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Ramirez, Anely; Koljatic, Mladen; Silva, Monica – International Journal of Testing, 2020
The study addresses the association between coaching practices and university admission test performance in Chile. Estimates of coaching effects are reported for test-takers from the private and public school systems. Our results indicate that coaching is associated with variations in test scores. The estimated magnitude of coaching appears to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Entrance Examinations, Test Preparation, Coaching (Performance)
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Bowne, Jocelyn Bonnes; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; Snow, Catherine E. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2017
This study evaluates the relationships between aspects of Chilean teachers' explicit vocabulary instruction and students' vocabulary development in kindergarten. Classroom videotapes of whole-class instruction gathered during a randomized experimental evaluation of a coaching-based professional development program were analyzed. The amount of…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Vocabulary Development, Outcomes of Education, Teacher Student Relationship
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Barahona, Malba; Davin, Kristin J. – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2021
The international trend towards a practice-based approach in teacher education has permeated foreign language teacher education and English language teaching. A practice-based approach is based on the understanding that teachers learn to teach a language by engaging in "actual" teaching rather than "talking" about teaching. We…
Descriptors: International Cooperation, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; Leyva, Diana; Snow, Catherine E.; Treviño, Ernesto; Barata, M. Clara; Weiland, Christina; Gomez, Celia J.; Moreno, Lorenzo; Rolla, Andrea; D'Sa, Nikhit; Arbour, Mary Catherine – Developmental Psychology, 2015
We assessed impacts on classroom quality and on 5 child language and behavioral outcomes of a 2-year teacher professional-development program for publicly funded prekindergarten and kindergarten in Chile. This cluster-randomized trial included 64 schools (child N = 1,876). The program incorporated workshops and in-classroom coaching. We found…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten