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Chen, Junjun; Brown, Gavin T. L. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2016
This study surveyed 1064 Chinese school teachers' approaches to teaching and conceptions of assessment, and examined their inter-relationship using confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling. Three approaches to teaching (i.e. Knowledge Transmission, Student-Focused, and Examination Preparation) and six conceptions of assessment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Improvement, Accountability, Factor Analysis
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Knowles, Ryan T. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2018
This quantitative study uses survey data to test connections between 735 teachers' civic education ideology (CivID) and their self-reported instructional practices. Analysis demonstrates teachers' beliefs in relation to conservative, liberal, and critical civic education ideology as well as preference for instructional strategies, such as…
Descriptors: Civics, Citizenship Education, Teacher Attitudes, Ideology
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Haris, Zarin Daneshvar; Saidabadi, Reza Yousefi; Niazazari, Kiumars – International Education Studies, 2016
Purpose: the present study aimed to investigate the effect of perceived spiritual leadership on envy management of faculty members of Islamic Azad Universities of East Azerbaijan province through the role of professional development mediation and job satisfaction. Methodology: this study was a descriptive and correlational study that was conducted…
Descriptors: Spiritual Development, Faculty Development, College Faculty, Foreign Countries
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Adamakis, Manolis; Zounhia, Katerina – European Physical Education Review, 2016
Most national Physical Education (PE) curriculums worldwide are based on a variety of outcome goals. The most important are physical activity and fitness, self-actualization, motor skill development and social development. Capturing PE Teacher Education pre-service teachers' beliefs toward these outcomes may offer a useful insight into the process…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Case Studies
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Chen, Junjun; Brown, Gavin T. L. – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2013
How prospective teachers conceive of teaching excellence and assessment purposes probably influences how teaching and assessment practices are implemented in the future. This study evaluated, in four "normal universities" in the People's Republic of China, 765 prospective teachers' responses to two self-report instruments regarding the…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, High Stakes Tests, Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers
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Chen, Y. L. – Computers & Education, 2008
The purpose of the study is to build a model that predicts the level of Internet use by teachers of English as a foreign language in the northern Taiwanese higher education institutions. It examines interactional relationships among variables associated with barriers and issues of technology application as a means of analyzing the extent and the…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Structural Equation Models, Educational Technology, Internet