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O'Grady, Audrey; Simmie, Geraldine Mooney; Kennedy, Therese – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
This article explores pre-service and in-service science teachers' perceptions on active learning, and examines the effectiveness of active learning by pre-service science teachers in the Irish second level classroom through a two-phase study. In the first phase, data on perceptions were gathered from final year pre-service teachers and in-service…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Instructional Effectiveness
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Meyer, Josef – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1989
A study of the effectiveness of teaching science to 2 classes of 15 and 20 ninth-graders, respectively, illustrates 5 aspects of educational evaluation: age factors in teachability, test unidimensionality, comparison of 2 classes of students regarding mean ability, objective difficulty of test items, and objective ability of individual students.…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Comparative Testing, Difficulty Level, Educational Assessment