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Pálmadóttir, Hrönn; Einarsdóttir, Jóhanna – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
This article aims to explore young children's (from one to three years old) perspectives of the role and pedagogy of educators in play in an Icelandic preschool. The intention is to explore the meaning that children put into involving educators in their play and whether the children experience educators' actions as a resource for their play. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers, Nursery Schools
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Oh, Yoonkyung; Osgood, D. Wayne; Smith, Emilie P. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2015
The importance of afterschool hours for youth development is widely acknowledged, and afterschool settings have recently received increasing attention as an important venue for youth interventions, bringing a growing need for reliable and valid measures of afterschool quality. This study examined the extent to which the two observational tools,…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Program Effectiveness, Observation, Rating Scales
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Kaiser, Gabriele; Busse, Andreas; Hoth, Jessica; König, Johannes; Blömeke, Sigrid – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2015
Research on the evaluation of the professional knowledge of mathematics teachers (comprising for example mathematical content knowledge, mathematics pedagogical content knowledge and general pedagogical knowledge) has become prominent in the last decade; however, the development of video-based assessment approaches is a more recent topic. This…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Competencies, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Bakker, Nelleke – History of Education, 2015
Between c.1945 and 1965 across the West special education has grown and differentiated substantially. In the Netherlands this expansion ran parallel to the academic recognition and rapid development of the study of learning disabilities. How are these two processes related? This article argues that in this country child science and special…
Descriptors: Educational History, Special Education, Foreign Countries, Learning Disabilities
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Park, Hyu-Yong – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2015
This article discusses the usefulness of Braille music as a mediational means for musicians with visual impairment (MVI). Specifically, three broad issues are the focus of this study: (1) three notions as the conceptual frameworks, namely, mediation, appropriation and mastery; (2) three criteria of the usefulness of Braille music, including…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Visual Impairments, Blindness, Braille
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Clapham, Andrew – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2015
Sir Michael Wilshaw, the head of the Office for Standards in Education (OfSTED), declared a "new wave" of Local Area Under-performance Inspections (LAUI) of schools "denying children the standard of education they deserve". This paper examines how the threat of LAUI played out over three mathematics lessons taught by a teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inspection, Classroom Observation Techniques, Accountability
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Reinking, Anna Krummel – Current Issues in Education, 2015
President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan are promoting an early learning initiative focusing on the agenda of every four year old having equal access to high-quality early learning environments (Administration for Children and Families, 2013). One way the Federal government is supporting this proposal is through a grant;…
Descriptors: Accountability, Teacher Evaluation, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers
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Mangin, Melinda M.; Dunsmore, KaiLonnie – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2015
Purpose: Instructional coaching is framed as both a means for systemic and individual reform. These competing conceptualizations of coaching as a mechanism for change have not been systematically examined, and therefore, we know little about how the framing of instructional coaching initiatives affects the enactment of coaching. In response to…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Educational Change, School Districts, Literacy
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De Zan, Giovanni; De Toni, Alberto Felice; Fornasier, Andrea; Battistella, Cinzia – European Journal of Training and Development, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present a methodology to assess the experiential learning processes of learning lean in an innovative learning environment: the lean model factories. Design/methodology/approach: A literature review on learning and lean management literatures was carried out to design the methodology. Then, a case study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Experiential Learning, Case Studies, Educational Assessment
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Bacher-Hicks, Andrew; Chin, Mark; Kane, Thomas J.; Staiger, Douglas O. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2015
Policy changes from the past decade have resulted in a growing interest in identifying effective teachers and their characteristics. This study is the third study to use data from a randomized experiment to test the validity of measures of teacher effectiveness. The authors collected effectiveness measures across three school years from three…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Value Added Models, Observation, Student Surveys
Cornetto, Karen M. – Online Submission, 2015
This report describes feedback from teachers at the six EEIP [Educator Excellence Innovation Program] schools. EEIP includes implementation of a new teacher appraisal system, student learning objectives, professional learning communities, novice teacher mentoring, and targeted peer observation. [Abstract modified to meet ERIC guidelines.]
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Communities of Practice, Mentors
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Carter, Erik W.; Asmus, Jennifer; Moss, Colleen K.; Biggs, Elizabeth E.; Bolt, Dan M.; Born, Tiffany L.; Brock, Matthew E.; Cattey, Gillian N.; Chen, Rui; Cooney, Molly; Fesperman, Ethan; Hochman, Julia M.; Huber, Heartley B.; Lequia, Jenna L.; Lyons, Gregory; Moyseenko, Kerrie A.; Riesch, Lindsay M.; Shalev, Rebecca A.; Vincent, Lori B.; Weir, Katie – Exceptional Children, 2016
Enhancing the social and learning experiences of students with severe disabilities in inclusive classrooms has been a long-standing focus of research, legislative, and advocacy efforts. The authors used a randomized controlled experimental design to examine the efficacy of peer support arrangements to improve academic and social outcomes for 51…
Descriptors: High School Students, Severe Disabilities, Randomized Controlled Trials, Peer Relationship
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Fredricks, Daisy E.; Warriner, Doris S. – Bilingual Research Journal, 2016
This study operationalizes Ruiz's language orientations framework (1984) and builds on his later work (e.g., 1997, 2008) by examining the ways in which local language policies influence the learning experiences of 12 multilingual youth and the teaching experiences of four of their classroom teachers. Using ethnographic and qualitative research…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Language Planning, Multilingualism, Learning Experience
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Ng, Josephine – International Research in Early Childhood Education, 2014
We often hear that the most important role of education is to teach children to think creatively and effectively. Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE) has recognised the importance of nurturing children from young and aimed to shift from "academic rote learning" to more experiential learning. Since 2003, mandated nationwide skill…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Qualitative Research, Semi Structured Interviews
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Cash, Anne H.; Pianta, Robert C. – School Psychology Review, 2014
Observational assessment is being used on a large scale to evaluate the quality of interactions between teachers and children in classroom environments. When one performs observations at scale, features of the protocol such as the scheduling of observations can potentially influence observed scores. In this study interactions were observed for 88…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Interaction, Scheduling, Classroom Environment
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