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A Transformative Model of Continuing Professional Development in a Day Nursery: Practitioners' Perspectives on the Implementation of Symbolic Gesturing
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Byrne, Jenny; Norman, Amanda – Professional Development in Education, 2022
Drawing on experiential learning and transformative learning theory, a transformative model of continuing professional development (CPD) was employed to implement symbolic gesturing in a day nursery. The model of CPD aimed to empower practitioners working with infants to have autonomy over their professional learning. Perspectives of the nursery…
Descriptors: Nursery Rhymes, School Personnel, Professional Development, Nonverbal Communication
When Goal Orientations Collide: Effects of Learning and Performance Orientation on Team Adaptability in Response to Workload Imbalance
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Porter, Christopher O. L. H.; Webb, Justin W.; Gogus, Celile Itir – Journal of Applied Psychology, 2010
The authors draw on resource allocation theory (Kanfer & Ackerman, 1989) to develop hypotheses regarding the conditions under which collective learning and performance orientation have interactive effects and the nature of those effects on teams' ability to adapt to a sudden and dramatic change in workload. Consistent with the theory, results…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Program Effectiveness, Resource Allocation, Decision Making
Culture and the Interaction of Student Ethnicity with Reward Structure in Group Learning
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Eric A. Hurley; Brenda A. Allen; A. Wade Boykin – Cognition and Instruction, 2009
This study tests the hypothesis that cultural differences in group orientation predict an interaction between the student variable--ethnicity--and a learning context variable--reward structure--on math performance after group learning. One hundred and thirty-two African-American and European-American female and male fourth and fifth grade students…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Mathematics Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Interaction
Structured Collaboration versus Individual Learning in Solving Physics Problems
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Harskamp, Egbert; Ding, Ning – International Journal of Science Education, 2006
The research issue in this study is how to structure collaborative learning so that it improves solving physics problems more than individual learning. Structured collaborative learning has been compared with individual learning environments with Schoenfeld's problem-solving episodes. Students took a pre-test and a post-test and had the…
Descriptors: Physics, Cooperation, Problem Solving, Learning
Collaborative Peer Learning in the Laboratory.
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Magin, D. J. – Studies in Higher Education, 1982
A study of students' group learning behavior in a laboratory course in experimental engineering at the University of New South Wales, Australia is reported. Observations of students at work and students' reports of their group activities indicate continuing group involvement in an extensive range of collaborative peer learning activities.…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Group Behavior, Higher Education, Laboratory Experiments
Family Behavior and Learning in Informal Science Settings: A Review of the Research.
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Dierking, Lynn D.; Falk, John H. – Science Education, 1994
Reviews the following topics: (1) family group interactions, time allocation, and agendas in informal science settings; and (2) family learning in informal science settings. Contains an extensive list of implications for informal science setting practitioners and provides insights to researchers attempting to study science learning in more formal…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Group Behavior, Higher Education