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Moran, Renee M. R.; Hong, Huili; Keith, Karin J.; Fisher, Stacey; Wood, LaShay – Critical Questions in Education, 2022
This paper focuses on the relationship between policy creation and policy enactment through the use of an innovative qualitative research methodology, photo elicitation. Teachers applying Common Core State Standards were studied in two states through indepth interviews, photographs captured by the participants, and other artifacts. Findings…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Teacher Attitudes, Photography, Researchers
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Firoozjahantigh, Mojgan; Fakhri Alamdari, Ebrahim; Marzban, Amir – Cogent Education, 2021
The instruction of metadiscourse markers to L2 writers has been recommended by some scholars to assist them in employing a certain tone in persuading readers. Nonetheless, there is a dearth of research investigating the effect of process-based instruction on hedging and boosting devices to L2 learners. To fill this gap, the present study aimed at…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Process Approach (Writing), Writing Instruction, English for Academic Purposes
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Segal, Aliza; Snell, Julia; Lefstein, Adam – Research Papers in Education, 2017
Within current educational discourse, dialogic pedagogy is diametrically opposed to "teaching to the test", especially the high-stakes standardised test. While dialogic pedagogy is about critical thinking, authenticity and freedom, test preparation evokes all that is narrow, instrumental and cynical in education. In this paper, we argue…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Dialogs (Language), High Stakes Tests
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DeJarnette, Anna F.; Hord, Casey; Marita, Samantha – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2016
We applied techniques from systemic functional linguistics to examine how a student and a tutor construed meaning related to linear functions during a 1-1 tutoring session. The student and tutor varied in how they discussed rates of change. This difference highlights that there are multiple correct ways to use this term in algebra, although small…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Mathematics Instruction, Algebra, Tutors
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Rampton, Ben; Charalambous, Constadina – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2016
This paper addresses potentially problematic classroom episodes in which someone foregrounds a social division that is normally taken for granted. It illustrates the way in which linguistic ethnography can unpack the layered processes that collide in the breaking of silence, showing how linguistic form and practice, individual positioning, local…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Educational Policy, Turkish, Secondary School Students
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Brown, Bryan A. – Teachers College Record, 2008
Overview: This research explores using a teaching approach that attempts to balance test preparation with creating "teachable moments" for students. This approach involves the use of a sequence of assessments to introduce topics through formative assessment in order to identify students' understanding, and beginning instruction based on…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Science Achievement, Ethnography, Instructional Effectiveness