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Booker, Kevin; Glazerman, Steven – National Center on Performance Incentives, 2008
Although Missouri has had a Career Ladder program for teachers since 1987, very little research has been carried out to measure the program's effects and what has been studied has not been comprehensive. This paper examines the program's effect on student achievement across the state, using longitudinal data on district math and reading scores for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Teacher Persistence, Occupational Mobility, Teaching Methods
PROCTOR, VIRGINIA H.; WRIGHT, E. MURIEL J. – 1961
VARIOUS PATTERNS OF VERBAL INTERACTION WERE INVESTIGATED BETWEEN PUPILS AND TEACHERS IN CLASSROOMS WHERE FOUR TYPES OF MATHEMATICS LESSONS WERE EMPLOYED. TO DETERMINE IF SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES EXISTED IN THE AMOUNT OF VERBAL INTERACTION IN THESE 4 APPROACHES, 12 SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL AND FRESHMAN COLLEGE MATHEMATICS CLASSES WERE USED TO TEST THE…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Mathematics Instruction, Measurement Instruments, Observation
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Langham, Belinda; Sundberg, Sue; Goodman, Terry – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2006
This article describes a professional development model in which middle-grades teachers focused on algebraic thinking as part of their participation in a mathematics academy.
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Faculty Development, Algebra, Mathematics Teachers
Krater, Joan; And Others – 1994
Presenting classroom experiences and a process to help writing teachers see their own hard-to-reach students with new eyes, this book tells the story of a 6-year action research project committed to building classroom environments where cultural differences are affirmed and high achievement is fostered among all students. The book notes that the…
Descriptors: Action Research, Blacks, Class Activities, Classroom Environment
Missouri Univ., Columbia. Dept. of Practical Arts and Vocational-Technical Education. – 1987
This guide is intended to serve as Missouri's primary resource for planning, implementing, and evaluating industrial technology/industrial arts education. The following topics are covered: selecting a direction for industrial technology education (ITE) (its underlying philosophy, mission, goals); planning an ITE program (recommended scope and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Ethics, Industrial Arts, Industrial Education
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Beglau, Monica M. – T.H.E. Journal, 2005
The author begins this article by relating the experiences of her fourth-grade students who had just completed an intensive four-week project that involved crafting arguments to convince their local school board to allow a field trip to the Missouri state capitol so they could explore their state's government in person and in depth. Just one year…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Test Results, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Students
Hough, David L. – 1994
The goals of this four-phased study were to enhance the quality of educational experience for under-represented (rural, low income, and female) secondary students (N=628), and to increase their participation in mathematics and science courses beginning at the middle school level. Teachers (N=28) were asked to expand their pedagogical content…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Core Curriculum, Educational Assessment, Females