Philip Jay Bostic (2020). Reconceptualizing Soul Work for Implementation in Multicultural Community-Based Educational Spaces. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Wisconsin – Madison. This phenomenological study sought to interrogate and interrupt the ways in which educational research and everyday schooling practices negatively influence the souls of African Americans. Researchers have argued over the years that it important that this intellectual and pedological fight persist; in hopes of transgressing the boundaries of such adverse reasoning. The researcher conducted a 12 week case study in an after school program where a group of pre-service teachers and 4th and 5th graders participated in a social studies literacy club. The group of participants examined several historical themes through a human-centered paradigm and apprentice teaching model to help identify the historical patterns and current events that adversely impact humanity. The participants work toward developing a meta-language and educative group projects that contribute to meaningful change by means of a socially oriented ontologic-epistemic praxis that embraces humanity as a sacred entity. The… [Direct]

Barry, Denis S.; Bennett, Deirdre; Chulak-Oglu, Kyrylo; Marzouk, Fadi; O'Keeffe, Gerard W.; Tierney, Paul (2016). Anatomy Education for the YouTube Generation. Anatomical Sciences Education, v9 n1 p90-96 Jan-Feb. Anatomy remains a cornerstone of medical education despite challenges that have seen a significant reduction in contact hours over recent decades; however, the rise of the "YouTube Generation" or "Generation Connected" (Gen C), offers new possibilities for anatomy education. Gen C, which consists of 80% Millennials, actively interact with social media and integrate it into their education experience. Most are willing to merge their online presence with their degree programs by engaging with course materials and sharing their knowledge freely using these platforms. This integration of social media into undergraduate learning, and the attitudes and mindset of Gen C, who routinely creates and publishes blogs, podcasts, and videos online, has changed traditional learning approaches and the student/teacher relationship. To gauge this, second year undergraduate medical and radiation therapy students (n?=?73) were surveyed regarding their use of online social media in… [Direct]

(2016). The International Test Commission Guidelines on the Security of Tests, Examinations, and Other Assessments. International Journal of Testing, v16 n3 p181-204. The amount and severity of security threats have increased considerably over the past two decades, calling into question the validity of assessments administered around the world. These threats have increased for a number of reasons, including the popular use of computerized and online technologies for test administration and the use of almost undetectable technologies for capturing test content and illegally sharing it instantly across borders and cultures. No assessment program, large or small, is immune to this potential damage. The International Test Commission has recognized the critical need for every organization with an important assessment program to be aware of these and be prepared to counter them. It was for this purpose that these guidelines were developed. Knowing the threats and the guidelines will lead to effective measures to protect the program and its assets, maintaining the value of the tests and assessments to the international community. The guidelines listed in… [Direct]

Lee, Ji Sue (2016). Citizens' Political Information Behaviors during Elections on Twitter in South Korea: Information Worlds of Opinion Leaders. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, The Florida State University. This research investigated South Korean citizens' political information behaviors on Twitter during the 2014 Seoul Mayoral election. By using the mixed methods design of network analysis, tweet content analysis, and interviews, this research examined how citizens collaboratively engaged in the political communication and deliberation via Twitter during an election campaign. Intensive interviews with 13 citizen opinion leaders on Twitter provided the insights into understanding how their perceived societal types, norms, and perception of information value led to certain information sharing behaviors. Also explored was the dynamics of interactions within the virtual public sphere of Twitter as reflected in the conflicts and synergies of multiple information worlds. The Theory of Information Worlds (Jaeger & Burnett, 2010) was used to better understand the current phenomenon of citizens' virtual political communication and deliberation via social media. This research was the first… [Direct]

Beijaard, Douwe; Bergen, Theo C. M.; Cornelissen, Frank; Daly, Alan J.; Liou, Yi-Hwa; van Swet, Jacqueline (2014). More than a Master: Developing, Sharing, and Using Knowledge in School-University Research Networks. Cambridge Journal of Education, v44 n1 p35-57. Postgraduate master's programs for in-service teachers may be a promising new avenue in developing research partnership networks that link schools and university and enable collaborative development, sharing and use of knowledge of teacher research. This study explores the way these knowledge processes originating from master's students' research occurs in the school-university network of a master's program embedded in the K-12 school environment of a Central Management Organization in the US. Questionnaires, interviews, and logs were used to collect quantitative and qualitative data at four time-points over a 10-month period. Data were analyzed at three network levels: school, dyad, and individual. Findings indicate that the school network context provided both master's students and research advisors with a supportive context for collaboratively engaging in knowledge processes during research as well as after they graduated. However, the network context was not enough to build… [Direct]

Gerzon, Nancy; Gleason, Sonia Caus (2014). High-Achieving Schools Put Equity Front and Center. Journal of Staff Development, v35 n1 p24-26, 28, 30 Feb. How does professional learning look and feel in high-poverty schools where every student makes at least one year's worth of progress every year? How do schools and leaders put all the varied components of professional learning together so that they support all students learning every day? What professional learning grounds and sustains educators in high-achieving, high-poverty schools that personalize learning? The authors studied two rural and two urban schools with significant free-lunch eligible populations whose achievement data outperformed most schools and narrowed the achievement gap for multiple student groups over time. The four public schools differed from one another while sharing unique ways of linking equity and professional learning. This article conveys their common characteristics as well as specific examples from one of the study sites — Stults Road Elementary School in Richardson, Texas. [This article is adapted with permission from "Growing Into Equity:… [Direct]

Swanson, Kristen (2014). Edcamp: Teachers Take Back Professional Development. Educational Leadership, v71 n8 36-40 May. On an unseasonably cool morning in May 2010, scores of educators arrived in a room in Philadelphia. As the group mingled and chatted over coffee, individuals jotted down ideas for learning sessions and pinned them up on a big sheet of paper. The first EdCamp had begun. EdCamps are free, participatory events organized by educators for educators. Some of the most exciting learning occurs following the event itself, as participants try out their new learning in their classrooms and continue to share on their blogs or on Twitter. In this article, Kristen Swanson, one of the organizers of the EdCamp Model, describes how the word spread about that first EdCamp event through the Twittersphere and blogosphere as participants shared the passion, sharing, and excitement they had experienced. In 2013, 190 Edcamp events were held throughout the United States as well as in places like Sweden, Ontario, and Hong Kong…. [Direct]

Alo, Ejikeme Nonso (2012). Fiscal Federalism and Local Government Finance in Nigeria. World Journal of Education, v2 n5 p19-27. Fiscal federalism deals with the sharing of resources in a federated nation. Over the years problems about local government finance have become an important aspect of intergovernmental relations. Constitutionally, local government is the third tier of government which exists as an independent entity, possessing some degree of autonomy and sovereignty. However, its capability to perform its constitutionally mandated functions is beleaguered by the problem of inadequate revenue. In Nigeria, a number of factors have contributed to the financial setback experienced by most local governments and these include: overdependence on allocations from state and federal governments which in most cases are withheld by the same federal and state governments; lack of fiscal autonomy; creation of non-viable local governments, among others. The aim of this paper is to examine the problems of the local government in Nigeria, especially concerning its financial limitations, necessitated by the unequal… [PDF]

(2017). Hispanic Association of Colleges & Universities 2017 Annual Report: The Champions of Hispanic Success in Higher Education. Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities For over thirty years, the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) has advocated on behalf of Hispanic higher education in the U.S. and around the world. The mission of the association is to Champion Hispanic Success in Higher Education. HACU fulfills its mission by: promoting the development of member colleges and universities; improving access to and the quality of postsecondary educational opportunities for Hispanic students; and meeting the needs of business, industry and government through the development and sharing of resources, information and expertise. HACU is the only organization that represents existing and emerging Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). HSIs today represent 13 percent of all institutions of higher education that enroll 62 percent of Hispanic undergraduates. HACU serves its membership through advocacy, conferences, partnerships and educational programs, and offers scholarships and internship opportunities for students. HACU is a nonprofit… [PDF]

Aceves, Aurelia De La Rosa; Rutschow, Elizabeth Zachry; Taketa, Jessica (2017). Building Cities by Degrees: Lessons on Increasing College Completion from Six Talent Dividend Cities. MDRC While completion of a college credential is a critical step toward increasing one's viability in today's labor market, only about 40 percent of Americans earn an associate's or bachelor's degree by age 27. Many policymakers, education leaders, and philanthropic organizations have focused on improving graduation rates. In 2011, the Kresge Foundation sought to build on this work by launching the National Talent Dividend $1 Million Prize Competition. Leaders of the initiative posited that a city's per capita income would rise as the number of degree holders rose, and the contest promised to award $1 million to the city with the greatest proportional increase in its college degree completion over a four-year period. Given the strong performance of many cities in the competition, the Kresge Foundation was interested in learning which particular strategies may have been influential in their postsecondary gains and in sharing potential lessons from the Talent Dividend work with the larger… [PDF]

Goshu, Ayele Taye (2016). Strengthening Statistics Graduate Programs with Statistical Collaboration–The Case of Hawassa University, Ethiopia. International Journal of Higher Education, v5 n3 217-221. This paper describes the experiences gained from the established statistical collaboration canter at Hawassa University in May 2015 as part of LISA 2020 [Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis] network. The center has got similar setup as LISA of Virginia Tech. Statisticians are trained on how to become more effective scientific collaborators with researchers. The service has been delivered from May 2015 to June 2016. The University has a well established and strong academic graduate programs of statistics. The master programs are: Applied Statistics, and Mathematical and Statistical Modelling launched in 2008 and 2010, respectively. They are research based studies. The programs have produced about one hundred ninety graduates to-date, with current enrollment of over fifty students. The doctoral program started in 2013 with enrollment of ten students. The graduate students are the main role players as statistical collaborators at the center. The collaborators and… [PDF]

Tannehill, Deborah (2016). My Journey to Become a Teacher Educator. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, v21 n1 p105-120. Purpose: Social theory of learning speaks to the social nature of our lives and our attempts to understand both what and how we learn from it. My experiences are built upon and reside with the social context in which they evolved. In this lecture, I will focus on my own experiences and how I interpreted them through social theory of learning that resulted from my collaboration between colleagues, mentoring that I received and shared and the pedagogical communities within which I grew. Main outcomes and results: Within each of these contexts my experiences resulted from the dialogue in which I took part. Johnston-Parsons suggests that dialogue of pedagogies provides a means of coming to know yourself and your teaching. She describes "a mirror as one way of describing dialogue-as-learning" as "when dialogue occurred we were sharing ideas at the same time we were, as a group and as individuals, recognizing and changing our minds" (69). The types of dialogue… [Direct]

Hackett, Jacob (2016). Socio-Historical Factors Mediating Collaborative Teaching and Learning: A Design-Based Investigation and Intervention. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington. Collaborative (Co-)teaching is a complex instructional delivery model used to improve teaching practice in inclusive settings. The model involves multiple certified teachers–representing both special and general education–sharing the same space and presenting material to classrooms with a wide variance in learning needs. Co-teaching has become an increasingly popular form of instructional delivery in school districts attempting to improve Inclusive Education outcomes. It also creates a unique educational space that is often challenging for teachers to navigate and for several reasons, its affordances unfulfilled. This multiyear investigation and intervention uses a Design-Based Research (DBR) approach to understand the environment of a local co-teaching team, co-design supportive tools, and implement those tools to improve practice. This investigation addresses a lack of research attending to the implementation of–and learning involved in–co-teaching practice. Multiple… [Direct]

Abawi, Lindy; Lalor, Brian (2014). Professional Learning Communities Enhancing Teacher Experiences in International Schools. International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning, v9 n1 p76-86. In international school contexts, schools that establish support networks for newly arrived staff tend to stand a better chance of retaining staff and creating a positive and successful work environment. The case study at the center of the paper is an International School in Vietnam and this paper aims to highlight the importance of building professional learning communities (PLCs), both as arenas for academic expertise to be shared and as support networks for teachers. The PLCs being researched were established in August 2011, with the research taking place over 6 weeks during April and May of 2013. Eleven teachers took part in the phenomenological case study undertaken to gain a better understanding of their lived experiences. Findings suggest there was a refocusing on student achievement as being central to teachers' core business; an understanding of the importance of teacher leadership developed; teachers felt more valued because personal professionalism was acknowledged; and, a… [Direct]

Yuan, Guangji (2019). Cross-Community Collaboration among Knowledge Building Communities. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, State University of New York at Albany. Cross-community collaboration which expands community members' interaction to a larger social scale plays a crucial role in increasing information exchange and extending inquiry learning. This dissertation uses a design-based research approach which aims at testing a multi-level emergence design in multiple learning communities. This design serves the urgent need to enable students' idea sharing and build-on with members from other communities who have similar interests for mutual learning and collective knowledge advances. A mixed-methods research approach was used to investigate the cross-classroom collaboration over three successive years: pilot 1, study 1, and study 2. Knowledge Building Theory and pedagogy guides in learning and teaching practices. The fifth grade Knowledge Building communities studied human body systems with the support of the Knowledge Forum and the Idea Thread Mapper online platforms. As students conducted focused inquiry and discourse within their own… [Direct]

(2017). Proceedings of the 2017 ASCUE Summer Conference (50th, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, June 11-15, 2017). Association Supporting Computer Users in Education The Association Supporting Computer Users in Education (ASCUE) is a group of people interested in small college computing issues. It is a blend of people from all over the country who use computers in their teaching, academic support, and administrative support functions. Begun in 1968 as the College and University Eleven-Thirty Users' Group (CUETUG), with an initial membership requirement of sharing at least one piece of software each year with other members, ASCUE has a strong tradition of bringing its members together to pool their resources to help each other. ASCUE continues the tradition of sharing through its national conference held every year in June, its conference proceedings, and its newsletter. ASCUE proudly affirms this tradition in its motto: "Our Second Quarter Century of Resource Sharing." ASCUE initiated a refereed track for paper submissions to the conference in 2008. In fact, at the 2008 business meeting, the membership approved three different… [PDF]

Vyas, Anita (2017). Changes in the Design and Instruction of Online Graduate Mathematics Education Courses. ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Houston. Background: New emerging online technologies have made dynamic changes in the structure of the online environment possible to address varying needs of diverse learners. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the changes that occurred in online instructional design and strategies in mathematics education courses taught over a course of six years by the same instructor. The research questions were: What are the changes / revisions that occur in teaching online graduate courses over the course of six years and what are the reasons for these changes as explained by the instructor? Methods: The research method used was a qualitative case study utilizing recorded and transcribed instructor interviews, observation of synchronous online classes and archival data in the form of course syllabi and PowerPoint slides used in the synchronous online class sessions. The study participant, a veteran mathematics educator taught online mathematics education courses for six years in… [Direct]

Desjardins, Francois; DiGiuseppe, Maurice; Partosoedarso, Elita; Van Oostveen, Roland (2013). Exploring Competency Development with Mobile Devices. International Association for Development of the Information Society, Paper presented at the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on e-Learning (Prague, Czech Republic, Jul 23-26, 2013). Computer-based technologies have been used in the field of education for over thirty years. However, more recently, powerful and more affordable mobile technologies are becoming popular in everyday life and the education system. This paper reports on an online survey of student body in a university in Ontario, Canada focused on the use of a wide variety of digital technologies, including mobile devices such as conventional cellphones, smartphones, tablets, and e-readers. Preliminary results indicate that students are using conventional cellphones with less frequency, favouring use of smartphones and tablets–using such devices more for technical, social, and informational interactions including texting and sharing data and less for computational functions and talking. [For the full proceedings, see ED562127.]… [PDF]

Casey, Ashley; Fletcher, Tim (2017). Paying the Piper: The Costs and Consequences of Academic Advancement. Sport, Education and Society, v22 n1 p105-121. In many professions there are qualifications to gain and professional standards to achieve. Lawyers pass the bar and doctors pass their boards. In academic life the equivalent is a doctorate, closely followed by a profile of peer-reviewed publication. To hold a doctoral degree is the common requirement to become "academic" but does it prepare individuals to advance in an academic career? In choosing the idiom "paying the piper" (i.e. where one must pay the costs and accept the consequences of one's actions) we recognise that in seeking to develop our scholarly profiles we had to choose to adapt successfully to global workplace expectations, modify our professional aspirations or refuse to participate. In this paper we examine the challenges we faced as academics in physical education as we progressed from beginning to mid-career stages. We focus particularly on challenges related to seeking external research funding, exploring our assumptions about academic life… [Direct]

Basal, Ahmet (2015). Perceptions of Pre-Service English Teachers towards the Integration of an LMS into English Language Teacher Education. Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, v23 n4 p485-507 Oct. With the growing availability of educational technologies, informing future teachers about the use of such technologies in their classrooms has become essential, particularly for language teachers. Integrating these technologies into the curriculum of language teaching education programs is more appropriate than simply sharing information with pre-service teachers via short computer courses. Over the past decade, various Learning Management Systems (LMSs) have been gradually integrated into language teacher education programs to provide 24/7-connected teaching and learning environments. Many studies have investigated LMS adoption in terms of economic and technical challenges. However, what have been less covered are the perceptions of pre-service on the integration of an LMS. This paper reports on a study designed to gain insights into the perceptions of pre-service English teachers on the integration of an LMS into courses at a state university in Turkey. A total of 122 prospective… [Direct]

Chepchieng, Gideon; Kiplagat, Rotich; Makori, Andrew; Misoi, Pauline (2015). Secondary Schools in a County in Kenya Seem to Be Taking Advantages of the Cost Sharing Policy: Understanding Its Practice and Implications. Journal of Education and Practice, v6 n21 p145-154. The study set out to research on parents' views regarding the practice of cost sharing policy in secondary schools in Kenya in relation to form one entry items requirement and fee payment. This article reports on its findings. The study adopted a quantitative survey and employed a questionnaire (both closed and open-ended) to collect data. The study involved 150 participants with a response rate of 83.3%. The data obtained was analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) resulting in descriptive data. The results reveal that: the items required by schools have grown over the years (90 per cent, n = 150); the items requirement are putting enormous pressure on the parents (96 per cent, n = 150); the items requirements are negatively affecting children's access to certain schools (94 per cent, n = 150); and as a result many parents were forced to send their children to poor local harambee secondary schools (96 per cent, n = 150) because they could not afford despite… [PDF]

Govender, Nadaraj (2015). Developing Pre-Service Teachers' Subject Matter Knowledge of Electromagnetism by Integrating Concept Maps and Collaborative Learning. African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, v19 n3 p306-318. This case study explored the development of two pre-service teachers' subject matter knowledge (SMK) of electromagnetism while integrating the use of concept maps (CM) and collaborative learning (CL) strategies. The study aimed at capturing how these pre-service teachers' SMK in electromagnetism was enhanced after having been taught SMK in a university module on electromagnetism via a lecture mode. The participants' progress in acquiring SMK was monitored when they engaged in individual-constructivist learning and socio-constructivist learning when working in pairs. Data were collected from concept maps on electromagnetism and from individual interviews. This interpretive case study suggests that the participants benefitted in several ways in consolidating their SMK of electromagnetism through integrating CM activities and engaging in CL. These benefits included the revision of previous work; the reflection on choices of the big conceptual ideas in electromagnetism; making… [Direct]

Asensio-P√©rez, Juan I.; Dimitriadis, Yannis; Jorr√≠n-Abell√°n, Iv√°n M.; Mart√≠nez-Mon√©s, Alejandra; Mu√±oz-Crist√≥bal, Juan A.; Prieto, Luis P. (2015). Coming down to Earth: Helping Teachers Use 3D Virtual Worlds in Across-Spaces Learning Situations. Educational Technology & Society, v18 n1 p13-26. Different approaches have explored how to provide seamless learning across multiple ICT-enabled physical and virtual spaces, including three-dimensional virtual worlds (3DVW). However, these approaches present limitations that may reduce their acceptance in authentic educational practice: The difficulties of authoring and sharing teacher-created designs across different 3DVW platforms, or the lack of integration of 3DVWs with existing technologies in the classroom ecosystem (e.g., widespread web-based learning platforms such as Moodle, or mobile augmented reality applications). Focusing on a specific kind of 3DVW (virtual globes, such as Google Earth, used like 3DVWs), we propose a system that enables teachers to deploy across-spaces learning situations, which can be authored with a plethora of existing learning design tools, that involve different common web-based learning platforms, mobile AR applications and multiple kinds of virtual globes. A prototype of the architecture has… [Direct]

Andrew Estrada Phuong (2022). Increasing College STEM Instructors' Equity-Oriented Teaching Competencies and Students' Success. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley. My dissertation research explores the factors that drive college STEM instructors' adoption of equitable teaching practices, such as Adaptive Equity-Oriented Pedagogy (AEP). AEP is a framework for adjusting teaching to address equity barriers to learning based on student data collected through formative assessment, observations, and surveys (Phuong et al., 2017a). Through randomized controlled trials, I had previously found that compared to an active learning control course, instructors applying AEP improved average student achievement by over a letter grade and narrowed achievement gaps for all students (Phuong & Nguyen, 2019; Phuong et al., 2022). In my dissertation research, 129 student-instructors (henceforth "instructors") were randomly assigned to treatment and control pedagogy courses. While the control course "taught" instructors "about" AEP, the treatment course "modeled" AEP explicitly by using weekly instructor reflection data to… [Direct]

Beck, Joseph E.; Van Inwegen, Eric G.; Xiong, Xiaolu; Zhao, Siyuan (2016). Going Deeper with Deep Knowledge Tracing. International Educational Data Mining Society, Paper presented at the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM) (9th, Raleigh, NC, Jun 29-Jul 2, 2016). Over the last couple of decades, there have been a large variety of approaches towards modeling student knowledge within intelligent tutoring systems. With the booming development of deep learning and large-scale artificial neural networks, there have been empirical successes in a number of machine learning and data mining applications, including student knowledge modeling. Deep Knowledge Tracing (DKT), a pioneer algorithm that utilizes recurrent neural networks to model student learning, reports substantial improvements in prediction performance. To help the EDM community better understand the promising techniques of deep learning, we examine DKT alongside two well-studied models for knowledge modeling, PFA and BKT. In addition to sharing a primer on the internal computational structures of DKT, we also report on potential issues that arise from data formatting. We take steps to reproduce the experiments of Deep Knowledge Tracing by implementing a DKT algorithm using Google's… [PDF] [Direct] [Direct]

Ranjan, Jayanthi (2011). Study of Sharing Knowledge Resources in Business Schools. Learning Organization, v18 n2 p102-114. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to propose a common business school framework based on knowledge resources that are available in business schools. To support the arguments made based on review literature, the paper presents the holistic framework of knowledge resources in a business school and also provides a knowledge value chain in sharing the resources. The paper then applies the framework to study the provisions of knowledge recourses in a business school to examine the effect of knowledge sharing. Design/methodology/approach: Drawing on insights from review literature the paper starts from a broad view on knowledge sharing in business schools. Then the paper proposes a knowledge-sharing framework. To evaluate the framework, the paper investigates one of the business school's knowledge sharing tools. Wherever data were insufficient, logical interpretation is provided. The framework is compared with respect to business schools. Then it is analyzed with the business school's… [Direct]

Cho, Hyesun (2014). "It's Very Complicated" Exploring Heritage Language Identity with Heritage Language Teachers in a Teacher Preparation Program. Language and Education, v28 n2 p181-195. Despite the proliferation of research in heritage language (HL) education, pedagogically based research that examines teacher education practice for promoting critical reflection of HL teachers is sparse. This article describes how preservice teachers working in community-based HL schools changed their views of HL identity during their participation in a teacher preparation program in Hawaii. The researcher as a teacher educator collected data over the course of three semesters while closely working with a cohort of five HL-speaking undergraduate students. The data included class transcripts, interviews and online reflection journals. This article delineates the ways in which the teacher educator and her students co-constructed the meaning of HL identity by (1) problematizing academic constructs of HL; (2) sharing personal and professional narratives and (3) capitalizing on linguistic and cultural funds of knowledge of HL teachers. Data analysis shows that HL teachers exhibited… [Direct]

Krasner, Jonathan (2014). The New "Journal of Jewish Education" at Ten: An Appraisal. Journal of Jewish Education, v80 n3 p160-192. This article documents the "Journal of Jewish Education's" acquisition by the Network for Research in Jewish Education, in 2004, and evaluates the contribution of the re-launched Journal to the field of Jewish education. I explore how the Journal contributed over the past decade in three discrete yet often overlapping areas, thereby realizing its editors' vision. First, the "Journal of Jewish Education" became the venue for conversations between researchers, practitioners and funders about the direction of Jewish education research and policy; second, it became an outlet for the sharing of research and other Jewish education scholarship; and third, it became a venue where scholars introduced research and theoretical constructs from the field of general education and sought to demonstrate their relevance to Jewish education. Finally, I suggest some reasons why the editors had less success in realizing a fourth goal for the "Journal"; that is,… [Direct]

Ally Limke; Heidi Reichert; Joshua Danish; Megan Humburg; Ole Molvig; Samantha Finkelstein; Sarah Burriss; Tiffany Barnes (2024). Toward Ethical and Just AI in Education Research. Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education (CADRE) Research and development work in artificial intelligence in education (AIED) is wide ranging and rapidly growing to support all areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teaching and learning. At the risk of hyperbole, this is potentially the most fundamentally game-changing technology for education to emerge since the internet. Building from decades of work on AI and AI-based learning and teaching technologies, the recent advances in AIED are pushing us to reimagine what is possible for STEM teaching and learning. AIED research initiatives are being speedily funded, and AIED advances are quickly becoming integrated into STEM education. It is transforming how teachers teach and how students learn. It is also transforming how education developers and researchers conduct their expansive work. There is excitement about the promise of AIED as well as growing concern that the breakthroughs in AIED are impacting everyday education practice in ways that may… [PDF]

Hammer, Bryan (2013). The Mechanisms of Interpersonal Privacy in Social Networking Websites: A Study of Subconscious Processes, Social Network Analysis, and Fear of Social Exclusion. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Arkansas. With increasing usage of social networking sites like Facebook there is a need to study privacy. Previous research has placed more emphasis on outcome-oriented contexts, such as e-commerce sites. In process-oriented contexts, like Facebook, privacy has become a source of conflict for users. The majority of architectural privacy (e.g. privacy policies, website mechanisms) enables the relationship between a user and business, focusing on the institutional privacy concern and trust; however, architectural privacy mechanisms that enables relationships between and among users is lacking. This leaves users the responsibility to manage privacy for their interpersonal relationships. This research focuses on the following question: "How does privacy influence the sharing of personal information in interpersonal relationships on social networking sites?" The management of the sharing of personal information is explained using the Need to Belong theory, psychological contract, and… [Direct]