Descriptors: College Students, Student Surveys, Biology, Epistemology
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