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Walma van der Molen, Juliette; van Aalderen-Smeets, Sandra – Frontline Learning Research, 2013
Attention to the attitudes of primary teachers towards science is of fundamental importance to research on primary science education. The current article describes a large-scale research project that aims to overcome three main shortcomings in attitude research, i.e. lack of a strong theoretical concept of attitude, methodological flaws in…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Scientific Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers, Inservice Teacher Education
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Andersen, Melissa N.; Hofstadter, Kristi L.; Kupzyk, Sara; Daly, Edward J., III; Bleck, Amanda A.; Collaro, Alyssa L.; Jones, Kristin E.; Clure, Lynne F.; Blevins, Carrie A. – Journal of Behavior Assessment and Intervention in Children, 2010
Since behavioral consultation (BC) was introduced over 30 years ago, the core procedures and assumptions of the model have remained largely unchanged in spite of its widespread popularity in practice. This article presents the Treatment Validation Consultation (TVC) model, which addresses limitations of BC and integrates recent technological…
Descriptors: School Psychology, Psychological Services, Consultation Programs, Program Validation
Waber, Dietmar – Education Canada, 2006
The article focuses on Fraser Institute's (Vancouver, British Columbia) "Report Card on Elementary Schools in British Columbia." The rating of a school is based on reading, writing, and numeracy levels for both Grade 4 and Grade 7 students, gender differences in reading and numeracy in Grade 7, and the percentage of students not meeting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Examiners, Report Cards, Reading
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Eastburn, Mark – Learning Languages, 2006
This article discusses the author's use of a performance-based evaluation in his fifth grade Spanish class in a K-5 public elementary school located in Princeton, New Jersey. The author realized the need to break the old testing paradigm and discover a new way of demonstrating student language acquisition since the traditional tests did not seem…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Spanish, Grade 5, Language Acquisition