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van Geel, Marieke; Keuning, Trynke; Frèrejean, Jimmy; Dolmans, Diana; van Merriënboer, Jeroen; Visscher, Adrie J. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2019
Providing differentiated instruction (DI) is considered an important but complex teaching skill which many teachers have not mastered and feel unprepared for. In order to design professional development activities, a thorough description of DI is required. The international literature on assessing teachers' differentiation qualities describes the…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Individualized Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Expertise
Ekwueme, Cecilia Olunwa; Meremikwu, Anne; Kalu, Nnenna – Online Submission, 2013
The study used a survey design. The instrument was teachers' questionnaire and interview on awareness and readiness. The interview was administered to the different categories of the respondents using a 4-point Likert scale. Two hundred mathematics teachers were randomly selected from 100 schools (public and private) using stratified random…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Likert Scales, Mathematics Teachers
Garrett, H. James – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Social studies education is a field in which those involved--teachers and students--encounter what can be called "difficult knowledge". Difficult knowledge is a theoretical construct suggesting that when an individual encounters representations of social and historical trauma in a learning situation there exists a host of emotional and pedagogical…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Social Studies, Educational Practices, Difficulty Level
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Harlen, Wynne – Research in Science Education, 1997
Research into primary teachers' understanding of concepts in science and technology provided information on teachers' confidence in teaching science, their understanding of a range of key ideas, and their own educational background in science. Teachers expressed low confidence in teaching science but also claimed not to find great difficulty in…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Foreign Countries, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Primary Education