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Topics: Course Descriptions, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness,...
The paper examines ways in which ideas from conceptual change research have been applied to teacher education, focusing on the teacher education program at Monash University (Australia). Three developments have contributed to a sounder basis for linking interest in conceptual change research to practice at Monash University: (1) the research effort was interpreted within more comprehensive theories of learning; (2) research ideas were applied to the reform of teacher education programs; and (3)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Change, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign...
This paper focuses on the challenges in the improvement of research and development that arise from the commonality, rather than differences, in producer and consumer perceptions. The paper is based on the assumption that although producers do have varied incentives for engaging in and using research, their key motivation is a desire to improve schooling. Three approaches to enhancing that mutual interest are addressed--building a client-based research agenda, viewing research utilization as an...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Cooperation, Educational Policy, Educational Research, Elementary...
Now that there are enough school-restructuring experiments to evaluate, one can examine what has been learned about transforming the restructuring concept into reality. Although principals recognize that restructuring will reshape their leadership role, studies show these administrators are pivotal to school-improvement efforts. Fred Newmann differentiates restructuring proposals according to four areas (student experiences, teachers' professional life, school management and leadership, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Acceleration (Education), Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education,...
This publication contains four chapters that examine the reform of administrator preparation programs. In "The Reform Paradigm: Exploring the Fuzzy Logic of Educational Administration," William Ammentorp and Thomas Morgan develop a model based on linguistic algorithms to understand qualitative policy formation and decision making. In "Student Recruitment and Selection Practices in Educational Administration Programs," M. Scott Norton presents findings of a study that...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Education, Decision Making, Educational Administration, Elementary...
This paper focuses on the emerging role of practitioners, students, and professors in the preparation of school administrators. The first section provides an overview of the Connecticut Administrator Preparation Program (CAPP), a 2-year program based on core modules/courses, reflection sessions, and internship experiences. The second section describes the emerging roles of school practitioners, who participate in recruitment and selection, program development and evaluation, coteaching, student...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Education, Administrator Role, Educational Administration, Elementary...
The most effective activity for teaching communication research students the nature of the social science research process is to provide students with the opportunity to conduct an actual research study. Such an experience promotes and emphasizes active, rather than passive, learning; students finish the class with a strong understanding of the research process, the major concepts associated with it, and the importance of ethics in research. In order to integrate an actual research study into...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Communication Research, Experiential Learning, Higher Education, Research Design,...
This paper argued that a general theory that can provide a precise definition of educational goals and the means to accomplish them is absolutely necessary to resuscitate schooling, and that the classroom is the place where theory can be developed and tested. The paper makes the following points: (1) a general theory is vitally needed to deal with educational issues; (2) a general theory based on clear and specific democratic principles is preferable to existing and proposed theories; (3)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Access to Education, Classroom Techniques, College School Cooperation, Democracy,...
Some of the essential elements of educational partnerships and what it takes for these associations to succeed are presented. The brief opens by describing the growing trend of companies working in partnership with one another to improve education by sharing expertise, leveraging limited resources, broadening markets, and tackling complex issues. The text looks at the various kinds of associations, such as limited partnerships, coalition partnerships, and collaborative partnerships, and how...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cooperative Programs, Educational Cooperation, Educational Innovation, Educational...
This study examined how preservice teachers perceived the research element of their undergraduate education, collecting data from two student cohorts in their final year (109 students during the 1997-98 academic year and 140 during the 1998-99 year). Researchers examined how students felt about the program strand designed to enhance their understanding of the use of research in relation to teaching. Three research units (Critical Reading of Research, Preparation of a Research Proposal, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Attitude Change, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign...
The aim of AgShare is to create a scalable and sustainable collaboration of existing organizations for African publishing, localizing, and sharing of science-based teaching and learning materials that fill critical resource gaps in African MSc agriculture curriculum. Shared innovative practices are emerging through the AgShare projects, not only for creating and sharing Open Educational Resources (OER), but also for collaborating with stakeholders and with students to bridge the gap between...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Agricultural Education, Resource Units, Shared Resources and...
Over the course of the past few decades, scholars and theorists have engaged in a dynamic and concerted effort to interpret, make sense of, and resist a variety of social phenomena often categorized under the concept of "postmodernism." This project has also been taken up by educators of various stripes, especially those who identify their work as belonging in a "critical" tradition such as critical theory or critical pedagogy. In this paper, I aim to join the discussion of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teaching Methods, Postmodernism, Theory Practice Relationship, Critical Theory,...
The contributors to this special issue of "The Journal of Inquiry and Action" provide insight into why the Obama administration's educational policies manifest the dominance of neoliberal ideology over most elements of social life. The articles presented in this issue build on the work originally presented in "The Phenomenon of Obama and the Agenda for Education: Can Hope Audaciously Trump Neoliberalism?" (Carr and Porfilio 2011). Given the dearth of critical analysis in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Neoliberalism, Educational Change, Resistance to Change, Educational Policy, Public...
At the dawn of the 21st century, there has been an increased focus on social justice and educational leadership (Bogotch, Beachum, Blount, Brooks & English, 2008; Marshall & Oliva, 2006; Shoho, Merchang & Lugg, 2005). This paper explores and extends themes in contemporary educational research on leadership preparation in terms of social justice and its importance for both research and practice on a national and international level. In particular, we examine various considerations in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Social Justice, Educational Research, Leadership Training, Instructional Leadership,...
Given that feminist poststructuralism disrupts countless notions many of us have been "raised" with, conceptualizing what feminist poststructuralism might mean for understanding and enacting environmental education research and practice can be difficult. This paper articulates understandings and assumptions of poststructuralism and explores how it has enabled me to come to know in a way that I would not otherwise. I am not claiming that feminist poststructural research necessarily...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Feminism, Postmodernism, Environmental Education, Educational Research, Theory...
Teachers' utilization of personal practical knowledge in effecting school reform was analyzed in a three-year project in a Toronto inner city elementary school. The major unit of study was the school, investigated through the eyes of people responsible for school policy. The study, presented in four volumes, focused on the school board's Race Relations Policy and Inner-city Language Development Policy. Participant obervers noted the activities of the principal, teachers, and one teacher in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrative Policy, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Educational...
Researchers of writing ability have often applied the developmental schemes of William Perry, Lev Vygotsky, and Jean Piaget in describing basic writers. As a result, some researchers have concluded that basic writers think well below the formal-operations or true concept-formation stage of cognitive development. To investigate the theory that basic writers are cognitively deficient, two studies were performed with groups of basic writers and, for comparison, groups of graduate students. Task A...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, College Students,...
The demand for worker literacy is increasing in nearly every occupation, from entry-level blue collar to top professional and technical. The types of reading and writing required on the job differ considerably from the literacy activities required of students in schools. Most of the reading done in the workplace environment is done for the express purposes of doing, learning, and assessing, whereas most of the reading done by secondary students is done to obtain information needed to answer...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Educational Needs, Educational Research, Job...
A tutor charged with the task of helping a third-grade child with good reading skills improve his writing skills developed a plan to move the student gradually from dictating stories to writing independently. The student had difficulty initiating and maintaining on-task behavior and disliked writing independently, although he had "written" a number of stories, dictating them to another tutor. The tutor's first step in reversing the problem was to copy down the student's stories as he...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Dictation, Grade 3, Primary Education, Reading Writing Relationship, Self Esteem,...
Realizing that communications theory and research have little to do with organizational life, a communications scholar decided to become an organizational participant while still analyzing events and episodes in a scholarly way. In the spring of 1986, he joined the board of directors of Interface Precision Benchworks (IPB), a not-for-profit company whose mission was to demonstrate that all humans, even those with the most severe mental and physical difficulties, are capable of a fully...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Communication Research, Ethics, Higher Education, Mental Retardation, Organizational...
This publication seeks to enhance the availability of best practices and ideas in career development. The papers included are derived from program presentations that were given at the July 2002 Careers across America conference. Chapters include: (1) Career Tracks: A Collaborative Approach between a University Career Center and a College of Education in Building a Career Counseling Paraprofessional Program (Marilyn Albert, Christye Peper, David C. McVey, and Martha K. Schuster); (2) Stepping...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Counseling, Career Development, Counseling Techniques, Counseling Theories,...
The Adult Multiple Intelligences Study was the first systematic effort related to multiple intelligences (MI) theory in adult literacy education. The study's findings regarding MI theory served as the foundation for a study of MI theory's implications for adult literacy practice, policy, and research. The study was conducted across 10 different adult literacy contexts with different teacher and learner populations. Data were collected through on-site observations, qualitative interviews, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adoption (Ideas), Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Classroom...
Distance learning can be a useful approach for preparing teachers who are mid-career changers or who are working on limited licenses, especially in rural areas. At Indiana University, the Collaborative Teacher Education Program uses multiple distance education technologies to provide special education teacher preparation in mild (high-incidence) disabilities at the certification and master's levels. One of the program's most used and most useful distance learning tools is web conferencing. The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Distance Education, Higher Education, Program Descriptions, Rural Education, Special...
In this paper, we discuss a reflexive teaching approach, which may make the field of Organisation Studies more permeable to alternative views and thus more responsive to the complexities of processes unfolding in organisations in the context of a rapidly changing world. We contend that reflection on lived experience complements perspectives that focus on the managerial point of view with other perspectives constitutive of the totality of experience inside work organisations. The combination of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teaching Methods, Reflective Teaching, Learning Experience, Educational Principles,...
Creating first hand experiences of urban cultures that focus on reflection and leave profound impressions on students while providing the framing for future cycles of experiential learning is a complex and difficult dynamic to navigate. The way urban manifestations of a different culture are directly experienced varies depending on the circumstances of a concrete cross-cultural encounter and the student's subjective interpretation of it. To suggest a tentative framework within which the elusive...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Study Abroad, Experiential Learning, Urban Culture, Urban Education, Urban Areas,...
Recent research in the visual arts has resulted in the development of a range of methods for assessing student learning. Theoretically based in cognitive conceptions of learning, assessment systems discussed in this paper have been applied in practice. Possibilities for the art teacher to apply such assessment methodologies directly in the classroom setting are numerous. In addition, the assessment methodologies introduced can be employed by researchers seeking answers to questions regarding...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Art Education, Cognitive Processes, Criteria, Educational Assessment, Learning,...
The five-volume directory describes more than 1,200 discretionary grants and contracts supported by the Research to Practice Division of the Office of Special Education Programs. The projects are grouped into sections representing the seven program areas of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Amendments (1997), Part D. This volume, the third of the directory, describes projects concerning technical assistance and dissemination and parent training and information. The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Early Intervention, Education Work Relationship,...
This document contains 10 papers on vocational education and training and related research that were developed for a 1998 European research report titled "Training for a Changing Society." The following papers are included: "Research on Transition" (B. Clasquin, F. Gerardin, V. Toresse); "Objectives, Realisation and Organisation of Continuing Vocational Education and Training" (Dieter Munk, Antonius Lipsmeier); "Training and Employment Opportunities for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Communications, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged,...
This article is based on research on experiential learning and vocational teachers. The author describes his analysis of curricula for the vocational teacher education and explains the education´s purpose, content, and methods. In 1975, education dramatically changed from an academic tradition with dissemination of many disciplines to a holistic education with focus on educating teachers who would function in practice, not only have theoretical knowledge of pedagogy. The author discusses...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Experiential Learning, Vocational Education, Curriculum, Teacher Education,...
Our understanding of the process of interdisciplinary research has expanded considerably over the last decades. The purpose of this brief paper is to take stock of where we are and where we are going. The first section addresses definitional issues and discusses the relationship between teaching and research. The second section discusses potential objections to the idea of identifying best practices for interdisciplinary research. The third section outlines best practices for each step in the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Research, Educational Practices, Learning,...
The purpose of this study is to reveal the factors that affect the identification of research problems in educational administration studies. The study was designed using the case study method. Criterion sampling was used to determine the work group; the criterion used to select the participants was that of having a study in the field of educational administration. Within this scope, the sample was composed of 29 people from various Turkish universities who have conducted studies in the field...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Research Problems, Performance Factors, Identification, Educational Administration,...
One new approach to argumentative writing in an advanced composition course uses the creative juxtaposition of rhetorical and psychological theories and behavioristic research. All of the assignments for the course simulate the kinds of writing actually performed in the professional fields of advertising, politics, business, law, and religion. Instead of writing academic papers, students gain genuine preprofessional and interdisciplinary experience by writing the ads, speeches, reports, or...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Advertising, Business Correspondence, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach,...
Critical approaches to the study of society and organizations tend to favor theories and models that stress the complexity and multiplicity of social factors and processes and the relations between them. In conceptualizing the relationship between social structure and human agency, critical theorists have attempted to walk a fine line between structural determinism and individualistic voluntarism by developing ideas such as the "duality of structure" or the "double articulation...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Communication Research, Organizational Communication, Research Methodology, Social...
To weigh the negative effects of "primerese" against its supposedly improved readability, a study compared the reading of controlled basal stories with that of the same stories minimally rewritten into more natural language. Participants were 64 white, lower middle class first grade students selected from five classrooms (all with basal instruction programs) in two communities. The children were paired by word recognition scores, each member reading alternate versions of the same four...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods,...
A new approach to the teaching of reading education is needed which is not focused totally on method but (1) is sensitive to the situations and contexts in which methodologies are to be applied; (2) encourages the active participation of students and values their views about reading pedagogy; and (3) creates a forum in which ideas grounded in the real world of the classroom are free to be expressed and examined critically. The case method approach is based upon one developed at the Harvard...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Case Studies, Discussion (Teaching Technique),...
This overview of the literature on teaching, learning, and assessment was prepared to help develop a shared understanding by educators, researchers, and students to inform subsequent research conducted by the Scottish Council for Research in Education (SCRE) into the National Certificate in Scotland. Section 1 serves as an introduction to the paper. Section 2 reviews learning theories back to the time of Plato and Aristotle. Topics include: rationalism, associationism, constructivism, the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Assessment, Educational Research, Educational Theories, Foreign...
A study examined: (1) the extent to which teachers of English as a Second Language (ESL) possess beliefs about second language learning and teaching consistent with the major theoretical explanations in the field of ESL; (2) the extent to which these beliefs are associated with classroom instructional practices; and (3) perceptions of ESL teachers about the contextual variables in ESL classrooms that influence those practices. Data collected included information from the following sources:...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Beliefs, Classroom Techniques, Educational Theories, English (Second Language),...
This paper attempts to provide: (1) a clear mental image of the concept of a professional development school (PDS); (2) a clear understanding of a number of standards to be considered as guides during the decision-making process which goes on as a PDS is designed and implemented; and (3) insights gained from dialogues with faculty members of a Rochester, New York, secondary school who had been exposed to the concept of a PDS and were considering the possibility of establishing a PDS. The image...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College School Cooperation, Educational Change, Educational Principles, Elementary...
An analysis of a student teacher's lesson in multiplication for Norwegian second graders explored why the lesson did not succeed. Two interpretive frameworks were used to analyze the lesson: teaching as a complex cognitive activity and teaching as improvisation. The student teacher, Marte, believed in child-centered education and tried to create situations in the classroom where her children experienced success. The analysis of student and teacher exchanges showed that Marte's class derailed...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Foreign...
In this article the authors contend that the element that is typically missing or underdeveloped in the education and development of most leaders is the intentional integration of the research and practices for assessing and developing the deeply held core beliefs, attitudes, and values (what we will call leadership dispositions) that play a primary role in leadership effectiveness. To develop the best educational leaders, preparation programs must intentionally include the enhancement of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Administration, Administrator Education, Instructional Leadership, Self...
Midwifery educators have to provide students with stimulating curricula that teach academic and vocational content, as well as transferable skills. The Research Skills Development (RSD) framework provides a conceptual model that allows educators to explicitly scaffold the development of their students' research skills. This paper aims to demonstrate the effective use of the RSD framework and constructive alignment theory to redesign a second-year Midwifery assessment task. The assessment task...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Nursing Education, Obstetrics, Undergraduate Students, Research Skills, Alignment...
This case study investigated practicum experiences of pre-service teachers by focusing on their evaluation of mentor teachers, school experiences, and theory-practice relationships. Interviews were conducted with six teacher candidates, and observations in the participants' practice schools were made. The results revealed that mentor teachers had both positive and negative qualities with respect to social support, professional support, and role-modeling mentoring functions. Moreover,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Evaluation, Mentors, Educational...
Skill/competency approaches to workplace-based policy seek to assess and train for discrete individual competencies with the goal of increasing employability and productivity. These approaches have become increasingly prominent across a range of advanced capitalist countries. A substantial critique has emerged over this same period regarding issues of instrumentality and social control, as well as the failure of skill/competency approaches to articulate a meaningful understanding of human...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Competence, Comparative Education,...
As a social studies program coordinator at a regional-sized institution, the author typically has between 20-25 preservice candidates enrolled in his annual undergraduate methods course. However, he usually has only one to two in-service candidates each year who require an advance methods course focused on such items as the historical influences, contemporary trends, and research within the social studies field. Recently, the single student in this course was Jonathan Frye, a graduate student...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Graduate Students, Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum, Action Research,...
Dynamic Ecological Analysis (DEA) is a model of practice which increases a teams' efficacy by enabling the development of more effective interventions through collaboration and collective reflection. This process has proved to be useful in: a) clarifying thinking and problem-solving, b) transferring knowledge and thinking to significant parties, and c) encouraging critical self-reflective practice and growth within a team of practitioners in the field of special education. Key factors...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Transformative Learning, Disabilities, Group Dynamics, Reflective Teaching, Theory...
Health care is constantly evolving. Health care professionals and the educators responsible for training those professionals need efficient ways to a) assure new information is getting across to the students and/or professionals, b) relay all new and previous information in a timely manner, and c) correctly utilize the information gathered and observed and apply it to the needs of the patients. Lecture is the original teaching method, but does not cover the dynamic world of health care....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Health Services, Lecture Method, Change Strategies, Educational Strategies, Health...
A program of theoretical and empirical research focusing on the ability determinants of individual differences in skill acquisition is reviewed. An integrative framework for information-processing and cognitive ability determinants of skills is reviewed, along with principles for ability-skill relations. Experimental manipulations were used to evaluate the cognitive ability demands associated with information processing parameters of skilled performance. Experiments described include basic...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Air Traffic Control, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes,...
This paper explores how various perspectives influence inquiry in education. Normative perspectives function as implicit theories of inquiry as a researcher undertakes formal inquiry, and such theories should be acknowledged. Epistemological as well as methodological issues raised by conceiving of such theories as normative rather than merely procedural are discussed, and a plea is made for all educational scholars to recognize the place of their theories of inquiry in their research...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Aesthetic Values, Critical Theory, Educational Philosophy, Educational Research,...
This newsletter focuses on six Year 1 research projects associated with the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented (NRC/GT). The updates address: "Regular Classroom Practices With Gifted Students: Findings from the Classroom Practices Survey" (Francis X. Archambault, Jr. and others); "The Classroom Practices Study: Observational Findings" (Karen L. Westberg and others); "The Curriculum Compacting Study" (Sally M. Reis); "Investigations into...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Ability Identification, Academically Gifted, Classroom Techniques, Educational...
Although the work of Celestin Freinet has exerted considerable influence on European education, it remains largely unknown to English-speaking educators. The Modern School Movement (MSM), which Freinet founded in 1926, is worldwide in scope, and has affiliated organizations in 13 countries with correspondent groups in more than 20 nations. The MSM is the largest student learning network ever to have used educational technologies as a central aspect of its day-to-day functioning. Published...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Computer Networks, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness, Educational...
