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Socially Enabled Actors: The Emerging Authorship of Fixed-Term Instructional Faculty to Enact and Sustain Organizational Change
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Quardokus Fisher, Kathleen; Koretsky, Milo D. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2021
There have been calls for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) faculty in higher education to transition from traditional lecturing to instructional practices that are supported by empirical evidence. Administrators can coordinate such transitions through organized change initiatives. At the same time, there has been a shift…
Descriptors: College Faculty, STEM Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Change
Fostering Evidence-Based Education with Learning Analytics: Capturing Teaching-Learning Cases from Log Data
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Kuromiya, Hiroyuki; Majumdar, Rwitajit; Ogata, Hiroaki – Educational Technology & Society, 2020
Evidence-based education has become more relevant in the current technology-enhanced teaching-learning era. This paper introduces how Educational BIG data has the potential to generate such evidence. As evidence-based education traditionally hooks on the meta-analysis of the literature, so there are existing platforms that support manual input of…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Case Studies, Learning Analytics, Data Collection
Developing Teachers as the Learning Profession: Findings from the State of Educators' Professional Learning in Canada Study
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Campbell, Carol; Osmond-Johnson, Pamela; Faubert, Brenton – Scottish Educational Review, 2016
Teachers' professional development and learning is of high interest in educational reform internationally. We present findings from the "State of Educators' Professional Learning in Canada" study. We identify ten features proposed for effective professional learning: evidence-informed subject specific and pedagogical content knowledge a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Evidence Based Practice, Teacher Education
A Case Study of Elementary Teachers' Experiences with Project-Based Learning and English Learners
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Savinovich, Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this descriptive case study was to describe elementary level school teachers' experiences who worked with English Learners in a project-based learning model of instruction. The study focused on how teachers developed, planned, or utilized curriculum to support the language acquisition of their English Learners to meet state and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Teaching Methods, Student Projects, Active Learning
Situated Instructional Coaching: A Case Study of Faculty Professional Development
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Czajka, Charles Doug; McConnell, David – International Journal of STEM Education, 2016
Background: Barriers to reforming traditional lecture-based undergraduate STEM classes are numerous and include time constraints, lack of training, and instructor's beliefs about teaching and learning. This case study documents the use of a situated instructional coaching process as a method of faculty professional development. In this model, a…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Case Studies, Faculty Development, STEM Education
Learning to Learn: Improving Attainment, Closing the Gap at Key Stage 3
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Mannion, James; Mercer, Neil – Curriculum Journal, 2016
In 2010, a comprehensive secondary school in the south of England implemented a whole-school approach to "learning to learn" (L2L). Drawing on a range of evidence-based practices, a team of teachers worked collaboratively to design and deliver a taught L2L curriculum to all students throughout Key Stage 3. In total, the first cohort of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Secondary Education, Learning Processes