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Horn, Ilana Seidel; Little, Judith Warren – American Educational Research Journal, 2010
The authors investigate how conversational routines, or the practices by which groups structure work-related talk, function in teacher professional communities to forge, sustain, and support learning and improvement. Audiotaped and videotaped records of teachers' work group interactions, supplemented by interviews and material artifacts, were…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Educational Practices, Professional Development, Protocol Materials
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Males, Lorraine M.; Otten, Samuel; Herbel-Eisenmann, Beth A. – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2010
This article examines mathematics teacher collegiality by focusing on both the ways in which teachers interacted as critical colleagues in a long-term professional development project and the evolving role of the teacher-educator-researcher as the facilitator of this project. The professional development collaboration comprised two phases: one…
Descriptors: Action Research, Collegiality, Mathematics Teachers, Professional Development
Kitzmiller, Rebecca Rutherford – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Background: Hospital adoption of health information technology (HIT) systems is promoted as essential to decreasing medical error and their associated 44,000 annual deaths and $17 billion in healthcare costs (Institute of Medicine, 2001; Kohn, Corrigan, & Donaldson, 1999). Leading national healthcare groups, such as the Institute of Medicine,…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Hospitals, Health Services, Database Management Systems
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Kim, Minjeong; Lee, Eunchul – Educational Technology & Society, 2012
This study proposes and verifies the performance of an analysis tool for visualizing online interactions. A review of the most widely used methods for analyzing online interactions, including quantitative analysis, content analysis, and social network analysis methods, indicates these analysis methods have some limitations resulting from their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Uses in Education, Interaction, Content Analysis
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Laparo, Karen M.; Maynard, Christine; Thomason, Amy; Scott-Little, Catherine – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2012
This article describes a video review process for providing feedback to students and documents students' teaching practices using the CLASS in a practicum course and student teaching. Students videotaped themselves in their field-based settings and then met with the course instructors and classmates in small groups to review strengths and…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Feedback (Response), Student Teaching, Preservice Teachers
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Dimitracopoulou, Angelique – Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning, 2009
Computer based Interaction Analysis (IA) for the support of the participants' self-regulation in technology based learning activities (individualised or social) is a new direction of research that has emerged during the last years. Its main purpose is to offer a cognitive and metacognitive support to learning environment participants (e.g.…
Descriptors: Self Management, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Behavior
Koike, Chisato – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study investigates how "unknowing" story recipients (C. Goodwin, 1979) use different types of questions in order to actively participate in storytelling and collaboratively construct a story when a storyteller is relaying his or her past experience, by examining grammar, intonation, gaze, body movements, and sequence organization in Japanese…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Japanese, Discourse Analysis, Story Telling
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Janssen, Marleen J.; Riksen-Walraven, J. Marianne; van Dijk, Jan P. M.; Ruijssenaars, Wied A. J. J. M. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2010
This article describes the application of the Diagnostic Intervention Model and its effects in two case studies of 3-year-old boys, Rolf and Ruud, using individual interaction coaching with their mothers. Positive effects were found for all the target categories in both cases, although an interaction that used materials appeared to be more…
Descriptors: Intervention, Mothers, Diagnostic Teaching, Case Studies
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Rothwell, Erin Witter; Siharath, Kassidy; Badger, Holly; Negley, Sandra; Piatt, Jennifer – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2008
The purpose of this study was to explore a new framework for understanding group dynamics during a challenge course experience. Traditional views of group dynamics emphasize sequential stages of development, but these frameworks tend to neglect the emotional aspect of group dynamics. The group process usually includes an emotional experience, and…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Group Dynamics, Emotional Experience, Interaction Process Analysis
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Koskela, Inka; Palukka, Hannele – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2011
Purpose: This paper aims to identify methods of guidance and supervision used in air traffic control training. It also aims to show how these methods facilitate trainee participation in core work activities. Design/methodology/approach: The paper applies the tools of conversation analysis and ethnomethodology to explore the ways in which trainers…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Video Technology, Educational Strategies, Simulation
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Kennedy, Brianna L. – Urban Education, 2011
Students who are expelled from school often demonstrate the need for alternative learning environments that respond to their academic disengagement as well as their behavioral challenges. Teachers in such environments contend with a variety of student needs while attempting to engage students in the learning process. This grounded theory study…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Student Needs, Nontraditional Education, Teacher Characteristics
Lewis, Cindy R. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Non-English speakers are currently the fastest growing population group in Iowa schools. Immigrant and refugee families are choosing in record numbers to make Iowa their home. Across the state, newcomers are added daily to classroom rosters, and teachers are challenged to meet the unique social, emotional, and educational needs of students. The…
Descriptors: Ethnic Diversity, Social Change, Teacher Role, Immigrants
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Zheng, Lanqin; Yang, Kaicheng; Huang, Ronghuai – Educational Technology & Society, 2012
This study proposes a new method named the IIS-map-based method for analyzing interactions in face-to-face collaborative learning settings. This analysis method is conducted in three steps: firstly, drawing an initial IIS-map according to collaborative tasks; secondly, coding and segmenting information flows into information items of IIS; thirdly,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Uses in Education, Program Effectiveness, Research Methodology
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Skouteris, Helen; McCabe, Marita; Ricciardelli, Lina A.; Milgrom, Jeannette; Baur, Louise A.; Aksan, Nazan; Dell'Aquila, Daniela – Early Child Development and Care, 2012
Child obesity research has generally not examined multiple layers of parent-child relationships during weight-related activities such as feeding, eating and play. A literature review was conducted to locate empirical studies that measured parent-child interactions and child eating and child weight variables; five papers met the inclusion criteria…
Descriptors: Obesity, Intervention, Prevention, Parent Child Relationship
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Dukmak, Samir – British Journal of Special Education, 2010
Samir Dukmak is an assistant professor in the Department of Special Education in the Faculty of Education at the United Arab Emirates University. The research reported in this article investigated the frequency, types of and reasons for student-initiated interactions in both regular and special education classrooms in the United Arab Emirates…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Special Education, Foreign Countries, Classroom Environment
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