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Eddles-Hirsch, Katrina – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2017
This article reports on an exploratory study that addressed the low confidence levels of 80 generalist primary student teachers enrolled in a mandatory visual arts course. Previous studies in this area have found that a cycle of neglect exists in Australia, as a result of educators' lack of confidence in their ability to teach visual arts. This is…
Descriptors: Art Education, Visual Arts, Self Esteem, Elementary Education
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Wildy, Helen; Clarke, Simon – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2009
This paper provides an example of the application of the cognitive interview, a qualitative tool for pre-testing a survey instrument to check its cognitive validity, that is, whether the items mean to respondents what they mean to the item designers. The instrument is the survey used in the final phase of the International Study of Principal…
Descriptors: Interviews, Validity, Pretesting, Surveys
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Ray, Waverly C.; Muñiz-Solari, Osvaldo; Klein, Phil; Solem, Michael – Review of International Geographical Education Online, 2012
The Association of American Geographers' Center for Global Geography Education aims to internationalize geography in higher education by providing materials and activities to support international learning collaborations. From 2007-2011, geographers in different countries collaboratively developed online learning materials and trialed these…
Descriptors: Online Courses, International Education, International Cooperation, Material Development
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Dawson, Chris J.; Rowell, J. A. – Research in Science Education, 1995
Described a probe that can assess the learners' understanding of scientific ideas in conditions that do not demand closure on a single interpretation, and where learners can demonstrate certainty or otherwise in several possible alternatives. Can be used in monitoring conceptual change when intuitive understanding of scientific phenomena is to be…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Foreign Countries, High School Students, Misconceptions
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Grant, Pat; Paige, Kathy – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2007
Curriculum integration and working in teams are two key characteristics of middle schooling in Australia today. As part of a new primary/middle teacher education program an interdisciplinary team of academics has developed a course that aims to teach pre service teachers how to plan for and teach an integrated curriculum unit in an authentic…
Descriptors: Integrated Curriculum, Student Teaching, Pretesting, Curriculum Development