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de Kramer, Raquel Magidin; Masters, Jessica; O'Dwyer, Laura M.; Dash, Sheralyn; Russell, Michael – Teacher Educator, 2012
Online professional development (OPD) has potential to improve teacher quality by improving teachers' knowledge and instructional practices. These changes, in turn, have potential to improve student achievement. Unfortunately, there is a dearth of scientific research on the effects of OPD on teachers and, more importantly, on students. This…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Teacher Education, Professional Development, Grade 7
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Zielinska, Dorota – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2003
The article outlines the technical writing tutorial (TWT) that preceded an advanced ESL writing course for students of English Philology at the Jagiellonian University. Having assessed the English skills of those students at the end of the semester, we found a statistically significant increase in the performance of the students who had taken the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Control Groups, Technical Writing, Writing Instruction