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Nikolaos Pellas – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Teacher professional development (TPD) programs face several challenges in fostering active participation and ensuring high-quality learning experiences compared to traditional approaches. While online TPD programs offer flexibility, concerns remain about their effectiveness in promoting high-quality content and autonomous learning. This study…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Faculty Development
Julius, Jenna; Hillary, Jude; Veruete-McKay, Leticia – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2021
To mark the ten year anniversary since the introduction of the free schools programme, New Schools Network (NSN) commissioned the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) to conduct an independent data-led investigation into what impact free schools have had since their introduction in 2010. The research examines the impact that free…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Free Schools, Nontraditional Education, Program Evaluation
Ronfeldt, Matthew – National Academy of Education, 2021
Since 2010, a substantial number of large-scale, quantitative studies on preparation features associated with teaching effectiveness and retention have emerged. The purpose of this paper is to review this body of evidence and make sense of what it suggests for practitioners and policymakers. The paper begins by describing the groundbreaking work…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Program Evaluation, Program Improvement, Student Teaching
Virginia S. Lovison – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
An increasing share of new teachers enter the profession through alternative certification programs. While these programs increase teacher supply in areas facing critical shortages, they also increase instability in local teacher labor markets via high teacher turnover. A fundamental question is what effect these programs have on student…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Faculty Mobility, Academic Achievement, Teacher Effectiveness
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Long, Julie S.; McKenzie-Robblee, Sue; Schaefer, Lee; Steeves, Pam; Wnuk, Sheri; Pinnegar, Eliza; Clandinin, D. Jean – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2012
Early career teacher attrition is a matter of economic, social, and educational concern in many countries. Usually induction programs, including mentoring, are seen to alleviate the problem of early career teacher attrition. Mentoring/induction programs as a solution to what is defined as the problem of early career teacher attrition and retention…
Descriptors: Mentors, Teacher Persistence, Faculty Mobility, Literature Reviews
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Kline, Jodie; Walker-Gibbs, Bernadette – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2015
Graduate teachers' preparedness for working in rural settings are mediated by the development of pedagogical expertise, professional engagement with parents and the community, and broader notions of preparation to teach in rural contexts. The Studying the Effectiveness of Teacher Education (SETE) project is a four-year longitudinal study tracking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, Teacher Education Programs, Graduate Students
Herrera, Angelica Ware – Online Submission, 2009
This report summarizes survey results from 112 newly hired AISD bilingual education elementary-level teachers who attended the August 2009 New Bilingual Teacher Institute.
Descriptors: School Districts, Bilingual Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Marzano, Robert J.; Haystead, Mark W. – Marzano Research Laboratory, 2009
During the 2009-2010 school year, Marzano Research Laboratory (MRL) was commissioned by Promethean Ltd. to conduct a second year evaluation study of the effects of Promethean ActivClassroom on student academic achievement. This report describes the findings from the second year study along with aggregate findings from the first and second year…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students
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Gelade, Susan – History of Education, 1999
Focuses on the "E Course," a teacher recruitment and training program from Australia's colonial education delivery in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Discusses the context of post-war education in PNG. Explores the E Course program addressing issues such as the experience of E course teachers and the syllabus. (CMK)
Descriptors: Curriculum, Educational History, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Adams, Ronald D. – 1979
A report is made on a teacher preparation evaluation program that consisted of a systematic follow-up of teachers both while in the undergraduate programs and after they entered the profession. The data provided covers a period of more than seven years. Changes in teacher behavior as experience is gained are examined, and additional findings about…
Descriptors: Attrition (Research Studies), Behavior Change, Career Change, Enrollment Trends
Helge, Swen; Pierce-Jones, John – 1968
One hundred and forty-five Head Start teachers, from lower-middle class families, attended a workshop in 1965 before working in the Head Start program. During the workshop and again in 1967 they filled out autobiographical and experience forms. The forms were used to test three hypotheses regarding differences associated with differential teaching…
Descriptors: Biographical Inventories, Cultural Awareness, Disadvantaged, Identification (Psychology)
Cooperstein, Rhonda Ann – 1981
In examining the relationship between teaching experience and concerns of teachers, it has been generally assumed that the experienced teacher will be less concerned about self and more concerned about student achievement than the teaching intern. The Teacher Concerns Checklist and the Teaching Anxiety Scale submitted to Teacher Corps personnel…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anxiety, Inservice Teacher Education, Internship Programs
Queensland Board of Teacher Education, Toowong (Australia). – 1981
The first section of this monograph contains a report on a research study that investigated the induction of beginning teachers in Queensland, Australia. The first phase of the study collected the opinions of educational associations and organizations with respect to the responsibility of the profession for the induction of beginning teachers. In…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Education Work Relationship, Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries
Springer, Matthew G.; Podgursky, Michael J.; Lewis, Jessica L.; Ehlert, Mark W.; Gardner, Catherine G.; Ghoshdastidar, Bonnie; Lopez, Omar S.; Patterson, Christine H.; Taylor, Lori L. – National Center on Performance Incentives, 2007
This report presents findings stemming from the first-year evaluation of the Governor's Educator Excellence Grant (GEEG) program, one of several statewide performance incentive programs in Texas. In the fall of 2006, the GEEG program made available non-competitive, three-year grants to 99 schools ranging from $60,000 to $220,000 per year. Grants…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Educational Change, Economically Disadvantaged, Research Reports
Mayfield, Margie I.; And Others – 1981
The procedures, results, and recommendations of the 1980-81 British Columbia Kindergarten Needs Assessment, the first province-wide kindergarten survey to investigate all aspects of the kindergarten program, are presented in this general report. Kindergarten teachers, district administrators and supervisors of licensed preschools, and a sample of…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Admission (School), Class Organization, Classroom Environment
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