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Marchant, Jorge; González, Carlos; Fauré, Jaime – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2018
In this paper, we analyse the impact of teacher participation in a University Teaching Diploma on student approaches to studying and learning experience. A quasi-experimental and multilevel design was employed. University teachers answered the Approaches to Teaching Inventory and students completed the Course Experience Questionnaire and the Study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Faculty Development, Program Effectiveness
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Ruprecht, Karen; Elicker, James; Choi, Ji Young – Early Education and Development, 2016
Research Findings: Continuity of care is a recommended practice in child care intended to promote secure and supportive relationships between infants and toddlers and their caregivers. Toddlers (N = 115) between 12 and 24 months were observed in 30 continuity and 29 noncontinuity classrooms. The average duration of care for toddlers with…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Behavior Problems, Infants, Toddlers
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White, Mark W.; Houchins, David E.; Viel-Ruma, Kimberly A.; Dever, Bridget V. – Education and Treatment of Children, 2014
This study investigated the effects of the "Expressive Writing (EW)" direct instruction curriculum on the expository writing skills of secondary grade students with serious emotional and behavioral disabilities (EBD). The "EW" program targets writing mechanics, sentence writing, and editing but does not include pre-writing…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Writing Instruction, Direct Instruction, Writing Skills
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de Kock, Willem D.; Harskamp, Egbert G. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2014
Teachers in primary education experience difficulties in teaching word problem solving in their mathematics classes. However, during controlled experiments with a metacognitive computer programme, students' problem-solving skills improved. Also without the supervision of researchers, metacognitive computer programmes can be beneficial in a natural…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Metacognition, Problem Solving, Word Problems (Mathematics)