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Pre-Service Teachers' Reflections on Awareness and Knowledge Following Active Learning in Environmental Education
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Tal, Tali – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2010
This study focuses on the pre-service teachers' reflection on an environmental knowledge questionnaire administered in an introductory environmental education course. Reflection sheets that addressed pre-/post-course knowledge questionnaires were collected from 75 students who took the course in three consecutive years. The students represented…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Reflection, Active Learning
Assessment Strategies, Self-Regulated Learning Skills, and Perceptions of Assessment in Online Learning
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Mao, Jin; Peck, Kyle – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2013
This study investigated the effects of assessment strategies and self-regulated learning skills on students' learning and perceptions of assessment for learning. The results revealed no statistically significant difference in the immediate skill-based and cognitive learning outcomes, but peer assessment teams scored significantly higher than the…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Online Courses, Student Evaluation, Learning Strategies
Modeling Secondary Instructional Strategies in a Teacher Education Class
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Watson, Sandy White; Bradley, Janetta Fleming – Education, 2009
In most teacher education courses, instructional strategies are merely listed and explained. Students rarely have the opportunity to see these strategies in use until they become student teachers. What better way to teach secondary instructional strategies to pre-service teachers than by modeling these strategies using teacher education content?…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teachers, Education Courses
Learning to Be Teachers of Adult Numeracy
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Loo, Sai – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2007
This paper investigates how teacher education programmes provide adequate preparation for its prospective teachers. It uses adult numeracy teacher education in the post-compulsory education sector in England as exemplar. Using findings from two research projects on adult numeracy teacher education courses, the article investigates the applications…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Processes, Education Courses, Numeracy
Implementing Multiple Assessment Modes in an Interdisciplinary Environmental Education Course
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Tal, Tali – Environmental Education Research, 2005
Environmental education promotes the use of higher-order thinking skills, encourages informal experiences in school as well as outdoors and brings together children and adults in order to make a contribution to the environment. Its holistic nature, that encompasses various subject matters, learning environments and teaching methods and encourages…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Education Courses, Thinking Skills, Environmental Education
Intervention Strategies in Multicultural Education: A Comparison of Pre-service Models.
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Sparks, William G., III; Verner, M. Elizabeth – Physical Educator, 1995
This study examined the effects of four preservice teacher education courses (two in multicultural education, a field experience, and student teaching in urban areas) on preservice teachers' perceptions of their multicultural knowledge and attitudes. Findings indicated that subjects' perceptions of multicultural knowledge and attitudes were…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Education Courses, Education Majors, Elementary Secondary Education