(2016). Slow Shift–Developing Provisions for Talented Students in Scandinavian Higher Education. Education Sciences, v6 Article 31. For decades, Scandinavian culture effectively prohibited the development of special provisions for talented students in higher education. However, in recent years, a cultural shift has gradually made more room for excellence and talent development in the national discourses. This paper analyzes the climate for talent development in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. Following a first inventory of honors programs in Scandinavian higher education in which the only programs were found in Denmark, 10 experts were interviewed to analyze their national situation and reflect on the leading role of Denmark. In this country, external incentives, focus on quality, pioneers, and an open atmosphere were found to produce a culture more appreciative of excellence over the last decade. Starting from the Danish experience, the situation in Norway and Sweden is analyzed, showing that the combination of factors leading to change in Denmark is not yet present here. Lessons for other countries are… [PDF]
(2019). Exploring the Difficulty on Students' Preparation and the Effective Instruction in the Flipped Classroom: A Case Study in a Physiology Class. Journal of Computing in Higher Education, v31 n2 p311-339 Aug. This study aims to find out how students prepared for a flipped classroom and to examine what type of instruction could effectively guide students to do pre-class preparation. We conducted case studies for over two years in a physiology class at a Japanese university. In a survey performed in 2017, students were asked to participate in a questionnaire and an interview. Their responses in the questionnaire indicated that there was a clear and positive correlation between their class preparation time and individual grades, while class preparation of some students was proven not so productive or efficient. By the same token, the student interview made clear that students were not well informed of what to focus on or how to prepare appropriately for the flipped classes. Based on the 2017 findings, we started to share learning objectives with students for their pre-class preparation in the 2018 course. Amid and after the 2018 spring semester, questionnaires were administered to examine… [Direct]
(2019). Caring for Common Ground: Developing a Spiritually-Based Ecological Restoration Education Program at Holy Wisdom Monastery. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Wisconsin – Madison. The human dimensions of ecological restoration have been considered with increasing focus over the past several decades. The Earth Partnership program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has presented an evolving model of restoration as education since 1991, with growing awareness of the need for multicultural approaches to learning about and doing local land stewardship. My dissertation presents the story of the development of a pilot restoration education project, using Earth Partnership content and pedagogy with a group of interfaith participants at Holy Wisdom Monastery in Middleton, Wisconsin. Through a collaborative learning approach, participants in the "Caring for Common Ground" project explored the meanings ascribed to restoration by spiritual and faith practitioners, the tools required to enact ecological values, and the community of practice formed around spiritually-based ecological restoration. Adopting a community-engaged approach, I strive here to… [Direct]
(2020). Comparing the Effects of Direct and Indirect Synchronous Written Corrective Feedback: Learning Outcomes and Students' Perceptions. Foreign Language Annals, v53 n1 p176-199 Spr. From a sociocultural perspective, collaborative writing tasks offer opportunities to negotiate in decision-making processes while also sharing responsibility for the production of a single text (Storch, 2013, "Collaborative writing in L2 classrooms." Bristol: Multilingual Matters). Although research has found benefits for such tasks (Storch, 2019, "Lang Teach," 52, 40-59; Taguchi & Kim, 2016, "Appl Linguist," 37, 416-437), variation in how different types of synchronous written corrective feedback (SWCF) in such a setting impacts students' language learning and their perception of SWCF has not been examined. This study compares the role of direct and indirect SWCF during collaborative writing tasks on the learning of Korean among high beginning-level students. The study was conducted during an existing beginning level Korean course and focused on three textbook units over 6 weeks. Fifty-three learners of Korean were assigned to one of three… [Direct]
(2018). Exploring Student's Team Behavior through Entrepreneurship Education: A Time-Lagged Study. Education & Training, v60 n7-8 p781-799. Purpose: Based on group development theories, the purpose of this paper is to evaluate student's team behavior during different stages of team development. Design/methodology/approach: A time-lagged survey method was used to collect data over a period of 18 weeks from 40 undergraduate students enrolled in an entrepreneurship course. Hierarchical linear regression and structural equation modeling were used for analysis. Findings: Findings reveal that during the early stages of team development, a leader with an entrepreneurial approach directed student's team behavior proactively. Analysis showed that lower level of task conflict strengthened the impact of leadership on team cohesion. It was also found that during the pre-final stages, students demonstrated knowledge-sharing behavior once they were characterized by team cohesion. Research limitations/implications: Data were collected from student teams, which may not generalize to organizational teams. Social implications: This… [Direct]
(2013). How Institutionalized Are Model License Use Terms? An Analysis of E-Journal License Use Rights Clauses from 2000 to 2009. College & Research Libraries, v74 n4 p326-355 July. This paper explored the degree to which use terms proposed by model licenses have become institutionalized across different publishers' licenses. It examined model license use terms in four areas: downloading, scholarly sharing, interlibrary loan, and electronic reserves. Data collection and analysis involved content analysis of 224 electronic journal licenses spanning 2000–2009. Analysis examined how use terms changed over time, differences between consortia and site license use terms and differences between commercial and noncommercial publisher license use terms. Results suggest that some model license use terms have become institutionalized while others have not. Use terms with higher institutionalization included: allowing ILL, permitting secure e-transmission for ILL, allowing e-reserves with no special permissions, and not requiring deletion of e-reserves files. Scholarly sharing showed lower institutionalization with most publishers not including scholarly sharing… [Direct]
(2023). Implementation of an Early College Design in a Rural High School: Empowering Place-Conscious Leadership to Affect Change and Overcome Barriers to Innovation. ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, Clemson University. This qualitative, improvement science, autoethnographic case study aims to examine a unique perspective on rural research through the lens of place-conscious leadership. With an identified problem of inequity in advanced-level course offerings, which resulted in lost student opportunities and student attrition to neighboring schools, the leadership at Forest Lakes High School (FLHS) in rural South Carolina began the ambitious journey of reframing their narrative. As a scholarly researcher and administrator at FLHS, I had the unique opportunity to immerse myself fully in all aspects of this study. My dual positionality allowed me to study this process while sharing the lived experiences of the leadership team. This study tells our story of conceptualizing, creating, and maintaining the Forest Lakes Early College High School (FLECHS) program. Through leadership team interviews, researcher observations, personal experiences, and program artifacts, this study details the experiences of… [Direct]
(2016). Strengthening Statistics Graduate Programs with Statistical Collaboration–The Case of Hawassa University, Ethiopia. Journal of Education and Practice, v7 n19 p82-85. This paper describes the experiences gained from the established statistical collaboration center at Hawassa University as part of LISA 2020 network. The center has got similar setup as LISA at Virginia Tech. Statisticians are trained on how to become more effective scientific collaborators with researchers. The services are being delivered since May 2015. 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. They have produced over one hundred sixty 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 clients have revealed positive feedback about the services. It is observed that the… [PDF]
(2020). Lessons Learned: Aligning Voices from the inside with Nine Essentials of Professional Development Schools. School-University Partnerships, v13 n2 p59-69 Fall. This exploratory case study documents the experiences shared by teacher candidates and cooperating teachers in two contrasting Professional Development School (PDS) sites over four semesters. At the ends of semesters during which courses were moved from the traditional university site delivery to public middle schools as part of an emerging PDS, focus group interviews were conducted with teacher candidates and then with classroom teachers to document their experiences. Their voices were solicited because much that went on between them and outside of what could be directly observed by those making decisions is important for identifying what would strengthen a PDS model. Eight themes were identified: communication, barriers to practice, teacher uncertainty, candidate uncertainty, building relationships, on-site presence, integrating into the culture, and experiential learning. Findings were held up to the Nine Essentials of Professional Development Schools as identified by the National… [PDF]
(2018). Teacher-Led Inquiry in Technology-Supported School Communities. British Journal of Educational Technology, v49 n6 p1077-1095 Nov. Learning design is a research field which studies how to best support teachers as designers of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) situations. Although substantial work has been done in the articulation of the learning design process, little is known about how learning designs are experienced by students and teachers, especially in the context of schools. This paper empirically examines if a teacher inquiry model, as a tool for systematic research by teachers into their own practice, facilitates the connection between the design and data-informed reflection on TEL interventions in two school communities. High school teachers participated in a learning design professional development program supported by a web-based community platform integrating a teacher inquiry tool (TILE). A multiple case study was conducted aimed at understanding: (a) current teacher practice and (b) teacher involvement in inquiry cycles of design and classroom implementations with technologies. Multiple data… [Direct]
(2018). Striving in Common: A Regional Equity Framework for Urban Schools. Harvard Education Press In "Striving in Common," Jennifer Jellison Holme and Kara S. Finnigan seek to build a bridge between two largely disparate, yet interconnected, conversations–those among education reformers on the one hand, and urban reformers on the other. In this carefully considered volume, the authors show how the challenges faced by urban schools are linked to issues of regional equity and civic capacity. More Drawing on examples from a range of cities, including St. Louis, Milwaukee, Palo Alto, Rochester, Omaha, and Minneapolis, Holme and Finnigan trace the policy decisions that have fostered competition for scarce resources between cities and suburbs as well as patterns of segregation by race and income. They highlight the limited ability of technical education reforms and interdistrict desegregation programs to counter the resulting educational inequities. The authors then examine existing regional governance initiatives aimed at promoting equity and reducing inefficiency through… [Direct]
(2018). Generative Tools Enhance Creative and Ethical Research with Children. Qualitative Research Journal, v18 n1 p33-44. Purpose: Qualitative researchers working with young people consistently face challenges in trying to ethically gain insight into their inner thoughts and worlds. The purpose of this paper is to examine how the use of generative tools in conjunction with qualitative interviewing with young people can enhance creativity and reflexivity, while mitigating adult-child power dynamics. Design/methodology/approach: This paper draws upon ethnographic research conducted by the author examining the interplay between emotion, communication, and schooling at a public high school. Participant observation, use of generative tools to make collages representing each student's experience, and in-depth interviews guided by the student-created visuals were triangulated to more fully understand the students' experiences. Findings: Generative tools foster reflexivity in both researcher and participants, lesson adult-child power dynamic concerns, and foster creativity without the requirement of drawing… [Direct]
(2017). The Effects of Procedural Knowledge Transparency on Adoption in Corporate Social Networks. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, Purdue University. This dissertation investigated how a certain type of organizational knowledge sharing, procedural knowledge transparency, affected innovation adoption rates of members of a corporate social network within a large Scandinavian organization, in its two years of activity. It also explored the mediation of these effects by different types of sensemaking and moderation by performance transparency in the form of badges. Corporate social networks such as Yammer have gained enormous traction over the past decade as tools for knowledge sharing and retention, and their usage will continue to rise. However, the distinct value these online social networks bring to the organization remains highly debated and understudied. This study attempts to explore this existing gap and add to the scarce literature and practical knowledge surrounding it. Content analysis was used to code 2866 posts that occurred within the network to identify and classify instances of procedural knowledge transparency,… [Direct]
(2016). A Comparison of the Twelve Core Values of Thai People Defined by the Head of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) Found in Thai Private and Public University Students. Online Submission, Paper presented at the Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education (14th, Honolulu, HI, Jan 3-6, 2016). This study aims to examine the twelve core values of Thai people found in Thai university students. The twelve values consist of the following attributes: 1.Upholding the nation, the religions and the Monarchy 2. Being honest, sacrificial and patient with positive attitude for the common good of the public 3. Being grateful to the parents, guardians and teachers 4. Seeking knowledge and education directly and indirectly 5. Treasuring the precious Thai tradition 6. Maintaining moral, integrity, well-wishes upon others as well as being generous and sharing 7. Understanding, learning the true essence of democratic ideals with His Majesty the King as the Head of State 8. Maintaining discipline, respectful of laws and the elderly and seniority 9. Being conscious and mindful of action in line with His Majesty's the King's statements 10. Practicing the philosophy of Sufficiency Economy of His Majesty the King. Saving money for time of need. Being moderate with surplus used for sharing or… [PDF]
(2019). Maverick Teachers: How Innovative Educators Are Saving Public Schools. 1st Edition. Eye on Education Despite dwindling resources and high-stakes testing, public school teachers all over the country are managing to breathe life, passion, and excitement into their classrooms. In this new book by bestselling author A.J. Juliani and lifelong educator David E. Baugh, you'll meet a diverse group of teachers–Mavericks–who are doing exactly that. You'll hear from teachers across the country and how they are shaking up the norm. Each story includes a powerful vignette and a breakdown of tactics used, so you can bring inspiration and strategies back to your own classroom. Together, these teachers and their stories will show you how to relate and respond to your students' most pressing needs, leaving you feeling reenergized in your role as a change-maker. Following an introduction, "Dave Baugh and the Power of Mavericks to Save Public Education," chapters include: (1) Sharing a Passion for Middle-School Science (Mary Ann Miller); (2) Changing the Classroom for a Changing World… [Direct]