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A Pilot Study Aiming to Promote Parents' Understanding of Learning Assessments at the Elementary Level
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Deslandes, Rollande; Rivard, Marie-Claude – School Community Journal, 2013
The new Québec curriculum is different from other curriculum reforms in that it is based on a competency approach, both cross-curricular and disciplinary. It thus means a move from knowledge-based to competency-based assessments which represents a real challenge to parents who may find it hard to understand learning assessments and their child's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pilot Projects, Competency Based Education, Educational Assessment
The Role of Dance in Teacher Attitudes at a Rural Middle School
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Crawford-Willis, Antoinette – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Kentucky school districts have been charged to present an academic program review that documents the use of dance across curriculum content at all grade levels. This program review will replace statewide standardized tests for all students in the state of Kentucky and will count 20% toward each school's accountability score. Schools within the…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Middle Schools, Dance, Role
Sport Education for Teachers: Professional Development when Introducing a Novel Curriculum Model
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Sinelnikov, Oleg A. – European Physical Education Review, 2009
The purpose of this study was to provide a description of an on-site professional development program for Russian teachers as they learned to teach Sport Education. A concurrent objective was to investigate the effectiveness of this professional development opportunity. Participants were two physical education teachers (one with 27 and one with 3…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Cooperative Learning, Interviews