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Husebø, Dag; Johannessen, Øystein Lund; Skeie, Geir – British Journal of Religious Education, 2023
For more than a decade, the authors have engaged in several collaborative action research projects in established communities of practice, generating new knowledge and promoting practice development in religious education (RE) in schools and higher education. Based on this, this article asks what characterised the collaborative processes, and how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Action Research, Religious Education, Communities of Practice
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Cope, Ed; Cushion, Christopher J.; Harvey, Stephen; Partington, Mark – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2021
Background: Coach education discourse has largely suppressed learners' involvement in learning. To address this, there have been calls for more humanistic approaches to form the basis of formal learning programmes. However, there remains a paucity of research that has investigated what works and why when it comes to the impact of these programmes.…
Descriptors: Humanism, Athletic Coaches, Program Effectiveness, Recreational Activities
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Amin, Mohd Zaki Mohd; Rashid, Radzuwan Ab; Teh, Kamarul Shukri Mat – International Journal of Education and Practice, 2019
In teacher education, action research has served as one of the tools for reflective practice to bridge the gap between the educational theories learned in the teacher training college and the actual pedagogical practice within the four walls of the classroom. In this descriptive and explorative research study, first the concept and characteristics…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs, Action Research, Reflective Teaching
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Meadows, Ken N.; Olsen, Karyn C.; Dimitrov, Nanda; Dawson, Debra L. – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2015
In this study, we compared the effects of a traditional teaching assistant (TA) training program to those of a specialized program, with a substantial intercultural component, for international graduate students. We expected both programs to result in an increase in international graduate students' teaching self-efficacy, observed teaching…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Graduate Students, Foreign Students, Training
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Ewing, Bronwyn – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Success in primary and secondary school mathematics is becoming increasingly important to today's teachers, students, parents and employment providers in Australia. Mathematics is viewed as high status and essential for a range of employment opportunities. The Disability Standards for Education [1] and the Australian Curriculum, Reporting and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Intervention, Mathematics Achievement, Disabilities
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Giraldo, Frank – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2014
This article reports the findings of an action research study on a professional development program and its impact on the classroom performance of in-service English teachers who worked at a language institute of a Colombian state university. Questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, class observations, and a researcher's journal were used as…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Semi Structured Interviews, Observation
Coughlan, Margaret – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS, 2010) as the latest initiative in the ongoing effort of educational reform in the United States reinforces the need to build the capacity of teachers as leaders and change agents. As such, graduate teacher leadership programs function to support and develop teacher leadership praxis. Although studies of…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Theory Practice Relationship, Common Core State Standards, Educational Change
Hiscano, Lisa Raudelunas – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Workforce development programs provide training and education to welfare recipients to prepare them to obtain and retain employment in their communities. Federal, state, and local investments are made to develop and implement programs. But, do these programs have relationships with local employers to obtain their input to provide the education and…
Descriptors: Employment, Action Research, Team Training, Program Effectiveness
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Trauth-Nare, Amy; Buck, Gayle – Educational Action Research, 2011
Our purpose was to investigate the efficacy of using reflective practice to guide our action research study of incorporating formative assessment into middle school science teaching and learning. Using participatory action research, we worked collaboratively to incorporate formative assessment into two instructional units, and then engaged in…
Descriptors: Instructional Development, Action Research, Formative Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
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Feldman, Allan; Weiss, Tarin – Educational Action Research, 2010
Despite major efforts to change teachers' practice through professional development activities, much remains as it always was. Our claim is that this rarely happens because significant change in how one teaches can only come about as a result of some realization about oneself as a teacher, and the resulting changes in identity. In recent years we…
Descriptors: Action Research, Partnerships in Education, Context Effect, Educational Change
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Kenny, John – International Journal of Science Education, 2010
This paper reports on the effectiveness of a professional partnership approach to preparing pre-service primary teachers to teach science. The study involved final year BEd pre-service primary teachers at the University of Tasmania, each working in the class of a volunteer colleague teacher. The programme provided an authentic science teaching…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Teaching Experience, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Teachers
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Glanz, Jeffrey – NASSP Bulletin, 2005
Supervision based on collaboration, participative decision making, and reflective practice is the hallmark of a viable school improvement program that is designed to promote teaching and learning. Action research has gradually emerged as an important form of instructional supervision to engage teachers in reflective practice about their teaching…
Descriptors: Action Research, School Supervision, Case Studies, Program Effectiveness
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Harrison, Jennifer; Lawson, Tony; Wortley, Angela – Journal of In-service Education, 2005
The focus of this article is a participatory action research project funded for 2 years by the Esme Fairbairn Foundation on the Professional Development of Subject Induction Tutors working with newly qualified teachers (NQTs) in secondary schools in three local education authorities in the East Midlands. A crucial part of the Project was three…
Descriptors: Intervention, Action Research, Program Effectiveness, Tutors
Scarborough, Jule Dee – Online Submission, 2007
This Northern Illinois University College of Engineering and Engineering Technology (CEET) initiative represents the authors' first attempt to prepare engineering and technology professors for teaching to improve student learning and the Scholarship of Teaching. This college portfolio is nontraditional in that it combines a learning paper approach…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Program Effectiveness, Worksheets, Teaching Models
Alliance, an Association for Alternative Degree Programs. – 1991
Workshops and presentations in this volume are as follows: "Learning the Language of Learning" (Firestone); "Self-Study Examination Program of Higher Education for Adults in China" (Wang, Smith); "Using the Principles and Process of Adult Learning to Develop an Award Level Program for the Education of Adult Educators: An…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Action Research, Adult Education, Adult Learning
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