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Kennedy, Mary M. – Education Policy Center at Michigan State University, 2011
The idea that teaching practices could be improved through better data systems has captured the imagination of policy makers, researchers and foundations. However, the concept of data use itself is so ill-defined as to suggest that it is more of a panacea than a coherent reform proposal. This paper examines the concept with an eye toward what we…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Feedback (Response), Educational Change, Psychometrics
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Brooks, Douglas M. – Theory into Practice, 1980
Instructional methods are operational exchanges between participants within environments that attempt to produce a learning outcome. The classroom teacher's ability to produce a learning outcome is the measure of instructional competence within that learning method. (JN)
Descriptors: Behavior Chaining, Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
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White, William F. – Journal of Instructional Psychology, 1998
The diagnostic-prescriptive approach to teaching clinically focuses directly on the student. The diagnosis and identification of the strengths and weaknesses of each student, both cognitive and emotional structure, establishes the teaching prescription of instruction. The changed behavior of each student in thinking, feeling, and activity is the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Educational Objectives, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education