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Palmer, Douglas J.; Sadiq, Hissa M.; Lynch, Patricia; Parker, Dawn; Viruru, Radhika; Knight, Stephanie; Waxman, Hersh; Alford, Beverly; Brown, Danielle Bairrington; Rollins, Kayla; Stillisano, Jacqueline; Abu-Tineh, Abdullah M. Hamdan; Nasser, Ramzi; Allen, Nancy; Al-Binali, Hessa; Ellili, Maha; Al-Kateeb, Haithem; Al-Kubaisi, Huda – Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Qatar initiated a K-12 national educational reform in 2001. However, there is limited information on the instructional practices of the teachers in the reform schools. This project was an observational study of classrooms with a stratified random sample of the first six cohorts of reform schools. Specifically, 156 classrooms were observed in 29…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Educational Change, Educational Practices
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Aydeniz, Mehmet; Dogan, Alev – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2016
Background: There has been an increasing emphasis on empowering pre-service and in-service science teachers to attend student reasoning and use formative assessments to guide student learning in recent years. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore pre-service science teachers' pedagogical capacity for formative assessment. Sample: This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Formative Evaluation
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Hardman, Frank; Stoff, Christian; Aung, Wan; Elliott, Louise – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2016
This paper presents the findings of a baseline study of pedagogic practices used by Myanmar primary teachers in the teaching of mathematics and Myanmar language at Grades 3 and 5. The main purpose of the baseline study was to inform the design of teacher education programmes and allow for subsequent evaluations of interventions designed to improve…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Intervention, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
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Bozkurt, Aras; Honeychurch, Sarah; Caines, Autumm; Bali, Maha; Koutropoulos, Apostolos; Cormier, Dave – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2016
This article contributes to the literature on connectivism, connectivist MOOCs (cMOOCs) and rhizomatic learning by examining participant interactions, community formation and nomadic learner behavior in a particular cMOOC, #rhizo15, facilitated for 6 weeks by Dave Cormier. It further focuses on what we can learn by observing Twitter interactions…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Interaction, Group Dynamics, Sense of Community
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Lee, Carole K.; Shea, Marilyn – Science Education International, 2016
This study examines how pre-service elementary teachers (PSETs) view inquiry-based science learning and teaching, and how the science methods course builds their confidence to teach inquiry science. Most PSETs think that inquiry is asking students questions rather than a formal set of pedagogical tools. In the present study, three groups of PSETs…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Inquiry, Science Instruction
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Shahbari, Juhaina Awawdeh; Peled, Irit – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2016
This study analyzes the development of percentages knowledge by seventh graders given a sequence of activities starting with a realistic modeling task, in which students were expected to create a model that would facilitate the reinvention of percentages. In the first two activities, students constructed their own pricing model using fractions and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Education, Mathematical Concepts, Grade 7
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Sanabria, Oscar Buitrango; Chavez, María Pintor; Zermeño, Marcela Gómez – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2016
This research seeks to analyse and propose a solution to support classroom-based teaching in the Department of Chocó, Colombia, which is located in a rural area and has been the subject of many social projects for the development of its people. Due to the disparities in different regions of the country, the education sector is forced to look for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Rural Areas
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Tibbitts, Felisa L. – Journal of Peace Education, 2016
This article presents evidence of the links between human rights education and social change by analyzing the long-term effects on 88 trainers engaged in a non-formal adult training program sponsored by a women's human rights group in Turkey, Women for Women's Human Rights--New Ways. In this article, I show the transformative impacts of carrying…
Descriptors: Females, Civil Rights, Adult Education, Social Change
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Noriega, Heidy Selene Robles – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2016
This article reports on the results of a study concerning the type of texts and their features produced by a student after using mobile technology as a support to improve the development of the students' writing skills in a second language. The Functional Systemic Linguistic (FSL), Genre Pedagogical Approach (GPA), and mobile learning concepts…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Choe, Erika; Seong, Myeong-Hee – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2016
Research has proven the effectiveness of Flipped Classrooms (FC) for a variety of settings. However, more exploration needs to be done in regards to how FC can be used effectively in foreign language classrooms. The purpose of this study was to 1) explore student perceptions of FC in a Korean university general English course and 2) provide…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blended Learning, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Muir, Tracey – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2016
Teachers of senior secondary mathematics are required to contend with a number of challenges including covering the prescribed curriculum, differentiating the content for a range of learners, and preparing students for externally imposed assessment tasks. The flipped classroom is gaining in popularity as an approach that can be used to address…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
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Kerrick, Sharon A.; Miller, Karen Hughes; Ziegler, Craig – Journal of Faculty Development, 2015
This article shares the curriculum and evaluation findings over four years for a faculty development program aimed at increasing skills in designing and teaching online courses. The University of Louisville's "Delphi U" is a four-day retreat style program covering 17 modules, each of which includes an exercise or activity. Over the four…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Faculty Development, Total Quality Management, Distance Education
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Klapwijk, Nanda M. – South African Journal of Education, 2015
Comprehension is a critical part of the reading process, and yet learners continue to struggle with it and teachers continue to neglect it in their teaching. Many reasons exist for the lack of focus on reading comprehension instruction, but for the most part, teachers simply do not seem to view comprehension as part of the reading process, are not…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Teaching Guides
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Neville, David O. – ReCALL, 2015
The article reports on a mixed-methods study evaluating the use of a three-dimensional digital game-based language learning (3D-DGBLL) environment to teach German two-way prepositions and specialized vocabulary within a simulated real-world context of German recycling and waste management systems. The study assumed that goal-directed player…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Educational Games, Video Games, Computer Games
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Van Praag, Benjamin; Sanchez, Hugo Santiago – ReCALL, 2015
Adopting a multiple-case, multiple-method design, this study investigates mobile technology use in the practices of three experienced second language teachers. The findings, based on an analysis of the teachers' rationales, stated beliefs and classroom actions, show that the teachers tend to prohibit or reluctantly tolerate mobile device usage,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Case Studies
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