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Borgmeier, Chris; Loman, Sheldon L.; Hara, Motoaki – Teacher Development, 2016
The limited implementation of evidence-based classroom practices and ways to provide effective professional development to address this challenge remain enduring concerns in education. Despite these concerns, there exists a well-established research literature on evidence-based practices for effective classroom management and instructional…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Secondary School Teachers, Professional Development, Classroom Techniques
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Nichols, Kim; Stevenson, Michael; Hedberg, John; Gillies, Robyn Margaret – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2016
Eighteen primary teachers across three conditions (Representational Fluency, Representational Agency, Comparison) received two days of training around an inquiry unit on plate tectonics replete with representations. The Representational Agency group also received training around the semiotic and material affordances of representations while the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries, Pretests Posttests, Interviews
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Caddle, Mary C.; Bautista, Alfredo; Brizuela, Bárbara M.; Sharpe, Sheree T. – REDIMAT - Journal of Research in Mathematics Education, 2016
While there is widespread agreement that one-size-fits-all professional development (PD) initiatives have limited potential to foster teacher learning, much existing PD is still designed without attention to teachers' motivations and needs. This paper shows that the strengths and weaknesses of middle school mathematics teachers that engage in PD…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Teachers, Professional Development, Teacher Motivation
Alzina, Amy – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Understanding the difference between summative and formative assessments is still unclear for many teachers and principals as well as the effects formative assessments have on student learning outcomes. This quantitative study was conducted to explicitly explore formative assessments as a means to improve student learning outcomes, while examining…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Outcomes of Education, Elementary School Students
Mandinach, Ellen B.; Hauk, Shandy – Grantee Submission, 2017
A range of education initiatives in the U.S. are focusing on ways to improve curriculum, instruction, teacher development, and student assessment related to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. Key indicators to monitor the quality of STEM education have been proposed by the National Research Council. This paper is…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Educational Quality, Documentation, Content Analysis
Baudson, Tanja Gabriele; Preckel, Franzis – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2016
Stereotyping of gifted students may not only hinder identification and actualization of potential but also personality development ("stigma of giftedness"). This is obvious in the case of negative stereotyping (e.g., the disharmony hypothesis, which sees gifted students as intellectually strong, but emotionally and socially inferior),…
Descriptors: Gifted, Academically Gifted, Stereotypes, Teacher Attitudes
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Hall, Amber M.; Larson, Jessyka; Heinemann, Angela; Brusseau, Timothy A. – Physical Educator, 2015
Unqualified paraprofessionals are teaching many elementary physical education (PE) programs around the United States. These teachers have neither the experience nor the education to provide quality instruction to students. Few researchers have identified the essential nature of teacher feedback in teaching motor skills, and it has been…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Paraprofessional School Personnel, Elementary School Teachers, Teaching Methods
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Lane, Kathleen Lynne; Carter, Erik W.; Jenkins, Abbie; Dwiggins, Lauren; Germer, Kathryn – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2015
We report findings from a statewide survey of 365 site-level administrators developed to (a) learn about the extent to which schools across the state were implementing components of multi-tiered systems of support and (b) determine the areas in which these schools might need professional development or resources to support them. At least half of…
Descriptors: Prevention, State Surveys, Administrator Attitudes, Program Implementation
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Scarparolo, Gemma E.; Hammond, Lorraine S. – Professional Development in Education, 2018
Research over the last 15 years has reported that for professional development to be effective, in terms of changing teachers' knowledge and/or instructional strategies, it needs to be conducted taking into consideration the following factors: teachers' existing knowledge, experience and attitudes towards the professional development, school…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Teacher Attitudes, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Knowledge Base for Teaching
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Yin, Yue; Olson, Judith; Olson, Melfried; Solvin, Hannah; Brandon, Paul R. – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2015
This study compared two versions of professional development (PD) designed for teachers using formative assessment (FA) in mathematics classrooms that were networked with Texas Instruments Navigator (NAV) technology. Thirty-two middle school mathematics teachers were randomly assigned to one of the two groups: FA-then-NAV group and FA-and-NAV…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Professional Development
Martin, Christie S.; Polly, Drew; Wang, Chuang; Lambert, Richard G.; Pugalee, David K. – International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 2016
This study examined the influence of professional development on elementary school teachers' perceptions of and use of an internet-based formative assessment tool focused on students' number sense skills. Data sources include teacher-participants' pre and post survey, open ended response on post survey, use of the assessment tool and their written…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Mathematical Concepts, Elementary School Mathematics, Teacher Attitudes
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Kamalova, Lera A.; Koletvinova, Natal'ya D. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
This article is aimed to study the problems of reading and improve reading culture of students-bachelors of elementary education in modern high institutions and development of the most effective methods and techniques for improving of reading culture of students in the study of Humanities disciplines. The leading method to the study of this…
Descriptors: Reading, Reading Achievement, Reading Improvement, Bachelors Degrees
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Hall, Anna H.; Hutchison, Amy; White, Kelley Mayer – Journal of Research in Education, 2015
This article describes findings from a survey completed by 250 K-12th grade teachers from eight states (i.e., Kentucky, Minnesota, Michigan, Maine, Delaware, North Carolina, Georgia, and Mississippi) that had fully implemented the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) by spring 2013. The survey was designed to examine teachers' perceptions about…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Students, Teacher Surveys
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Sinelnikov, Oleg A.; Kim, Insook; Ward, Phillip; Curtner-Smith, Mathew; Li, Weidong – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2016
Background: Lack of content knowledge (CK) is problematic in teaching in classroom subject areas and in physical education. There is a dearth of data-based research on interventions aimed at helping teachers acquire CK and, in turn, on the effects of CK on student learning. Aim: To investigate the effect of professional development, in the form of…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Academic Achievement, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Physical Education
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Liu, Keke; Springer, Jeff; Stuit, David; Lindsay, Jim; Wan, Yinmei – Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2016
This brief summarizes the findings of a recent study that examined whether adding results from teacher and student feedback surveys to one district's principal evaluation system strengthened the link between principals' evaluation ratings and their schools' achievement gains in math and reading. The study also examined whether certain subscales…
Descriptors: Teacher Surveys, Student Surveys, Principals, Evaluation Methods
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