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Peta J. White; Russell Tytler; Shefali Sharma-Wallis – Teaching Science, 2023
Inquiry skills are universally recognised as being integral to a contemporary science education where students need to understand the nature of scientific practices as well as concepts. Although inquiry learning is a common practice among primary educators, the development and assessment of inquiry skills is far less practised. There is a need for…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Active Learning, Inquiry, Science Education
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Adeniji, Saidat Morenike; Baker, Penelope; Schmude, Martin – Issues in Educational Research, 2023
One major challenge researchers have faced during the disruptions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic is how to adapt to the global virus and, at the same time, make good progress in their research pursuits. Also, many international researchers have suspended ongoing research in developing countries due to inadequate online facilities in these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Mixed Methods Research
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Strelan, Peter – Teaching of Psychology, 2018
This article presents an innovative technique for teaching the principles of experimental design in a way that is entertaining and engaging for students. Following a lecture on experimental design, students participate in an experiment in which the teacher uses a funny segment from a movie to test the influence of implicit social norms. Randomly…
Descriptors: Research Design, Research Methodology, Teaching Methods, Instructional Innovation
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Phillips, Michael – Digital Education and Learning, 2016
This chapter discusses the research design and the methodological approach developed to investigate teachers' TPACK enactment within their workplace communities of practice. 'The School' section provides a description of the school at the centre of this investigation. This description provides insights into the way knowledge and pressures from the…
Descriptors: Research Design, Research Methodology, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Technological Literacy
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Cameron, Leanne – Journal of Learning Design, 2017
This paper reports on the learning designs, teaching methods and activities most commonly employed within the disciplines in six universities in Australia. The study sought to establish if there were significant differences between the disciplines in learning designs, teaching methods and teaching activities in the current Australian context, as…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Universities, Learner Engagement
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Keamy, Ron – School Leadership & Management, 2016
Creativity in teaching and leadership continues to be a topic of interest in education. This article focuses on comments made by a school's leadership team as part of a larger study in which a mixed methods case study design involving the school's leadership team and staff who taught Arts (either as specialist teachers or generalist classroom…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Leadership Qualities, Creativity, Creative Teaching
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Evans, C.; Kandiko Howson, C.; Forsythe, A. – Higher Education Pedagogies, 2018
Internationally, the political appetite for educational measurement capable of capturing a metric of value for money and effectiveness has momentum. While most would agree with the need to assess costs relevant to quality to help support better governmental policy decisions about public spending, poorly understood measurement comes with unintended…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Achievement Gains, Political Issues, Quality Assurance
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Loughland, Tony; Nguyen, Hoa Thi Mai – Teacher Development, 2016
There has been a call for effective professional learning to improve the quality of the science teaching of primary teachers in Australia. It seems from the literature that teaching science effectively is a challenging endeavour for primary teachers. Professional learning based on the instructional core framework is an emerging approach that has…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Science, Foreign Countries, Science Instruction
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Pill, Shane; Penney, Dawn; Swabey, Karen – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2012
This paper focuses on the significance of physical education teacher education (PETE) in the diffusion of "new" thinking about sport teaching in physical education. It explores issues arising from a case study investigation that sought to respond to the critical commentary about the form and substance of sport teaching in physical…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Instructional Innovation, Preservice Teacher Education, Physical Education Teachers
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Tao, Ying; Oliver, Mary; Venville, Grady – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2013
Set in the context of today's globalized approaches to curriculum reform, the purpose of this study was to compare the teaching and learning of science in Chinese and Australian Grade 6 classrooms. A conceptual framework based on notions of culture and socioeconomic status informed the research design. Case study participants were three teachers…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Learning Activities, Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods
Pietsch, Marilyn; Williamson, John – Australian Teacher Education Association, 2009
The majority of newly qualified teachers in New South Wales, Australia, begin their careers as casual teachers in fragmented employment contexts which make it difficult to build on the knowledge base gained at university through continuous, and continuously evaluated, practice in a classroom. This study explored the experiences of early career…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Teaching Methods, Research Design
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Goodyear, Peter; Ellis, R. A. – Distance Education, 2008
In this article, we argue that educational technology research has spent too long trapped in a paradigm of simplistic comparisons, wherein normal science consists of evaluating a technology-based intervention by contrasting it with some established set of educational practices. Our argument is different in significant ways from the claim that…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Educational Technology, College Students, Student Attitudes
Doerr, Helen M.; Wood, Terry – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
This research forum addresses the question: what is the nature of the mathematical knowledge that is needed for secondary teaching? Six international contributors: (1) Australia (Kaye Stacey); (2) Brazil (Marcelo Borba); (3) Israel (Ruhama Even); (4) Norway (Bodil Kleve and Barbara Jaworski); (5) Taiwan (Fou-Lai Lin); and (6) USA (Helen Doerr)…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mathematics Education, Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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Hastie, Peter A.; Curtner-Smith, Matthew D. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2006
Background: Sport Education (SE) and Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) are two curriculum models that were developed to help students participate in fair and equitable ways and challenge their thinking beyond the replication of techniques and skills. Given that the general aim of both models is to employ more democratic pedagogies and…
Descriptors: Research Design, Physical Education, Middle Class, Tests
Loughran, John; Northfield, Jeff – 1995
This paper provides the material for an interview/discussion of the teacher as researcher involved in a self-study of his own teaching activity. Opening sections describe the original self-study conducted by a teacher over the course of the 1993 school year while teaching secondary school math and science in Australia. These sections also briefly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Improvement, Journal Writing, Mathematics Education
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