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Tedford, Keith; Kitchenham, Andrew D. – Journal of Transformative Education, 2021
This article describes a bounded action research case study that examines how reading and discussing a graphic narrative (March Book Two, a comic autobiography of John Lewis's life as a civil rights activist) enabled transformations in a group of seven adult student participants at a Canadian postsecondary institution. Data primarily gathered from…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Learning Theories, Case Studies, Action Research
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Han Luo; Pan Gao – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
This study reports on the results of a semester-long Chinese-American telecollaborative exchange via WeChat, in which students from China and the U.S. shared thematically similar songs in their respective languages and discussed relevant cultural topics that were suggested by the students. Various types of qualitative data collected from the…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Intercultural Communication, Computer Software, Group Discussion
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Jenkins, J. Jacob; Clarke, Tracylee – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2017
Educators have long recognized the value and import of class journaling. Traditional approaches to journaling, however, only engage students in one mode of communicative expression while allowing them to procrastinate in writing their entries. Typical journals are also read exclusively by the instructor, which overlooks the opportunity for…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Journal Writing, Teaching Methods, Learning Theories
Messier-Jones, Lauriann Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Roles of Hybrid Teacher Leadership (HTL), positions which involve classroom teaching for part of the day and academic coaching, curriculum planning, department chair, or professional development responsibilities for the remainder of the day, are becoming more prevalent due to budgetary concerns and teacher shortages. This autoethnography analyzes…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Teacher Attitudes, Professional Identity, Teacher Leadership
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Mimbs, Debra – PRIMUS, 2017
It is necessary while mentoring students in undergraduate research to conduct assessments in order to determine how well the research experience is progressing. It may also be necessary to assign a grade to a student's performance at the conclusion of such a venture. Journaling may be used both as a formative assessment tool and as a summative…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Mentors, Formative Evaluation, Summative Evaluation
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Prud'homme-Genereux, Annie – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2016
This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. This month's issue describes incorporating a journal article into the classroom by first converting it into a case study.
Descriptors: Case Studies, Instructional Innovation, Journal Articles, Curriculum Enrichment
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Rojas Serrano, Javier – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2017
In a Colombian private English institution, a qualitative evaluation system has been incorporated. This type of evaluation poses challenges to students who have never been evaluated through a system that eliminates exams or quizzes and, as a consequence, these students have to start making sense of it. This study explores the way students face the…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Qualitative Research, Evaluation Methods, Student Experience
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Papadima-Sophocleous, Salomi – Research-publishing.net, 2017
Most Second Language (L2) Teacher Training Assessment and Testing courses focus on testing. Through the development of a Master of Arts (MA) in a computer assisted language learning module (based on a constructivist and "practise what you preach" approach, entailing that the teachers experience firsthand the assessment types they were…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Teacher Education
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Shelton, Angi; Smith, Andrew; Wiebe, Eric; Behrle, Courtney; Sirkin, Ruth; Lester, James – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2016
Formative assessment strategies are used to direct instruction by establishing where learners' understanding is, how it is developing, informing teachers and students alike as to how they might get to their next set of goals of conceptual understanding. For the science classroom, one rich source of formative assessment data about scientific…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Science Instruction, Student Journals
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Kling, Gina; Bay-Williams, Jennifer M. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2014
In this article, the authors share a variety of ways to formatively assess basic fact fluency. The define fluency, raise some issues related to timed testing, and then share a collection of classroom-tested ideas for authentic fact fluency assessment. This article encourages teachers to try a variety of alternative assessments from this sampling,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Formative Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Sheila B. Robinson – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2014
This formative evaluation study of a professional development institute for K-12 educators examined immediate outcomes and short-term impacts on participants' learning and change in mathematics teaching practice. Participants' journals and interviews were analyzed using qualitative methods and a grounded theory (the discovery of theory from…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Evaluation Methods, Research Methodology, Faculty Development
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Ciampa, Katia – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2017
This single-site case study describes the outcomes and lessons learned from the implementation of a technology professional development initiative aimed at helping three special education teachers from an urban elementary school learn how to infuse technology in their content literacy instruction. Three types of qualitative data were collected:…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Faculty Development
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Caicedo Pereira, Martin Javier; Lozano Bermúdez, Jhonny Alexander; Vanegas Medina, Luis Alfonso – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2018
This action research study examines the effect of self-evaluation on grammatical range and grammar accuracy on the English speaking performance of 27 foreign language university and pre-university students enrolled in three different language centers, in three different cities in Colombia. Participants were asked to record themselves answering…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Accuracy, Benchmarking, Grammar
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Schleigh, Sharon – Science and Children, 2014
While most of us probably don't think of teachers as scientists, the truth of the matter is that teachers actually follow many of the scientific processes that scientists use to help them be effective. Teachers have to find ways to measure student learning and to use that measurement to inform their teaching practices. They need to know what…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Teachers, Journal Writing, Teaching Methods
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Ciampa, Katia; Gallagher, Tiffany L. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2015
Blogging has been recommended as a suitable tool for teacher professional learning due to its associated utility in collaborative learning, reflection, communication, and social support. In this study, blogging was incorporated into a collaborative inquiry project involving elementary and secondary teachers. In examining the frequency and nature…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Professional Development, Cooperative Learning, Inquiry
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