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Merchie, Emmelien; Tuytens, Melissa; Devos, Geert; Vanderlinde, Ruben – Research Papers in Education, 2018
Evaluating teachers' professional development initiatives (PDI) is one of the main challenges for the teacher professionalisation field. Although different studies have focused on the effectiveness of PDI, the obtained effects and evaluative methods have been found to be widely divergent. By means of a narrative review, this study provides an…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Faculty Development, Teacher Education Programs
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Cheung, Alan; Slavin, Robert E.; Lake, Cynthia; Kim, Elizabeth – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
Despite widespread recognition among policy makers, educational leaders, and the nation as a whole of the importance of science, engineering, and technology as drivers of the future of the country and society, the science achievement of America's students is mediocre at best, in comparison to that of international peers. On the 2012 PISA tests in…
Descriptors: Secondary School Science, Science Programs, Middle School Students, High School Students
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Avalos, Beatrice – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2011
A review of publications in "Teaching and Teacher Education" over ten years (2000-2010) on teacher professional development is the subject of the paper. The first part synthesises production referred to learning, facilitation and collaboration, factors influencing professional development, effectiveness of professional development and issues…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Faculty Development, Literature Reviews, Synthesis