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Jaciw, Andrew P.; Wingard, Audra; Zacamy, Jenna; Lin, Li; Lau, Sze-Shun – Grantee Submission, 2021
Teacher residencies are surfacing as a promising model for teacher preparation. One such residency program--Collaboration and Reflection to Enhance Atlanta Teacher Effectiveness (CREATE)--seeks to raise student achievement in local high-needs schools by increasing the effectiveness and retention of both new and veteran educators. CREATE aims to…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Teacher Collaboration, Reflection, Teacher Effectiveness
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Bulgren, Janis A.; Deshler, Donald D.; Schumaker, Jean B.; Lenz, B. Keith – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2000
Explores the use of analogies while teaching important concepts in secondary content classrooms containing students of diverse abilities. Measures included students' knowledge of concepts, the numbers and types of analogies teachers used, and teacher and student satisfaction. Results reveal that teacher use of the routine led to increased student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Techniques, Experimental Teaching, High Schools
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Hirschhorn, Daniel B. – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1993
Compared students who had four years of the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project (UCSMP) secondary curriculum to two distinct groups of comparable students at three different sites (one urban and two suburban). UCSMP students at all three sites achieved higher but registered little difference in attitude. (Contains 48 references.) (MDH)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Longitudinal Studies, Mathematics Achievement