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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Promising Practices"”.
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Improving Community College Student Persistence: An Investigation of Promising Practices
… to add to the understanding of community college practices and student persistence at the institution level. The study included survey responses and IPEDS data for a nationally representative sample of 259 community colleges. Survey respondents were asked to report their implementation of …
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Using Student Voice to Identify Promising Practices in Social Emotional Learning
… following questions: 1.What are the policies and practices of these schools specifically related to providing social emotional supports to students? 2.How do leaders in these schools describe their approach to providing social emotional support for their students? How do leaders assess their own …
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Promising Practices: A case study on public health emergency preparedness at a university
… Southern Illinois University Carbondale. TITLE: PROMISING PRACTICES: A CASE STUDY ON PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS MAJOR PROFESSOR: Dr. Kathleen Welshimer There is little published literature on operational coordination during a real time disaster regardless of the setting. This study …
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Promising Practices: Teacher Perspectives on Successful Reading Strategies Evidenced in First Grade Bilingual Classrooms
… What do bilingual teachers consider as effective practices for implementing guided reading instruction? Methods: A basic qualitative study design was used to uncover the instructional strategies participants deemed effective with instruction in their bilingual classrooms (Merriam, 2009). The …
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Promising practices used by International Medical Graduate Physicians to increase cervical screening in South Asian and Chinese immigrants in the Greater Toronto Area
… the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), as well as promising practices that are currently being used by IMG physicians to increase cervical screening participation among their patients. Several barriers to and interventions designed to screening were identified at the individual, community, and …
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The silent tsunami: addressing community college food insecurity in Texas
… administrator’s responses toward best and most promising practices and challenges in addressing food insecurity. The research was guided by complex adaptive systems theory and cynefin. Food insecurity among college students, especially community college students, continues to be a significant …
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Former foster youth in the college setting: Bridging the gaps on the road to success
… student voices to identify or better understand promising practices that support the success of former foster youth. Two California State University (CSU) campuses were chosen as research sites because the California Education Code has language indicating CSUs responsibility to recruit, serve, …
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EQUITY AGENTS: CREATING AN INNOVATIVE LEARNING CULTURE WITH FOREIGN TEACHERS AND LĂOSHĪ 老师 WITHIN AN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
… are derived from equity issues and the use of promising practices such as Community Learning Exchanges and Networked Innovation Communities may work to mitigate these tensions.
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Immigrant Perpetrators of Domestic Homicide: Unique Risks and Service Needs
… unique risk factors for domestic homicide, and promising practices when working with immigrant perpetrators were examined. Service providers identified many individual and systemic barriers and challenges such as language, perpetrators’ reticence to engage with service providers, and …
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Effective Treatment Strategies for Children with Autism in Grades K-6
… Autistic Spectrum. Although there are several promising practices occurring within classrooms, this proposal focuses primarily on evidence based practices that demonstrate successful outcomes for students within an inclusive setting.</p>
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Catholic Elementary School Principal Induction: An Investigation of Diocesan Supports for Competent, Confident Leadership
… United States, explored which central support practices were perceived as successful, and produced recommendations for promising practices to be explored, implemented or continued. Practices with particular promise, as described by the study participants, included formal and informal …
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Design of a Youth Electoral Audit
… to stay that way. While a number of best and promising practices to improve youth voter turnout have been identified, no central means for evaluating the implementation of these practices in Canadian municipal government elections currently exists. This thesis describes the design process for …
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Building and sustaining a culture of assessment: How student affairs programs assess and contribute to student learning and development in the co-curricular and curricular environments
… assessment in divisions of Student Affairs; (b) promising practices in planning, designing, implementing and using student learning outcomes assessment in Student Affairs; and (c) ways that Student Affairs contributes to student learning and development in the co-curricular and curricular …
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A Case Study of Collegiate Alcohol Education: How Can Kennesaw State University Improve?
… strategies.</p> <p>Using the <em>Sourcebook 2001 Promising Practices: Campus Alcohol Strategies Task Force Planner Guide</em>, this study deployed a case study approach to determine what University System of Georgia institutions are doing in regards to alcohol education, prevention, and …
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Decolonizing Institutional Practices: Supporting Aboriginal College Student Success
… post-secondary institutions in three key areas: promising practices to improve Aboriginal student outcomes; successful approaches to conducting culturally intelligent research; and the significance of Indigenizing the college through generative discussion with individuals local to the …
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Successful Student Reintegration: The Relationship Between the Alternative Learning Program and the Origin School
… leadership in the relationship, and to identify promising practices that will enhance the relationship between these two entities. Research findings will be used to enhance educators' insight on the impact of relationships on the success of alternative learning programs/schools. This dissertation …
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Managing resource constraints in firms
… to have compelling advantages and, thus, are promising practices for small, new and foreign firms in overcoming those constraints. It is, however, surprising that little is known about relevant aspects of these practices. For instance, research has just begun to investigate the influence of …
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Understanding the Factors that Influence the Grouping and Assignment of Students to Elementary Classrooms
… classrooms by prior achievement) to assignment practices to examine the factors that contribute to varying outcomes. Findings show that school educators value and work towards creating classrooms that balance student achievement across classrooms, although only some are successful at doing so. …
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Transformative Models in K-12 Education: The Impact of a Blended Universal Design for Learning Intervention
… (BL) and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) as promising practices in enabling, motivating, and inspiring all students to achieve regardless of background, language, or disability. Research suggests that the combination of these two approaches could lead to transformative teaching practices that …
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Research, development, and validation of a school leader's resource guide for the facilitation of social media use by school staff
… of social media use by staff, (3) social media promising practices, (4) digital citizenship, (5) emergence of issues and challenges in social media, and (5) how employers can avoid adverse employment actions. The focus of the resource guide is school leaders must understand their rights and …
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