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Gehlbach, Hunter; Brinkworth, Maureen E. – Teachers College Record, 2012
Background/Context: Research indicates that social perspective taking--the capacity to discern the thoughts and feelings of others--plays a role in many important outcomes in schools. Despite the potential benefits for students and educators, little is known about social perspective taking (SPT) as a process. Purpose/Research Question: If…
Descriptors: Evidence, Perspective Taking, Protocol Analysis, Intervention
Whalley, Margy; Arnold, Cath; Lawrence, Penny; Peerless, Sally – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2012
The Pen Green Tracer Study questions the difference we may or may not have made to children's lives. An initial cohort of young people, now aged between 11-20, revisited their nursery in 2010. Their stories prompted discussion on parental involvement and advocacy within the education system, key worker attachment, and children's sense of self. Our…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Aptitude Treatment Interaction
Johnson, Heather L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Rate of change is an important concept for students to study, and little is known about the ways in which secondary students make sense of rate of change. In this qualitative study I examined how four high school students who have not taken calculus reasoned about changing quantities when interacting with mathematical tasks involving multiple…
Descriptors: Calculus, Inferences, High School Students, Mathematical Concepts
Loyd, Stacy M. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine how and why elementary teachers select books for the read-aloud. A phenomenological approach was used to conduct a fourteen week descriptive study. Three participants were purposefully selected to provide an in-depth examination of teachers' book selection processes. Data was collected through observations,…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Video Technology, Protocol Analysis, Phenomenology
Moussay, Sylvie; Flavier, Eric; Zimmermann, Philipe; Meard, Jacques – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2011
This case study analysed the circumstances during a one-year work placement in which a pre-service teacher showed professional development, with a focus on the impact of her interactions with various interlocutors. The study was conducted within the framework of the cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) and of activity theory with its methods…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Teaching Methods, Mentors, Classroom Techniques
Reis, Giuliano; Roth, Wolff-Michael – Journal of Environmental Education, 2010
Emotions are important aspects in/for the pedagogy of environmental education (EE). However, the literature on the relationship between emotions and EE has not explored how emotion talk furnishes teaching identity claims and mediates instruction in/about the environment. Therefore, the present study draws on two ethnographic case studies to…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Case Studies, Ethnography, Interviews
Xu, Yun; Wu, Zunmin – Assessing Writing, 2012
This paper reports on a qualitative research study into the test-taking strategies employed in completing two picture prompt writing tasks--Situational Writing and Interpretational Writing in the Beijing Matriculation English Test. Think-aloud and retrospective interview protocols were collected from twelve Chinese students representing two key…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Secondary School Teachers, Test Wiseness
Eskin, Handan; Ogan-Bekiroglu, Feral – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2009
The aim of this study was, first, to investigate any pattern between students' quantitative contribution to argumentation and their science understanding, and second, to analyze any relationship between students' qualitative contribution to argumentation and their scientific knowledge. Participants of the study were four tenth-grade students. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Persuasive Discourse, Grade 10, Physics
Tsai, Fu-Hsing; Yu, Kuang-Chao; Hsiao, Hsien-Sheng – Educational Technology & Society, 2012
This study developed an educational online game, Super Delivery, targeting knowledge about saving electricity, and conducted case studies of eight sixth-grade students using this game to explore the factors influencing the effectiveness of students' knowledge acquisition in digital game-based learning (DGBL). This study followed Miles and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Games, Computer Games, Outcomes of Education
Harris, Apollos Ramon – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examined the participation styles of nine parents while attending Individual Educational Program (IEP) meetings for their children. The nine parents consisted of three parents from a suburban school district, three parents from a rural school district, and three parents from an urban school district. Data collection through videotaping…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Parent Participation, Disabilities, Interviews
Individualizing Elementary General Music Instruction: Case Studies of Assessment and Differentiation
Salvador, Karen – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Elementary general music teachers typically teach hundreds of students every week. Each child has individual learning needs due to a variety of factors, such as prior experiences with music, music aptitude, learning style, and personality. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore ways that experienced teachers used assessments to…
Descriptors: Report Cards, Experienced Teachers, Individualized Instruction, Music Education
Lazaridou, Angeliki – International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning, 2006
The problem-solving processes and strategies of ten school principals with reputations for high effectiveness were studied. Verbal protocols were gathered through unstructured interviews while principals were working on a set of five cases. Analysis of the data was guided, but not constrained, by a set of processes and strategies for problem…
Descriptors: Principals, Problem Solving, Administrator Effectiveness, Interviews
van Hover, Stephanie; Yeager, Elizabeth – Canadian Journal of Education, 2007
In this study, we explore the instructional decision making of Charlotte, a graduate of an intensive social studies teacher education program. Charlotte articulated a sophisticated conception of historical thinking and appeared to possess exemplary pedagogical content knowledge. Her classroom practice did not incorporate the approaches to…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, History Instruction, Teaching Methods
Grotzer, Tina A.; Basca, Belinda Bell – Journal of Biological Education, 2003
Students have difficulty understanding ecosystem concepts. This article argues that the difficulty stems partly from not grasping the underlying causality that structures the concepts. We report on an intervention study designed to teach eight- and nine-year-olds to reason about domino, cyclic, and mutual causality by infusing causally focused…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Ecology, Grade 3, Intervention