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Education Policy Center at Michigan State University, 2012
The 2010 report from the National Research Council on teacher education programs in the United States, "Preparing Teachers: Building Evidence for Sound Policy," reported that "the empirical evidence on effective teacher preparation [is] nearly nonexistent" (p. 99). The publication later that year of two major studies, one on…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, State Standards, Reading Instruction, Field Experience Programs
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Salinger, Terry; Mueller, Lorin; Song, Mengli; Jin, Ying; Zmach, Courtney; Toplitz, Michele; Partridge, Mark; Bickford, Adam – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2010
A component of the "No Child Left Behind" Act (NCLB) (PL 107-110) is its emphasis on the importance of systematic and explicit instruction in early reading using practices that are grounded in scientific research. The Reading First legislation (Title I, Part B, Subpart 1) within NCLB is designed to support state and local education…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Program Effectiveness, Student Characteristics
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Roehrig, Alysia D.; Guidry, Lisa O.; Bodur, Yasar; Guan, Qun; Guo, Ying; Pop, Margareta – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2008
Relations between preservice teachers' guided field observations of primary literacy instruction and knowledge about effective beginning reading practices were explored. Preservice teachers (n = 48) participated in a Directed Field Experience course including instruction on and observations of exemplary teaching practices promoting student…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Preservice Teachers, Beginning Reading, Emergent Literacy