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Andrew Kenneth Miller – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study examined the performance gap of principals' leadership influence on teachers' capacity to enact a 21st century skill curriculum at Singapore School of the Future (SFS). The purpose of this study was to apply the gap analysis problem solving framework (Clark & Estes, 2008) to identify root causes of the knowledge, motivation and…
Descriptors: Principals, 21st Century Skills, Foreign Countries, Leadership Effectiveness
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Tan, Da Yang; Tay, Eng Guan; Teo, Kok Ming; Shutler, Paul M. E. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2021
In this work, we report the emergence of the Hands, Head and Heart framework that arose within the curriculum review for subject knowledge courses for primary school pre-service teachers in the National Institute of Education, Singapore. Through an initial grounded analysis of a survey of pre-service teachers and faculty focus group meeting data,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Elementary School Curriculum
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Wong, Darren; Lee, Paul; Foong, See Kit – Physics Education, 2017
In this paper, we examined teachers' understanding of electrical concepts such as power, current and potential difference based on how these concepts were applied to understand the relative brightness seen in bulbs of different wattage under different connections--series or parallel. From the responses of teachers to a concept question, we…
Descriptors: Energy, Scientific Concepts, Light, Knowledge Level
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Lee, Hwee Hoon; Kim, Grace May Lin; Chan, Ling Ling – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2015
Institutions assess teaching effectiveness in various ways, such as classroom observation, peer evaluation and self-assessment. In higher education, student feedback continues to be the main teaching evaluation tool. However, most of such forms include characteristics of good teaching that the institutions deem important and may not adequately…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, College Students, Student Attitudes, Surveys
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Toh, Tin Lam; Kaur, Berinderjeet; Koay, Phong Lee – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2013
In this article, we explore the mathematical content knowledge of one entire cohort of pre-service teachers (N = 107) through analysing their performance in a Secondary Mathematics Audit that was developed for the International Comparative Studies in Mathematics Teacher Training that was initiated by the University of Plymouth. We study how their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Preservice Teachers
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Ong, Justina – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2014
This study had two main aims: first, to offer a descriptive account of shared reading program using an evaluative lens and second, to examine whether teachers' perceptions of the importance of phonological awareness, word decoding, and text comprehension in helping young learners develop their reading abilities were indeed emphasized during…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Reading Programs, Phonological Awareness, Teacher Attitudes