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Corbett, Dick; Wilson, Bruce – Theory Into Practice, 2009
This article briefly describes the central tenets of a program several low-income middle schools implemented to remove failure as a choice students could make in completing their assignments. Instead of doling out Fs for poor and nonexistent work, teachers devised a variety of options students had to follow to demonstrate eventual mastery of…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Grading, Student Reaction, Student Attitudes
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Pence, Holly M.; Macgillivray, Ian K. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2008
This study addresses the question, "What is the impact of an international field experience on preservice teachers?" and corroborates many of the findings of a similar study by Willard-Holt [(2001). "The impact of a short-term international experience for preservice teachers." "Teaching and Teacher Education, 17,"…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Focus Groups, Program Effectiveness
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Morgan, Kevin; Kingston, Kieran – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2008
Background: Two goal perspectives predominate in achievement settings such as physical education (PE), namely task involvement, focused on self-referenced effort and improvement, and ego involvement, focused on normative ability comparisons. A task (mastery) involving motivational climate is associated with adaptive motivational responses, whereas…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Teachers, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Physical Education Teachers
Agency for Instructional Technology, Bloomington, IN. – 1987
This report describes the results of a field test of "Federalism", a program from "The U.S. Constitution", an instructional video program series for secondary school students developed by the Agency for Instructional Technology (AIT) in association with Project '87. The participants of the preview are teachers and students in…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Federal Government, Field Tests, Instructional Films