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Martha Parinussa Flynn – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This qualitative research examined Adult Education teachers' understanding of the role of formative assessment that will improve their instruction, and the strategies and techniques teaching English as a second Language. The researcher employed a Teacher Learning Community (TLC) model that focused on conversations involving all participants and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Knowledge Level, Formative Evaluation
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Heritage, Margaret – Educational Assessment, 2020
This concluding essay offers a reflection on the set of the papers contained in this special issue of the Educational Assessment journal. In it the author situates formative assessment squarely in the realm of teachers' continuous professional learning and considers the essential nature of formative assessment as centering on three questions that…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Professional Continuing Education, Faculty Development, Educational Objectives
Yazmene Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This qualitative, plausibility probe case study was conducted to determine if adjunct faculty teaching in humanities courses use effective teaching and learning styles in tertiary classrooms. The researcher specifically sought to find rich data on formative assessments and the teaching and learning theory andragogy. To ascertain this data the…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Andragogy, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
Lori Yakawiak – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Formative assessment may assist teachers in identifying gaps in learning for individual students, thereby providing an avenue for teachers to adjust instruction accordingly. The problem addressed in this study is the insufficient achievement in literacy for English language learners. English language learners may have an even greater need for…
Descriptors: Adult Education, English (Second Language), Comparative Analysis, Formative Evaluation
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Hennessey, Megan J. – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2017
Throughout continuing education focusing on the adult learner, standardized and sometimes even effective measures of instructor performance have remained elusive. As Smith (2012) stated, "Teaching practice cannot be measured according to lists of competencies or techniques, it cannot be safeguarded by a collection of prescriptions for good…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Best Practices, Faculty Development, Teaching Methods
Jennifer Coyne Dalzell – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The US Census Bureau estimates large numbers of adult English Language Learners (ELLs) in the US, of which only a fraction is enrolled in Adult English for Speakers of Other Languages programs. Many of these learners are emergent readers in their first language (L1) making the development of literacy in a target language challenging, yet high…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Adult Students, English Language Learners, Emergent Literacy
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Jones, Janice E., Ed.; Baran, Mette L., Ed.; Cosgrove, Preston B., Ed. – IGI Global, 2019
The definition of education and learning has been changing in recent years, as the field experienced, and is still experiencing, many changes. One of those changes is a rise in adult learners in higher education. In order to cope with this particular change and set their classrooms up for success, it is vital for educators to be aware of and…
Descriptors: Outcome Based Education, Adult Learning, Higher Education, Nontraditional Students
Saunders, Carmen Teresa – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Professional development courses that focus on increasing knowledge and improving skill sets are an integral part of a medical imager's career. This study was a qualitative formative evaluation with purposeful sampling of participants in a professional development webinar course offered to medical imaging professionals in 35 Latin American and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Medical Education, Diagnostic Tests
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Baleghizadeh, Sasan; Masoun, Atieh – TESL Canada Journal, 2013
This study investigated the continuous influence of self-assessment on EFL (English as a foreign language) learners' self-efficacy. The participants, divided into an experimental and a control group, were 57 Iranian EFL learners in an English-language institute. The participants' self-efficacy was measured through a questionnaire that was the same…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Cartwright, Tina Johnson – School Science and Mathematics, 2012
The purpose of this study was to assess the impact a community-based service learning program might have on preservice teachers' science instruction during student teaching. Designed to promote science inquiry, preservice teachers learned how to offer students more opportunities to develop their own ways of thinking through utilization of an…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, High Stakes Tests, Teaching Methods, Student Teaching
Hannafin, Michael J.; Shepherd, Craig E.; Polly, Drew – Educational Technology, 2010
Digital video is used to capture and assess a wide range of everyday classroom teaching practices. Generally, these applications are informal in nature and considered either risk-free or risk-neutral by teachers. Increasingly, however, captured video can be scrutinized and assessed by "others" to determine the presence and/or quality of specific…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Practices, Evaluation Problems, Instructional Effectiveness
VanderLaan, Ski R. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This mixed methods study (Creswell, 2008) was designed to test the influence of collaborative testing on learning using a quasi-experimental approach. This study used a modified embedded mixed method design in which the qualitative and quantitative data, associated with the secondary questions, provided a supportive role in a study based primarily…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Testing, Predictor Variables, Program Effectiveness
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Steiny, Julia – Journal of Staff Development, 2009
Sparking a flame of mutual professional development at Twin Groves Middle School, in Illinois' Kildeer District 96 was a formative assessment. "Formatives," as the practitioners call them, are a technique usually adopted as a safety net for struggling students. But as districts are finding out, they are also effective at honing teacher…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Teaching Methods, Professional Development
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Swann, Joanna; Andrews, Irena; Ecclestone, Kathryn – Educational Action Research, 2011
How can teachers be helped, at relatively little expense, to improve their professional practice? This problem was addressed in "Improving Formative Assessment in Vocational Education and Adult Literacy, Language and Numeracy Programmes"--the IFA project. Adopting a specific problem-based methodology as part of an action research…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Action Research, Formative Evaluation, Adult Education
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Young, Viki M.; Kim, Debbie H. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2010
The current educational reform policy discourse takes for granted the central role of using data to improve instruction. Yet whether and how data inform instruction depends on teachers' assessment practices, the data that are relevant and useful to them, the data they typically have access to, and their content and pedagogical knowledge. Moreover,…
Descriptors: Instructional Improvement, Adult Learning, Educational Change, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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