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Download full textShowers, Beverly – 1984
Research has shown that with thorough training, most teachers can acquire new skills and strategies to add to their instructional repertoires. However, the literature also identifies a frequent failure to transfer new knowledge to classroom practice among trainees. Building on previous research, the study reported here investigated the effects of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Peer Evaluation, Peer Influence, Peer Teaching
Gaies, Stephen J. – 1985
While not an instructional panacea, peer involvement in second language learning can provide a rich and productive supplement to the second language classroom experience. It casts learners and teachers into new roles that may lead to a variety of benefits, enriching the total educational and social environment. The systematic use of peer teachers…
Descriptors: Educational Benefits, Individualized Instruction, Intercultural Communication, Interpersonal Communication
Peer reviewedReynolds, Arthur J.; Walberg, Herbert J. – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1992
Tested a structural model of mathematics achievement and attitude with a probability sample of 3,116 adolescents from the Longitudinal Study of American Youth. Concluded that prior achievement and home environment influenced subsequent achievement most powerfully and that previous attitude had the most powerful influence on subsequent attitude.…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Classroom Environment, Family Environment, Family Influence
