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The Right Stuff: Inquiry Training, Teaching & Transfer For Content Mastery In The Sciences, Alice Coe, Ruthanne Thompson
The Right Stuff: Inquiry Training, Teaching & Transfer For Content Mastery In The Sciences, Alice Coe, Ruthanne Thompson
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
The standardized testing movement has inadvertently placed pressure on elementary and secondary instructors to teach to the test. Primarily this is manifested through memorization and testing skills training and less on developing content mastery and problem solving. Hands-on activities (also referred to as inquiry learning) are lauded by the literature as an effective methodology in the development of content mastery (Akerson, V., Hanson, D., & Cullen, T.; NSF, 2010; Smith, T., Desimone, L., Zeidner, T., Dunn, A., Bhatt, M. & Rumyantseva, N., 2007). Nevertheless, administrators often see the inquiry method as an ineffective use of classroom and training time diverting …
What Is Rigor?: A Qualitative Analysis Of One School’S Definition, Heather Bower, Joelle Powers
What Is Rigor?: A Qualitative Analysis Of One School’S Definition, Heather Bower, Joelle Powers
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
In an era of increasing accountability, school administrators and faculties often find themselves amid a plethora of best practices and strategies aimed at improving students’ academic achievement. In the midst of these discussions, school culture is often hailed as the key to creating effective schools because it defines how people within a particular school are to behave and what they are to value (Stolp & Smith, 1995). Furthermore, it allows administrators to draw attention to some of the culture’s most important aspects: its values, beliefs, and assumptions that create the school’s vision for excellence (Stolp & Smith, 1995). Malloy (2005) …