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Lewis, Steven – Journal of Education Policy, 2017
This paper explores Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) for Schools, a local variant of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD's) influential PISA that not only assesses an individual school's performance in reading, mathematics and science against international schooling systems, but also promotes 17…
Descriptors: Governance, School Administration, Educational History, Achievement Tests
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Starling, Tina; Trocki, Aaron; Sztajn, Paola – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2013
The authors present an analysis of facilitation across three cohorts of a phase-two professional development project. Four types of discourse are introduced and defined (correcting, eliciting, probing, and responsive). The analysis attends to implementation fidelity and facilitator moves in light of these four types of discourse. Conjectures about…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Discourse Analysis, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Teachers
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Janssen, Marleen J.; Riksen-Walraven, J. Marianne; van Dijk, Jan P. M.; Ruijssenaars, Wied A. J. J. M. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2010
This article describes the application of the Diagnostic Intervention Model and its effects in two case studies of 3-year-old boys, Rolf and Ruud, using individual interaction coaching with their mothers. Positive effects were found for all the target categories in both cases, although an interaction that used materials appeared to be more…
Descriptors: Intervention, Mothers, Diagnostic Teaching, Case Studies
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Hall, Tina J.; Heidorn, Brent; Welch, Mindy – Physical Educator, 2011
A teacher's ability to present clear and appropriate movement tasks is strongly related to student learning. The purpose of this study was to describe the ability of preservice teachers to demonstrate task presentation skills following an introductory course in the basics of effective instruction. The task presentations of 15 preservice teachers…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Physical Education, Introductory Courses, Dance Education
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Hou, Huei-Tse; Chang, Kuo-En; Sung, Yao-Ting – Interactive Learning Environments, 2009
The coming era of Web 2.0 focuses on users' active online participation and interaction. Among such interactive media, the blog is one representative tool of online knowledge construction. The purpose of this study is to explore the behavioral patterns and the depth of knowledge construction when using blogs for teachers' professional development.…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Interaction, Content Analysis, Professional Development
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Calderón Pachón, Jennifer Paola; Jiménez Vargas, Milena Patricia – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2009
Seeking the best pedagogical practices for bilingual higher education and guided by the principles of the sheltered instruction observation protocol (SIOP), we describe a sub-study of the Sheltered Instruction Research Project (SIRP) which deals with how professors at ÚNICA college in Bogotá, Colombia implement one of the components of the model:…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Bilingual Education, Teaching Methods, Teaching Models