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Kearney, Sean – Issues in Educational Research, 2017
Beginning teacher induction is becoming an increasingly popular process in acculturating teachers to their new careers. The problems that teachers face early in their careers are well known, and effective and ongoing induction is one of the foremost practices for alleviating the pressures that teachers face early in their careers. While induction…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Secondary School Teachers, Best Practices, Case Studies
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Maakrun, Julie; Maher, Marguerite – Issues in Educational Research, 2016
Yunkaporta's (2009) pedagogical "eight ways" conceptual framework, inspired by Nakata's (2007) cultural interface theory, provided the platform for interpretation of the data in the current study. Here we considered the transferability of the framework to a current initiative in Kenya and its usefulness in preparation for an expansion of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Transfer, Outcomes of Education, Indigenous Populations
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Gutierez, Sally Baricaua – Issues in Educational Research, 2015
In the Philippines, inquiry-based teaching has been promoted and implemented together with recently instigated curriculum reforms. Serious teacher professional development efforts are being used extensively to properly orient and present the benefits of inquirybased teaching. Despite these efforts, there still exists a big gap in the effective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Collaboration, Teacher Improvement, Inquiry
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Hine, Gregory S. C.; Lavery, Shane D. – Issues in Educational Research, 2014
This research paper explores the experiences of three teacher-researchers, "Simone", "Damian" and "Michael", who undertook an action research project in their respective schools as part of their postgraduate studies. The paper initially outlines the construct of action research in the light of its applicability to…
Descriptors: Action Research, Educational Research, Teacher Researchers, Case Studies
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Main, Susan; O'Rourke, John; Morris, Julia; Dunjey, Helen – Issues in Educational Research, 2016
The way in which technologies support students with disability has been widely explored in recent times. Much of this research has focused on computer programs specifically designed to teach social and academic skills to students with disability. In the research reported in this paper we examined how students with disability could use technology…
Descriptors: Video Games, Educational Technology, Disabilities, Technology Uses in Education
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Alterator, Scott; Deed, Craig – Issues in Educational Research, 2013
The "open classroom" emerged as a reaction against the industrial-era enclosed and authoritarian classroom. Although contemporary school architecture continues to incorporate and express ideas of openness, more research is needed about how teachers adapt to new and different built contexts. Our purpose is to identify teacher reaction to…
Descriptors: Open Plan Schools, Teacher Response, Teacher Attitudes, Case Studies
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Yap, Siew Fong – Issues in Educational Research, 2014
The realisation to integrate science, ethics and morality is recognised with growing impetus in recent years (as noted with introducing the Australian Curriculum "Science as a Human Endeavour" strand), to develop sophisticated epistemologies of science, which includes an appreciation of the social context including ethical thinking. To…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Values, Ethics, Moral Values
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Harrison, Sue; Prain, Vaughan – Issues in Educational Research, 2009
There is continuing interest in identifying factors that influence learning in the middle years. This paper reports a case study that aimed to identify key factors that influenced Year 8 students' self-regulation of learning in English in an Australian regional secondary school with a low socio-economic profile. This study focuses on both…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Learning Strategies, Student Motivation, Learning Processes
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Morcom, Veronica; Cumming-Potvin, Wendy – Issues in Educational Research, 2010
This paper is based on a year long research project that examined changes in participation of 31 students in a Year 4/5 classroom, where bullying was occurring. The teacher (first author and researcher) facilitated authentic learning opportunities to make the social practices explicit during weekly class meetings. A socio cultural perspective and…
Descriptors: Bullying, Action Research, Interviews, Values Education
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Tan, Kym; Dawson, Vaille; Venville, Grady – Issues in Educational Research, 2008
This research investigates the use of cognitive organisers as a self-regulated learning strategy by gifted and talented science students in a Year 9 class at a metropolitan high school in Perth, Western Australia. The case study research design incorporates three primary methods of data collection including participant observation in classrooms,…
Descriptors: Research Design, Participant Observation, Learning Strategies, Foreign Countries