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Moran, Renee M. R. – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2017
The use of student achievement data to evaluate an individual teacher's effectiveness has become a new focus in educational policy. This article focuses on the underresearched teacher perception of this new policy measure. Drawing on ethnographic research procedures, this article explores how first-grade teachers in one state navigated a new…
Descriptors: Accountability, Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Attitudes, Ethnography
Billen, Monica T.; Ward, Natalia A.; DeHart, Jason D.; Moran, Renee R.; Yang, Shuling – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2022
Even in online and distance formats, multimodal composition can be a means of sustaining culture and engaging children. The Teach Us project combines multimodal composition, family cultural resources, and student voice.
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Learning Modalities, Cultural Influences, Culturally Relevant Education
Moran, Renee M. R.; Hong, Huili; Keith, Karin J.; Fisher, Stacey; Wood, LaShay – Critical Questions in Education, 2022
This paper focuses on the relationship between policy creation and policy enactment through the use of an innovative qualitative research methodology, photo elicitation. Teachers applying Common Core State Standards were studied in two states through indepth interviews, photographs captured by the participants, and other artifacts. Findings…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Teacher Attitudes, Photography, Researchers
Moran, Lyndsey R.; Lengua, Liliana J.; Zalewski, Maureen – Social Development, 2013
Interactions between reactive and regulatory dimensions of temperament may be particularly relevant to children's adjustment but are examined infrequently. This study investigated these interactions by examining effortful control as a moderator of the relations of fear and frustration reactivity to children's social competence, internalizing, and…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Child Development, Young Children
Videka, Lynn; Blackburn, James A.; Moran, James R. – Social Work Research, 2008
This article addresses strategies for research infrastructure development in social work by building on the profession's work of the past two decades and by drawing on the experiences of the larger university environment. The article provides a set of recommendations for the next generation of social work research, which is likely to be highly…
Descriptors: Social Work, Professional Education, Universities, Research Administration
Moran, Mary R. – Diagnostique, 1982
An analytic scoring system developed to identify and quantify specific formal features of written language is described. Under the categories of Conventions, Complexity, Fluency, and Organization, the system provides guidelines for determining correct and nonconforming structures and usage, describing clause construction and length, classifying…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Learning Problems, Writing (Composition)
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Moran, James R. – Journal of Social Work Education, 1989
The relationship was examined between the number of social work courses completed by students and their humanistic attitudes. Results suggest that social work education has a positive association with attitudes about human nature, but no relationship to attitudes about social justice. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Humanism, Humanistic Education
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Moran, Michael R. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1992
Investigated effects of sexual orientation similarity of counselor and client and counselor experience level on perceptions of counselors by 40 gay men and 40 lesbians. Results indicated that lesbians rated experienced therapists, both lesbian and heterosexual, as more expert; there were no other significant main or interaction effects. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Client Characteristics (Human Services), Counselor Characteristics, Counselor Client Relationship, Homosexuality
Moran, John R.; Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma – Journal of Human Resources, 2006
We use exogenous variation in Social Security payments created by the Social Security benefits notch to estimate how retirees' use of prescription medications responds to changes in their incomes. Using data from the 1993 Wave of the AHEAD, we obtain instrumental variables estimates of the income elasticity of prescription drug use that are…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Drug Use, Computation, Income
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Moran, James R.; And Others – Journal of Social Work Education, 1995
A study compared the values and personal orientation of beginning graduate students in social work (MSW) and business administration (MBA). The qualities on which MSW students outscored MBA counterparts all supported effective leadership of human service agencies. It is recommended that social work education focus more on training future managers.…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Business Administration Education, Comparative Analysis, Graduate Students
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Moran, James R.; Reaman, Julia Archer – Journal of Primary Prevention, 2002
Examines prevention programs targeting alcohol and other drug use among American Indian youth. Specific programs are considered within these frameworks: cognitive/information dissemination, affective education, social influence, and personal and social skills training. A particular focus in on the manner in which issues of culture are incorporated…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indians, Cultural Influences, Drinking
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May, Philip A.; Moran, James R. – American Journal of Health Promotion, 1995
A review of research on prevention of alcohol abuse among American Indians found that they experience many alcohol-related health problems. Indians have earlier age of first involvement with alcohol, more frequent drinking, and more negative consequences than non-Indians. Prevention programs must consider American Indian heterogeneity and cultural…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Alcoholism, American Indians, Community Health Services
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Moran, James R.; Corley, M. Deborah – Adolescence, 1991
Surveyed 28 Anglo and 69 Hispanic adolescent males concerning sources of sexual information and their sexual attitudes and practices. Results revealed little difference by ethnicity for attitudes and practices. Relationship between completing sex education class and condom use was statistically significant in positive direction with relationship…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitudes, Contraception, Cultural Differences
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Moran, James R.; Fleming, Candace M.; Somervell, Philip; Manson, Spero M. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 1999
Used an empirically based strategy to develop a measure of ethnic identity among American Indian adolescents, focusing on degree to which respondents identified with Indian culture and with White culture. Exploratory factor analysis examined the structure of ethnic identity, and resulting models were tested with confirmatory factor analysis.…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, American Indians
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Buriel, Raymond; Perez, William; De Ment, Terri L.; Chavez, David V.; Moran, Virginia R. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 1998
Study of 122 9th- and 10th-grade Latino high school students examined the relationship of language brokering (informal interpreting for immigrant parents) to academic performance, biculturalism, academic self-efficacy, and social self-efficacy. Results showed positive relationships, with academic self-efficacy being the strongest predictor of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biculturalism, Bilingual Students, Grade 10