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A Synthesis of Action Research on Coaching
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Day, Nicole Kristine – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2015
This paper reviews data from 27 final reports of action research projects in the area of instructional coaching undertaken as part of Cycle 4 (2008-2010) of the Alberta Initiative for School Improvement (AISI). AISI was an Alberta government programme that provided funding to every school district to allow teachers to create site-based, action…
Descriptors: Action Research, Coaching (Performance), Foreign Countries, Professional Development
"Complex Teaching Realities" and "Deep Rooted Cultural Traditions": Barriers to the Implementation and Internalisation of Formative Assessment in China
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Poole, Adam; Adamson, Bob – Cogent Education, 2016
This article forms the first part of an Action Research project designed to incorporate formative assessment into the culture of learning of a bilingual school in Shanghai, China. It synthesises the empirical literature on formative assessment in China to establish some of the difficulties that teachers have faced in trying to incorporate this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Formative Evaluation, Program Implementation, Barriers
Preparing Teacher Leaders and Change Agents for Technology in Education.
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Strudler, Neal B.; Powell, Richard R. – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 1993
Describes how action research as a model for professional development helped teachers enrolled in a graduate course at the University of Nevada Las Vegas gain insight into the process of school change and provided them with opportunities to facilitate change involving the implementation of technology in specific school contexts. (Contains 26…
Descriptors: Action Research, Change Agents, Educational Change, Educational Technology