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Payne, Geoff – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2018
Most undergraduates' main, hands-on involvement in student engagement is completing satisfaction surveys, such as the U.K. National Student Survey (NSS), whose findings make significant contributions to university policy formation. It is therefore important that these surveys produce reliable and valid data, but previous and current NSS versions…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Undergraduate Students, College Freshmen, College Seniors
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Frazier, Marian L.; LoFaro, Thomas; Pillers Dobler, Carolyn – PRIMUS, 2018
The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) and the American Statistical Association (ASA) have both updated and revised their curriculum guidelines. The guidelines of both associations recommend that students engage in a "capstone" experience, be exposed to applications, and have opportunities to communicate mathematical and…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Mathematics Instruction, Statistics, Mathematical Models
Chaudhuri, Shankharupa – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The first-year students join college with several expectations in their mind about their upcoming academic endeavors and their career. The first-year of college is the most crucial year of a students' college career. This dissertation explores first-year students' perceptions/ expectation of academic rigor and academic help-seeking in college as…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Help Seeking, Student Behavior, Learner Engagement
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Pietsch, Marcus; Tulowitzki, Pierre; Hartig, Johannes – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2020
There is a large base of empirical evidence that points to the importance of school leadership with regard to functional schools and student achievement. Based on this importance, a change of principal can be a critical event for a school. This study seeks to answer the question if principal turnover is associated with a change in a school's…
Descriptors: Principals, Labor Turnover, Teacher Effectiveness, Correlation
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Zilvinskis, John; Barber, Renae E.; Brozinsky, Johanna L.; Hochberg, Shelby R. – NACADA Journal, 2020
In prior scholarship, researchers identified barriers students with disabilities encounter in accessing academic advising, such as social stigma and hesitance to disclose. Through our study, we sought to inform advising practice by exposing the perceived deficit in services toward this population, uniquely evidenced by large data. The National…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Faculty Advisers, College Freshmen, Students with Disabilities
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Wolaver, Amy M.; Finley, Kelly – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2020
Using the National Survey of Student Engagement and multivariate regression techniques, we examine the impact of a first-year residential learning community (RLC) at a predominately White small liberal arts institution. This program disproportionately attracts students of color, providing structural diversity. We include measures of students'…
Descriptors: Residential Programs, Living Learning Centers, Learner Engagement, Student Participation
Johnson, Amy; Hawes, Kathryn; Olson, Sigrid – Center for Education Policy, Applied Research, and Evaluation, 2020
In response to recent anecdotal reports that Maine is experiencing heightened staff shortages, this study was designed to understand the current and future issues facing recruitment, induction, and retention of teachers and administrators in Maine's public schools. This report includes analysis of current administrative data on teacher and…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Surveys, Teacher Shortage
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Regional Educational Laboratory West, 2020
These are the appendixes for the report, "The Association between Teachers' Use of Formative Assessment Practices and Students' Use of Self-Regulated Learning Strategies." Two appendixes are included in this document. Appendix A are the methods of the study. This includes the reliability of the teacher and student surveys and the…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Learning Strategies, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers
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Jerrim, John; Sims, Sam; Taylor, Hannah; Allen, Rebecca – Review of Education, 2020
There is growing concern about the mental health and wellbeing of teachers globally, with the stress caused by the job thought to be a key factor driving many to leave the profession. It is often claimed that teachers have worse mental health and wellbeing outcomes than other occupational groups. Yet academic evidence on this matter remains…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Well Being, Teachers, Professional Personnel
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Neal, Zachary; Neal, Jennifer Watling; Piteo, Amelia – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2020
Educational researchers regularly collect survey data from educators, but struggle to encourage survey completion in this busy population, particularly when surveys are web-based. In this study we experimentally investigated the usefulness of follow-up phone calls and increased monetary incentives to non-respondents as strategies to boost response…
Descriptors: Incentives, Administrator Surveys, Principals, Educational Research
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Tout, Dave – International Review of Education, 2020
Historically, numeracy has tended to be forgotten and overlooked in adult education, especially compared to literacy. Yet evidence exists to show that numeracy should be made a priority, and that building the foundational numeracy skills of young people and adults is vital for their well-being in work and life in the 21st century. In the past…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Numeracy, Adult Education, Mathematics Skills
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Fontaine, Sylvie; Frenette, Eric; Hébert, Marie-Hélène – International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2020
This article presents the results of a research that aimed to examine the phenomenon of student cheating on exams in faculties of education in Quebec universities. A total of 573 preservice teachers completed an online survey in 2018. The questionnaire consisted of 28 questions with a Likert scale related to individual and contextual factors…
Descriptors: Cheating, Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Student Surveys
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Blackburn, Janette S. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2020
As part of the annual American Library Association 2019 Annual Conference, George Washington University Library in Washington, D.C., hosted a preconference workshop to inform librarians about the planning process necessary for a successful library renovation or new building. The workshop offered participants practical advice from architects and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Surveys, Workshops, Financial Support
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Coryn, Chris L. S.; Becho, Lyssa W.; Westine, Carl D.; Mateu, Pedro F.; Abu-Obaid, Ruqayyah N.; Hobson, Kristin A.; Schröter, Daniela C.; Dodds, Erica L.; Vo, Anne T.; Ramlow, Mary – American Journal of Evaluation, 2020
Internet surveys of American Evaluation Association (AEA) members are a common method for studying evaluation practice. Response rates obtained from Internet surveys of AEA members are, however, frequently very small. To investigate whether or not material incentives increase response rates to Internet surveys of AEA members, a between-subjects…
Descriptors: Response Rates (Questionnaires), Online Surveys, Professional Associations, Incentives
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Jacobs, Laura; Loosveldt, Geert; Beullens, Koen – Field Methods, 2020
A growing body of literature points to the possibilities offered by postsurvey interviewer observations as a source of paradata to obtain insights into data quality. However, their utility in predicting actual behavior of respondents has attracted limited scholarly attention so far. Using data from Round 7 of the European Social Survey, we aim to…
Descriptors: Interviews, Accuracy, Observation, Response Style (Tests)
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