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Download full textBoulden, Danielle Cadieux; Pellegrino, Lauren; Gerakios, Joanna – School Library Research, 2019
The school librarian has a critical role to play in the 21st-century school learning environment. However, because of the constant changes in K-12 school environments and the difficult decisions administrators must make about allocating money to best help students, school librarians must rigorously document their professional growth and impact.…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Librarians, Professional Development, Action Research
Direct linkvan Schalkwyk, Susan; Cilliers, Francois; Adendorff, Hanelie; Cattell, Karin; Herman, Nicoline – International Journal for Academic Development, 2013
This article foregrounds the iterative journey of a group of educational development (ED) practitioners at a research-led university towards an enhanced understanding of the ED opportunities we offer. Reflecting on the intention of our interventions to facilitate academics' professional learning, we developed a framework within which the range of…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Professional Development, Intervention, Foreign Countries
DeChenne, Sue Ellen; Lesseig, Kristin; Anderson, Shawn M.; Li, Sissi L.; Staus, Nancy L.; Barthel, Celeste – Journal of Effective Teaching, 2012
This study describes the development and validation of an instrument to measure graduate teaching assistants' (GTAs) learning about teaching during professional development. In the pilot study, exploratory factor analysis of data from 239 graduate students indicates a single factor structure. The second study, involving 177 science, technology,…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Teaching Assistants, Professional Development, Pilot Projects
Ashour, Rateb; Khasawneh, Samer; Abu-Alruz, Jamal; Alsharqawi, Subhi – Teacher Development, 2012
The primary purpose of this study was to determine the curriculum orientations of pre-service teachers at a university in Jordan. Rigorous translation procedures were utilized to validate an Arabic version of the Curriculum Orientation Inventory (COI) for use in Jordan. The validated COI was administered to a sample of 259 pre-service teachers who…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Foreign Countries
Nistor, Nicolae; Baltes, Beate; Schustek, Monika – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2012
Purpose: Online programs rely on the use of educational technology for knowledge sharing in academic virtual communities of practice (vCoPs). This poses the question as to which factors influence technology acceptance. Previous research has investigated the inter-relationship between educational technology acceptance (ETA) and the vCoP context…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Intention, Educational Technology, Knowledge Management
Tang, Sylvia Yee Fan – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2008
This paper presents a study that shows the use of professional standards in field experience assessment in initial teacher education. A Professional Development Progress Map was developed in field experience assessment in a teacher education institution in Hong Kong. The study enriches our understanding of the holistic nature of assessing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Field Experience Programs, Academic Standards, Student Evaluation
Kong, Siu Cheung – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2007
An information literacy (IL) framework has been proposed for Hong Kong students to adapt to the emergence of the knowledge-based society, digital culture and globalisation. The aims of the study reported herein were to validate the proposed IL model and collect the views of practitioners and representative stakeholders on the possibility of its…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Foreign Countries, Information Literacy, Professional Development
Peer reviewedFurman, Gail Chase – Urban Education, 1987
Educators recognize the importance of staff development but funding such programs can be problematic. Securing school district commitment for professional growth opportunities depends on the following factors: (1) does the program address a recognized need? (2) is the program acceptable and comfortable? and (3) is it the right time to propose the…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Opportunities, Financial Support, Inservice Education
Hering, William M. – 1983
Sixteen teaching centers, active in the Teachers' Centers Exchange, were interviewed once a week for 10 weeks to examine to what degree communication occurred between network participants without passing through the filter of the Teachers' Centers Exchange staff. Also investigated was the degree to which individuals interact because they have…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Helping Relationship
