ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Status of State-Defined Alternate Diplomas in 2018-19. NCEO Report 416
Author: Thurlow, Martha L.
Date: 2019-09-00
Type: Reports - Research
Subjects: High School Equivalency Programs,Students with Disabilities,Elementary Secondary Education,Educational Legislation,Federal Legislation,Intellectual Disability,Severe Disabilities,Accountability,State Policy,Educational Policy,Eligibility,Guidelines,Program Implementation,Graduation Requirements

The purpose of this report is to summarize the status of state-defined alternate diplomas in the 50 U.S. states three years after the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESSA) indicated that states could develop these diplomas and use them in accountability calculations. To count this diploma in a graduation measure for accountability, several criteria must be met, including that it must be standards-based, aligned to state requirements for the regular high school diploma, and obtained within the time period for which the state ensures the availability of a free appropriate public education (FAPE). This report documents the status of state-defined alternate diplomas in states in 2018-19 and provides recommendations to states intending to develop a state-defined alternate diploma.
Guidance for Examining Disproportionality of Student Group Participation in Alternate Assessments. NCEO Brief Number 18
Author: Evans, Carla
Date: 2019-08-00
Type: Reports - Descriptive
Subjects: Disproportionate Representation,Student Participation,Alternative Assessment,Elementary Secondary Education,Educational Legislation,Federal Legislation,Students with Disabilities,Special Education,Equal Education,Evaluation Methods,Student Evaluation

The purpose of this brief is to examine disproportionality with respect to student group participation in Alternate Assessments aligned with Alternate Academic Achievement Standards (AA-AAAS). This paper is a companion to another National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO) brief, &quot;Guidance for Examining District Alternate Assessment Participation Rates&quot; (see ED591939). The companion brief outlined a broad framework and general principles to guide the examination of AA-AAAS participation rates, particularly in light of the challenge of small n-sizes and associated uncertainty.
Written Grammatical Errors of Turkish Adult Learners of English: An Analysis
Author: Tasçi, Samet
Date: 2018-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Error Analysis (Language),Native Language,Turkish,Grammar,Majors (Students),Undergraduate Students,Essays,Video Technology,Writing Evaluation,Evaluators,Taxonomy,Verbs,Form Classes (Languages),Interference (Language),Foreign Countries

Making errors is a natural process of language learning. As in all kind of learning, language learning also involves making errors. Research has shown that even in the first language acquisition process, children make countless errors. Similarly, adult learners of English will inevitably make errors until they have mastered the rules of target language. In this respect, this study was conducted to examine written grammatical errors of 2nd year Turkish students majoring in English Language Teaching at Anadolu University. First, related literature has been reviewed in the study. Both descriptive and qualitative research design has been used in order to collect data to be analyzed. The students were asked to write a narrative essay about a video they had watched. All the essays were analyzed one by one to identify all the grammatical errors of the students by three inter-raters. The raters identified grammatical errors manually and reached on a consensus in the categorization process. The only concern of the study was to analyze grammatical errors; this is why, ICLE/ Louvain Taxonomy of Errors (Diaz-Negrillo&amp; Fernandez-Dominguez, 2006) was used partly in the categorization of the errors. The study reported that preposition errors were the most common grammatical errors among Turkish learners of English followed by respectively verb errors, article errors, word class errors, pronoun errors and others. In the light of previous literature, the findings indicate that interference effect and developmental process might have been the reason for the grammatical errors.
2019 Surveying the Military: What America&apos;s Active-Duty Servicemembers and Spouses Think about Military Life and K-12 Education
Author: DiPerna, Paul
Date: 2019-06-00
Type: Reports - Research
Subjects: Military Personnel,Veterans,Spouses,Attitudes,Educational Attitudes,School Choice,Elementary Secondary Education,Educational Finance,Educational Vouchers,Military Service,Enrollment,School Districts,Charter Schools,Public Schools

This report presents findings from a 2019 online survey of 1,295 active-duty military servicemembers and their spouses. 907 servicemembers, 291 spouses or partners of a servicemember, and 97 respondents who were both a servicemember and the spouse or partner of a servicemember completed the survey. The objective of the project is twofold: (1) to expand on the first military survey we conducted in 2017 and; (2) to get a better understanding of the experiences and views of military families in America toward K-12 education. In addition to the 2017 survey, this study is now the second of its kind to survey active-duty servicemembers and their spouses on a wide range of education-related issues, and to gauge their attitudes toward education choice policies, such as education savings accounts (also known as &quot;ESAs&quot;). [The report was funded by the Challenge Foundation. To view the 2017 report, &quot;Surveying the Military: What America's Servicemembers, Veterans, and Their Spouses Think about K-12 Education and the Profession,&quot; see ED600679.]
Surveying the Military: What America&apos;s Servicemembers, Veterans, and Their Spouses Think about K-12 Education and the Profession
Author: DiPerna, Paul
Date: 2017-10-00
Type: Reports - Research
Subjects: Military Personnel,Veterans,Spouses,Attitudes,Educational Attitudes,Elementary Secondary Education,School Choice,Educational Opportunities,Access to Education,Military Service

This report shares results from a multi-mode survey of 1,200 active-duty military servicemembers, veterans, and their spouses. The goal was to gain a better understanding of the view of military households and families toward K-12 education, especially regarding current developments in expanding educational options and access. Also to learn more about attitudes toward the military profession as a whole. The survey sought to address the following three research questions: (1) How do servicemembers, veterans, and their spouses view different types of K-12 educational choice policies? (2) What are military families' experiences in K-12 education and local district schooling? and (3) What are military respondents' views and attitudes toward the military profession and their priorities?
Career Counselling: A Constructive Interaction between Science and Practice
Author: Bazyl, Liudmyla
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Career Counseling,Vocational Education,Job Placement,Labor Market,Labor Demands,Career Centers

The article analyzes the current status of student counselling in vocational education institutions, contextualizes findings on this problem and discloses contradictory points of counselling. It is justified that vocational education institutions normally view professional career counselling as the processes of dealing with and solving students' internal conflicts within professional self-determination. Career centres are positioned to be the implementers of the ideas of student career counselling. However, such research methods as theoretical analysis, comparison, pedagogical observations and logical generalization made it possible to specify some typical problematic aspects of career counselling within professional development of the modern personality, which are mostly reduced to the inconsistencies of the ideal and real images of the chosen career, subjective perception and ignoring of value orientations in relation to professional success and career growth in a market environment, irrelevant self-assessment of individual and personal qualities, etc. The authors of the research suggest some promising ways of solving the problematic aspects of student counselling in vocational education institutions, which are conceptualized in the mechanisms of a productive innovative interaction between scholars from the Institute for Vocational Education of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences (NAPS) of Ukraine and the teaching staff and are implemented in the framework of introducing the system of professional career counselling in vocational education.
2018 Schooling in America: Public Opinion on K-12 Education, Parent and Teacher Experiences, Accountability, and School Choice
Author: DiPerna, Paul
Date: 2018-12-00
Type: Reports - Research
Subjects: Public Opinion,Elementary Secondary Education,School Choice,Accountability,Preferences,School Policy,Federal Government,Government Role,Public School Teachers,Teacher Attitudes,Standardized Tests,Educational Finance,Expenditures,Parent Participation,Public Schools,Charter Schools,Home Schooling,Teacher Administrator Relationship,Parent Teacher Cooperation,Unions,Trust (Psychology),Grading,Educational Vouchers,Tax Credits,Scholarships,National Surveys

This annual survey--developed and reported by EdChoice and interviews conducted by our partner, Braun Research, Inc.--measures public opinion and awareness on a range of K-12 education topics, including parents' schooling preferences, educational choice policies, the federal government's role in education and more. We report response levels, differences (&quot;margins&quot;) and intensities for the country and a range of demographic groups. And this year, our survey includes an additional sample of current public school teachers to gauge whom they trust and how they feel about their profession, accountability, standardized testing and more. [For &quot;2017 Schooling in America: Public Opinion on K-12 Education, Parent Experiences, School Choice, and the Role of the Federal Government. Polling Paper #31,&quot; see ED600704.]
Experiencing School Reform: Perspectives from a Site Reform Leader on Educational Change at a School for American Indian Students in New Mexico
Author: Vallejo, Pedro
Date: 2015-05-00
Type: Dissertations/Theses - Doctoral Dissertations
Subjects: Educational Change,American Indian Education,Questionnaires,Tribes,Educational History,American Indian History,Leadership,Evaluation Methods,Change Strategies,American Indian Culture,American Indian Reservations,Educational Improvement,Grants,Governance

The purpose of my study was to examine how a site reform leader implements the &quot;Native Star&quot; questionnaire at a school for American Indian students and how he describes and experiences school reform efforts at a Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) school in New Mexico. This was accomplished through a qualitative review of how the site reform leader reports using the &quot;Native Star&quot; as well as interviews of the individual responsible for the overall reform efforts at the site. Constructivism served as the theoretical grounding by which the case study was conducted to allow for the participant to describe his experiences and to give their own meaning to the data. To further this approach, I used an American Indian Paradigm as the cultural research platform to allow a focused opportunity for the tribal school official to present a voice on his experiences with &quot;Native Star&quot; and site reform efforts.
2017 Schooling in America: Public Opinion on K-12 Education, Parent Experiences, School Choice, and the Role of the Federal Government. Polling Paper #31
Author: DiPerna, Paul
Date: 2017-11-00
Type: Reports - Research
Subjects: Public Opinion,Elementary Secondary Education,School Choice,School Policy,Preferences,Federal Government,Government Role,Parent Attitudes,Educational Change,Educational Finance,Expenditures,Knowledge Level,Familiarity,Educational Assessment,Charter Schools,Educational Vouchers,Tax Credits,Scholarships,National Competency Tests,National Surveys

This annual survey--developed and reported by EdChoice and interviews conducted by our partner, Braun Research, Inc.--measures public opinion and awareness on a range of K-12 education topics, including parents' schooling preferences, educational choice policies, the federal government's role in education and more. We report response levels, differences (&quot;margins&quot;) and intensities for the country and a range of demographic groups. And this year, our survey researchers oversampled parents of school-aged children and Americans living in small towns and rural areas to obtain more reliable results for those two subgroups. [For &quot;2016 Schooling in America Survey: Public Opinion on K-12 Education and School Choice. Polling Paper #28,&quot; see ED570217.]
Theoretical Principles of Formation of Professional Competence of Future Specialists of the Economic Branch in Institutions of Higher Education
Author: Telovata, Mariia
Date: 2019-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Vocational Education,Economics Education,Competence,Specialists,Higher Education,Professional Development

The necessity of studying the processes of formation and development of professional competence of future specialists of the economic branch in higher educational institutions (hereinafter: HEI) (in the conditions of education reforming in Ukraine and its approximation to the common European standards) is substantiated. The emphasis is placed on the fact that in today's conditions of development of Ukrainian society in the process of raising the level of professional training of future specialists of the economic branch, attention is paid to intellectual, moral, cultural development, creative self-realization of future specialists (economists, accountants, financiers, bankers), as well as formation and improvement of their professional competence. On the basis of the analysis of scientific works of well-known researchers in the field of philosophy, sociology, psychology, pedagogy, it is found that the concept of &quot;professional competence&quot; mainly means: the general culture of the specialist; the ability to think and act professionally; the degree of development of individual and professional qualities; a set of functions, rights and responsibilities of the specialist; readiness for professional activity. The content of the concepts of &quot;competency&quot;, &quot;competence&quot; and &quot;professional competence&quot; is specified. Their essential characteristics are defined, namely: &quot;competency&quot; is the general ability and capability of the future specialist of the economic branch, based on his skills and knowledge to realize himself in professional activity; &quot;competence&quot; is a complex personality trait (of the future specialist of the economic branch), which includes the results of knowledge, skills and abilities, and the capability to perform a professional role in accordance with specified requirements, taking into account the actual production situation. The professional competence of specialists of the economic branch is interpreted as a high potential of functional education and professional training for accounting and economic, financial, banking, organizational and managerial, analytical and scientific research activities in the field of economics in production, sphere of services, management and scientific research institutions.
Exploring Florida&apos;s Private Education Sector
Author: Catt, Drew
Date: 2019-02-00
Type: Reports - Research
Subjects: Private Schools,Private Education,Tuition,Scholarships,Fees,Financial Support,Student Financial Aid,Elementary Secondary Education,Enrollment,Access to Education,Low Income Groups,Middle Class,Tax Credits,Educational Vouchers,Barriers

In November 2018, EdChoice and ExcelinEd administered a first-of-its-kind survey of Florida private school leaders. The survey results demonstrate three things: (1) private schools in Florida are affordable; (2) they have the capacity to serve many more students; and (3) capacity could be further expanded if more tuition assistance was made available to families. Schools reported that the largest barrier to expanding capacity is the inability of families to pay tuition. This is despite the fact that half of private schools in the state charge less than $8,000 per year in combined tuition and fees (far less than is spent per student in Florida public schools), while more than three in four schools provide families with private financial assistance. The survey results show private schools would welcome expanded choice programs in the state, that they typically accept students with special needs, and that most schools administer nationally norm-referenced tests to monitor student learning.
Confucius and Thomas Aquinas on Happiness and Education
Author: Lee, Jeong-Kyu
Date: 2019-12-01
Type: Reports - Evaluative
Subjects: Psychological Patterns,Philosophy,Confucianism,Religious Education,Moral Issues,Religious Factors,Role of Education,Moral Development,Educational Principles

The purpose of this article is to investigate the happiness principles and the educational aims of Confucius and Thomas Aquinas. To discuss this study logically, three research questions are addressed. First, what are the principles of happiness of Confucius and Thomas Aquinas? Second, what are the aims of education of Confucius and Thomas Aquinas? Third, what are significant similarities and differences between Confucius and Thomas Aquinas? In order to defend the research questions, a descriptive content analysis method will be used with a cross cultural approach. As for the limitations of this study, the principles of happiness are mainly discussed from the aspects of earthly life and of afterlife. The aims of education are limited to individual and social purposes. This paper is mainly focused on &quot;The Analects&quot; of Confucius, and on &quot;The Summa Theologica&quot; of St. Thomas Aquinas. The significance of the study is to provide the basic theories and valuable resources of happiness education and religion education for educational theorists and practitioners in the world in terms of the mutual understanding of the Eastern and the Western cultures. The findings of this study are: Confucius' view on happiness principles is morally anthropological and pragmatic, whereas Aquinas' view is piously theological and metaphysical; and in the aspect of educational aims, Confucius has a morally human view, while Aquinas has a religiously theological view.
Implementation of Alternative Teaching Methods by Teachers: The Role of Practical Experience and the Importance of Teacher Training
Author: Khalaily, Hassan
Date: 2019-09-00
Type: Reports - Research
Subjects: Teaching Methods,Nontraditional Education,Teacher Education,Arabs,Teacher Attitudes,Teaching Experience,Correlation,Foreign Countries,Student Projects,Problem Based Learning,Discovery Learning,Cooperative Learning,Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,Middle School Teachers

Previous studies have demonstrated the pedagogical advantages of alternative teaching methods (ATMs) such as project-based learning, exploratory learning, collaborative learning, and technology-integrated teaching. However, their actual implementation rate is low. The research question is which factors most influence teachers to apply ATMs. A quantitative study was conducted based on completed questionnaires from 98 teachers in Arab schools in Israel. The results show that practical experience with ATMs is the factor that most strongly correlated with their implementation. These findings are different from previous studies, which emphasized the teachers' attitudes toward ATMs and underestimated the importance of the practical experience.
The Meta-Cultural Perspective: Communication, Understanding, Engagement, Appreciation, &amp; Competence
Author: Marek, Michael W.
Date: 2019-06-12
Type: Reports - Evaluative
Subjects: Cultural Awareness,Intercultural Communication,Cultural Traits,Cues,Course Descriptions,College Students,Multilingualism,English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Culture Conflict,Foreign Countries,Cultural Differences,Second Language Instruction,Teaching Methods,Metalinguistics

A Meta-Cultural way of thinking about communication, understanding, and competence means not just understanding and appreciating a few other cultures, but rather being able to function competently in any cultural setting in which you find yourself. In the Meta-Cultural mindset, therefore, all cultures have value, we are sensitive to cultural traits and cues, we avoid giving or taking offense, and diversity is seen as a strength. This paper is based on a presentation, given to a Multi-Cultural Communication class at Asia University, Taiwan. It explores the reality of the world today in which when speakers of different native languages meet, they are likely to have English in common as a second or foreign language, at least in business, education, tourism, and similar fields. Effective communicators today must be able to quickly identify commonalities across cultures and avoid points of cultural conflict, in order to achieve the most beneficial interaction, regardless of which culture they encounter. The paper concludes with the author's seven rules for functioning in a different culture. [This paper is based on an invited presentation at Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan.]
A Summary of the Research on the Effects of Test Accommodations, 2011-2012. Synthesis Report 94
Author: Rogers, Christopher M.
Date: 2014-09-00
Type: Information Analyses
Subjects: Testing Accommodations,Students with Disabilities,Educational Research,Educational Trends,Trend Analysis,Preferences,Scores,Student Evaluation,Test Format,Criterion Referenced Tests,Norm Referenced Tests,Mathematics Tests,Reading Tests,Science Tests,Writing Tests,Elementary Secondary Education,Learning Disabilities,Visual Impairments,Emotional Disturbances,Behavior Disorders,Speech Impairments,Language Impairments,Assistive Technology

A report providing an update on the state of the research on testing accommodations as well as to identify promising future areas of research. Previous reports by NCEO have covered research published since 1999. NCEO summarizes the research to review current research trends and enhance understanding of the implications of accommodations use in the development of future policy directions, implementation of current and new accommodations, and valid and reliable interpretations when accommodations are used in testing situations. For 2011 and 2012, 49 published research studies on the topic of testing accommodations were found. The studies in 2011-2012 demonstrated several similarities when viewing them in comparison with previous research, especially in relation to the 2009-2010 studies examined in NCEO's previous accommodations research review.