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Policy and Bias: Why Adult Education Leaders Must Pay Attention to the Black Lives Matter Movement
No full textThe Black Lives Matter movement has highlighted the need to examine bias and misconceptions that drive systemic racism. In light of this movement, decision makers in adult education must consider how their own backgrounds influence the policy they create for a diverse population of students. This paper examines how bias can cause disconnects between leaders and the adult students they serve. By bridging the gaps between these disconnects, policy and decision makers can better understand equity and diversity problems, have more empathy for students and their situations, and become more mindful about the educational barriers that policies can sometimes create
Alternative Teacher Certification and the Hiring Process: Finding Quality Candidates During a Teacher Shortage
No full textResearch has indicated a growing teacher shortage for decades. Alternative certification began as a tool to combat the dropping numbers of college students pursuing education degrees. Despite the availability of these programs, there are still far too many vacant teaching positions across the nation, and educational administrators must resort to hiring unqualified teachers to fill these empty classrooms. This problem briefly catches the attention of policy makers but continues to go unsolved. This analysis provides an up-to-date review of the existing research on alternative certification and presents questions about the need for reform in the area of teacher certification
Now Where is Campus?: The Impacts of Senate Bill 212 on Texas\u27 Colleges
No full textIn a response to the #metoo movement and unclear Title IX guidelines forwarded by the U.S. Department of Education, the Texas Legislature recently enacted Senate Bill 212 (SB212), a bill aimed at increasing the reporting of sexual violence on college campuses in Texas. In this brief, I report on institutional Title IX guidance just before SB212’s January 1st, 2020 implementation date, as SB212 drastically increases the reporting requirements and penalties associated with failures to comply
Biozobots: An Investigation into Using Robotics to Engage College Students in Introductory Biology Course
No full textCreating meaningful learning environments that support university students in their early STEM courses has become a focus of interest for many universities. This research investigated an active learning environment where students used Ozobot robots to visualize complex concepts such as Metabolism, Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration in an introductory Biology course. Three conditions were employed over three semesters including a Control, Nonreflective, and Reflective condition. In both the Nonreflective and the Reflective condition, students programmed robots to visualize concepts in the three topics of interest. Quantitative analysis using Kruskal Wallis revealed significant differences between the Reflective and the other two conditions
Examination of School and Classroom Factors Effecting on Students’ Mathematical Achievements via Multilevel Analysis with the Data Sets of TIMSS 2015/2019
No full textThis study is to examine the classroom factors impacting students’ mathematical achievement. Multilevel techniques were used in data analysis. The analysis indicates that the impact of student background characteristics on mathematical achievement is significant. The results indicated that student age is a significant factor to impact students’ learning. The results also indicated that students\u27 attitudes and confidence in mathematical learning are important
Results of an Observational Study on Elementary School Student Engagement
No full textElementary school student engagement is a construct that can be both an immediate predictor for many metrics of interest, such as academic attainment and a later-in-life predictor for attrition, graduation, and even social-emotional behaviors. Thus, it is critical to understand elementary student engagement. In this work, we present an observation protocol based on recent pilot studies and a longitudinal study. This protocol was created to provide a snapshot of student engagement in the classroom and insight into how it is impacted by the learning environment
Teachers’ Struggles in Using Brain Breaks in Online Synchronous Classroom
No full textDespite technology has become an integral part and distinct feature of education in 21 st century and specifically Pandemic’s impact on education and in the rise of online teaching, the importance of brain breaks significantly raised. The purpose of this research is to explore the effects of Brain Break activities on interest and motivation among school students while they study in synchronous online class. It is an action research and also current studies and researches used in this research to support that it designed to equip the Pre-Service and In-Service teachers with tools to manage the attention of the class and to keep children in the most receptive state for learning
Hybrid Methods Course Model: Evidence from the Field
No full textFeedback from the traditional Secondary Methods courses that are conducted in the PDS setting demonstrated clear frustration with the current model dividing preservice teacher time between their class time and time in the field. With this information, a hybrid secondary methods course model was designed and delivered with dramatically different feedback from both methods students in the field and PDS mentor teachers. The process included online content delivery, co-teaching in the field six hours a week with build in work days, specific practices geared toward the state license exam, and additional supports for communication, feedback from stakeholders, and university professor
The Impact of STEM Research in Urban Education: A Citation Analysis
No full textThis study provides a characterization of the impact of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) articles published in three urban education journals from 2014 until 2020. This citation analysis included 49 STEM-related studies retrieved from Urban Education, Education and Urban Society, and The Urban Review. The results indicate that STEM-related studies published in Education and Urban Society and Urban Education have a similar impact on the field based on the almost identical number of mean normalized citations, 13.60 and 13.50, respectively. Additionally, STEM integration is an important predictor of citation frequency within urban education journals
Excellent and Equitable Outcomes for Grade 3 Students in High Poverty Urban Schools: Research in Progress
No full textExcellent and equitable outcomes are not yet being achieved for every student in Texas public schools. The purpose of this research-in-progress is to examine high poverty urban schools experiencing a high success rate in closing the socioeconomic gap connected to the race-based achievement gap