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Walker, Kimberly LaRaine – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This research study was designed to determine leadership and instructional behaviors of administrators and teachers who are participants in the Alabama AP Initiative, as well as evaluate the perceptions of the AAPI with regard to student performance. The importance of this research was three-fold. First, this study provided principals, as well as…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Community Leaders, Curriculum Development, Rural Schools
Jacobs, George M. – Online Submission, 2008
Projects are not new in education (for example, see Kilpatrick, 1918), but in the last 20 years, they seem to have become more popular in second language education, as projects fit with emphases on communication, tasks, cooperation among students, learner autonomy, curricular integration, alternative assessment, links between the classroom and the…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Student Projects, Cooperative Learning, Group Activities
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Zucker, Andrew A.; Hug, Sarah T. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2008
1:1 laptop programs, in which every student is provided with a personal computer to use during the school year, permit increased and routine use of powerful, user-friendly computer-based tools. Growing numbers of 1:1 programs are reshaping the roles of teachers and learners in science classrooms. At the Denver School of Science and Technology, a…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Student Surveys, Physics, Scientific Concepts
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Cardenas, Diana; Garza, Susan Loudermilk – Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2007
To be actively involved in their own writing requires that students make decisions. In order to build a new approach for our Technical/Professional Writing classes, we assessed our individual teaching practices and past experiences, studied current scholarship on teaching writing, and conducted research on technical writing in our local community.…
Descriptors: Technical Writing, Teaching Models, Teacher Role, Evaluation Criteria
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Henderson, Charles; Dancy, Melissa H. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2007
Many proven research-based instructional strategies have been developed for introductory college-level physics. Significant efforts to disseminate these strategies have focused on convincing individual instructors to give up their traditional practices in favor of particular research-based practices. Yet evidence suggests that the findings of…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Educational Research, Physics, Conventional Instruction
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Lund, Darren E. – Race, Ethnicity & Education, 2006
The present study seeks insights from current school activists on the tendency of educators and others to engage in denial and avoidance when discussing issues surrounding racism, and how that affects the daily work on social justice projects in schools. The author outlines contemporary and historical aspects of the denial of racism in Canada, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Justice, Educational Research, Activism
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King, Elaine C. – Psychology of Music, 2006
This study focuses on collaboration between student musicians in a wind quartet, saxophone quartet and string quartet. Devised as an explorative investigation using observation and interview methods, the roles of student musicians are defined within and across quartet rehearsals over a period of four weeks. The data indicate that there are common…
Descriptors: Music Education, Musicians, Group Dynamics, Musical Instruments
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Comunian, Anna L.; Gielen, Uwe P. – Journal of Moral Education, 2006
We examined social role-taking and moral judgement improvement after an educational group-oriented intervention emphasizing guided reflection and role-taking dimensions among 11 groups, made up of a total of 61 female and male Italian university students. They were compared to a control group of 59 students. We twice applied Italian adaptations of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Perspective Taking, Intervention, Moral Development
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Nicol, David J.; Macfarlane-Dick, Debra – Studies in Higher Education, 2006
The research on formative assessment and feedback is reinterpreted to show how these processes can help students take control of their own learning, i.e. become self-regulated learners. This reformulation is used to identify seven principles of good feedback practice that support self-regulation. A key argument is that students are already…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Feedback, Independent Study, Active Learning
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Cook-Sather, Alison – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2006
Concerned about the dehumanization of teachers and students throughout the history of schooling in the United States, the author critically analyzes two metaphors for education that have perennially shaped educational practices in the United States: education is production and education is a cure. Drawing on a set of commitments that could…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Educational Practices, Educational Philosophy, Educational History
Conley, David T. – WestEd, 2006
An ever-increasing proportion of high school students in the United States today aspire to graduate from college. Yet statistics indicate that the percentage of college students receiving bachelor's degrees has remained relatively constant over the past 25 years, that it now takes on average 6 years to get a four-year college degree, and that…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Academic Achievement, College Preparation
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Galea, Simone – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2006
The paper discusses Iris Marion Young's idea of asymmetric reciprocity that rethinks typical understandings of gift giving. Iris Marion Young's proposals for asymmetric ethical relationships have important implications for democratic contexts that seek to take differences seriously. Imagining oneself in the place of the other or expecting from the…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Teacher Student Relationship, Ethics, Individual Differences
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Goker, Suleyman Davut – Theory Into Practice, 2006
Around the world there are many schools where native speakers of other languages study English as a foreign language (EFL). In this article, I introduce a school-based reflective management model (SBRM) for such EFL schools. The model centers on creating a learning community where all changes involve reflective learning and growth for students,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reflective Teaching
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Brinkley, Christy J.; Saarnio, David A. – Journal of School Violence, 2006
Why are some students not willing to tell adults about a possibly violent situation in their school? In this study, 1,100 students in the Mid-South were surveyed on their knowledge of, and willingness to tell about, a possibly violent situation, their involvement in behaviors that are related to school violence, and their school's climate. About…
Descriptors: Violence, Prevention, Student Participation, Knowledge Level
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Swanson, Vivien; Broadbridge, Adelina; Karatzias, Athanasios – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2006
Background: Undertaking term-time employment is increasingly commonplace for university students. Much research suggests that combining "earning and learning" may be detrimental to university life, generating role conflicts, increasing stress and reducing academic success, participation and overall adjustment to university. Potential…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, Student Welfare, College Students, Student Employment
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