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Halverson, Richard; Wolfenstein, Moses; Williams, Caroline C.; Rockman, Charles – E-Learning, 2009
This article describes how the design of digital learning objects can spark professional learning. The challenge was to build learning objects that would help experienced special education teachers, who had been teaching in math classes, to demonstrate their proficiency in middle and secondary school mathematics on the PRAXIS examination. While…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Special Education Teachers
Brown, Jonathan R.; Brown, Lisbeth J.; Brown, Courtney L. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2008
Teacher preparation programs have continued to see the ever-increasing control of teacher candidates by policymakers. To control means to regulate. The problem, according to these authors, is that there are currently at least three regulating measurement and assessment obstacles faced by teacher candidates in teacher preparation programs. The…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Schools of Education, Standardized Tests, Program Effectiveness
Powers, Donald E.; O'Neill, Kathleen – 1992
The objective of this study was to assess the degree to which the mode of administration of the computer-based Academic Skills Assessments of the "Praxis Series: Professional Assessments for Beginning Teachers" contributes to performance differences among test takers. Inexperienced or anxious computer users (Praxis pilot sample of 446…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, College Students, Computer Anxiety, Computer Assisted Testing