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Albina, Genie – Educational Leadership, 2012
A former Teach for America recruit who completed her training in a university-based program compares the two approaches to teacher preparation. In Teach for America, she learned how to design units and prepare lesson plans; in her university-based program, she had the time to learn from master teachers and build valuable skills, then practice…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Teaching Experience, Alternative Teacher Certification, Intermode Differences
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Bamber, Veronica – International Journal for Academic Development, 2008
This paper argues that lecturer development programmes can best be evaluated by theory-informed, contextualised evaluations involving a structured approach. The self-knowledge obtained by course teams who engage with such an approach outweighs wisdom received from external evaluators within large-scale evaluation initiatives, although these can…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Faculty Development, Evaluation Research, Teacher Education Programs
Marzano Research Laboratory, 2010
During the 2009-2010 school year, Marzano Research Laboratory (MRL) was commissioned by Promethean Ltd. to conduct a second year evaluation study of the effects of Promethean ActivClassroom on student academic achievement. This executive summary highlights the key findings. [For "A Second Year Evaluation Study of Promethean ActivClassroom. Final…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Program Descriptions
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Hurley, Maureen; Patterson, Kay L.; Wilcox, F. Kim – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2006
This chapter discusses Video-based Supplemental Instruction, a variation of the SI model. (Contains 6 figures.)
Descriptors: Supplementary Education, Enrichment Activities, Instructional Films, Audiovisual Instruction
Goddard, Constance – 1983
This discussion of questions related to the most appropriate role for the computer in undergraduate postsecondary education begins by describing the Educational Testing Service's evaluations of two large-scale funded projects intended to stimulate the incorporation of computer assisted instruction (CAI) into undergraduate instruction--the…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computers, Higher Education
Cozart, Sheryl Conrad; Gordon, Jenny; Gunzenhauser, Michael G.; McKinney, Monica B.; Petterson, Jean A. – Educational Foundations, 2003
In this paper, the authors depict performance ethnography as having multiple ethical dimensions and multiple implications for the relationships between the evaluator and program participants. They have found performance ethnography to be essentially an intimate form of representation that has tremendous implications for the ownership of…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Evaluation Research, Qualitative Research, Ethnography
Burleton, B. J. – Programmed Learning and Educational Technology, 1984
Outlines a distance education course in telecommunications offered through Brunel Technical College, Bristol, England. Objectives of the college, the sponsor, college staff, and students enrolled in the course are investigated together with problems, cost implications, and student and staff perceptions. Distance and evening students' performance…
Descriptors: Costs, Course Descriptions, Distance Education, Educational Research
Hesser, Lois Ann; And Others – 1993
Providing a variety of instructional methods and materials, developing unique and effective communication systems, and continually evaluating the process are the keys to the effective delivery of field-based programs in graduate education offered by Nova University (Florida). It has become a leader in distance-education programs by offering…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Doctoral Programs, Educational Technology, Electronic Classrooms
Avedon, E. M.; Stewart, T. O. – 1978
This paper describes the use of an automated interactive teaching system for the teaching of a survey course in recreation which examines the phenomenon of leisure from a range of disciplinary perspectives including history, anthropology, archeology, philosophy, religion, economics, sociology, political science, psychology, planning, geography,…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Strategies, Educational Television