Researchers argue that teachers' beliefs are the final barrier that prevents technology integration. To affect change in teacher candidates' beliefs of technology integration, we created a pedagogical laboratory as well as a field experience program that operates within the pedagogical laboratory. This article presents a qualitative study of…

Although much has been written about the use of video cases--particularly, video cases in teacher preparation programs in the United States--little is known about what the consumers of video cases (i.e., preservice teachers) think about such cases and how they are implemented in teacher education courses. This research investigated preservice…

Student teachers often complain about the lack of relevance of the theoretical courses in teacher education, and they repeatedly stress the importance of the practicum as the most significant component in preparation for teaching. However, most teacher educators, as well as students themselves, recognise the importance of being well informed about…

The use of the Truax scales of accurate empathy, nonpossessive warmth, and genuineness provides a useful, concrete and objective way to evaluate and train students in clinical field settings. (Author)

This paper reviews the use of video tape with respect to the training of counsellors and other helping professionals, accelerating client growth in counseling and therapy and examines the sources of information on VTR. Generally, VTR procedures were found to be very useful. (Author)

This document summarizes evidence of the effectiveness of protocol materials in the improvement of teaching. A secondary objective is to place this evaluation in the context of a brief review of protocol materials as an educational innovation, including also its genesis, purpose, problems, and recommendations for the future. The author then…

This paper is an abstract of a longer paper which was read at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting in 1974. It begins with a brief background discussion on microteaching and goes on to list the teaching skills which microteaching develops. A brief summary of the research on microteaching is then given. The abstract…

This paper identifies some basic propositions regarding teacher preparation utilized by a curriculum development team in the development of a competency-based teacher education curriculum in reading and language arts. The propositions underlying this development effort had their genesis in the research and literature in teacher education, were…

This information package was developed by the Texas Information Service (TIS) to provide Texas educators with practical information on individualizing instruction. In addition to information on programs and practices, items on related concepts and instructional materials were included. The general contents of the package were divided into two…

Approaches to attaining coder agreement when analyzing protocols of problem-solving processes are considered. A new procedure for estimating consensus is presented. (MNS)

Recommends borrowing the tools of protocol analysis and modeling from psychology as an effective way to teach writing as process. (JL)

Researchers who use video to record interactions usually need to translate the video data into another medium at some stage in order to facilitate its analysis and dissemination. This article considers some methodological issues that arise in this process by examining transcripts, diagrams and pictures as examples of different techniques for…

A considerable amount of literature on peer coaching suggests that the professional development of teachers can be improved through experimentation, observation, reflection, the exchange of professional ideas, and shared problem-solving. Reciprocal peer coaching provides teachers with an opportunity to engage in such activities in an integrated…