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Direct linkIris Campbell – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of the qualitative exploratory case study was to explore third through fifth-grade teachers' perceptions of how being provided with curriculum-based professional development could influence instructional techniques and skills in the classroom. Two research questions guided the study. The questions focused on third to fifth-grade…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 3, Grade 4
Peer reviewedvan der Scheer, Emmelien A.; Visscher, Adrie J. – Journal of Teacher Education, 2018
Data-based decision making (DBDM) is an important element of educational policy in many countries, as it is assumed that student achievement will improve if teachers worked in a data-based way. However, studies that evaluate rigorously the effects of DBDM on student achievement are scarce. In this study, the effects of an intensive…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Intervention, Decision Making, Management Information Systems
Download full textTaylor, Joseph; Roth, Kathleen; Wilson, Christopher; Stuhlsatz, Molly; Tipton, Elizabeth – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
Over a decade ago, Borko (2004) raised the awareness of the education research community to the critical need for studies of teacher professional development (PD) programs. She states on page 13: "My challenge to the educational research community is this: We have much work to do and many questions to answer in order to provide high-quality…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Outcomes of Education, Science Instruction, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Norford, Jennifer A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of the study was to identify effective pedagogical strategies to increase 4th grade students' mathematics problem-solving skills. Numerous researchers have looked at mathematics problem solving; however, there is a scarcity of data relating to 4th grade mathematics problem solving proficiency. Fourth grade students at the…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Mathematics, Word Problems (Mathematics)
Wolkenhauer, Rachel; Boynton, Sylvia; Dana, Nancy Fichtman – Teacher Education and Practice, 2011
This article presents a framework for establishing inquiry as a foundation of a teacher education program to help prospective and practicing teachers view inquiry not as a project but as a stance. Cochran-Smith and Lytle (2009) assert that "working from an inquiry stance involves a continual process of making current arrangements problematic,…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Education, Inquiry, Teacher Researchers
Buczynski, Sandy; Hansen, C. Bobbi – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2010
An Inquiry Learning Partnership (ILP) for professional development (PD) was formed between a university, science centre, and two urban school districts to offer 4-6th grade teachers specific science content and pedagogical techniques intended to integrate inquiry-based instruction in elementary classrooms. From pre/post content exams, PD surveys,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Urban Schools, Focus Groups, Science Achievement
Jones, Elizabeth; Hampton, Eric M.; Brown, Elizabeth M.; Leinenbach, Marylin T. – Professional Development in Education, 2009
Sixty-five fourth-grade, fifth-grade and sixth-grade teachers in the Midwestern United States participated in professional development opportunities designed to increase their mathematics content knowledge and pedagogical knowledge over a two-year series of workshops. Through the use of pre-tests and post-tests assessing content knowledge and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Workshops, Grade 5
