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Mehrdad Yousefpoori-Naeim; Surina He; Ying Cui; Maria Cutumisu – International Review of Education, 2024
In addition to pre- and in-service teacher education programmes, teachers' autonomous reading of content related to their work contributes significantly to their professional development. This study investigated the factors that influenced the professional reading of 10,469 language teachers in the 2018 dataset of the Programme for International…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Predictor Variables, Reading Habits, Teacher Background
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Stout, Margaret – Teaching Public Administration, 2018
The international accrediting organization for public service pedagogy, the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration, has established and adopted "universal competencies" that Master of Public Administration degree programs are expected to develop to establish a "global standard in public service…
Descriptors: Public Service, Public Administration, Accreditation (Institutions), Socialization
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Owen, Leanne R. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2017
The author presents self-report data from students in three upper-level undergraduate courses to illustrate the comparative effectiveness of different out-of-class assessment approaches in promoting completion and comprehension of reading assignments. Students reported agreeing or strongly agreeing that all three assignments motivated them to…
Descriptors: Reading Assignments, Undergraduate Students, Likert Scales, Student Attitudes
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Mulcare, Daniel M.; Shwedel, Allan – Journal of Political Science Education, 2017
This article presents the Critical Reading Topics approach, a pedagogical method employed to promote deep thinking in a variety of politics courses. Derived from principles articulated in active learning, critical thinking, backward design, and flipped classroom literature, this method utilizes Bloom's Taxonomy as the scaffolding for students to…
Descriptors: Taxonomy, Classroom Techniques, Educational Practices, Student Participation
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Smagorinsky, Peter; Clayton, Christopher M.; Johnson, Lindy L. – Theory Into Practice, 2015
This article argues that the instructional scaffolding metaphor may be reconceived as distributed scaffolding when multiple means of influence are provided in a service-learning setting. In the service-learning course described here, the professor's role is largely as designer of activity settings for preservice teacher candidates, through…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Instructional Innovation, Preservice Teacher Education
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Jackson, Leonora; Meyer, Wilhelm; Parkinson, Jean – English for Specific Purposes, 2006
Based on a questionnaire to academic staff, this article examines the reading and writing tasks assigned to undergraduate science students at a South African university. The article finds that although academic staff in science value clearly written and well-organised writing, few see it as their task to induct students into this literacy. Instead…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Assignments, Undergraduate Students, Science Instruction