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Peer reviewedDicker, Mary – Theory into Practice, 1990
A Canadian secondary school teacher relates how reflecting on her teaching decisions through action research enabled her to cope with teaching a course in an unfamiliar subject area. (IAH)
Descriptors: Action Research, Drama, English Instruction, Foreign Countries
Download full textHenderson, Bob; Mehta, Sonali; Elrick, Michael – 1996
School-based outdoor and experiential programs face an increasing demand from outside interests for research-based accountability. This paper suggests that both research and practice are strengthened by researcher-practitioner partnerships and by practitioners conducting their own research. Three modest qualitative research designs are explored as…
Descriptors: Action Research, Classroom Research, Concept Mapping, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedHarris, Bridgette; Drake, Susan M. – Action in Teacher Education, 1997
Describes how one high school implemented schoolwide action research teams as a comprehensive change management strategy to develop teacher leaders, teachers as change agents, and a collaborative reflective culture. The three-year case study showed that work on action research teams did not come naturally or easily, but teachers improved over time…
Descriptors: Action Research, Educational Change, Educational Research, Faculty Development
Peer reviewedSurry, Clint; Roth, Wolff-Michael – Research in Science Education, 1999
Describes one teacher's first attempt to understand the role of students' self-evaluations of their process and products in a science unit centered upon open-ended projects. Describes the social structure in student group self-evaluation, and explains the important role students' self-evaluations can play as part of an open-ended project learning…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Evaluation, Foreign Countries, High Schools
Russell, Tom – 1993
An educator who teaches physics to grade 12 students and a physics curriculum and methods course to preservice teachers analyzes the impact of context on teaching practice. A paper by A. Richert titled "Voice and Power in Teaching and Learning To Teach" is used as the foundation for interpreting the author's experience of teaching…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Context Effect, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries
Russell, Tom – 1992
A teacher educator took over a high school physics teachers' class for a semester in exchange for the physics teacher taking over his university physics methods classes. The paper presents the perceptions of people involved in the experience. Students at both schools accepted the situation well. University students, invited to observe their…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research, College School Cooperation
Willinsky, John; Bobie, Allen – 1986
Statewide competency testing as a high school graduation requirement represents a threat to those who encourage broad notions of reading and writing, even when a number of testing innovations in reading and writing mean a step forward in education. In Alberta, Canada, the English exam comes in a non-academic and an academic version, and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, English Curriculum, Essays, Foreign Countries
