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Pando, Lizanne Magarity – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The inclusion of students with Down Syndrome in public school did not come about in the United States until the mid-1970s, when parents and professionals advocated for a disabled child's right to attend school with their typically abled peers (Grigal et al., 2018). This inclusive practice and several legislative actions have been influencing the…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Students with Disabilities, Down Syndrome, College Students
Halkiyo, Atota – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Higher education in Ethiopia has undergone significant expansion since the 1990s, with increases in the number of institutions, professors, and students. In the context of this rapid expansion, the Higher Diploma Program (HDP) was introduced to improve the quality of higher education by training university faculty in pedagogy and shifting pedagogy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Technology Transfer
Graves, Kenneth Edward – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this three-article dissertation is to explore the intersection of educational leadership, instructional technology, and culturally responsive education in pursuit of a new leadership framework called "technology leadership for social justice." This dissertation employs three emerging methodologies, namely three-step latent…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Educational Technology, Culturally Relevant Education, Social Justice
Wei, Miaochun – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This quant-QUAL sequential explanatory mixed methods study describes a framework for evaluating the communicative competence (Canale & Swain, 1980; Canale, 1983) of non-beginner students of Chinese for placement purposes at U.S. four-year postsecondary institutions. A pragmatic lens was used to collect and analyze data that generated a…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Chinese
Serure, Dana Faye – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study explored the current state of secondary social studies in Western New York (WNY) through the lens of social studies orientations, specifically the traditional, disciplinary, and progressive strands (Fallace, 2010), and their alignment with the "K-12 Social Studies Framework," approved by NYS's Department of Education in 2014,…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Secondary School Teachers, Educational Change, State Departments of Education
Cabellon, Edmund T. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The student affairs profession is at a crossroads (Torres & Walbert, 2010) given digital technology's growth and the academy's administrative expansion (Bowen, 2013). Student affairs administrators must simultaneously respond to digital technology's implications in students' lives (Kirschner & Karpinski, 2010) and to new state and federal…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers, Administrators, Technology Uses in Education
Diane Susan Wright – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Reports of ecological disturbances - wildfires, loss of biodiversity, drought, contaminated drinking water, extreme temperatures - fill the news. People have to navigate and manage these challenges. To do so effectively, requires that people are environmentally literate (EL), demonstrating an understanding of the problems, so they are motivated to…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Middle School Teachers, Science Teachers
Beltran, Eduardo – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The success of Latino college students is dually critical to the social well-being of the Latino community and the sustainability of the national economy. To garner the intellectual and economic potential of this population, it is critical to address their retention and completion rates, particularly within science, technology, engineering, and…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, College Students, Summer Programs, Well Being
Daum, David Newman – ProQuest LLC, 2012
K-12 online physical education (OLPE) is as an educational opportunity in at least 22 states in the US (NASPE, 2006; 2010). Clearly, teachers play important roles in these online educational experiences, so gaining a better understanding of these teachers is critical. The purpose of this study was to examine physical education teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Physical Education
Salgado-Robles, Francisco – ProQuest LLC, 2011
It is generally believed that study abroad (SA) is the most efficient and successful way to acquire proficiency in a second language (L2). SA is a crucial component of students' second language acquisition (SLA) process, for it puts them in situations in which they can use the language on a daily basis and interact with native speakers. More than…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Language Variation, Native Speakers, Second Language Learning
Burns, Mary B. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The adage, "old habits die hard", is especially relevant when humans learn new protective behaviors (i.e., dental flossing, IS security behaviors). The foundation that underlies many social-cognitive theories used in IS research is that intention to change predicts actual behavior change. Despite intentions to change, humans do not…
Descriptors: Risk, Computer Security, Computers, Surveys
Gunn, AnnMarie Alberton – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The results of the U. S Census provide evidence that our population is becoming more varied and that diversity is most salient in our schools. This demographic shift will continue to have a significant impact on the curriculum, students, teachers, and other aspects of education as we have historically known it. One of the most challenging…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Curriculum