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Dishon, Gideon – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2022
Background: The transition to technology-mediated remote schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic represented a drastic shift in educational technologies' function in K-12 settings. This theoretical paper sought to: (1) identify key developments in technology-use during the pandemic; (2) situate current events within the Learning Sciences' evolving…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Technology, Educational Change
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Ryan, Mary; Bourke, Terri; Lane, Rod; O'Brien, Peter; L'Estrange, Lyra – Teaching Education, 2022
The recasting of accountability in teaching and teacher education as a problem of impact across many countries has seen a proliferation of policies and strategies that datify the work of students and teachers. The enactment of such policies can be interrogated from the perspectives of multiple policy actors to understand the effects of the 'impact…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Accountability, Teaching Methods
Carla C. Johnson; Janet B. Walton; Lacey Strickler; Jennifer Brammer Elliott – Review of Educational Research, 2023
The transition to fully or partially online instruction for K-12 students necessitated by the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the current lack of understanding of practices that support K-12 student learning in online settings in emergency situations but also, more troublingly, in K-12 online teaching and learning more generally. A systematic…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Teaching Methods, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education
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Postigo, Yolanda; López-Manjón, Asunción – International Journal of Science Education, 2019
This paper analyses the extent to which textbook images are designed using the Instructional Criteria for Image Analysis (ICIA) model in textbooks. The ICIA proposed that learning through images involves interaction between the learner, the image, and the activities with images proposed to the student. Images from the main text and activity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Illustrations, Biology, Criteria
Viesca, Kara Mitchell; Strom, Kathryn; Hammer, Svenja; Masterson, Jessica; Linzell, Cindy Hammer; Mitchell-McCollough, Jessica; Flynn, Naomi – Review of Research in Education, 2019
Utilizing a complex theory of teacher learning and practice, this chapter analyzes ~120 empirical studies of content teacher development (both preservice and in-service) for working with multilingual learners as well as research on content teaching for multilingual students. Our analysis identified three dimensions of quality content teaching for…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Teaching Methods, Course Content, Learning Processes
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Guillory, Nichole A. – Teaching Education, 2012
This research essay is intended to situate the curriculum in my multicultural education courses--of talking back through autobiographical inquiry--within real schools, a site where curriculum theorists rarely situate their work. The literature by curriculum theorists that precedes my study generally has focused on how pre-service teachers in…
Descriptors: Education Courses, Multicultural Education, Student Teacher Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education
Ainsworth, Heather L.; Eaton, Sarah Elaine – Online Submission, 2010
This research report investigates the links between formal, non-formal and informal learning and the differences between them. In particular, the report aims to link these notions of learning to the field of sciences and engineering in Canada and the United States, including professional development of adults working in these fields. It offers…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Adult Learning, Foreign Countries, Scientific Literacy
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Hirsh, Stephanie; Hord, Shirley M. – Journal of Staff Development, 2010
A school that ensures that all students--regardless of race, creed, color, socioeconomic status, gender, or disabilities--have access to and receive the highest-quality education has achieved a key measure of social justice. Since the most significant factor in whether students learn well is quality teaching, and teaching is enhanced through…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Educational Quality, Educational Change, Participative Decision Making
Hallam, Susan – Psychology Teaching Review, 2010
This paper explores the relationships between the development of expertise and transitions. It sets out what we know about the development of expertise, changes in the brain as expertise develops, and how transitions between different learning contexts and the challenges that they present may impact on developing expertise. It sets out a series of…
Descriptors: Expertise, Learning Processes, Brain, Context Effect
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Govender, Irene – Computers & Education, 2009
In this paper the influence of the learning context is considered when learning to program. For the purposes of this study, the lectures, study process, previous knowledge or teaching experience and tests comprised the learning context. The article argues that students' experiences of the learning context have important implications for teaching…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Context Effect, Educational Environment, Teachers
Daniels, Harry, Ed.; Lauder, Hugh, Ed.; Porter, Jill, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"Educational Theories, Cultures and Learning" focuses on how education is understood in different cultures, the theories and related assumptions we make about learners and students and how we think about them, and how we can understand the principle actors in education--learners and teachers. Within this volume, internationally renowned…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Brain, Social Environment, Educational Policy
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Maton, Karl – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2009
The present article extends Basil Bernstein's theorisation of "discourses" and "knowledge structures" to explore the potential of educational knowledge structures to enable or constrain cumulative learning, where students can transfer knowledge across contexts and build knowledge over time. It offers a means of overcoming…
Descriptors: Professional Education, Educational Theories, Learning Theories, Learning Processes
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Monereo, Carles – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2007
The paper aims to identify a solution to the dilemma that currently exists within the paradigm of strategic learning: the dilemma of whether a strategy should be seen as an action dependent on the specific knowledge of an educational actor--strategic knowledge--or whether it is dependent on a planned instructional context--strategic context. This…
Descriptors: Models, Learning Strategies, Teaching Methods, Self Concept
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La Marca, Paul M. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2006
Although it is assumed that student cognition contributes to student performance on achievement tests, it may be that current testing models lack the degree of specification necessary to warrant such inferences. With test score interpretations as the referent, the authors in this special issue address the role of student cognition in learning and…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Measurement, Testing, Achievement Tests
Gordon, Gary – Gallup Press, 2006
Leaders of American schools are approaching a crossroads. They can continue to struggle with outdated assumptions and increasingly demoralizing workplaces, or they can step back and reexamine what students must take away from schools to fulfill their potential in life--and what teachers need to help them get it. This book makes the case that it is…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Outcomes of Education, Learning Processes, Educational Change
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