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Full-Text Articles in Education
Departmental Academic Advising Study At Western Washington University, Linda D. (Linda Darlene) Clark, Ryan Dickson, Jospeh E. Trimble, Pamela Jull, Gary (Gary Russell) Mckinney
Departmental Academic Advising Study At Western Washington University, Linda D. (Linda Darlene) Clark, Ryan Dickson, Jospeh E. Trimble, Pamela Jull, Gary (Gary Russell) Mckinney
Office of Institutional Effectiveness
A survey of current departmental academic advising practices and policies
Acer 1980-2004 Annual Report Index, Margaret Findlay
Acer 1980-2004 Annual Report Index, Margaret Findlay
ACER Annual Reports
No abstract provided.
An Evidence-Based Approach To School Improvement: A Case Study Of The Victorian Catholic Education Office, Melbourne, Teresa Angelico
An Evidence-Based Approach To School Improvement: A Case Study Of The Victorian Catholic Education Office, Melbourne, Teresa Angelico
2005 - Using data to support learning
The evidence based approach is integral to efforts by the Victorian Catholic sector to continually improve its effectiveness.There has been a concerted effort in the Victorian Catholic sector to broaden the professional experience and judgement of system personnel, school leaders and teachers by locating it within the available evidence and generating research studies to continually explore and test it. Evidence generation and transfer have been instrumental in shaping the design of literacy and numeracy programs.There is an increasing emphasis on using evidence as a tool for professional learning and to inform decision making related to improving the overall performance of …
Using Online Assessment To Inform Teaching And Learning In Primary And Secondary Classrooms, Jim Tognolini
Using Online Assessment To Inform Teaching And Learning In Primary And Secondary Classrooms, Jim Tognolini
2005 - Using data to support learning
In the 1980’s there was a conscious effort around Australia and in many other countries around the world to shift the focus in assessment from notions of passing and failing to those of monitoring growth; from comparing students against each other to building up an image of what it is that students know and can do at particular stages in their development; and, from collecting marks to summarise performance to providing students and teachers with information from assessment activities that can be used to help diagnose potential weaknesses and strengths and lead to improved learning. The Australian Council for Educational …
Evaluation Of The Getting It Right Literacy And Numeracy Strategy In Western Australian Schools : Using Data To Support Student Learning, Marion Meiers
Evaluation of Educational Policy and Reform Programs
This paper and the paper by Dr. Lawrence Ingvarson are companion pieces to Rosemary Cahill’s account of the intentions of the Getting it Right Literacy and Numeracy Strategy, and the model of professional development on which the strategy is based. In these papers, we present some findings from the ACER evaluation of Getting it Right. We provide detailed results from the surveys of principals undertaken in 2003 and 2004, including findings of the use of data to improve planning.These results provide evidence of the impact of the initiative, and evidence of an increase of the impact of the strategy over …
Against The Grade: In Search Of Continuity In Schooling And Learning, Geoff N. Masters
Against The Grade: In Search Of Continuity In Schooling And Learning, Geoff N. Masters
Monitoring Learning
Learning is enhanced when learning opportunities are matched to individuals' current levels of knowledge, skill and understanding, so classroom activities are likely to be most effective in raising achievement levels if they are differentiated, in other words, if teachers recognise the wide variation in children's levels of progress; if they identify individuals' interests and current levels or attainment; and if they expect different kinds of learning from different students. Uniformly high expectations and a common curriculum for all may be less effective, and ultimately more inequitable, than providing differentiated learning and differentiate expectations of individual progress towards the same high …
Evolution Of The School District Superintendent Position, Theodore J. Kowalski
Evolution Of The School District Superintendent Position, Theodore J. Kowalski
Educational Leadership Faculty Publications
Clearly, no issue is currently more crucial to the future of the position of school district superintendent than the battle being fought over professional preparation and state licensing. The intent of licensing professionals is to protect society and not the licensee. Consequently, a decision to deregulate a profession should not be made solely in political arenas in which self- and group interests are more likely to outweigh societal interests. This chapter is grounded in the belief that persons within a profession, regardless of their personal views, have a responsibility to ensure that policy debates of this magnitude will be objective …
Simulating Instructional Roles Through Pedagogical Agents, Amy L. Baylor, Yanghee Kim
Simulating Instructional Roles Through Pedagogical Agents, Amy L. Baylor, Yanghee Kim
Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences Faculty Publications
This paper describes the design and empirical validation of three distinct pedagogical agent roles (Expert, Motivator, and Mentor) for college students within the MIMIC (Multiple Intelligent Mentors Instructing Collaboratively) agent-based research environment. The pedagogical agent roles were operationalized by image, animation, affect, voice and script, and were developed in Poser 4 and implemented via Microsoft Agent. Two controlled experiments validated the instantiation of the three roles according to learner perception (N=78) and actual impact on motivation and learning (N=71). The results confirmed that the agent roles were not only perceived by the students to reflect their intended purposes but also …
Design-Based Research Strategies For Developing A Scientific Inquiry Curriculum In A Multi-User Virtual Environment, B. Nelson, D. J. Ketelhut, Jody Clarke-Midura, C. Bowman, C. Dede
Design-Based Research Strategies For Developing A Scientific Inquiry Curriculum In A Multi-User Virtual Environment, B. Nelson, D. J. Ketelhut, Jody Clarke-Midura, C. Bowman, C. Dede
Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences Faculty Publications
This National Science Foundation funded project is studying graphical multi-user virtual environments (MUVEs) to investigate whether using this interactive medium in classroom settings can simulate real-world experimentation and can provide students with engaging, meaningful learning experiences that enhance scientific literacy. In the project's River City curriculum, teams of middle school students are asked to collaboratively solve a digital 19th century city's problems with illness, through interaction with digital artifacts, tacit clues, and computer-based 'agents' acting as mentors and colleagues in a virtual community of practice. This article describes the design-based research strategy by which we are currently extending an educational …
Researching Practice, Practicing Research: Impact On Teaching And Learning, Bernadette L. Dean, Rahat Joldoshalieva, Muneeza Kizilbash
Researching Practice, Practicing Research: Impact On Teaching And Learning, Bernadette L. Dean, Rahat Joldoshalieva, Muneeza Kizilbash
Institute for Educational Development, Karachi
This paper shares the findings of an action research study on the use of whole class discussion (WCD) in the classroom and will concentrate on the benefits and learning that accrue to students and teachers from the use of action research to facilitate discussion. It was observed that teachers appreciated enlarging their instructional repertoire and they also acknowledged that stepping back during discussion, however difficult, had enabled them to learn more from the students and also develop key academic and social skills. During this project, teachers learned how to identify and address specific problems in their classrooms and students displayed …
The Power Of Student Stories: Connections That Enhance Learning, Peter Frederick
The Power Of Student Stories: Connections That Enhance Learning, Peter Frederick
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
Telling and listening to student stories connects our students’ prior experiences and knowledge and their hopes and fears with the core learning goals teachers value and thereby furthers deeper learning.
Powerpoint: What Is The Point, Eugene V. Gallagher, Michael Reder
Powerpoint: What Is The Point, Eugene V. Gallagher, Michael Reder
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
This essay summarizes the literature on PowerPoint as a tool for learning, addresses both its potential problems as well as its possibilities, and offers guidelines on its effective use in teaching.
Transitions: What’S Love Got To Do With It?, Kathleen T. Brinko
Transitions: What’S Love Got To Do With It?, Kathleen T. Brinko
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
This essay addresses strategies for managing the transition of new faculty into the academy in order to avoid disenchantment and leaving the academy before tenure.
Teaching For Diversity And Inclusiveness In Science, Technology, Engineering And Math (Stem), Angela Linse, Wayne Jacobson, Lois Reddick
Teaching For Diversity And Inclusiveness In Science, Technology, Engineering And Math (Stem), Angela Linse, Wayne Jacobson, Lois Reddick
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
This essay explores the challenges STEM faculty face in recognizing, developing and implementing classroom practices that support diverse students.
Validity, Research, And Reality: Student Ratings Of Instruction At The Crossroads, Jennifer Franklin
Validity, Research, And Reality: Student Ratings Of Instruction At The Crossroads, Jennifer Franklin
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
This essay explores how student ratings of instruction can address the rise of new paradigms of instruction such as active learning strategies and web-based delivery modes.
A Roadmap To Part-Time Faculty Success, Terri A. Tarr
A Roadmap To Part-Time Faculty Success, Terri A. Tarr
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
This essay offers practical strategies to help part-time faculty navigate the twists and turns of teaching part-time, enhance their teaching effectiveness, and make their roles more personally satisfying.
Teaching Bioethics Through Participation And Policy-Making, Karey A. Harwood
Teaching Bioethics Through Participation And Policy-Making, Karey A. Harwood
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
The teaching of bioethics calls for a balance between conceptual analysis and the use of concrete cases in order to further students’ ability to reason critically and develop the traits of engaged citizens.
Why Knowing About Disciplinary Differences Can Mean More Effective Teaching, Michele Marinkovich, Jack Prostko
Why Knowing About Disciplinary Differences Can Mean More Effective Teaching, Michele Marinkovich, Jack Prostko
Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives
This essay explores some of the latest research on how disciplinary differences affect faculty’s teaching in subtle and often unconscious ways.
Spicing Up Motor Skill Performance For All, Scott Ronspies
Spicing Up Motor Skill Performance For All, Scott Ronspies
Faculty Research and Creative Activity
No abstract provided.
Analyzing Csr Implementation With The Rasch Model, Susan Gracia
Analyzing Csr Implementation With The Rasch Model, Susan Gracia
Faculty Publications
The purpose of this research was to examine the measurement properties of a CSR Implementation Scale developed using classical test theory. Rasch analyses were employed to determine (1) the degree to which the scale meets the assumptions of the Rasch model; 2) the validity and reliability of the scale; 3) how respondents utilize the rating scale; 4) the nature of the continuum of CSR implementation; and 5) ways to optimize scale length, both in terms of eliminating redundancy and adding items where gaps in the continuum of the CSR implementation variable might occur.
A Comparison Of School-Based And Community-Based Adherence To Wraparound During Family Planning Meetings, Philip D. Nordness
A Comparison Of School-Based And Community-Based Adherence To Wraparound During Family Planning Meetings, Philip D. Nordness
Special Education and Communication Disorders Faculty Publications
Recently a number of studies have begun to examine how the wraparound approach is adhered to during family planning meetings in community-based settings. However, no studies have compared wraparound family planning meetings across community-based and school-based settings. The purpose of this study was to examine adherence to the wraparound approach during family planning meetings across school-based and community-based settings to determine if there is a difference in the participants, domains discussed, and key characteristics of wraparound. Over the course of 9 months, observations were conducted on community-based (N = 85) and school-based (N = 109) wraparound family planning meetings. Results …
Ua56/1 Fact Book, Wku Institutional Research
Ua56/1 Fact Book, Wku Institutional Research
WKU Archives Records
Statistical and demographic profile of WKU.
Developing Policy For Part-Time School Administration Faculty, Theodore J. Kowalski
Developing Policy For Part-Time School Administration Faculty, Theodore J. Kowalski
Educational Leadership Faculty Publications
This inquiry is an analysis of the trend toward infusing practitioners into the preparation of school administrators. Motives for increasing the number of part-time employees in higher education are identified and specific problems associated with the deployment of these instructors are discussed. The argument is made that the merits of this trend depend on the extent to which department policy addresses adjunct faculty employment, deployment and development in relation to a reform vision and strategy. Essential policy considerations related to involving practitioners are recommended.
Supervisor Perceptions Of The Quality Of Troops To Teachers Program Completers And Program Completer Perceptions Of Their Preparation To Teach: A National Survey, William A. Owings, Leslie S. Kaplan, John Nunnery, Robert Marzano, Steven Myran, David Blackburn
Supervisor Perceptions Of The Quality Of Troops To Teachers Program Completers And Program Completer Perceptions Of Their Preparation To Teach: A National Survey, William A. Owings, Leslie S. Kaplan, John Nunnery, Robert Marzano, Steven Myran, David Blackburn
Educational Foundations & Leadership Faculty Publications
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During winter/spring, 2005, 2,103 Troops to Teachers (T3) program completers and their school administrators from 49 states and the District of Columbia were surveyed to determine whether T3s were more effective in the classroom than traditionally prepared teachers who had comparable years of teaching experience. Respondents also returned information about their schools’ demographics, views about their teacher certification preparation program, and information about themselves, their teaching behaviors, and future plans. Sixty-one percent of the respondents returned completed surveys.
Fourth Grade Student Achievement On Math Standardized Tests In The Absence Of A Math Curriculum, Trista Manternach
Fourth Grade Student Achievement On Math Standardized Tests In The Absence Of A Math Curriculum, Trista Manternach
Graduate Research Papers
Throughout the last few decades the importance of reading instruction has been the focus for schools and school districts across the nation. At Lincoln Elementary School in Waterloo, Iowa the focus has been no different. However, in the last two years, academic achievement in the area of math has become as important as reading with the advent of No Child Left Behind.
Although teachers were told that math was important, they lacked a required curriculum until a year after math became a focus of student achievement. The purpose of this study is to answer the following question: Did the absence …