ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Practical Tips on How to Promote Learner Autonomy in Foreign Language Classrooms
Author: Dincer, Ali
Date: 2010-11-00
Type: Information Analyses
Subjects: Personal Autonomy,Lifelong Learning,Second Language Instruction,Teaching Methods,English (Second Language),Student Responsibility,Teacher Role,Literature Reviews,Classroom Techniques,Self Determination,Learning Theories,Foreign Countries,Student Motivation

Autonomy is basically described as an individual's taking responsibility for his/her own learning and seen as one of the most significant features of life-long learning process today. Therefore modern language teaching approaches and innovations in this area have made language practitioners focus largely on the concept &quot;autonomy&quot; in educational setting in recent years. Main stream of the learner autonomy in the class mostly emanates from teacher and teacher behaviours. Therefore the role of autonomy-supportive teachers on mastering students' language learning is increasing in education day by day. As a result there is a great amount of interest and studies on learner and teacher autonomy in literature. This study is a literature review on autonomy-supportive language environments and teachers. By considering the related studies and comparing the features of autonomy-supportive and controlling language teaching atmospheres, and looking from the perspective of Self- Determination Theory, a modern motivation theory, the review aims to give some practical tips on how to promote learner autonomy and overcome learner reticence in foreign language classroom.
An Evaluation on English Language Education Process in Turkey from the Viewpoints of University Preparatory School Students
Author: Dincer, Ali
Date: 2010-06-00
Type: Reports - Evaluative
Subjects: Prior Learning,English (Second Language),Teacher Characteristics,Foreign Countries,Teacher Role,English Teachers,Second Language Instruction,Second Language Learning,Teacher Effectiveness,College Students,Student Attitudes,Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance,Elementary Secondary Education,Educational Environment

Many studies on effective language teaching process draw attention to the importance of teacher roles in this process, and give advice teachers to have prior knowledge about what their students know before beginning the instruction. This study is intended to draw an effective English language teacher profile by taking into consideration first year students' readiness levels and their experiences during their former education periods. In order to fulfill this aim, 38 preparatory class students from Tourism Vocational College Preparatory Programs, Erzincan University, were chosen at the beginning of 2009-2010 academic year. Participants were asked to write a composition on the evaluation of their prior language education experiences during their primary and high school years giving examples from English teachers who they admired most or they were not satisfied with. The analyses of the student compositions showed that some frequently experienced problems negatively affect foreign language education process. The most common of the problems were related to English teachers and English courses at schools as well as those stemming from teaching environments and teacher characteristics in Turkey. (Contains 2 tables.)
Steps to an Ecology of Fear: Advanced Curriculum for Fearlessness. Technical Paper No. 38
Author: Fisher, R. Michael
Date: 2012-00-00
Type: Reports - Research
Subjects: Fear,World Views,Interdisciplinary Approach,Political Attitudes,Motivation,Ecology,Curriculum Design,Models,Theories

The author outlines a unique integral transdisciplinary theory (model, map) for studying four meta-motivations universal to all living systems. Within this theory are four primary principles to make the whole integral basis for understanding motivation and all that it determines in perception, thinking, feelings, actions. The four meta-motivations are Fear, Love, Freedom and Fearlessness. This work continues the author's 25 year study of recalibrating W. societies' views and approaches to curriculum design which are truly emancipatory, rather than continuing a legacy of fear-based curriculum design and pedagogy that is wiping out the best qualities of the Natural, Cultural and Spiritual worlds. The author argues that the foundational meta-motivation (principle) of Fear is an &quot;ecology of fear&quot; essential to the understanding of the Natural world and thus, also, the world of human beings. Any notion of &quot;living in harmony&quot; with the natural world (&quot;a la&quot; Gregory Bateson and many holistic and indigenous educators) ought to engage the role of an ecology of fear. A list of related resources is provided in an appendix. [This paper was published by the In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute.] (Contains 4 figures and 8 footnotes.)
Enhancing Student Success by Treating "Student Jobs" as "Real Jobs". Noel-Levitz White Paper
Author: Noel-Levitz, Inc.
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Reports - Descriptive
Subjects: School Holding Power,Student Employment,Educational Resources,Resource Allocation,Academic Persistence,Outcomes of Education,Program Effectiveness,Campuses,Educational Improvement,Improvement Programs,Employment Opportunities,Employment Practices,Change Strategies,Success,Student Improvement

In a time of scarce resources, many colleges and universities are looking for ways to stretch their existing resources for student success. At the same time, most institutions have a significant number of student workers. This paper presents the latest research that describes the vital role of on-campus employment in student retention. This report also presents seven specific suggestions for maximizing the return from your investment in student employees. Eight ways on how supervisors can best help student workers are also described.
Back to the Present: Strategic Enrollment Planning for the Coming Demographic Change. Noel-Levitz White Paper
Author: Noel-Levitz, Inc.
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Numerical/Quantitative Data
Subjects: Student Attitudes,Colleges,Enrollment,Enrollment Trends,Higher Education,Demography,Graduation Rate,Migration Patterns,Economics,Family Income

Does your campus' enrollment success depend on traditional-age students? Do you draw from one of the 39 states plus District of Columbia that will soon see significant changes in the numbers and make-up of direct-from-high-school students? Is your campus ready for these changes? Campus administrators are regularly reminded to keep an eye on long-range demographic projections when planning for the future; that's only prudent when making decisions about policies and facilities that may be developed over a period of several years, most would agree. Currently, institutions of higher education--most notably the large group of four-year private and public colleges and universities that rely on traditional-age students--are well-advised to drop the binoculars and take a close look at the next five-to-ten-year span. What lies directly ahead is a demographic trough more pronounced than any experienced in recent decades--and one that urges strategic enrollment planning to position institutions for stability and success. This paper looks at those trends and outlines strategies for coping with these challenges. (Contains 5 tables.)
A New Way to Measure Student Success: Introducing the Student Success "Funnel"--a Valuable Tool for Retention Planning and Goal-Setting
Author: Culver, Tim
Date: 2008-00-00
Type: Reports - Descriptive
Subjects: Higher Education,Educational Assessment,Academic Persistence,School Holding Power,Accountability,Access to Education,Student Diversity,Enrollment,Attendance Patterns,Graduation Rate,Academic Achievement

Today, the pressure is on to enhance student success in higher education. Demands for accountability and mounting concerns about access are prompting educators to re-think traditional approaches to retention management and to look for new strategies. At the same time, higher education is seeing unprecedented changes in its students, including a lack of preparedness, greater diversity, and "swirl"--the phenomenon described by experts such as Cliff Adelman in which students enroll simultaneously at multiple institutions, attend classes intermittently rather than go straight through college, and hold down competing responsibilities such as part-time jobs. To respond to this new environment, Noel-Levitz advocates a paradigm shift toward a more precise model for measuring desired outcomes--the student success "funnel." By applying this model, educators can maintain closer contact with students, more precisely set goals, and plan more effectively. (Contains 2 footnotes.)
Connecting Enrollment and Fiscal Management: Guide Your Campus through the Uncertain Economy with the Fiscal Indicators Inventory[TM]. Noel-Levitz White Paper
Author: Noel-Levitz, Inc.
Date: 2009-00-00
Type: Reports - Descriptive
Subjects: Educational Finance,Courses,Income,Financial Policy,Colleges,Tuition,Fees,Student Financial Aid,Competition,Student Recruitment,Academic Persistence,School Holding Power,Enrollment

How is your institution using its fiscal resources to its greatest advantage to fulfill the school's mission and meet expectations in today's economy? In an era of reduced resources and escalating costs, it's a question that every institution of higher education should be asking. Yet, despite the economic pressure, many campus leaders still need to take steps to fully integrate their enrollment policies and fiscal management. While institutions have become increasingly sophisticated and proactive in managing their enrollment outcomes, campus administrators often continue to set goals and pursue objectives for enrollment and fiscal policy without sufficiently connecting these two areas. At the heart of this issue are questions such as: (1) How certain are you that your tuition, fee, and financial aid structures are providing the strongest enrollment and revenue results possible?; (2) How are you monitoring the changing demographics and price sensitivity of prospective students in your marketplace?; (3) How do you know that you are offering the optimal number and variety of academic courses and programs in order to meet enrollment needs and address fiscal realities?; (4) Are you re-allocating at least a percentage of your operational budget to new initiatives based on sound analysis of current strategies and tactics?; and (5) What metrics should you be tracking in order to harmonize your enrollment and revenue goals? This paper addresses those questions and discusses the strategies and metrics your campus needs to optimize its enrollment and fiscal policies.
How Presidents and Their Cabinets Can Exert Greater Influence over Enrollment-Related Revenue. Discussion Paper
Author: Noel-Levitz, Inc.
Date: 2006-00-00
Type: Reports - Descriptive
Subjects: Colleges,Income,Fund Raising,Educational Finance,College Presidents,Enrollment,Goal Orientation,Instructional Leadership,Interpersonal Relationship,Strategic Planning,Cooperation,Data,Decision Making

What do you want to accomplish? Whatever it is, you need money to do it, and on most campuses, the biggest source of funding is enrollment-related revenue from students. Yet, interestingly, perhaps because most chief executives are more familiar with fundraising, opportunities to strengthen enrollment revenue often receive less attention than major donors. This paper is designed to help bridge this gap. In 10 succinct points, readers who know and understand fundraising will learn how to easily transfer that knowledge to understand the enrollment revenue stream. You'll see how you can work more closely with your enrollment team to exert greater influence over enrollment, its revenue, and strategic enrollment planning. After reading this paper, the hope is that you will: (1) Gain a better understanding of how to manage enrollment to accomplish strategic institutional goals; (2) Know where your support and leadership is crucial to your enrollment team; and (3) Identify ways to exert more influence over enrollment-related revenue.
Making Web Sites an Effective Recruitment Asset: Content Management Solutions Keep Web Sites Fresh and Relevant--and Students Engaged. Noel-Levitz White Paper
Author: Noel-Levitz, Inc.
Date: 2009-00-00
Type: Reports - Descriptive
Subjects: Management Systems,Web Sites,Marketing,College Administration,Communication Strategies,Computer Mediated Communication,Educational Technology,Computer Uses in Education,Organizational Communication,Student Recruitment,Web 2.0 Technologies,Open Source Technology,Barriers,Vendors,Computer Software

Have you updated your Web site today? Is it possible that answering &quot;yes&quot; to this simple question is the key to the success of your marketing and recruiting efforts? In the current recruitment arena, the ability to update and maintain this one high-value asset (your Web site) might be the key to the potency of your institutional marketing effort. While e-mail, print, and other methods of interacting with students and parents remain vitally important, there's no question that college Web sites have taken center stage in the effort to convey key messages and engage prospective students. This paper discusses how colleges can use a content management system to keep their Web sites fresh, relevant, and engaging to students, while also promoting ownership and participation from multiple campus users.
In Pursuit of the Secret Shopper: Effective New Strategies for Finding and Engaging Prospective Students. Noel-Levitz White Paper
Author: Noel-Levitz, Inc.
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Reports - Descriptive
Subjects: Higher Education,Student Recruitment,Enrollment,Colleges,Models,Web Sites

Today, prospective students in ever greater numbers are secretly exploring colleges online on their own terms, using official and unofficial sources, without completing a college's response form. Many are withholding college entrance exam scores from colleges they might be interested in and remaining unknown to their institutions of choice until the point of application. How can you adapt your search efforts to this new recruiting reality? What can you do to engage prospective students, get them to identify themselves and communicate with you, and push them toward enrollment? "In Pursuit of the Secret Shopper" outlines strategies you can use to connect with students online and add them to your funnel.
Planning for Employee Onboarding: Finding Ways to Increase New Employee Success and Long-Term Retention. Noel-Levitz White Paper
Author: Hillman, Jo
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Reports - Descriptive
Subjects: Employee Attitudes,Persistence,Work Attitudes,Industrial Psychology,Orientation,Organizational Development,Employer Employee Relationship,Change Strategies,Guidelines,Campuses,Long Range Planning

Are your new campus employees experiencing and acting positively as they assume their new roles? Do they exhibit excitement and anticipation toward their new jobs? Are they enthusiastic about sharing, learning and contributing? Research shows that investing the extra effort, or "onboarding," to capitalize on the enthusiasm of new hires pays dividends. This paper discusses the theory behind employee onboarding, how it benefits you, and strategies for building on the positive inclinations and motivations of new employees.
How to Generate Purposeful Change on Your Campus: A Realistic Approach to Institutional Assessment. White Paper
Author: Noel-Levitz, Inc.
Date: 2005-00-00
Type: Reports - Descriptive
Subjects: Higher Education,Institutional Evaluation,College Students,Educational Change,Colleges,Educational Improvement,Undergraduate Study,Satisfaction,Student Attitudes,Outcomes of Education

"A disturbing and dangerous mismatch exists between what American society needs of higher education and what it is receiving. Nowhere is the mismatch more dangerous than in the quality of undergraduate preparation provided on many campuses. The American imperative for the 21st century is that society must hold higher education to much higher standards or risk national decline." This sober warning, issued by the venerable Kellogg Commission in a summary report on the state of higher education, conveys a clear challenge to those who lead institutions of higher learning: Take an unstinting look at your institution, be forthright about your findings, and take steps to begin improving the quality of the undergraduate experience on your campus. It's a situation leaving no doubt that a comprehensive institutional assessment program is no longer a luxury, but an imperative. At a recent teleconference, Noel-Levitz senior executive Dr. Charles C. Schroeder presented the framework for a systematic approach to assessment and suggested tools to help institutions address this critical concern. This paper shares key observations and recommendations from that presentation.
Financial Strategies to Support Citywide Systems of Out-of-School Time Programs. Strategy Guide
Author: Russell, Lane
Date: 2009-00-00
Type: Guides - Non-Classroom
Subjects: After School Programs,Financial Support,Change Strategies,Educational Opportunities,Youth Opportunities,Latchkey Children,City Government,Educational Quality,Educational Finance,Funding Formulas,Resource Allocation,Finance Reform,Educational Needs,Educational Innovation,Educational Policy,Guidelines,Youth Programs,Educational Administration

With most parents now in the workforce, the demand for high-quality out-of-school time (OST) opportunities for children and youth continues to grow across the country. An estimated 14.3 million children and youth return each day to an empty home unsupervised, and with no opportunities to constructively occupy their time. By building strong, citywide OST systems, municipal leaders can help ensure that the out-of-school hours, rather than being wasted, equip young people with the 21st century skills necessary to compete in today's knowledge and skill-based global economy. This strategy guide highlights the important roles that municipal officials play in funding high-quality, affordable OST opportunities. The four funding strategies identified above have been used in cities across the nation to develop and expand sustainable citywide OST systems. When used together, these strategies can form a web of financial support that significantly strengthens the OST options available for young people. The need for innovative financing has become even more relevant as tough budget times force cities to think strategically and systemically about supporting the OST options available in their communities. This guide offers concrete examples for each strategy to highlight how cities have developed creative financing options to support and expand OST opportunities. A list of additional resources is included. (Contains 10 footnotes.)
The Responsive Ph.D.: Innovations in U.S. Doctoral Education
Author: Weisbuch, Robert
Date: 2005-09-00
Type: Reports - Descriptive
Subjects: Doctoral Programs,Educational Innovation,Praxis,Intellectual Disciplines,Research Universities,School Organization,Program Effectiveness,Best Practices,Role of Education

The Woodrow Wilson Foundation does not like to write reports. Typically, Woodrow Wilson translates ideas into academic practices. This said, having engaged 14 (and ultimately 20) graduate schools to work on the Responsive Ph.D.--as the authors called their initiative--it is time to report on what they have accomplished, and on what they have learned. To maintain Woodrow Wilson's prejudice for action, this report is meant to be especially direct and useable. Like the overarching initiative it reflects, it has four themes, distilled from their reading of the various research reports on the state of the doctorate: (1) new paradigms; (2) new practices; (3) new people; and (4) new partnerships. Structured around these themes, this report on the Responsive Ph.D. offers a small number of recommendations, a range of means for acting on each, and some examples from the participating universities. Together, these institutions have created more than forty innovations that demonstrate the four themes. These four themes are treated in the body of the report. Behind them, however, lie four encompassing principles, discovered through the lived experience of this effort. These principles must be stated at the outset, for they guide this presentation of the results of the Responsive Ph.D. Assessing Best Practices: case studies from 14 responsive ph.d. universities are appended. (Contains 3 footnotes.)
Retooling the Enrollment Funnel: Strategies and Metrics for a New Era. Noel-Levitz White Paper
Author: Noel-Levitz, Inc.
Date: 2009-00-00
Type: Reports - Descriptive
Subjects: Enrollment Management,Student Behavior,Change Strategies,Predictor Variables,Predictive Measurement,Predictive Validity,Enrollment Trends,Enrollment Influences,Measurement Objectives,Measurement Techniques,Trend Analysis,Educational Trends,Models,College Choice

For more than two decades, the enrollment funnel has shaped how enrollment managers planned their enrollment strategies. It was a reliable, effective model for enrollment behavior, and campuses could shape their strategies around it. In recent years, however, demographic changes as well as technological advances have rendered the traditional funnel inadequate as a predictor of student enrollment behavior. More and more students have become "secret shoppers" and are making first contact much later in the funnel process. This white paper discusses a new paradigm for predicting student behavior and establishing metrics for tracking enrollment behavior.
Six Essentials--and Six Common Mistakes--in Cabinet-Level Strategic Enrollment Planning. Noel-Levitz Executive Briefing
Author: Noel-Levitz, Inc.
Date: 2009-00-00
Type: Reports - Descriptive
Subjects: Strategic Planning,Higher Education,Enrollment,Educational Finance,Cooperation,School Demography,Models,Student Recruitment,School Holding Power,Academic Persistence,Goal Orientation

Higher education is going through a period of unprecedented pressures for efficiency and effectiveness, including demands for tuition control, greater student success, increased accountability, and in many states, rapidly changing demographics and increased competition. In response to these current pressures, relatively few campuses appear to be devoting time to updating or creating a multi-year, strategic enrollment plan--a cabinet-level activity that, ironically, may be the most effective of all in combating these pressures and in ensuring long-term enrollment and fiscal health. Perhaps this is because strategic planning in general is widely viewed as a periodic, once-every-five-years-or-so planning "event." In truth, however, effective multi-year, strategic enrollment planning continuously re-aligns the institution with its current and future environment and provides ongoing, essential guidance for an institution's fiscal health, enrollment, academic programs, and more. This paper discusses six essential strategies and six common mistakes that campuses make with their strategic enrollment planning. (Contains 4 footnotes.)