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Weller, Jacolyn – Teacher Development, 2021
Professionals make decisions, problem-solve through experience, skill and cognition, while providing a unique community service. For the government-employed professional teacher, professional associations, standards, identity and their employer contribute to professional development (PD). Meanwhile, continuous PD, or professional lifelong…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public School Teachers, Faculty Development, Public Schools
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Uner, Sinem; Akkus, Huseyin – Teacher Development, 2019
Students' perceptions are one of the sources that can be used to capture teachers' PCK. Therefore, the aim of this study was to develop a scale to determine secondary students' perceptions of their teachers' PCK. Validity and reliability studies were conducted with 659 students. Both exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Secondary School Teachers
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Loo, Sai Y. – Teacher Development, 2013
Recording technologies have been used in teaching practices. The emphasis on the quality of teachers and teaching in a recent White Paper in England and the need to optimise teaching resources due to the current global recession have prompted a re-assessment of recording technologies in pedagogic practices. In this article, the application of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Peer Evaluation, Teacher Evaluation
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Pritzker, Drora – Teacher Development, 2012
The phenomenon of "hidden stories" is presented here through an exemplary story told by a woman teacher, who revealed it for the first time in a seminar work, employing narrative analysis to examine its long-term effect on her. Through that intimate narrative and its analysis, this study seeks to understand how narrative analysis…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Personal Narratives, Teacher Education, Teaching Methods
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Murley, Lisa D.; Gandy, S. Kay; Sublett, Michael D.; Kruger, Darrell P. – Teacher Development, 2014
This article explores a two-year professional development initiative with four state geographic alliances. Professional development planners, whether planning for a large- or small-scale initiative or one with unlimited or limited funding, will benefit from learning about this successful professional development activity and how the impact in the…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Evaluation Methods, Program Evaluation, Cooperation
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Hargreaves, Eleanore; Berry, Rita; Lai, Y. C.; Leung, Pamela; Scott, David; Stobart, Gordon – Teacher Development, 2013
This paper examines teachers' experiences of autonomy as they undertook Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in the form of Teacher Learning Communities (TLCs) to develop Assessment for Learning (AfL). Participant teacher interview data were used from two parallel TLC projects, one in Hong Kong and one in London, UK. Autonomy was defined in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Faculty Development, Professional Autonomy
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Dixon, Helen; Haigh, Mavis – Teacher Development, 2009
Informed by an amalgam of notions drawn from constructivist, socio-cultural, metacognitive and self-regulation theory, the discourse created to describe assessment to enhance learning has gone through a number of iterations or discursive shifts. As a result, the current discourse is both ambitious and complex with the roles and responsibilities…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Constructivism (Learning), Self Efficacy, Formative Evaluation
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Brandom, Ann-Marie; Carmichael, Patrick; Marshall, Bethan – Teacher Development, 2005
"Learning how to Learn--in classrooms, schools and networks" is a four-year, multi-site project funded under the Economic and Social Research Council Teaching and Learning Research Programme and concerned with the development of formative assessment practice. This article describes how analysis of a large double-scale questionnaire…
Descriptors: Observation, Formative Evaluation, Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Mountford, Paula; Price, Ian – Teacher Development, 2004
This article is about a small-scale research project which investigated changing the authors' classroom practice at General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) level and how that change impacts on both teachers and students. This project emerged out of earlier classroom research funded and supported by the National Union of Teachers and…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Teacher Researchers, Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods
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Blackmore, Paul – Teacher Development, 2000
Notes the growing interest in analyzing academic expertise in British higher education, defining key terms; discussing purposes and approaches (central government, universities, academic staff, and external influences); examining difficulties in undertaking analysis (e.g., diversity and being definitive about academic activity); and discussing the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Joshua, Monday T.; Joshua, Akon M.; Bassey, Bassey A.; Akubuiro, Idorenyin M. – Teacher Development, 2006
The study investigated the general attitude of Nigerian secondary school teachers toward peer evaluation of teachers. It also sought to determine whether teacher characteristics such as gender, school geographical location, academic qualification and teaching experience affected Nigerian teachers' attitude toward peer evaluation of teachers. To…
Descriptors: Research Design, Teacher Characteristics, Peer Evaluation, Secondary School Teachers
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McLean, Monica; Bullard, Joanna E. – Teacher Development, 2000
Suggests that becoming an expert teacher and judging teaching quality are complex and situational, exploring the use of a conceptual framework for analyzing eight teaching portfolios submitted by new university teachers as an assessment and qualification requirement. The study made a case for analyzing portfolios by asking whether teachers held…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, College Faculty, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
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Cowan, Pamela; Morrison, Hugh – Teacher Development, 2001
Highlights problems associated with pen-and-paper testing, recommending a computerized adaptive testing system which measures students' abilities against the levels of the United Kingdom National Curriculum in mathematics. The current prototype of this system can be used on a school's network. Results are issued at the time of testing, and…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
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Kankaanranta, Marja – Teacher Development, 2001
Investigated Finnish kindergarten teachers' evolving information and communications technology (ICT) capabilities in the construction and use of digital web portfolios. Teacher surveys indicated that access, competence, and motivation in ICT use intertwined during diverse cycles of portfolio development. Teachers had an enormous need for formal…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education, Early Childhood Education, Educational Technology