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Download full textAlamri, Naem M.; Aldahmash, Abdulwali H.; Alsharif, Khalid M. – International Journal of Instruction, 2018
The goal of this study was to analyse international journals and conference proceedings published from 2012 to 2016. The main results indicated that the gap between the Arab Gulf Countries (GC) and the rest of the world regarding the amounts and trends of professional development (PD) research is too wide. At the global level, the initial scanning…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Teachers, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries
Direct linkKyndt, Eva; Gijbels, David; Grosemans, Ilke; Donche, Vincent – Review of Educational Research, 2016
Although a lot is known about teacher development by means of formal learning activities, research on teachers' everyday learning is limited. In the current systematic review, we analyzed 74 studies focusing on teachers' informal learning to identify teachers' learning activities, antecedents for informal learning, and learning outcomes. In…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Outcomes of Education, Correlation, Informal Education
Voelkel, Robert H., Jr.; Chrispeels, Janet H. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2017
Research suggests effective professional learning communities (PLCs) enhance teacher collaboration and student achievement. Some studies indicate that these communities also predict greater collective efficacy, while others suggest teacher efficacy is predictive of teachers working together. Although studies have identified effective,…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Correlation, Self Efficacy, Structural Equation Models
Brown, Natalie R.; Kelder, Jo-Anne; Freeman, Brigid; Carr, Andrea R. – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2013
The University of Tasmania established a project in 2009 to investigate the particular needs of casual teaching staff, identify strategies to improve access to information, and facilitate a consistent approach to employment, induction, development and recognition. The project was managed by the university learning and teaching centre, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Adjunct Faculty, Teacher Surveys
Golden, Laura; Harris, Barbara; Mercado-Garcia, Diana; Boyle, Andrea; Le Floch, Kerstin Carlson; O'Day, Jennifer – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2014
The Study of School Turnaround examines the improvement process in a purposive sample of 35 case study schools receiving federal funds through the School Improvement Grants (SIG) program over a three-year period (2010-11 to 2012-13 school years). This evaluation brief focuses on 11 of these SIG schools with high proportions of English Language…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Educational Improvement, Federal Aid, Grants
Abedor, Allen J.; Sachs, Steven G. – 1978
This chapter addresses the relationship between three different approaches to educational improvement--instructional development (ID), organizational development (OD), and faculty development (FD). These three approaches are related to each other using the concept of readiness for innovation, and a spiral relationship is postulated: an individual,…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Faculty Development, Higher Education, Instructional Development
Bass, Ronald K., Ed.; Lumsden, D. Barry, Ed. – 1978
Designed to provide the reader with in-depth examinations of several key aspects of instructional development, this book presents both descriptions of state-of-the-art developments and analyses of problems faced by the field. These reports are presented in 13 chapters written by 17 authors: (1) "The Relationship between Faculty Development (FD),…
Descriptors: Change Agents, College Faculty, College Instruction, Faculty Development
