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Newbill, Phyllis Leary; Drape, Tiffany A.; Schnittka, Christine; Baum, Liesl; Evans, Michael A. – Afterschool Matters, 2015
Both employer expectations and education standards, including the Common Core State Standards and Next Generation Science Standards, are shifting the focus of learning from knowledge and discrete skills to the ability to think critically and creatively. This paper describes the process of translating an existing teacher-led STEM curriculum to fit…
Descriptors: After School Programs, After School Education, STEM Education, Learner Controlled Instruction
Hutchison, Micol – College Quarterly, 2017
While quantitative research has determined that first-generation college students (FGS) are less likely to interact with faculty than are their non-FGS peers, this qualitative study examines how incoming first-year college students, both FGS and non-FGS, perceive faculty-student interaction and whether they consider it important. Addressing…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, College Freshmen, Qualitative Research, College Faculty
Hicks, David; van Hover, Stephanie – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2014
In order to revisit Martorella's metaphor of technology as a sleeping giant this paper analyzes data collected over multiple years in order to provide a portrait of how preservice teachers make sense of and choose (if at all) to integrate digital technologies within their internship classrooms. Findings indicate that in the Commonwealth of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Teaching, Student Teacher Attitudes, Technology Integration
Fraser, Virginia; Garofalo, Joe – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2015
The purpose of this study was to describe how and why novice mathematics teachers incorporated technology-generated representations in their instruction. The participants in the study were graduates of a technology-rich mathematics teacher educator program. The teachers were interviewed at the beginning and end of the study concerning their…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Learner Engagement, Technology Uses in Education
Brodsky, Marc; Hyde, Gene – Journal of Archival Organization, 2012
How have college and university-based archives and special collections fared over the past few years in the midst of an historically grim economic downturn? The authors conducted in-depth interviews with directors of 13 archival repositories at state universities and private colleges in the Appalachian region of Virginia, West Virginia, North…
Descriptors: Archives, Academic Libraries, Economic Climate, Interviews
Stiff-Williams, Helen; Sturtz, John P. – Social Education, 2012
A typical U.S. high school student today might be able to recite some milestones of civil rights history--the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955-56; the Freedom Rides of 1961; and (some would add) the election of the first African American president in 2008. But how many students understand that these events, which historians call out as milestones,…
Descriptors: United States History, Civil Rights, Student Projects, Oral History
Reitmeyer, Morgan T. – Across the Disciplines, 2009
The article explores three WAC/WID programs that were presented in 1990 in "Programs That Work: Models and Methods for Writing Across the Curriculum" by Toby Fulwiler and Art Young. The author interviewed current directors of the University of Michigan program, the University of Chicago Little Red Schoolhouse, and the George Mason…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Writing Across the Curriculum, Interviews, Administrator Attitudes
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Hale-Smith, Margaret E. – Journal of Negro Education, 1993
Focuses on African-American adults who, as elementary and secondary school students, experienced the closure of public schools in Prince Edward County (Virginia) in 1959 over desegregation. Responses of 165 African-American adults who lost schooling and 45 receiving schooling elsewhere show differences in outcomes of education and adult attitudes.…
Descriptors: Adults, Beliefs, Black Students, Desegregation Effects
Hughey, Matthew W. – Educational Foundations, 2006
On March 2, 1867, the Historically Black College or University (HBCU) Howard University (HU) was founded in Washington, D. C. Almost exactly one year later, the all white fraternity of Pi Kappa Alpha was founded at the University of Virginia. Over 100 years later, on February 18 2006, fifty-five HU students became charter members of Pi Kappa Alpha…
Descriptors: Ideology, Fraternities, Whites, Black Colleges
Silberg, Judy L.; Bulik, Cynthia M. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2005
Objective: We investigated the role of genetic and environmental factors in the developmental association among symptoms of eating disorders, depression, and anxiety syndromes in 8-13-year-old and 14-17-year-old twin girls. Methods: Multivariate genetic models were fitted to child-reported longitudinal symptom data gathered from clinical interview…
Descriptors: Anxiety Disorders, Twins, Females, Eating Disorders
Wingard, Robin G. – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2004
Web-based instruction in higher education has grown exponentially, with more than a thousand universities offering courses over the Web in the United States alone. Web-based instruction offers obvious advantages for distance and continuing education populations by making access to education at any time or place feasible. This kind of flexibility…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Learning Activities, Distance Education, Web Based Instruction