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Finding Funding And Understanding Logistics For Community-Engaged Practice: Strategies For Overcoming Institutional Barriers, Jose G. Alcaine
Finding Funding And Understanding Logistics For Community-Engaged Practice: Strategies For Overcoming Institutional Barriers, Jose G. Alcaine
Foundations of Education Publications
Institutional barriers can hinder the effective development of projects and practices that foster community partnerships and promote the co-development of impactful research and experiences. Barriers such as funding, institutional approvals, and community access to institutional resources, can derail the best of intentions and projects. This interactive session will provide attendees with strategies to deal with common barriers to effective practices and will provide tools for finding funding, resource development, and troubleshooting context specific problems.
Assessing The Predictive Nature Of Teacher And Student Writing Self-Regulation Discrepancy, Michael Broda, Eric Ekholm, Sharon Zumbrunn
Assessing The Predictive Nature Of Teacher And Student Writing Self-Regulation Discrepancy, Michael Broda, Eric Ekholm, Sharon Zumbrunn
Foundations of Education Publications
In this study, we examine the extent to which the discrepancy between teacher-reported and student-reported self-regulatory behaviours during writing were associated with students’ end-of-year writing grades after controlling for student writing ability and other demographic characteristics. Results of our study, conducted with a sample of 201 middle grades students enrolled in a large, comprehensive suburban school district in the Mid-Atlantic U.S., suggest a significant and positive relationship between teacher discrepancy and grades, after controlling for writing ability, student self-regulation, gender, race/ethnicity, and SES. This has clear implications for the classroom, as it suggests that even after accounting for student difference …
Qualitative Inquiry In An Age Of Educationalese, Gustavo F. Fischman, Adai Tefera
Qualitative Inquiry In An Age Of Educationalese, Gustavo F. Fischman, Adai Tefera
Foundations of Education Publications
In this introduction we reflect on two key questions that initiated this special issue on qualitative inquiry: What can qualitative researchers do to regain their post-paradigm-wars cache? How do we avoid distracting “science wars” in the future? We suggest that the strong tendency to narrow the research methods accepted as “scientific” – because they adopt quantitative perspectives and are presumed a priori to be more rigorous – has created an educationalese, a narrative of rigid categories that has not necessarily contributed to more effective or persuasive educational research. The article ends by suggesting that the use of “knowledge mobilization” strategies …