Proposes a broader concept of college faculty peer evaluation, in which perspectives of teacher, learner, and observer are considered. Argues that three basic principles (intention/interpretation, advisement/appraisement, acceptability/accessibility) must necessarily and minimally guide peer evaluation. Presents a four-part, multidimensional peer…

Discusses the methodology used in the Models of Media Education research projects which examined media teaching styles of a group of secondary English teachers in the United Kingdom. Offers conclusions about the teachers' aims and focal concepts in their lessons. Considers the extent to which curriculum innovation involves pedagogical change and…

Investigated relationship between students' classroom experiences and how they construct mathematical meanings. Suggests that students determine meaning or correctness of mathematical activity according to teacher, intuition, familiarity, and procedural knowledge. The teacher emerged as playing the most valued role in sense making and ratifying of…

Examines ways that teachers' knowledge about teaching and their educational situations grow when they are engaged collaboratively with other teachers in inquiry on their own practice. Results indicate that mechanisms for enhancement of normal practice include anecdote telling, trying out ideas, and systematic inquiry. Contains 66 references.…

Examined time spent in interaction by students and teachers in the classroom and patterns of question and answer through classroom observations. Results showed that much of class time is devoted to teacher talk rather than to student talk. The majority of questions asked by the teacher were of the display type, while the responses of the students…

Draws on the authors' insider and outsider perspectives as teachers and researchers to examine a teacher's use of scaffolding in a preschool classroom for children ages three through five. Finds that through literacy scaffolding with an academic focus, an intellectual focus, and an emotional focus, the teacher was able to build bridges from the…

Presents results from a study that examined students' historical understanding by looking at five parent-child dyads in an inner-city high school, a college preparatory academy, and a Christian high school. Uses oral history interviews as well as other types of research methods. Focuses on results from interviews on Vietnam. (CMK)

Illustrates how autonomous learning, as a concept, guides the production of the English self-learning packages for young elementary learners (new arrival children). Explores how the children react to the process of improving their English standard by engaging in self-study as a way to achieve autonomous learning. (CMK)

Explores whether teacher training standards have made it more difficult for teacher educators to enable student teachers to become reflective teachers. Argues that the standards ignore important issues related to equality in the classroom and the relationship between education and the state. Includes references. (CMK)

States that eight mathematics teachers from four secondary schools in south Wales formed a teacher inquiry group to research the impact of introducing whole-class interactive teaching strategies into their own practice. Examines the teaching approaches that were developed. Analyzes the variation in interpretations and teaching styles used by the…

This article critically analyzes research investigating the use of antecedent events in the functional assessment process, with an emphasis on interventions conducted in natural settings. An analysis of 17 articles found that research on antecedent-based interventions lacks a consistent conceptual framework. Suggestions for future research are…

Explores the different attitudes of English girls and boys to General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) work. Provides suggestions to account for the differences, particularly related to peer pressure, image, and social groupings. Finds that boys were ridiculed more for working hard and were under greater pressure to confirm to a cool,…

Examines whether a shift in secondary school students' constructions of gender, school subjects, and subject ability has occurred. Explores their statements concerning gender and ability involved in school subjects. Argues there has been a blurring of the gender dichotomy when reviewing favorite subjects versus least favorite subjects. (CMK)

Offers an overview of the authors' experience using several observational methods to better understand one class of users, expert clinicians treating patients in hospital settings. Shows the evolution of understanding of the users and their information-handling tasks based on observations made in the field by a multidisciplinary research team, and…

Examines the learning opportunities students have related to the democratic purposes of schooling in eighth, ninth, and tenth grade social studies classrooms. Explains five frameworks identified for linking curricular strategies to the preparation of citizens and the rubrics used to code observations in Chicago (Illinois) social studies classrooms…