NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Ben-Peretz, Miriam – 1988
This paper analyzes some of the characteristics of research on teacher thinking as it relates to educational policy. An introductory section discusses the problems inherent in relating research on teacher thinking to educational policy, based on the difference between conclusion-oriented research (which is appropriate for teacher thinking) and…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Educational Objectives, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Anderson, Lorin W. – Curriculum Report, 1986
This report focuses on current attempts by researchers to examine teacher effectiveness through the "task hypothesis," which asserts that effective teachers accomplish a large and diverse set of tasks--or discrete, goal-oriented units of work--in their classroom. After an introductory critique of past efforts to assess teacher "traits" or…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Research Utilization
Driscoll, Amy – 1984
In 1983, the National Institute of Education funded the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development to conduct a study, Applying Research to Teacher Education (ARTE) Research Utilization in Elementary Teacher Education (RUETE). The ARTE:RUETE study's purpose is to develop preservice instruction incorporating current research…
Descriptors: Cooperating Teachers, Educational Research, Elementary School Teachers, Higher Education
Gee, Elsie W. – 1984
An analysis was made of a collaborative research and development project designed to stimulate and support collaborative development of preservice teacher education strategies. The project was based on the assumption that teacher education programs could incorporate research as an inquiry-based process for student teachers, cooperating teachers,…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Behavior Change, College School Cooperation, Comparative Analysis
Barnes, Susan – 1983
This observer training manual was developed as a central component of a research effort, Changing Teacher Practice (CTP), which was designed to increase the frequency of effective teaching behaviors and staff development strategies in an ongoing school system. The observations focused on two major aspects of classroom teaching--instruction and…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques
Duckett, Willard R., Ed. – 1980
The wide variety of contexts in which good teaching takes place, a desirable circumstance from most points of view, creates problems, not the least of which is evaluation. Systematic observation is one measurement procedure that can provide some of the data essential to reliable observation. The fourteenth National Symposium for Professionals in…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods