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Janesick, Valerie J. – 1998
This paper describes and explains how journal writing may be used as a qualitative research technique in long-term qualitative studies. Journal writing has a long and reliable history in the arts and humanities, and it provides qualitative researchers with a powerful heuristic tool. The notion of a comprehensive reflective journal to address the…
Descriptors: Journal Writing, Personal Narratives, Qualitative Research, Research Methodology
Buell, Cindy – 1989
A case study examined the internship program in the communication major at Wesleyan College (Georgia), employing informal methods of student evaluation. Faculty sponsor/student discussions, journal entries, and phone calls to supervisors achieved an objective measurement of interns' progress and added an important dimension to the formal methods…
Descriptors: Faculty Advisers, Higher Education, Informal Assessment, Internship Programs
Peters, William H. – 1998
Using Alice's experience in "Through the Looking Glass" as inspiration, this paper recounts how preservice teachers journey through their field-based experiences and gain increasing insights into the teaching profession. The paper illustrates their progression with notes from several reflective logs which will eventually become papers…
Descriptors: Field Experience Programs, High Schools, Higher Education, Methods Courses
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Carter, Charles W. – 1997
The purpose of this research with teacher education students was to explore the value of writing reflective journals. Data came from interviews, surveys, and informal conversations with students in an educational psychology course. The students were first asked if writing the journals helped them to reflect on their established beliefs, then…
Descriptors: Education Courses, Education Majors, Educational Psychology, Elementary Secondary Education
Murphy, Maureen; Singer, Alan – 1996
The Cross Island Parkway divides the New York City borough of Queens from suburban Nassau County. Surveillance patrols in several Nassau communities observe families who are suspected of living in Queens and illegally registering their children in Nassau schools. This report describes a preservice, urban teaching program at Hofstra University, a…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Higher Education, Minority Groups, Preservice Teacher Education
Richardson, Dianne; Boutwell, Lydia – 1993
This study evaluated journals of the classroom experiences of 35 student teachers at Mississippi State University--Meridian Campus, employing both quantitative and qualitative aspects. The journals were assigned as a means of gaining a perspective of the student teachers' planning and implementation of lessons, their approach to discipline, their…
Descriptors: Conceptual Tempo, Discipline, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Shull, Ellen – 1998
When she began teaching, one instructor thought everything had to come from her. It took a couple of years before she understood that what students themselves bring to the experience is instrumental--even vital--in helping them connect with what happens in the classroom. In their freshman composition journals, students produced writing based on…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Course Descriptions, Freshman Composition, Higher Education
Loughran, John – 1995
This paper was designed to explore how the modeling of reflection by a teacher educator influences the development of preservice teachers' thinking and learning about teaching, and their subsequent reflective processes. The research was initiated to help student teachers develop an approach to teaching that might allow them to take more control of…
Descriptors: Education Courses, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Shen, Jianping – 1995
This paper describes a student teacher's experience in a school-university partnership and investigates the converging influences of the school and the university on the student teacher. The study examined the experience of a student teacher in the Puget Sound Professional Development Center Middle School Preservice Teacher Education Program, a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College School Cooperation, Cooperating Teachers, Field Experience Programs
Fraenkel, Jack R. – 1995
This research study: (1) looks at what happens in social studies classrooms; and (2) attempts to determine the characteristics and behaviors of effective teachers. To collect data, the researcher observed several high school (grades 9-12) social studies classes since the fall semester of 1991 in the San Francisco (California) Bay Area for 3 months…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Foreign Countries, High School Students