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Needs, motivations, and identification with teaching: a comparative study of temporary part-time and tenure-track health science faculty in Iceland
(2019-09-11)Background About 70% of teachers who instruct healthcare students are considered sessional (adjunct/temporary part-time) faculty and receive limited instruction in pedagogy. Sessional faculty may feel isolated and struggle ... -
The Original “Integrative STEM Education” Definition: Explained
(2015)“My work with integrative STEM education began in 1990 with the NSF-funded Technology, Science, Mathematics Integration Project… By 2008, I was convinced “STEM Education” was (and always would be) a hopelessly ambiguous ... -
Parents' views on the Clery Act and campus safety
(Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2004)In a single institution study of 435 parents, the researcher found that parents 'knowleage of the Clery Act and their use of the information contained in the federally mandated report to be low. Parent responses to crime ... -
Peer Support as a Mediator between Bullying Victimization and Depression
(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2018-02-21)Bullying has been one of the most common forms of school violence in the world. Many studies have shown that victims of bullying suffer from serious psychological issues. In the current study, the relationships between ... -
PIRPOSAL Model of Integrative STEM Education: Conceptual and Pedagogical Framework for Classroom Implementation
(Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2016-03)Conceptual and pedagogical framework for classroom implementation of the PIRPOSAL Model -
Planning to Create a Culture of Continuous Improvement with the Department of Defense Education Activity
(International Society for Educational Planning, 2019-11-26)While continuous improvement is not new to education, implementing it with fidelity in various educational contexts remains difficult. This article provides a framework of the necessary components in planning for and ... -
The Plight of the Visually Impaired in Africa
(Medical Women’s Association of Nigeria. Lagos State Branch, 2004)Africa is one of the largest continents of the world and ironically beset with overwhelming problems in preventive medicine. While consumers of fast food products in the United States of America can sue the fast food chain ... -
The Political Economy and Stigmatization of HIV/AIDS in Patients Attending a Clinic in Lagos, Nigeria
(2015)Background: The aim of the study was to highlight the political economy of HIV/AIDS in people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) through use of relevant literature and administration of self-administered questionnaires. The ... -
The Political Economy of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in West African Countries
(International Archives of Medicine, 2015)The Ebola virus disease (EVD) was first reported to have been identified in Africa in 1976 when it occurred in south Sudan and Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo). Its first occurrence in West Africa was in a 1994 ... -
The Political Economy of Infectious Diseases in Africa: Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) as a Case in Point
(IGI Global, 2015)Africa is the second most populous continent with over 1 billion people and home to the largest number of people living on less than $1.25 per day. Globally, 80 percent of the world’s poor can be found in Sub-Saharan Africa ... -
The Political Economy of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD); Taking Individual and Community Ownership in the Prevention and Control of EVD
(MDPI, 2015-01-28)The outbreak of an emerging infectious disease of zoonotic origin has exposed the weaknesses in the health systems of the nations affected. The purpose of this paper was to explore the political economy of the existing ... -
Preliminary Evidence of the Reliability and Validity of a Quantitative Measure of Self-Authorship
(Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2010)This article presents preliminary evidence of the reliability and validity of a measure of self-authorship derived from 18 items in the Career Decision Making Survey. The research conceptualizes a quantitative measure of ... -
Presentation: 6th Grade DBBL
(2010-02-25)Day 1 presentation to 6th grade students in preparation for initiating Problem Scenario 4A: Alternative Fuels T/E DBBL design challenge. -
Profile of an Elementary STEM Educator
(Springer Open, 2020)Recent developments in initiatives, standards, and legislative agendas have led to increases in the number of STEM educators, in particular elementary STEM educators. This study investigates and reports the characteristics ... -
Relational Language Improves Preschool Children’s Performance of Analogical Reasoning
(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2018-05-08)The current study explored how relational language influenced the analogical reasoning among preschool children in China. Children (aged 4.5 and 5.5) in Experiment 1 were asked to complete a cross-mapped task where the ... -
The Relationship of Gender on the Perceptions of School Resource Officers Regarding Roles, Responsibilities, and School Culture and Collaboration
(2015-03-15)School Resource Officers (SROs) play a critical role in establishing a safe learning environment for students across the nation. Though there are several studies related to SRO perceptions regarding their roles and ... -
Releasing the conceptual spring to construct multiplicative reasoning
(2020-11-05)Constructing multiplicative reasoning is critical for students' learning of mathematics, particularly throughout the middle grades and beyond. Tzur, Xin, Si, Kenney, and Guebert [American Educational Research Association, ... -
Research on Teaching and Learning in Science Education: Potentials of Technology Education
(Council on Technology and Engineering Teacher Education, 2010)This chapter will present a discussion around contemporary teaching and learning research in science education that holds promise for informing similar educational research on classroom practices in technology education. ... -
Resisting coherence: trans men’s experiences and the use of grounded theory methods
(Routledge, 2017-03-16)In this methodological reflective manuscript, I explore my decision to use a grounded theoretical approach to my dissertation study on trans* men in higher education. Specifically, I question whether grounded theory as a ... -
Responding to the Challenges of Gifted Education in Rural Communities
(Mercy College, 2017)There are both achievement and opportunity gaps for low-income students when compared to their economically advantaged peers; and, for rural students, these gaps may be even more pronounced. In this manuscript we draw from ...
