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Direct linkFitzgerald, Jessica M. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This action research study was designed to elicit urban, secondary school teachers' understandings of themselves as adult learners and their perceptions of job-embedded professional development in a single, urban school district in Connecticut. The conceptual framework that guided this study was derived from Knowles, Holton, and Swanson's (2011)…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Secondary School Students, Adult Learning, Self Concept
Hutchison, Randolph E. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The dynamic act of knowledge transfer, or the connection of a student's prior knowledge to features of a new problem, could be considered one of the primary goals of education. Yet studies highlight more instances of failure than success. This dissertation focuses on how knowledge transfer takes place during individual problem solving, in…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Teaching Methods, Biomechanics, Problem Solving
Nunnally, Gary S. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Research literature is full of research-based instructional strategies that highly effective teachers utilize on a consistent and systematic basis. And, it is well known that in multiple fields there exists a gap between what people know and what they actually do, commonly referred to as the knowing-doing gap. This study sought to examine whether…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Teacher Effectiveness, Secondary School Teachers, Educational Strategies
Sultana, Farzana – ProQuest LLC, 2010
A taxonomy of learning objectives generally refers to a schema to classify the levels of learning. In 1956, Benjamin Bloom, with a group of educational psychologists, created a taxonomy for classifying educational objectives using six major categories of thinking skills: (a) knowledge (recalling information), (b) comprehension, (understanding the…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Program Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Instructional Design
The Impact of Teachers' Characteristics and Self-Reported Practices on Students' Algebra Achievement
Cope, Liza M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study examined the impact of teachers' characteristics and self-reported practices on students' Algebra achievement while controlling for students' characteristics. This study is based on the secondary analysis of data collected from a nationally representative sample of 9 th grade students and their mathematics teachers during…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Educational Practices, Measurement Techniques, Algebra
Yung, Hsin I. – ProQuest LLC, 2008
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of an animated agent that provides instructional scaffolding strategies via a story mnemonic or cuing question with feedback versus instructional scaffolding strategies alone on student achievement of different educational objectives in multimedia learning. Specifically, the study investigated…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Academic Achievement, Educational Strategies, Prompting
