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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Student diversity"”.
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Selected Georgia High School Principals' Perceptions of Student Diversity
… Georgia high school principals' perceptions of student diversity. The student demographics of many Georgia school districts and schools are changing rapidly, while some school districts and schools have not experienced much, if any, demographic change. As a result, it is important for principals …
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The impact of hiring chief diversity officers on college student diversity.
Diversity has become an increasingly important component of American education. In the past decade, many postsecondary educational institutions have established long-term goals to increase minority representation and inclusivity among both student bodies and faculty members by gender and major …
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States' School Crisis Planning Materials: An Analysis of Cross-Cultural Considerations and Sensitivity to Student Diversity
… the extent and type of coverage given to student diversity, particularly cross cultural considerations. Materials were obtained from state department of education internet sites and from the state offices of Safe and Drug Free Schools. More specifically, materials included school crisis …
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Strategies for digital inclusion: towards a framework for embracing student diversity and sustaining engagement with blended learning.
… to improve learner outcomes and to address the diversity of learners by designing teaching and learning activities to complement different learner characteristics. Learners have been categorised by learning styles and demographics such as gender, age, ethnicity, geography, socio-economic status …
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Black graduate student diversity in HRD: Using counter-storytelling to develop a critical autoethnographic exploration of experiences, tribulations & scholarship
… work is to critically illustrate how the lack of diversity in Human Resource Development (HRD) is supported in different contexts, which may be a variable in the lack of Black Americans pursuing the field. This work will attempt to ferret out interpretations between the differences of diversity in …
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What preservice music teachers learn about diversity during student teaching
… educators have been called to work toward diversity, an ambiguous term. Preparing teachers to work toward diversity and more importantly, equity, requires action in every aspect of teacher preparation. Because of its professional and personal significance, student teaching has been …
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An Analysis of Selected California Community College Faculty Members' Perceptions of Challenges Experienced during the First Year of Hire
… teaching experience reported problems with student diversity within the classroom; the number of teaching hours; and emotional isolation with regard to colleagues the first year of hire. Next, the size of the employing school affected the problems new faculty experienced with regard to …
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A STUDY OF HOW MATHEMATICS TEACHERS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN HONG KONG CATER FOR STUDENTS’ INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
… study is to investigate how teachers cater for students’ individual differences in the context of a reform-based Mathematics curriculum, using the topic ‘Similar triangles’. A group of six Hong Kong secondary schools in different locations, and with different banding and setting policies, took …
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Assessing PGDA entrance requirements: Appropriate or in need of change?
With the decreasing student pass rates in the Postgraduate Accounting Degree (PGDA) at the University of Cape Town (UCT) as well as UCT's lowered placement in ITC pass rate rankings – an assessment on PGDA's current entrance requirements could provide insight into a way-forward. The objective of …
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Cultural diversity and identity discourses in the design and implementation of the New Zealand curriculum key competencies: a Bernsteinian analysis
… in the 2007 New Zealand Curriculum, and how students’ cultural diversity and identities were considered as part of this. Data for this case study were collected from three sources: interviews with key policy officials and academic consultants six years after the launch of the official …
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Embracing A Diverse Curriculum In University Teacher Preparation Programs
<p>Student diversity in public schools has escalated dramatically, and it is a reality that must be accepted by university teacher preparation programs. Teacher candidates need to be taught the necessary skills to successfully teach diverse student populations. Children come from many different …
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Abandonment or Inclusion of Race in Higher Education Admissions: A Case Study of Consequences
… records were examined for African American students admitted to the University in 1968, 1978, 1985 and 1995. Independent t-tests were conducted on the means for both African Americans and majority students (all freshmen excluding African Americans) across Campus Selection Index, ACT-C and …
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Emergent Learning in an Emerging World
… as the enrollment of English Language Learners, student diversity information, economic disadvantage information, the socio-economic status of each school community, and the state standardized testing results for each school. To analyze these data findings each factor was compared across each …
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The Reality of Study Support: A Phenomenographic and Activity Theory Analysis.
… of the higher education landscape increasing student diversity and a move to debate the impact of power, identity and pedagogic discourse on the development of academic literacy signals a climate for change. Nevertheless, within this changing environment very little thinking has taken place …
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Courageous School Leadership: Rural Principals’ Perception and Self-Efficacy in Implementing Culturally Responsive Leadership (CRL)
… areas’ demographic and economic state— increased student diversity, high poverty, little parental involvement, lack of technological infrastructure, low student achievement, and difficulty hiring and retaining teachers (Gutierrez, n.d.). In increasingly diverse populations, rural school leaders …
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Invincible but Invisible: A Phenomenological study of African American Female Principals in Wisconsin’s Public K - 12 Schools
… in educational leadership despite increasing student diversity statewide. Replicating the 2020 study conducted by Dr. Serina Strange, this research explores how racism, sexism, and systemic inequities shape Black women’s pathways into and through the principalship. Grounded in the theoretical …
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Tell Me a Story: Exploring the Use of Narratives to Reduce Backlash to Organizational Diversity Initiatives
<p>Diversity initiatives represent key priorities for many organizations, but research and recent high-profile examples suggest that diversity initiatives can generate significant backlash, particularly among organizational members. The primary aim of this study is to investigate how narrative …
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Positive Experiences, Dreams, and Expectations of International Master’s Students at a Southern Ontario University: An Appreciative Inquiry
… theory to investigate international master’s students’ positive experiences, dreams, and expectations in their programs and institution to inform policies, programs, and practices. Although the literature describes international students’ mixed experiences in Canada, including developing …
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Developing Adults' Oral English Communicative Competence in an EFL Environment: Collaborative Studies of a Chinese EFL Teacher and Her Students
… globalization presents Chinese college students with career and academic incentives to develop their oral English communicative competence; however, at the secondary level, students study English mainly for the purpose of written tests. As a result, their oral English learning is largely …
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Voices in discourse : re-thinking shared meaning in academic writing
… is involved in initiating non-traditional students into academic language practices - the academic 'conversation'. This study approaches mediation in a way that takes student diversity into account. This is done through an exploration of the relationship between the biographies of speakers …
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