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Lesley Irvine; Sam Cunningham – Student Success, 2025
In a changing educational landscape, student engagement remains a prominent issue in research and practice. This study explores engagement from the student's perspective across multiple disciplines, year levels and delivery modes. It draws on 13,125 Student Evaluation of Teaching survey comments where students have used the word "engage"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Faculty, Learner Engagement
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Sakarneh, Mohammad – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2015
The aim of this study is to describe and then contrast the New South Wales Department of Education and Training's model of quality teaching with the Jordanian Ministry of Education's conception of quality teaching, looking particularly at potential differences in interpretation. A content analysis methodology was used. Each perspective has been…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Comparative Analysis, Educational Quality, Instructional Effectiveness
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Brownlee, Joanne; Curtis, Elizabeth; Davey Chesters, Sarah; Cobb-Moore, Charlotte; Spooner-Lane, Rebecca; Whiteford, Chrystal; Tait, Gordon – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2014
Using epistemic perspectives as a theoretical framework, this study investigated Australian pre-service teachers' perspectives about knowing, knowledge and children's learning, as they engaged in a semester-long unit on philosophy in the classroom. During the field experience component of the unit, pre-service teachers were required to teach at…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Epistemology, Educational Philosophy, Student Teacher Attitudes
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Ryan, Josephine; Scott, Anne; Walsh, Maureen – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2010
Contemporary commentary notes that students are frequently ahead of their teachers in their ability to manipulate and be creative with the internet, digital programs, and mobile technology. In this context it is important to ask, "What knowledge do teachers need to teach in the contemporary context where texts are elaborately multimodal,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Multimedia Instruction
Chen, Chung-Chih; And Others – 1997
This paper reports on part of a cross-national study of science classroom environments in Taiwan and Australia. It focuses on teachers' beliefs about science and science teaching and the effects these beliefs have on the learning environment in the science classroom. Better understanding of this relationship between teacher beliefs and learning…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Constructivism (Learning), Educational Strategies, Foreign Countries
Tuan, Hsiao-Lin; And Others – 1997
The goals of this study were to explore students' perceptions of how teachers' science teaching matched students' understanding and needs levels, report on the development and validation of a questionnaire to probe these perceptions, and compare junior high school students' perceptions from Taiwan and Australia. Descriptions of both the pilot…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Constructivism (Learning), Educational Strategies, Foreign Countries