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Adoniou, Misty – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2015
Teachers need to know a great deal, in many areas and in multiple ways. Teacher knowledge is a complex tapestry, and teachers must successfully weave the multiple threads. In this article, I present a conceptualisation of teacher knowledge that provides a framework for describing the complexity of teacher knowledge. The framework describes three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Knowledge Level, Beginning Teachers
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Craven, Rhonda G.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1991
Effects of an intervention by teachers and researchers to enhance mathematics and reading self-concepts were studied for 162 Australian students in grades 3 through 6 with low academic self-concept. Implications of the modest enhancement of self-concept for specific facets over a relatively short period are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Attribution Theory, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
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Marjoribanks, Kevin – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1983
A model of family learning environment was constructed to study the relationship between family environments and school achievement. Data were collected from Australian families with 11-year-old children attending urban elementary schools. A semi-structured family interview inventory was used to assess dimensions of the environment model. (DWH)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Family Environment, Family Influence
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Bishop, Pamela W.; Mulford, William R. – International Journal of Educational Reform, 1996
Summarizes an ethnographic study examining interactions perceived as empowering in four inner-city primary schools in Victoria, Australia. Teachers wanted interactions between themselves and principals to be characterized by trust, recognition, respect, support, and reliability, but were disheartened by vanishing career and professional…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Elementary Education, Ethnography, Foreign Countries
Northern Territory Dept. of Education, Darwin (Australia). – 1993
This report describes the aggregated reading and mathematics performances of students in years 5 and 7 in urban Northern Territory (Australia) schools on the Primary Assessment Program (PAP) tests. The aggregated results are encouraging, with apparent gains in some reading tests over the preceding year, and no evidence of decline in the others.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment
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Simonson, Michael, Ed.; Crawford, Margaret, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2005
For the twenty-eighth year, the Research and Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the National AECT Convention in Orlando, Florida. The Proceedings of AECT's Convention are published in two…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Communications, Computer Uses in Education, Word Problems (Mathematics)