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Using Mixed Methods to Analyze Video Data: A Mathematics Teacher Professional Development Example
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DeCuir-Gunby, Jessica T.; Marshall, Patricia L.; McCulloch, Allison W. – Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 2012
This article uses data from 65 teachers participating in a K-2 mathematics professional development research project as an example of how to analyze video recordings of teachers' classroom lessons using mixed methods. Through their discussion, the authors demonstrate how using a mixed methods approach to classroom video analysis allows researchers…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Mathematics Teachers, Professional Development, Teaching Methods
Collaboration Creation: Lessons Learned from Establishing an Online Professional Learning Community
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Gray, Colin; Smyth, Keith – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2012
This paper describes the design, implementation, evaluation and further refinement of an ELGG-based social networking site to support professional development activity, project group and special interest groups, and the discussion and sharing of educational experiences and resources across Edinburgh Napier University in the United Kingdom.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Social Networks, Learning Activities
A Hybrid Evaluation Model for Evaluating Online Professional Development
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Hahs-Vaughn, Debbie; Zygouris-Coe, Vicky; Fiedler, Rebecca – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2007
Online professional development is multidimensional. It encompasses: a) an online, web-based format; b) professional development; and most likely c) specific objectives tailored to and created for the respective online professional development course. Evaluating online professional development is therefore also multidimensional and as such both…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Online Courses, Blended Learning, Evaluation Methods
Using Evaluation to Ensure Quality Professional Development in Rural Schools
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Mitchem, Katherine; Wells, Deborah; Wells, John – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2003
Professional development practices implemented in rural school systems have often led nowhere. These practices seem to produce adult learning activities with few results other than participants' mounting frustration and another innovation left by the wayside. To encourage the development of productive professional development, many studies are…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Adult Learning, Professional Development, Program Evaluation
Selected Papers from the National Conference on College Teaching and Learning (5th, Jacksonville, Florida, April 6-9, 1994).
Chambers, Jack A., Ed. – 1994
This collection of 18 papers covers four broad areas of teaching and learning in higher education: innovative college teaching/learning strategies; effective classroom research/assessment activities; advanced classroom technology; and developing teaching and learning centers. Papers also address the question of how the college classroom is…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction
Selected Papers from the National Conference on College Teaching and Learning (6th, Jacksonville, Florida, April 5-8, 1995).
Chambers, Jack A., Ed. – 1995
This collection of 18 papers covers four broad areas of teaching and learning in higher education: innovative college teaching/learning strategies; effective classroom research/assessment activities; advanced classroom technology; and developing teaching and learning centers. Titles include: (1) "African American Students' Perceptions of…
Descriptors: Black Students, Calculus, Classroom Techniques, Computer Science