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Boud, David; Dawson, Phillip – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2023
If feedback is to be conducted effectively, then there needs to be clarity about what is involved and what is necessary for teachers to be able to undertake it well. While much attention has recently been devoted to student feedback literacy, less has been given to what is required of teaching staff in their various roles in feedback processes.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Feedback (Response), Multiple Literacies
Watson, Jane; Callingham, Rosemary – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2013
This paper considers the responses of 26 teachers to items exploring their pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) about the concept of average. The items explored teachers' knowledge of average, their planning of a unit on average, and their understanding of students as learners in devising remediation for two student responses to a problem. Results…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Knowledge Level
Cooke, Audrey – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2014
It is essential that pre-service teacher educators address pre-service teacher numeracy but with careful consideration as it incorporates more than mathematics skills. Numeracy also involves disposition towards mathematics--attitudes, confidence and mathematics anxiety; that is, the level of willingness to use mathematics skills. As part of an…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Numeracy, Knowledge Level
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Koder, Deborah-Anne; Klahr, Amanda – Educational Gerontology, 2010
The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) is one of the most commonly used instruments to screen for cognitive deficits within the hospital setting. However training in how to administer this widely used tool is scarce with little, if any, formal training for nursing staff. Scores are also often misused with over reliance on results and cut-offs to…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Nurses, Dementia, Knowledge Level
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Wheelahan, Leesa – Journal of Education and Work, 2009
This paper develops a social realist critique of competency-based training (CBT) by drawing on the philosophy of critical realism and the sociology of Basil Bernstein as complementary modes of analysis. CBT is the mandated model of curriculum in the vocational education and training (VET) sector in Australia. It results in an impoverished…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Competence