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Tracy L. Durksen; Lynn Sheridan; Sharon Tindall-Ford – Educational Studies, 2024
Teacher education programmes struggle to attract, develop, and retain potential teachers in Science and Mathematics. The development of both academic and non-academic attributes (e.g. adaptability, empathy) during a programme can influence not only retention but the profession-readiness of graduates. This is especially important in underserved…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Student Motivation
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Young, Kirsty – Education 3-13, 2008
This paper reports on a study that used verbal protocols to uncover the cognitive strategies of children from Sydney, Australia, aged 8- to 9-years-old, when they were engaged in a range of word sorting and editing activities. The children's cognitive strategies have been analysed in terms of a developmental stage theory of spelling. The findings…
Descriptors: Spelling, Protocol Analysis, Foreign Countries, Developmental Stages
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Cooksey, Ray W.; Freebody, Peter; Wyatt-Smith, Claire – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2007
In this paper, we analyse teachers' judgments of students' written texts. We document how teachers use evidence in ways that depend both on their knowledge of the students and on the assessment framework they need to use. We analyse teachers' judgments by contrasting the structures of assessments made using teachers' normal classroom judgment…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Validity, Teacher Attitudes, Student Writing Models
Winser, Bill – Australian Journal of Reading, 1988
Examines the strategies readers engage in by analyzing their self reporting responses during and after reading a passage. Argues that teachers should instruct children to be aware of the nature and effectiveness of their own reading strategies. (RAE)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education