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Cultivating an Environment that Contributes to Teaching and Learning in Schools: High School Principals' Actions
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Lin, Mind-Dih – Peabody Journal of Education, 2012
Improving principal leadership is a vital component to the success of educational reform initiatives that seek to improve whole-school performance, as principal leadership often exercises positive but indirect effects on student learning. Because of the importance of principals within the field of school improvement, this article focuses on…
Descriptors: Caring, Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Enriching Critical Thinking and Language Learning with Educational Digital Libraries
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Lu, Hsin-lin – ProQuest LLC, 2012
As the amount of information available in online digital libraries increases exponentially, questions arise concerning the most productive way to use that information to advance learning. Applying the earlier information seeking theories advocated by Kelly (1963), Taylor (1968), and Belkin (1980) to the digital libraries experience, Carol Kuhlthau…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Second Language Learning
The Development and Implementation of Scaffolding-Based Self-Regulated Learning System for e/m-Learning
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Shih, Kuei-Ping; Chen, Hung-Chang; Chang, Chih-Yung; Kao, Tai-Chien – Educational Technology & Society, 2010
This paper proposes a self-regulated learning (SRL) system with scaffolding support in order to develop independent learning skills among students. The SRL system uses self-regulated learning and scaffolding theories to appeal to both instructors and learners. On the part of the instructors, a Content Accessibility Subsystem is provided to easily…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Educational Environment, Experiments, Scores
Context Aware Ubiquitous Learning Environments for Peer-to-Peer Collaborative Learning
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Yang, Stephen J. H. – Educational Technology & Society, 2006
A ubiquitous learning environment provides an interoperable, pervasive, and seamless learning architecture to connect, integrate, and share three major dimensions of learning resources: learning collaborators, learning contents, and learning services. Ubiquitous learning is characterized by providing intuitive ways for identifying right learning…
Descriptors: Management Systems, Group Discussion, Educational Environment, Models
Proceedings of the Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (29th, Melbourne, Australia, July 10-15, 2005). Volume 3
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Chick, Helen L., Ed.; Vincent, Jill L., Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2005
The third volume of the 29th annual conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education contains full research report papers. Papers include: (1) Students' Use of ICT Tools: Choices and Reasons (Anne Berit Fuglestad); (2) Interaction of Modalities in Cabri: A Case Study (Fulvia Furinghetti, Francesca Morselli, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Effectiveness, Research Reports, Mathematics Instruction
School-Based Curriculum Development in Career and Technical Education in Taiwan, Republic of China.
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Wu, Robert T. Y. – 2001
In Taiwan, technological and vocational education (TVE) the equivalent of career and technical education in the United States has undergone several political and social changes and is poised for applying school-based curriculum development (SBCD). Three reasons for adopting SBCD are planning of an integrated curriculum, concept of student-centered…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Developing Nations