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Baartman, Liesbeth; Gulikers, Judith; Dijkstra, Asha – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2013
The development of assessments that are fit to assess professional competence in higher vocational education requires a reconsideration of assessment methods, quality criteria and (self)evaluation. This article examines the self-evaluations of nine courses of a large higher vocational education institute. Per course, 4-11 teachers and 3-10…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Higher Education, Educational Quality, Competency Based Education
Howard, Sarah K.; Rennie, Ellie – Computers in the Schools, 2013
Despite significant investment in school one-to-one device programs, little is known about which aspects of program implementation work and why. Through a comparison of two implementation models, adopter-diffusion and saturation, and using existing data from the One Laptop per Child Australia laptop program, we explored how factors of…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Case Studies, Program Implementation, Performance Factors
Hardwick, Louise – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2013
This article focuses on one strand of community engagement: community-based learning for students. It considers in particular Interchange as a case study. Interchange is a registered charity based in, but independent of, a department in a Higher Education Institution. It brokers between undergraduate research/work projects and Voluntary Community…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Case Studies, School Community Programs, Community Organizations
Negotiating Professional Identities in Higher Education in Kenya: Dilemmas and Priorities of Faculty
Arasa, Josephine Nyaboke; Calvert, Mike – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2013
This research builds on work carried out in England looking at how faculty negotiate their personal and professional identities. It focuses on a sample of full-time faculty in a private secular university in Kenya. Weekly time logs with follow-up individual semi-structured interviews were used as a basis for an examination on how faculty spend…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, College Faculty, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
Cho, Moon-Heum; Rathbun, Gail – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2013
Teacher Professional Development (TPD) is critical for educational improvement in higher education. However, one of the main concerns in TPD is that the traditional workshop format constrains active participation and the consequent creation of usable knowledge for teaching. In response to this challenge, we developed a series of teacher-centred…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Case Studies, Teacher Education Programs, Online Courses
Truelove, Hazel – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The study's goal was to examine the metacognitive practices and problem solving by preservice secondary mathematics teachers within secondary core content areas. The effort to analyze and describe the processes led to qualitative methods, a multiple case study. Transcripts of problem solving sessions and interviews were coded for the presence of…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Preservice Teachers, Secondary School Mathematics, Secondary School Teachers
Avery, Zanj K.; Reeve, Edward M. – Journal of Technology Education, 2013
To help the United States stay globally competitive in terms of innovation and invention, the teaching of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) has become a priority in P-12 education today. As the need for students to become stronger in STEM grows, so does the need for well-qualified STEM teachers who understand what is needed…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Faculty Development, Interviews, Classroom Observation Techniques
Bauml, Michelle – New Educator, 2014
This qualitative case study describes how one beginning primary grade teacher benefited from collaborative lesson-planning meetings with her grade-level colleagues. The teacher accumulated knowledge of curriculum, pedagogy, and professional contexts as she participated in planning meetings each week during her first year of teaching. Furthermore,…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Beginning Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Faculty Development
Gibney, Janette – Adults Learning Mathematics, 2014
This action research project looks at what happened when a small group of adult numeracy teachers with widely different experiences of learning and teaching mathematics explored their own informal numeracy practices and undertook a series of collaborative mathematical tasks. Evidence from qualitative data collected during the enquiry suggests that…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Teaching Experience, Adult Educators, Task Analysis
Tal, Clodie – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2014
This study seeks to determine how and to what extent the core principles of the early childhood education programme at Levinsky College of Education in Israel were applied by a third-year student teacher in a traditional fieldwork placement. At the beginning of the school year, the student planned to engage two small groups of children in her…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Case Studies, Early Childhood Education
What Works Clearinghouse, 2014
For the 2014 study, "Closing the Social-Class Achievement Gap: A Difference-Education Intervention Improves First-Generation Students' Academic Performance and All Students' College Transition," researchers investigated the impact of attending a moderated panel on incoming freshmen's adjustment to college. The panel featured…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Social Class, First Generation College Students, Academic Achievement
Leach, Generosa; Hunter, Roberta; Hunter, Jodie – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2014
Interaction and dialogue are seen as essential components of mathematics classrooms of the 21st century. In this paper we explore the pedagogical actions a teacher takes to reposition his diverse learners as active and engaged participants in the classroom. The findings illustrate the need for explicit teacher modelling of ways for students to…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Cultural Differences, Classroom Environment, Classroom Communication
Zhenyu, Gao – Frontiers of Education in China, 2012
The main purpose of this study is to investigate the lived experience of teachers from one middle school in East China who implemented project-based learning (PBL) in their classes. A sample of 22 grade 6 and 7 teachers participated in this research between September 2008 and June 2010. Data were observation, transcripts of semi-structural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Implementation, Observation, Semi Structured Interviews
Hanauer, D. I.; Frederick, J.; Fotinakes, B.; Strobel, S. A. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2012
We used computational linguistic and content analyses to explore the concept of project ownership for undergraduate research. We used linguistic analysis of student interview data to develop a quantitative methodology for assessing project ownership and applied this method to measure degrees of project ownership expressed by students in relation…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Ownership, Research Opportunities, Student Research
Feliz, Tiberio; Ricoy, Carmen; Feliz, Sálvora – Open Learning, 2013
The present study analyses the use of Twitter in the course Social Media and Digital Learning, taught as part of a master's programme at Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (Spain). The main purpose of the use of this resource was to develop a learning community. This was implemented through the micro design of activities. A mixed…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Handheld Devices, Computer Mediated Communication, Masters Programs