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ScholarWorks@UMBC, a part of MD-SOAR (The Maryland Shared Open Access Repository), collects, preserves, and provides public access to the scholarly output of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Community members can upload research products for rapid dissemination, global visibility and impact, and long-term preservation.
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Maryland Primary Care Program (MDPCP) Pre-AH Risk Score Specifications and Codebook (Version 3)
(2020-06-29)The Maryland Primary Care Program (MDPCP) is a key element of the Total Cost of Care (TCOC) All-Payer Model, an agreement between the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the state of Maryland. The MDPCP is ... -
School-family-community partnerships and the academic achievement of African American urban adolescents
Drawing on J. Epstein's theory of overlapping spheres of influence (1991, 1995), this study explores the effects of teacher, family, and church support on the school-related attitudes, behaviors, and academic achievement ... -
BUILDING EFFECTIVE SCHOOL-FAMILY-COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS IN A LARGE URBAN SCHOOL DISTRICT
Since 1987, schools in Baltimore have been working with the Fund for Educational Excellence and the education research center at Johns Hopkins University to develop comprehensive programs of school-family-community ... -
Preparing Educators for School-Family-Community Partnerships : Results of a National Survey of Colleges and Universities
A survey of educators in 161 U.S. schools, colleges, and departments of education (SCDEs) examined the preparation of teachers to work with tamilies and communities. The survey included questions on the demographic ... -
Family Partnerships with High Schools: The Parents' Perspective
This study analyzes survey data from 423 parents at 6 high schools in Maryland--2 rural, 2 urban, and 2 suburban. Multiple regression analysis was used to explore the effects of the high schools' programs of partnership ... -
Fifteen Years of Philanthropic Leadership: A Summative Evaluation of the Marguerite Casey Foundation
(IssueLab, 2016-07)Established in October 2001, the Marguerite Casey Foundation (Foundation) has been in the forefront of movement building to transform the lives of poor families and children. Its evolution has occurred in two overlapping ... -
Building Family Partnerships That Last
In an effort to establish comprehensive, permanent programs of partnership with their families and communities, 49 schools in Baltimore City are working closely with the National Network of Partnerships-2000 Schools at ... -
School-Community Partnerships: Hope for 21st Century Schools
A ccording to the Alliance for Excellent Education (2005), one-third of entering ninth-grade students will drop out of high school before attaining a diploma, and another third will graduate unprepared for college or a ... -
Getting accountability right within a systems approach to school reform by Mavis Sanders
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Marguerite Casey Foundation: Reflecting on 15 Years of Philanthropic Leadership Through a Summative Evaluation
(The Foundation Review, 2020-06-30)This article presents the findings of a summative evaluation of the Marguerite Casey Foundation that was conducted on the occasion of its 15th anniversary. The evaluation was designed to gauge stakeholders’ perceptions of ... -
Cyberdiscursive Tug-of-War: Learner Repositioning in a Multimodal CMC Environment
(University of Pennsylnavia, 2004-04-01)This study reanalyzes data collected during multimodal (synchronous voice and text-chat) computer-mediated interaction between two English language learners, a Korean woman, Kelly, and a Japanese man, Yama, to see if and ... -
Information Gap Tasks: Their Multiple Roles and Contributions to Interaction Research Methodology
(University of Pennsylnavia, 2006-04-21)This article describes how information gap tasks can be designed as instruments for data collection and analysis and as treatments in interaction research. The development of such tasks is illustrated and data are presented ... -
The Blogging Hobbit
Curatorial note from Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Sauro and Sundmark incorporated the practice of online fandom into the classroom to help learners enhance their understanding of literary texts through the development ... -
COMPUTER-MEDIATED CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF L2 GRAMMAR
This paper reports on a study that investigated the impact of two types of computermediated corrective feedback on the development of adult learners’ L2 knowledge: (1) corrective feedback that reformulates the error in the ... -
Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World
Naomi Baron’s (2008) Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World, provides an overview of trends in digital communication and the impact these trends and practices have for personal interconnectivity, literacy, ... -
Social media, fandom and language learning: A roundtable with Shannon Sauro and Steven L. Thorne
(Bellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning Language & Literature, 2014-09-07)Last November, Dr. Shannon Sauro (Malmö University & Lund University) and Dr. Steven L. Thorne (Portland State University & University of Groningen) visited the UAB campus to give lectures on, respectively, ‘Fandom, Social ... -
Student perspectives on intercultural learning from an online teacher education partnership
(Research-publishing.net, 2016-11-27)This study reports on intercultural learning during telecollaboration from the perspective of student participants in a five-country online teacher education partnership. The student perspectives reported here were drawn ... -
DOES CALL HAVE AN ENGLISH PROBLEM?
(Language Learning & Technology, 2016-10-01)This paper asks whether computer-assisted language learning (CALL) has an English problem. It surveys the empirical studies published in four English language international CALL journals during the 4-year period (2012–2015) ...
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