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Direct linkCampbell, Corbin M.; Cabrera, Alberto F.; Ostrow Michel, Jessica; Patel, Shikha – Research in Higher Education, 2017
While decades of research on college teaching has investigated several forms of classroom practices, much of this research approaches teaching as falling into mutually exclusive paradigms (e.g., active learning vs. lecturing). This paper enters inside the college classroom using external raters to understand patterns of pedagogical practices…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Practices, Teaching Methods, Classroom Techniques
Download full textAydogdu, Bulent; Selanik-Ay, Tugba – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Problem Statement: Exploring the variables that affect teachers' teaching approaches in learning environments is crucial to determining their response to new trends. Their teaching and learning characteristics set the success level of the new reforms. In addition, monitoring the usage of constructivist pedagogies and giving feedback about them are…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Constructivism (Learning), Educational Environment, Educational Change
Palmer, Douglas J.; Sadiq, Hissa M.; Lynch, Patricia; Parker, Dawn; Viruru, Radhika; Knight, Stephanie; Waxman, Hersh; Alford, Beverly; Brown, Danielle Bairrington; Rollins, Kayla; Stillisano, Jacqueline; Abu-Tineh, Abdullah M. Hamdan; Nasser, Ramzi; Allen, Nancy; Al-Binali, Hessa; Ellili, Maha; Al-Kateeb, Haithem; Al-Kubaisi, Huda – Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Qatar initiated a K-12 national educational reform in 2001. However, there is limited information on the instructional practices of the teachers in the reform schools. This project was an observational study of classrooms with a stratified random sample of the first six cohorts of reform schools. Specifically, 156 classrooms were observed in 29…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Educational Change, Educational Practices
Kupers, Elisa; van Dijk, Marijn; van Geert, Paul – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2017
Learning implies change. Inside and outside schools, we aim for students to change into people with more skills and knowledge as well as with a growing sense of agency and responsibility. Furthermore, education itself is subject to constant change. In this article, we examine change in 3 case studies in the context of individual music lessons from…
Descriptors: Music Activities, Music Education, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Mixed Methods Research
Olsson, Daniel; Gericke, Niklas – Journal of Environmental Education, 2016
Previous research has shown that interest in and concern about environmental issues tends to decrease in adolescence, but less is known about adolescents' broader consciousness of sustainable development, also including economic and social issues. This study investigates students' sustainability consciousness in the transition to adolescence. This…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainable Development, Foreign Countries, Student Surveys
Lund, Travis J.; Pilarz, Matthew; Velasco, Jonathan B.; Chakraverty, Devasmita; Rosploch, Kaitlyn; Undersander, Molly; Stains, Marilyne – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2015
Researchers, university administrators, and faculty members are increasingly interested in measuring and describing instructional practices provided in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses at the college level. Specifically, there is keen interest in comparing instructional practices between courses, monitoring changes…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, STEM Education, Comparative Analysis, Correlation
Elacqua, Gregory; Martínez, Matías; Santos, Humberto; Urbina, Daniela – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2016
This research analyzes the impact of the Adjusted Voucher Law´s school rankings on low-performing schools in Santiago, Chile, and provides evidence on the effects of the pressures of accountability systems on teacher policies and practices. The empirical strategy is based on the fact that schools are ranked according to their position on a set of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Vouchers, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
Walpole, Sharon; Amendum, Steven; Pasquarella, Adrian; Strong, John Z.; McKenna, Michael C. – Elementary School Journal, 2017
We compared year-long gains in fluency and comprehension in grades 3-5 in 3 treatment and 4 comparison schools. Treatment schools implemented a comprehensive school reform (CSR) program called Bookworms. The program employed challenging text and emphasized high text volume, aggressive vocabulary and knowledge building, and contextualized strategy…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
Isiksal-Bostan, Mine; Sahin, Elvan; Ertepinar, Hamide – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2015
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among Turkish classroom, science and mathematics teachers' beliefs toward using inquiry-based approaches, traditional teaching approaches, and technology in their mathematics and science classrooms; their efficacy beliefs in teaching those subjects; and years of experience in teaching in…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Mathematics Instruction
Ko, Bomna; Boswell, Boni; Yoon, Seok – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2015
Background: Recognition of the importance of the development of intercultural competence (ICC) has placed intense pressure on teacher education programs to infuse a global perspective into their programs. Several studies have proposed integration of global elements into teacher education programs. Although the use of online tools for…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Teacher Education Programs, Physical Education, Graduate Students
Yeh, Yi-Fen; Jen, Tsung-Hau; Hsu, Ying-Shao – International Journal of Science Education, 2012
Scientific inquiry involves a variety of abilities scientists use to investigate the natural world. In order to develop students' scientific inquiry, researchers and educators have developed different curricula and a variety of instructional resources, which make features and descriptors of scientific inquiry in teaching and learning even more…
Descriptors: Novices, Educational Research, Multivariate Analysis, Researchers
Becker, Lana Lowe – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Self-regulated learning skills have been shown to positively impact academic achievement in educational settings. This same set of skills becomes critically important as graduates enter today's dynamic work environment. That environment increasingly requires accountants and other professionals to be lifelong learners. This study is a response to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Control Groups, Quasiexperimental Design, Grade Point Average
Mosenthal, Jim; Lipson, Marjorie; Torncello, Susan; Russ, Barbara; Mekkelsen, Jane – Elementary School Journal, 2004
In this study we examined the contexts and practices of 6 Vermont schools whose students met or exceeded standards set for performance on statewide reading tests administered at second and fourth grade. Demographic data on all elementary schools in Vermont were used in a cluster analysis to identify schools serving low-, middle-, and…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Teaching Methods, Reading Tests, Reading Achievement
PDF pending restorationNiess, Margaret L.; Erickson, Dianne K. – 1992
This document reports the results of The Oregon Mathematics Teachers of Middle School (TOMTOMS) project focused on improving the curriculum and the teaching of mathematics in middle school in support of recent calls for mathematics education reform. Twenty seventh-grade teachers, representing the geographic regions in Oregon, were chosen from a…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Change Agents, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Orem, Richard A., Ed. – 2002
This document contains 41 papers and 11 poster session presentations from a conference on research-to-practice in adult, continuing, and community education. The following are among the papers included: "Learning in a Multicultural Environment" (Mansur Abdullah, Cory Eisenberg, Willard C. Hall Jr., Pauline Valvo); "How to Engage in…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs
