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Direct linkSalinas, Alejandra – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this meta-analysis was to better understand the relationship between the substantive-content focus of professional development for inservice teachers of mathematics and their students' achievement. That professional development for teachers enhances student achievement has been well established by recent studies; however, those…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Mathematics Teachers, Professional Development
Download full textMooney, Marianne; Silver-Pacuilla, Heidi – National Institute for Literacy, 2010
The purpose of this paper is threefold: (1) to provide information to policymakers and government personnel who support and develop workforce development programming, policies and practices for youth, including those with learning disabilities (LD); (2) to provide a national view of the literacy and employment status of youth with LD who have low…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Juvenile Justice, Literacy, Labor Force Development
Fluellen, Jerry E., Jr. – Online Submission, 2010
On the weekend of December 13, 2008, 4,000 House Meetings in our nation convened to plan service events. In Jacksonville, Florida, four such House Meetings were held. Of the four, two became official links in Organizing for America, President Obama's grassroots organization. Of the two, one strove to become a learning organization. At the heart of…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Political Campaigns, Presidents, Strategic Planning
Zascerinska, Jelena – Online Submission, 2010
The rapidly changing nature of Europe and of education and culture that includes conditions for student teacher professional development is generated by the democracy transition from opportunity to choose towards qualities and purposes in the context of cultural and educational globalization. Conditions of contribution applied to enhance student…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Democracy, Global Approach, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedFranklin, Kimberly – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2010
Research shows that study abroad experience affects professional qualifications. It is evident that employers value the skills and knowledge potentially gained from study abroad and that these competencies are transferable on the job. Nearly all known research lacks a longitudinal component. Of the few studies that focus on long-term outcomes,…
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Alumni, Intercultural Communication, Cultural Pluralism
Baughman, Sarah; Arnold, Mary; Boyd, Heather H.; Franz, Nancy K.; Mead, June P.; Rowe, Ellen; Silliman, Ben – Journal of Extension, 2010
The National 4-H Council Learning Priorities team developed educational content for professional development to increase evaluation capacity and evaluation skills for 4-H educators. Extension specialists in Oregon, Vermont, and Virginia piloted Evaluating for Impact curriculum through learning communities. Lessons learned from the pilot project…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Evaluation Methods, Professional Development, Delivery Systems
Marbach-Ad, Gili; McAdams, Katherine C.; Benson, Spencer; Briken, Volker; Cathcart, Laura; Chase, Michael; El-Sayed, Najib M.; Frauwirth, Kenneth; Fredericksen, Brenda; Joseph, Sam W.; Lee, Vincent; McIver, Kevin S.; Mosser, David; Quimby, B. Booth; Shields, Patricia; Song, Wenxia; Stein, Daniel C.; Stewart, Richard; Thompson, Katerina V.; Smith, Ann C. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2010
This essay describes how the use of a concept inventory has enhanced professional development and curriculum reform efforts of a faculty teaching community. The Host Pathogen Interactions (HPI) teaching team is composed of research and teaching faculty with expertise in HPI who share the goal of improving the learning experience of students in…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Microbiology, Educational Change, Learning Experience
Aksela, Maija – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2010
A novel professional development curriculum model has been implemented for a chemistry teacher education programme. The aim of this five-year programme is to educate future chemistry teachers as lifelong learners and researchers, capable of following developments in both chemistry and its teaching, implementing up-to-date research findings in…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Inquiry, Lifelong Learning, Chemistry
Hardy, Ian – Critical Studies in Education, 2010
This study is an empirical account of the professional development (PD) practices that constituted part of the work of a group of teachers and school-based administrators working together in a cluster of six schools in southeast Queensland, Australia, during a period of intense educational reform. The data comprise meeting transcripts and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Criticism
Zhang, Meilan; Passalacqua, Susan; Lundeberg, Mary; Koehler, Matthew J.; Eberhardt, Jan; Parker, Joyce; Urban-Lurain, Mark; Zhang, Tianyi; Paik, Sunhee – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2010
In this study we described an action research project enacted by a veteran Kindergarten teacher (Sarah) in the context of a professional development program. Over the course of a year, Sarah collaborated with other teachers in a small group to investigate how to use "Science Talks" to promote student learning in Kindergarten classrooms. A…
Descriptors: Action Research, Problem Based Learning, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers
Younies, Hassan; Berham, Belal; Smith, Pamela C. – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2010
Introduction: This paper investigates the views of health care providers on continuous medical education (CME). To our knowledge, this is one of the first surveys to examine perspectives of CME in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Methods: A 6-part questionnaire focused on the following areas of CME: the workshop leaders/trainers, the training…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Workshops, Professional Development, Financial Support
Murphy, Gerald A.; Calway, Bruce A. – Industry and Higher Education, 2010
Whilst professional development (PD) is an activity required by many regulatory authorities, the value that enterprises obtain from PD is often unknown, particularly when it involves development of knowledge. This paper discusses measurement techniques and processes and provides a review of established evaluation techniques, highlighting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Business, Professional Occupations
Daley, Barbara J.; Conceicao, Simone C. O.; Mina, Liliana; Altman, Brian A.; Baldor, Maria; Brown, James – Human Resource Development Review, 2010
The purpose of this integrative literature review is to summarize research on concept mapping and to offer ideas on how concept mapping can facilitate practice, research, and theory development within human resource development. In this review, more than 300 articles, written in both English and Spanish, presented at two different concept mapping…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Labor Force Development, Literature Reviews, Research Methodology
Kazura, Kerry; Tuttle, Harlee – Journal of Instructional Psychology, 2010
This study describes undergraduate students' evaluation of skills gained from two different research experiences (observation vs. interview) while enrolled in a child development course (N=83). At the end of the semester students were asked to complete a skills questionnaire. Factor analysis revealed three themes that were used to create the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Skills, Student Research
Ritter, Jason K. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2010
This self-study reports on the professional learning and development of a beginning social studies teacher educator via an examination of the evolving relationship between the author's beliefs and practices during his first three years preparing social studies teachers. Throughout this time data were systematically collected in the form of written…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Educators, Social Studies
