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Khoa, Le Van – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2022
Private educational institutions are established by social organizations, socio-professional organizations, economic organizations or individuals when permitted by competent state agencies. The source of investment in the construction of infrastructures and the maintenance of operating funds of private educational institutions is the non-state…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Secondary Schools, School Size
Adarkwah, Michael Agyemang; Zeyuan, Yu; Kwabena, Sarpong; Mensah-Abludo, Wisdom – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2022
Developing the confidence to teach is one of the most challenging tasks in the teaching profession. Educators have recognized that the initial years of teaching is complex and challenging. However, no study examines novice teachers' self-efficacy beliefs in teaching multiple subjects in developing countries like Ghana. Novice teachers in Ghana are…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Case Studies, Gender Differences
Keller, Rachel; Johnson, Estrella – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2019
Investigations into attrition of STEM-intending students indicate that poor experiences in introductory courses are at least partly to blame, specifically the students' frustration with lecture-driven teaching methods. In this research, hierarchical linear modeling is used to identify the individual and situational characteristics of instructors…
Descriptors: Calculus, Mathematics Instruction, Student Centered Learning, Environmental Influences
Nam, Hyunjeong – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
Concerns have long been raised regarding the constraints of CLT. The study aims to discern the exact as opposed to the supposed problems that are taken for granted as obstacles. A total of 95 in-service Korean, North American, Chinese, Uzbek English teachers participated in the study. The results reveal that none of the non-teacher-related…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Šafránková, Anna Petr; Zátopková, Klára – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2017
Education of socially disadvantaged pupils is a current issue widely discussed, especially in the context of the philosophy of inclusive education. The present article focuses on presentation of results of a research study aimed at finding out the relevance to teachers of selected determinants involved in education of socially disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Inclusion, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Kolowich, Steve – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2013
The largest-ever survey of professors who have taught MOOCs, or massive open online courses, shows that the process is time-consuming, but, according to the instructors, often successful. Nearly half of the professors felt their online courses were as rigorous academically as the versions they taught in the classroom. The survey, conducted by "The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Class Size
Kuzhabekova, Aliya – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2015
Prior research has shown that greatest student achievement in sciences is attributed to "inquiry-based instructional approach", in which the goal of science teaching is nurturing attitudes and skills necessary for independent quest for scientific knowledge. While prior research has clearly demonstrated positive instructional effects of…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Achievement
Brewe, Eric; Traxler, Adrienne; de la Garza, Jorge; Kramer, Laird H. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2013
We report on a multiyear study of student attitudes measured with the Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey in calculus-based introductory physics taught with the Modeling Instruction curriculum. We find that five of six instructors and eight of nine sections using Modeling Instruction showed significantly improved attitudes from pre-…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Introductory Courses, Physics, Modeling (Psychology)
Kikas, Eve; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Pakarinen, Eija; Poikonen, Pirjo-Liisa – Educational Psychology, 2016
This study examined the role of family-related (mother's education, depressive symptoms and child's gender) and kindergarten-related (teacher's experience, teaching practices and class size) factors in mothers' and teachers' mutual trust in Estonia and Finland. Six hundred eighteen (206 Estonian and 412 Finnish) mothers of kindergarten children…
Descriptors: Role, Family Environment, Questionnaires, Trust (Psychology)
Wisnicki, Stephanie Kraft – ProQuest LLC, 2014
When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957, it forced Americans to examine the state of science and technology at home. Almost ten years later in 1983, the A Nation at Risk Report showed that schools were still failing in many areas including technology. The No Child Left Behind Report released in the early 2000s confirmed that educational…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Technology Integration
Zheng, Xinmin; Borg, Simon – Language Teaching Research, 2014
While much has been written about task-based language teaching (TBLT), research examining teachers' understandings of what TBLT means remains limited. This article explores the understandings of TBLT of three Chinese secondary school teachers of English and the implementation of TBLT in their lessons. Narrative accounts were constructed for each…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Task Analysis, Teaching Methods
Oswalt, Sara B.; Wagner, Laurie M.; Eastman-Mueller, Heather P.; Nevers, Joleen M. – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2015
Most research on sexuality courses in US higher education was conducted in the 1980s and 1990s. Less is known about what is being taught in undergraduate sexuality courses today; this study sought to fill that gap. Reviewing content based on 161 courses (provided by 150 different instructors) from all regions of the USA, this study examined…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Undergraduate Study, Course Content, Content Analysis
Bruhwiler, Christian; Blatchford, Peter – Learning and Instruction, 2011
In many studies of class size effects, teacher characteristics are missing, even though many argue it is not class size that is important but teacher quality. In the present study teachers' effectiveness on the learning progress was assessed while teaching a unit with predefined learning objectives. To measure adaptive teaching competency a…
Descriptors: Class Size, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Competencies
Vanlaar, Gudrun; Kyriakides, Leonidas; Panayiotou, Anastasia; Vandecandelaere, Machteld; McMahon, Léan; De Fraine, Bieke; Van Damme, Jan – Research Papers in Education, 2016
Background: The dynamic model of educational effectiveness (DMEE) is a comprehensive theoretical framework including factors that are important for school learning, based on consistent findings within educational effectiveness research. Purpose: This study investigates the impact of teacher and school factors of DMEE on mathematics and science…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, High Achievement, Low Achievement
Jaakkola, Timo; Watt, Anthony – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2011
The main purpose of the study was to analyze teaching styles used in Finnish physical education. Another aim was to investigate the relationships between background characteristics of teachers and use of teaching styles. The participants of the study were 294 (185 females and 109 males) Finnish physical education teachers. The teachers responded…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Class Size, Teaching Styles, Academic Achievement