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Watts, Ruth; Youens, Bernadette – Improving Schools, 2007
The recent focus on pupil involvement in all aspects of education, including the school improvement agenda, has led to an increasing number of pupils being consulted on various aspects of school life and involved in a range of peer support schemes. Accompanying the proliferation of pupil involvement has been the development of training initiatives…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, School Councils, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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McGregor, Jane – Improving Schools, 2007
Against the wider background of increasing interest in pupil voice, this article gives examples of the student involvement activity in the largest of the National College of School Leadership (NCSL) development and enquiry initiatives: the Networked Learning Communities project. In programme-level research, student voice and participation were…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Student Leadership, Instructional Leadership, Student Responsibility
Harmon, Deborah A.; Jones, Toni Stokes; Copeland, Nancy – Understanding Our Gifted, 2007
A multicultural curriculum affirms and includes all people regardless of age, race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, language, religion, physical ability, or mental ability. The goal is to reduce prejudice and bias by discussing these issues. The Bloom/Banks curriculum framework was developed as a model for creating multicultural gifted…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Multicultural Education, Academically Gifted, Social Action
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Widodo, Handoyo Puji – Journal of Effective Teaching, 2009
This paper reports a videotaped self-observation of a 47 minute ESL reading lesson. The focus of the lesson was on intensive reading. The entire teaching session was videotaped; the videotaped data were analyzed using (a) ethnographic microanalysis, (b) selective verbatim transcripts, (c) Seating Chart Observation REcord (SCORE), (d)…
Descriptors: Video Technology, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Programs
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Peschke, Julie – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2009
The culture of the young may, in fact, be a harbinger enticing us to follow a pathway from which will emerge the re-conceptualized educational practices of this new century. The culture of those older will, no doubt, strive to maintain the more golden aspects of their now historical learning experiences. One of the tasks of all educators, but…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Student Attitudes, Student Role, Educational Practices
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Lindwall, Oskar; Lymer, Gustav – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2008
This study examines the practical work of a pair of students and an instructor using probeware in a mechanics lab. The aim of the study is to describe and discuss a type of interactional sequence that we refer to as "dark matter", the ordinary backdrop to the extraordinary sequences that are easily recognizable as clear-cut instances of learning.…
Descriptors: Graphs, Science Laboratories, Correlation, Physics
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Brandes, Gabriella Minnes; Boskic, Natasha – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2008
In recent years, different professional and academic settings have been increasingly utilizing ePortfolios to serve multiple purposes from recruitment to evaluation. This paper analyzes ePortfolios created by graduate students at a Canadian university. Demonstrated is how students' constructions can, and should, be more than a simple compilation…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Portfolios (Background Materials), Foreign Countries, Graduate Students
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Jorgensen, Robyn Zevenbergen; Niesche, Richard – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2008
For many students, the experience of school mathematics is not a positive one. Processes of exclusion operate to disadvantage students along social class, race and gender lines. For students from backgrounds that are not part of the success regime, significant scaffolding by teachers is needed if they are to be successful. In this article, the…
Descriptors: Social Bias, Teacher Attitudes, Mathematics Education, Equal Education
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Gisbert, David Duran; Font, Carles Monereo – School Psychology International, 2008
After examining several conceptual elements of peer-assisted learning and peer tutoring, this article presents a study analysing the effects of peer tutoring--with fixed and reciprocal roles--in the improvement of curricular competence of Catalan language skills, self-concept as a writer and satisfaction with pedagogical assistance. The results,…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Tutors, Language Skills, Peer Teaching
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Jungert, Tomas – Higher Education Research and Development, 2008
This longitudinal study draws on data from a larger project and examines how students' perceptions of their opportunities to influence their study environment may be enacted in approaches aimed at influencing their studies, and whether this changes during the course of their studies. Ten students from a 4.5-year Master's program in Engineering…
Descriptors: Study Habits, Student Attitudes, Masters Programs, Engineering Education
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Khazanov, Leonid – PRIMUS, 2007
The majority of new jobs in the 21st century will require some postsecondary education. Yet more than one third of those entering college are underprepared and needful of remediation. In this essay the author shares with the reader his first experience of teaching the lowest level prealgebra course at an urban community college. This is a story of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Algebra, College Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction
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Mncube, Vusumuzi – South African Journal of Education, 2008
The South African Schools Act No. 84 of 1996 mandates that secondary school learners, who are members of the Representative Council for Learners, should be part of school governance through participation in school governing bodies. But they are often not afforded a full opportunity to participate in crucial decisions by the adult members of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Educational Legislation, Secondary School Students
Kariuki, Patrick N. K.; Bush, Elizabeth Danielle – Online Submission, 2008
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of Total Physical Response by Storytelling and the traditional teaching method on a foreign language in a selected high school. The sample consisted of 30 students who were randomly selected and randomly assigned to experimental and control group. The experimental group was taught using Total…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Holistic Approach, Story Telling, Conventional Instruction
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Parsons, Eileen R. C.; Tran, Lynn Uyen; Gomillion, Crystall Travis – International Journal of Science Education, 2008
Achievement disparities among racial groups attest to the elusiveness of the "science for all" goal, an emphasis of reform efforts in the USA. One popular approach to making science accessible to all is group work. The study investigated roles attained by five African American and six European-American eighth graders working in small,…
Descriptors: African American Students, White Students, Racial Composition, Racial Relations
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Richardson, Jennifer C.; Newby, Tim – American Journal of Distance Education, 2006
This study investigated the degree to which students cognitively engage with their online courses. Cognitive engagement was defined as the integration and utilization of students' motivations and strategies in the course of their learning. Given this, the study utilized J. B. Biggs's (1987a) Study Process Questionnaire to measure motivations and…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Online Courses, Student Role, Cognitive Processes
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