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Christina R. Arriagada – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore how early childhood educators perceive the use of Modern Classrooms Project (MCP) in their classrooms. MCP is an instructional model that promotes blended, self-paced, and mastery-based learning with ties to constructivist teaching ideals. Data were collected using a teacher interview,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs
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Godor, Brian P. – Teacher Educator, 2021
Differentiated instruction occurs when teachers use students' level of readiness, interests, and learning preferences to adjust the content, process, or products, which increases engagement and academic performance. However, teachers cannot offer every form of differentiation to every student all the time. There exist limits of resources as well…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Individualized Instruction, Q Methodology
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Eller, Amanda L.; Polka, Walter S.; Mete, Rosina E. – Educational Research: Theory and Practice, 2019
As part of a 12-state nationwide study, elementary teachers in small-town and rural Idaho were surveyed regarding their actual use of differentiation versus their desired use of differentiation in the classroom across five teaching-learning behaviors: classroom expectations of students; student objectives; student evaluations; teacher…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Individualized Instruction, Teacher Attitudes, Expectation
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Suzanne Freedberg; Rhonda Bondie; Akane Zusho; Courtney Allison – High Ability Studies, 2019
The overall purpose of this study was to better understand how US math and science teachers perceived and supported the learning of high-ability students in inclusive, urban general education classrooms. Specifically, drawing on the literature on self-regulated learning (SRL), this study explored to what extent teachers (N = 58): (1) perceived…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Science Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Science Instruction
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Salinas, M. F. – Computers & Education, 2008
The purpose of this article is to propose a model to integrate educational mastery principles that emphasize cooperative and learner-centered instruction in higher education with the new advances of instructional technology, and to present a pilot case study to exemplify the model. It is clear that in spite of tremendous efforts by colleges and…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Models, Mastery Learning, Cooperative Learning
Sandrin, James V. – 1990
In order to assess educators' beliefs about individualization of instruction and/or mastery learning, the School Climate Assessment Learning Environments (SCALE-I) was developed. SCALE-I is an attitude-type instrument consisting of 30 positive Belief Statements. Subjects were three groups of educators from the Department of Defense Dependents…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Comparative Analysis, Dependents Schools, Elementary Secondary Education
Denemark, George, Ed.; And Others – 1981
The eight papers in this compendium were commissioned from faculty and staff members to provide a research and theoretical base for selected components of a University of Kentucky report on a teaching experience involving mainstreamed elementary school children. That experience was reported in "Perspectives of an Ivory Tower Realist," a monograph…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Crisis Intervention, Cultural Differences, Elementary Education