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Experimental Impacts of Learning Trajectory-Oriented Formative Assessment on Student Problem-Solving Accuracy and Strategy Sophistication
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Supovitz, Jonathan A.; Ebby, Caroline B.; Remillard, Janine T.; Nathenson, Robert – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2021
In this article, we use a two-dimensional assessment to examine the experimental impacts of a mathematics learning trajectory-oriented formative assessment program on student strategies for problems involving multiplication and division. Working from the theory that the development of students' multiplicative reasoning involves improvements in…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Problem Solving, Mathematics Instruction, Formative Evaluation
Instructional Leadership for a 21st Century Learning Initiative: How Principals and Teacher Leaders Facilitate Organizational Learning
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Mitchell, Meredith – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This thesis describes how principals and teacher leaders facilitate organizational learning while implementing a 21st century learning initiative through instructional leadership practices. The inclusion of 21st century learning skillsets and initiatives in the classroom stems from educational research that recognizes that students need to be…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Principals, Teacher Leadership, Organizational Communication
Collaborative Learning Processes in the Context of a Public Health Professional Development Program: A Case Study
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Tremblay, Marie-Claude; Richard, Lucie; Brousselle, Astrid; Chiocchio, François; Beaudet, Nicole – Studies in Continuing Education, 2017
The health promotion laboratory (HPL-Canada) is a public health professional development program building on a collaborative learning approach in order to support long-term practice change in local health services teams. This study aims to analyse the collaborative learning processes of two teams involved in the program during the first year of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Health, Professional Development, Cooperative Learning
The Role of New Technologies in Competence Teaching in Higher Education: The Case of Accounting
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Del Mar Marin Sanchez, Ma; Ronco, Alicia Mateos – Online Submission, 2010
The Spanish educational system will require certain changes in order to achieve the Bologna objectives for the European Higher Education Area, including a more professional profile, with new activities and roles for both students and teachers, who must assume new skills that will affect concepts and attitudes related to the teaching and learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Problem Based Learning, Active Learning, Learning Processes
Deepening Community-Based Learning through Collaboration and Assessment
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Strait, Jean R. – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2008
What causes students to leave school? According to Azzam (2007), over 47% of students in the United States who drop out of school reported they did so because school was boring and irrelevant to their life situation. What can schools and teachers do to encourage students to stay in school? One possible solution may be to look at experiential…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Learning Processes, Public Speaking, Skill Development
The Development of Thinking and Reasoning Skills in Young Children.
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Newman, Murray A. – 1977
Evaluation results are reported for the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory's Thinking and Reasoning Program, designed to develop analytic thinking and problem-solving skills in young children in multicultural classroom settings. Results are based on a pilot test of the program conducted during the 1974-75 school year. Mastery activities,…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Classroom Research, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development