This paper investigates the questions and considerations that should be discussed by administrators, faculty, and support staff when designing, developing and offering a hybrid (part online, part face-to-face) degree program. Using two Web questionnaires, data were gathered from nine instructors and approximately 450 students to evaluate student and instructor perceptions and opinions of hybrid instruction and activities. In comparison to prior research, the results of this study offer larger...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Technology, Distance Education, Program Development, Curriculum...
The following paper is based on a review of 68 referred journal articles that focused on introducing technology to preservice teachers. Ten key strategies emerged from this review, including delivering a single technology course; offering mini-workshops; integrating technology in all courses; modeling how to use technology; using multimedia; collaboration among preservice teachers, mentor teachers and faculty; practicing technology in the field; focusing on education faculty; focusing on mentor...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Statistical Analysis, Technology Integration, Program Descriptions, Journal Articles,...
Group work is a widely used learning approach in higher education where it is seen as encouraging the development of collaborative skills and attitudes while producing an assessable product. Group assignments can, however, create dilemmas and tensions for both staff and students. Students often seek academic intervention in the form of support and dispute arbitration; and the types of interventions employed to deal with issues arising during and after group work, and the effectiveness of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Intervention, Assignments, Cooperative Learning, Higher Education,...
This study seeks to determine the state of online course development and faculty attitudes toward online instruction within technical teacher education programs in the United States. This study shows that a majority of research participants reported that less than 25% of coursework in their departments was offered fully online or Web-enhanced. This indicates a relatively low usage of online coursework in technical teacher education programs. One may conclude, therefore, that technical teacher...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Technology Integration, Management Systems, Teacher Education Programs, Preservice...
The author had a conversation one late afternoon with an untenured colleague from another department regarding chili pepper ratings. Her colleague explained that the popular RateMyProfessor.com Web site allows students to rate faculty members not only according to standards of "clarity," "helpfulness," and something called "easiness," but also in terms of "hotness," denoted with a cheerful cartoon of a red chili pepper. Many of her colleague's students...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cartoons, Feedback, College Faculty, Student Attitudes, Higher Education, Role of...
Founded on the premise of a connection between the neglect of the core purposes of undergraduate liberal education, on the one hand, and certain patterns of disengagement exhibited by students, on the other, the Bringing Theory to Practice project provides support for campus programs as well as for research on the connection of certain forms of engaged learning to student health, well-being, and civic development. Engaged learning appears to be the normative condition for multiple types of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, General Education, Student Participation, Theory Practice Relationship, Higher...
During the analysis of a survey of art therapy educators in 2001 (St. John, Kaiser, & Ball, 2004), issues of importance to art therapy and art therapy research education emerged. As a follow-up, the authors interviewed educators attending the 2002 Annual Conference of the American Art Therapy Association (AATA) to gain an understanding of their perspectives in three areas: emphasis on teaching qualitative and quantitative approaches, expected research competencies of graduates, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Statistical Analysis, Qualitative Research, Art Therapy, Educational Research,...
In determining whether graduates of the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) Program at Southern Oregon University were developing the necessary knowledge, skills, and dispositions to teach, faculty members found themselves examining their own practice. This is just what Goodlad (1988) suggested we do: clarify our own beliefs in order to better understand our teacher preparation program. We discovered that the development of the MAT program is primarily shaped by the people who teach within the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Education Programs, College Faculty, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Locus of...
Administrators hate to be called bureaucrats. They prefer to be seen as academic leaders. Leaders articulate priorities and values, serve as exemplars, and represent an institution to both others and itself. Today, more than ever, the humanities and the arts need academic leaders at every level of the university to give them voice, to avow their importance, to articulate the ways in which the humanities and arts speak for the university, the ways in which they give speech to the central values...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrative Organization, Strategic Planning, Humanities, College Faculty, General...
In this article, the author talks about big questions of meaning and value that young people pose and how to respond to their concerns about big questions. He relates the story of his granddaughter, Charlotte, who, at the age of one, would climb up on the stairs not from choice or whim, but "because they're there." For her, it was not play, but work, obligation, and a necessity that is programmed, hardwired into her developing brain. Watching Charlotte climb leads the author to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Education Work Relationship, Student Development, College Students, Teacher Role,...
The authors' goal is to personalize some concerns of diverse student populations and encourage faculty to intentionally incorporate cultural inclusion into their pedagogy and their courses. Here, they share Julian's story, which is a composite of perspectives shared by the 219 participants in the National Black Male College Achievement Study, many of whom described similar approaches to assuming cultural ownership for their learning in classrooms on thirty predominantly white campuses. In light...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teaching Methods, Classroom Environment, College Faculty, Cultural Awareness, African...
We developed and evaluated the G3S-SP, a scale measuring health sciences graduate students' perceptions of the quality of their supervision. The scale was developed from a literature review and existing questionnaires. Feedback from health sciences graduate students and supervisors led to a revised version of the scale that was mailed to 215 students enrolled in eight programs of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Sherbrooke. Analyses show that mean satisfaction...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Measures (Individuals), Supervision, Student Attitudes, Sciences, Validity, Graduate...
In this article, the author looks closely at the challenges of teaching a graduate multicultural education seminar from an instructor's personal perspective. First, she discusses her cultural identity and her rationale for teaching multicultural education. Second, she explains her philosophy of multicultural education. Third, she outlines the objectives of the course. Fourth, she discusses the teaching challenges she encounters in teaching the course, from the perspective of a faculty of color...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Multicultural Education, College Faculty, Reflective Teaching, Self Concept, Teaching...
This paper presents a narrative that explores the author's own life as a woman from a working class background who is now a professor. After situating her work in the small but growing research field about the intersection of social class and academics, the author presents her autobiography by providing a documentary through the three categories of social, intellectual, and work experiences. Then, she compares her experiences and understandings with others to reveal similarities and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Autobiographies, Self Disclosure (Individuals), Social Experience, Intellectual...
In this article, the author recounts his experiences at Michigan State University during his graduate studies and at Washington University in St. Louis, when he worked as an assistant professor. He focuses his narrative on his struggle to define his quest, to avoid both success and failure. The author was born in a small town in rural Wisconsin and went to Michigan State University for graduate school. When he was at graduate school, he learned the most important lessons of his life from his...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Graduate Students, Personal Narratives, College Faculty, Success, Lensmire, Timothy J.
Social mobility carries with it a sense of loss. To be socially mobile is to move from one place, economically, culturally, personally, to another. One consequence of that loss, sometimes, is immobility--a paralysis brought on by the violent, forceful, uncertain rush of social mobility itself. The immobility of fear, the feeling stuck, the not being sure what educational successes have been hard-won and what scholarly failures should have been easy to swallow: these have been an integral part...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Social Mobility, Working Class, Social Class, Personal Narratives, College Faculty,...
Teachers who conduct research in the context of their own teaching practices can contribute to knowledge about reform-based instruction. This article provides examples that illustrate research by elementary, middle school, high school, and college faculty as well as the use of data such as transcripts of discussion, reflective journals, and copies of student work. These examples include: (1) documenting inquiry-based science instruction; (2) developing documentary web sites to share findings...
Topics: ERIC Archive, High Risk Students, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, College Faculty, Faculty...
Despite professors' education and socialization and the significant rewards they receive for research activities and output, the 80/20 rule seems to apply; that is, there exists a system of stars who produce a disproportionate volume of research such that most research tends to be undertaken by a small percentage of the academy (Erkut, 2002). Although a growing body of research seeks to address this imbalance, studies of research productivity have tended to reveal its institutional and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Rewards, Interaction, Grants, Productivity, Faculty Publishing, Questionnaires,...
This article reports the findings of a university's pilot project documenting the impact of an intervention entitled Course (Re)design for Internationalization Workshop (CRIW) on faculty perspectives and their subsequent willingness to engage in internationalization of the curriculum. Two main theories, transformative learning (Mezirow, 1991) and faculty development (Ramsden, 2003) in the approach adopted for the CRIW (Saroyan & Amundsen, 2004) informed this study and its procedures. This...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Workshops, Intervention, Faculty Development, Educational Change, Transformative...
This paper documents the development of a unique institution in Canadian higher education, the university college in British Columbia. From its roots as a comprehensive community college, the university college was confronted with numerous legislative and policy changes which culminated in its current claim to be called a regional university. In support of this assertion, a number of issues are addressed, including the role and mandate of the university college, academic freedom and tenure,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Community Colleges, Universities, Undergraduate Study, Academic...
The intersection of multiple identities (e.g., racialization, gender, class) strongly determines an individual's social location. In-depth interviews with 42 racially minoritized academics in Canadian universities allowed U.S. to begin to grasp the challenges faced by those who must negotiate the different spaces in an academy that is predominately white, Eurocentric and male. Using an anti-racist framework, we found that the level of inclusion that racially minoritized academics in our study...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Universities, Mentors, College Faculty, Minority Group Teachers,...
Reflecting on one's teaching practice is often an implicit goal for faculty development programs. Yet very little has been documented on how programs for diverse groups of university teachers actually engage faculty in such reflection. This paper examines how theoretical constructs of reflective practice were applied in the context of an 8-month "UBC Faculty Certificate Program on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education" (FCP). The "Teaching Perspectives Inventory" (TPI)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Faculty Development, Inservice Teacher Education, Reflective Teaching, College...
In this article, the author shares the lessons she learned about teaching when she left her kindergarten classroom for a college classroom. She relates how she initially experienced disequilibrium between her personal practical theories about teaching and learning and her actual practice as a new college teacher. She relates that she recreated her personal beliefs and practices as a former kindergarten teacher in her new role as a college teacher by adhering to her three core beliefs: (1)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Theory Practice Relationship, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, College Faculty,...
Using data collected in a research study initiated in fall of 2004, this article discusses how mid-level academic leaders are identified in land grant universities, what position they held when they were identified, whether they were internal or external candidates for their position, and how they were selected as potential leaders. As a largely exploratory study, land grant universities were selected for inclusion due to their comprehensive nature, consistency among mission statements, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Land Grant Universities, Instructional Leadership, College Faculty,...
This article explores the full-time clinical faculty position in selected educational leadership programs. Due to a gap in the literature, the need exists to engage in research studies to gain a greater understanding of this position. Questions guiding this study included: What is the experiential background of individuals who assume full-time clinical positions, and what factors influenced them to assume these positions? How have clinical positions been conceptualized within the overall...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Instructional Leadership, College Faculty, Qualitative Research, Educational...
Student teaching is a challenging period for preservice teachers as they make the transition from preparation to practice. Support from mentor teachers and university personnel can make this time easier, helping preservice teachers successfully integrate educational theory into their practice. Because of logistical, financial, and personnel limitations, many student teachers with rural placements receive inadequate support. The Technology Supported Induction Network (TSIN) was developed to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Student Teaching, Student Teachers, Rural Schools, Mentors, College School...
In the early seventies, little thought was given to the role of the college counselor in independent schools. Often they were English teachers who wrote well and by default were asked to take on the daunting task of shepherding students through the process of choosing a college. As faculty, they had little training in the development of adolescents and often resorted to a "toughen up" attitude when confronted with an anxiety-ridden student. They did not discuss match, support or need....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Private Colleges, Counseling Techniques, Teacher Role, Administrator Role, College...
Teachers teach according to the way they learn; therefore, it is important to learn more about teachers' learning styles. According to Butler (1987), every teacher has a personal learning style. Teachers teach to their own learning style for many reasons (Stewart, Jones, & Pope, 1999). Teachers will teach to the way that they feel most comfortable and may have difficulty understanding those who have different learning styles. One teacher may use abstract examples while others may use...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cognitive Style, Technical Institutes, Teaching Methods, College Faculty,...
Technology education teachers today have at their disposal the skills, opportunity, experience, ingenuity, expertise, equipment, and environment to greatly improve students' ability to learn and apply the knowledge they have gained in their academic programs. When a technology education teacher joins forces with an academic core teacher, the students reap the benefit of gaining empirical knowledge and skills not usually acquired within the confines of the traditional teacher-centered classroom....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Team Teaching, Technology Education, Core Curriculum, Aviation Education, Mathematics...
In the last two decades the proportion of children of color in public schools in the U.S. has increased to about 40%. However, this has not been accompanied by a corresponding increase in teachers of color. Many college and university teaching institutions have attempted to deal with the increase in the number of students of color in the public schools and the lack of minority teaching candidates by increasing the number of courses offered on diversity as part of their teaching programs....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Preservice Teacher Education, College Students, Public Schools, Multicultural...
Statistics Canada's annual census of full-time faculty at all Canadian universities, between 1984 to 1999, is used to measure the effect of gender, discipline, and institution on promotion from assistant to associate professor and from associate to full professor. Accelerated failure time models show that gender has some effect on rates of promotion, but that disciplinary and institutional variation are much greater. Generally, departments in science, engineering, and professional schools...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Gender Differences, Intellectual Disciplines, Institutional Characteristics, Foreign...
This study examined the use of science professors acting as mentors to enhance the science competency of early childhood educators. Findings indicate that mentor-mentee dyad interactions varied; however, mentors were able to assist with curriculum, science content, and resources. Although standards-based units were developed, there was little "real" science inquiry present. Findings did not support a higher-quality product that involved a mentoring relationship versus a nonmentoring...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Preservice Teachers, Mentors, Science Instruction, College Faculty, Teacher...
This article examined issues and implications associated with gender parity in the professoriate. The findings, based on the results from one Canadian institution's most recent women's committee report, emphasize the importance of monitoring progress toward gender parity by examining potential indicators of gender imbalances such as gender differences in applicant pools, starting rank and salary, and promotion application and attainment. This article addresses implications for recruitment,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Gender Differences, College Faculty, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Gender Bias, Women...
In the 1990s, fueled by the momentum of the inclusive schools movement, where students with disabilities were being encouraged to participate in their neighborhood schools and adults with disabilities were self-advocating for a chance at community independence, the collaboration model among professionals burgeoned as best practice for serving individuals with disabilities. However, although the concept of collaboration was recognized as a best practice initiative, most service providers were...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Student Attitudes, Disabilities, Cooperation, College Faculty, Teacher Collaboration,...
The success of doctoral student mentoring is largely dependent upon faculty members, but structural and institutional obstacles compound deficiencies in the performance of all participants. University leaders must emphasize the value of mentorship in stimulating positive learning conditions and stress the importance of recognizing faculty members engaged in teaching beyond the classroom. Without organizational attention to a quality mentoring program and rewards for mentoring efforts, some...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Mentors, Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs, College Faculty, Professional...
In this article the authors examine characterizations of faculty-administrator relationships, in particular as related to shared governance. Two primary perspectives guided the study. The first perspective focused on the fragile nature of shared governance, characterized by a lack of harmony and mistrust. The second perspective focused on the root of faculty-administrator tension as both cultural and structural in nature. The study illuminates problems associated with shared governance,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Governance, College Faculty, Administrators, Teacher Administrator Relationship,...
To date few studies have been conducted to assess the preparation of health educators in the area of cultural sensitivity and competence. The purpose of this study was to assess efforts and opportunities offered by health education professional preparation programs to prepare health educators in the area of cultural competence. One hundred fifty-seven department chairs or program coordinators completed a survey to elicit information regarding cultural competence and professional preparation...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Required Courses, Health Education, Cultural Awareness, Department Heads, Teacher...
In this article the author discusses the communicative encounters--oral and written--between members of two discourse communities--human resources (HR) and faculty--housed within an urban university in the Northeast. The author focuses on one individual's attempts to articulate and impose a component of her community's implicit rules for behavior upon a member of the faculty. The author argues in this article that the over-bureaucratization that has become so much a part of academia serves to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Deans, College Administration, Human Resources, College Faculty, Communication...
The purpose of this article is to reflect on the conditions teacher educators labor under as they go about their professional lives in the overheated climate of mandated education reform of recent years, particularly when the mandates are multiple, have strict timeliness, and carry high-stakes consequences. The article focuses on faculty participation from a time and workload perspective, since it is the intersection of time, workload and mandate that affects the intensity and quality of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Education, Educational Change, Teacher Educators, College Faculty, Faculty...
African Americans in predominantly White institutions often carry a greater load than their positions describe. While researchers have explored the unique role of African Americans in higher education, this study deepens the understanding of this role by analyzing the work of one African American woman in a teacher education program at a large Northwestern research institution. As a female African American assistant professor, the author examines her position description and assignments over a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Preservice Teacher Education, African Americans, Preservice Teachers, Teacher...
Educating preservice teachers for culturally responsive teaching in increasingly diverse contexts remains a substantive challenge. Research findings have suggested that courses in multicultural education have not had much impact on instructional practices of preservice teachers as they enter schools and classrooms. Other scholars have argued that student preservice teachers and teacher educators must reconsider their own assumptions and work towards a better understanding of values and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Multicultural Education, Cultural...
As a university professor who has taught at the teacher education, masters, and doctoral levels, the life of teaching has been an enduring interest, particularly teaching that occurs in K-12 settings. From the author's own work as a K-12 teacher and administrator to her earliest studies of effective teaching and in her own university teaching, she has been interested in the complex practice of teaching and in how to make the practice more effective for student learning and more satisfying and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Daughters, Mothers, Action...
In Single Subject preservice programs across the U.S., literacy professors are coping with the demands of preparing their candidates to teach reading and writing across the content areas. The professors are challenged to establish a credible rationale for why teachers in content areas such as physical education, art, and music should be required to take a course in content literacy. While many candidates wonder why they must take a course in reading, many professors wonder how that course can...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Literacy Education, Methods Courses, Secondary School Teachers, Reading Skills,...
An on-line education administration course was evaluated using Seven Lessons Learned by Graham, Cagiltay, Lim, Craner, and Duffy (2001 ) as the framework. The framework was found to be useful in revealing areas of strengths and weaknesses in offering virtual education administration courses. The evaluation provided information that clear guidelines for online interaction need to be established, well-designed discussion assignments need to be provided, and that flexibility is important in the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Online Courses, Educational Administration, Program Evaluation, Educational...
School university partnerships have become important in the reform efforts to develop the next generation of school leaders. This study examines one university's approach of working with several school districts as partners in the development of school leaders. Findings include benefits and concerns from the perspective of students, faculty, and adjunct instructors.
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Education, Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation,...
Educators in all disciplines are increasingly concerned about the disruptive behaviors often displayed by students in the college classroom. In order for physical education teacher education (PETE) candidates to learn effectively and become good educators, such behaviors must be addressed and modified. To do so, educators must first understand the origins of these behaviors and develop strategies to deal with them. Some strategies that will help to promote professional behaviors by PETE...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Ethics, Student Behavior, Behavior...
Physical education departments are composed of diverse academic disciplines that may include physical education teacher education, exercise science, and athletic training programs. The complexity of each program and its individual demands often cause faculty and students to become disengaged from those outside of their own major and the happenings within a department. To help promote student and faculty engagement across interdepartmental disciplines, a physical education department implemented...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Physical Education, Athletics, Health Education, Competition, Physical Education...
Southeastern Massachusetts is home to six public institutions of higher education. In 2003, at the invitation of Bridgewater President Dana Mohler-Faria, five of them joined together to form a regional collaborative called CONNECT. (The original members were Bridgewater State College, Bristol, Cape Cod and Massasoit community colleges, and the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. The sixth, Massachusetts Maritime Academy, joined in 2007.) The collaborative's goals are to improve the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Writing (Composition), State Colleges, Cooperation, Human...
A survey of university business professors focused on their use of individual assignments in courses and their views on cheating and its impact on student learning. Based on responses from 456 professors (37% response rate) from Ontario, Canada, it was concluded that most faculty believe that individual assignments are effective learning tools and that cheating on these assignments is a serious offence. They believe that cheating occurs widely, but continue to use these assessments, with some...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Surveys, Cheating, Foreign Countries, Internet, College Faculty, Business...
This study assessed current criteria and procedures used when hiring health education faculty. One hundred thirty two program heads/coordinators of health education programs listed in the "AAHE 2001 Directory of Institutions" completed a mailed 45-item survey on hiring criteria and procedures. Results indicated that 90% of programs had conducted a search since 1995 with 71% hiring a faculty member. Twenty nine percent were unable to complete their search due to lack of quality...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Health Education, Personnel Selection, Criteria, Teaching Experience, College...