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Heather Kanuka; Erika E. Smith; Robert Luth – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
This study explores faculty beliefs about teaching and learning in different institutional settings and over time. This study surveyed faculty at two Canadian universities, one research-intensive, the other teaching-intensive, using a conceptual replication of a survey originally administered in 1976. Some results differ from the original survey,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Research Universities
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Kennedy, Brianna L.; Lopez, Mark Preston S. – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2022
In this practitioner inquiry, instructors in a teacher preparation program at a research-intensive university address their instructional effectiveness and improvement of student learning outcomes in a Single Course in Multicultural Education (SCME). As part of the inquiry, they conducted a comprehensive literature review of SCMEs. They used the…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Multicultural Education, Preservice Teachers, Instructional Improvement
Andrew Joseph Krause – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This is a study of student engagement with computational labs in Calculus 2. The labs task students with using MATLAB to investigate contexts such as rocket science, disease modeling, and market economics forecasting by modifying and executing provided code, guided by questions that have students report the results of their simulations or…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Computation, Calculus, Mathematics Instruction
Amber Lassiter – ProQuest LLC, 2022
School principals' roles have evolved from mere managers to instructional leaders as a result of education reform policies. Today's school leaders must be capable of efficiently leading, motivating, and managing staff; managing the school's day-to-day operations; selecting and implementing rigorous curricula; and monitoring instruction and…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Principals, Reading Instruction, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Dutt, Shoma; Phelps, Megan; Scott, Karen M. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2020
Participation in curricular change and teacher professional development can be challenging for honorary clinical teachers, who juggle teaching alongside busy clinical practice. Following redevelopment of our traditional lecture programme, we conducted qualitative research, based on Vygotsky's Social Development Theory, to explore honorary clinical…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Faculty Development, Curriculum Development, Social Development
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Ngwenya, J. C. – Perspectives in Education, 2020
This paper explores the resources Accounting teachers draw on and how they use the identified resources in the teaching of Accounting in a rural school. The study adopted an interpretive qualitative case study and employed semi-structured individual interviews to collect data from the Accounting teachers. Thematic analysis revealed that Accounting…
Descriptors: Accounting, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Rural Schools
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Jaffe-Walter, Reva; Fancsali, Cheri – Educational Forum, 2021
Drawing on qualitative case study research in four small schools, this paper explores the relationship between the professional contexts of schools--specifically supports for: (1) collaboration focused on improving instruction; (2) professional development and teacher learning opportunities; and (3) the degree to which teachers have authority and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Teacher Effectiveness, Small Schools, Correlation
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Dinkelman, Todd – Democracy & Education, 2016
In "Reinventing the High School Government Course," the authors presented the latest iteration of an ambitious AP government course developed over a seven-year design-based implementation research project. Chiefly addressed to curriculum developers and civics teachers, the article elaborates key design principles, provides a description…
Descriptors: High School Students, United States Government (Course), Course Content, Teaching Methods
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Hogan, Kathleen; Hathcote, Andrea – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2014
Teachers are being asked to educate a variety of students, including a growing number of students from culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) backgrounds (Diaz-Rico, 2012. "A course for teaching English learners." Upper Saddle River, NY: Pearson). Because students from diverse backgrounds are the fastest growing population in…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Student Diversity, Cultural Differences, Teaching Methods
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Hiebert, James; Stigler, James W. – Educational Researcher, 2017
We examine the distinction between teaching and teachers as it relates to instructional improvement. Drawing from work outside of education on improvement systems and from analyzing the Japanese system of lesson study, we contend that a focus on teaching can shape a coordinated system for improvement whereas a focus on teachers, common in the…
Descriptors: Instructional Improvement, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Lesson Plans
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Owens, Paula – Education 3-13, 2013
The Primary Geography Quality Mark (PGQM) is a support mechanism for the development of successful school geography, which uses evaluative criteria to help subject leaders plan and lead the subject. Evidence from schools that have used the PGQM shows that whilst core knowledge is a necessary ingredient of geography, the knowledge and skill of…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Evaluation Criteria, Teaching Methods, Curriculum Development
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Mattheis, Allison; Jensen, Murray – Advances in Physiology Education, 2014
Despite widespread calls for reform in undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education, effecting lasting change in instructor practice is challenging to achieve. This article describes the results of a 2-yr research study that involved efforts to develop the pedagogical expertise of a group of anatomy and physiology…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Anatomy, Faculty Development, Curriculum Development
Brulles, Dina; Brown, Karen L. – Educational Technology, 2013
This article describes one school district department's efforts to train and support teachers in providing effective curriculum, instruction, and assessment methods to their students. This large, K-12 district embraces the spectrum of low to high SES schools, a large number of gifted students from diverse populations, and a variety of gifted…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Curriculum Development, Gifted, Educational Resources
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Phelps, Christine M.; Spitzer, Sandy M. – Teacher Educator, 2012
Researchers have advocated building a knowledge base for teacher education based on practitioner knowledge. In this article, the authors, two teacher educators, present knowledge gained from their systematic study of two lessons to help prospective teachers learn to study teaching. They offer a detailed look at the lessons' successes and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Teacher Educators, Teacher Education Curriculum, Teacher Education Programs
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Heritage, Margaret – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2011
Ten years ago, the authors of Knowing What Students Know proposed that large-scale and classroom assessment should be created from the same underlying model of learning. They suggested that, ideally, a model of learning should provide a developmental perspective, "laying out one or more typical progressions from novice levels toward competence and…
Descriptors: Expertise, Curriculum Development, Instructional Improvement, Student Evaluation
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