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Developing Teachers’ Skills In Thar Desert Area, Sindh, Pakistan, Saeed Nasim, Parvez Pirzado

Book Chapters / Conference Papers

This paper aims to present AKU-IED’s experiences about working in the Thar Desert Area of Sindh. AKU-IED aimed to develop teachers’ skills and to help them provide quality education to the children of the said underprivileged and remote area of Pakistan.

School Improvement In Multi-Grade Situation (Sims): An Innovation Of The Pdcc, Jalal Wali Khan

Book Chapters / Conference Papers

Professional Development Center, Chitral (PDCC), since its establishment in Chitral, is committed to work with its partner education providers for the improvement of quality of teaching and learning in schools. PDCC believes that effective teaching and learning in primary, acts as a foundation stone for higher education, but currently it does not happen in majority of our primary schools. Multi-grade situation in primary schools is one of the many reasons of low quality education. School Improvement in Multi-grade Situation (SIMS) was piloted in five schools aiming to improve the current Multi-grade Teaching (MGT) situation in schools. This study intended to …

Status Of Teachers And Teaching: Conclusions, Implications And Recommendations, Anjum Halai

Book Chapters / Conference Papers

No abstract provided.

Perspectives On Teacher Status: Issues And Challenges, Nilofar Vazir, John Retallick

Book Chapters / Conference Papers

No abstract provided.

Educational Development Projects At Ied: Towards School Improvement, Khalid Mahmood, Nilofar Vazir

Book Chapters / Conference Papers

The M.Ed. program at The Aga Khan University Institute for Educational Development (AKU-IED) helps to develop Course Participants (CPs) as teacher educators/educational leaders. AKU-IED always welcomes innovations in its various programmes. The Educational Development Project (EDP) was conceived as an alternative to research to develop CPs’ knowledge and skills required for developmental work. The EDP is concerned with capacity building at classroom and school level depending on the needs of the relevant stakeholders. A contextually relevant model was adapted for EDP at AKU-IED. The purpose of the study was to investigate the course developed for EDP at AKUIED. For the …

Teacher Mentoring Programme: A Vehicle To Support Professional Development For Improving The Quality Of Education In Districts Of Sindh And Balochistan Of Pakistan, Rakhshinda Meher, Asghari Ummulbanin, Ghazala Mursaleen

Book Chapters / Conference Papers

In general practices it is noticed that there is greater improvement in teacher’s performance if they refresh themselves by attending different professional development programmes. They start rethinking about their role as effective teacher and how to support novice teachers. In order to support the novice teachers and develop them professionally there is a need of quality teacher education programme. Literature reveals that “Teacher mentoring programs have dramatically increased since the early 1980s as a vehicle to support and retain novice teachers. The vast majority of what has been written about mentoring focused on what mentors should believe and do in …

A Case Study In Using Electronic Presentation Media To Teach Mathematics, Brian Watson

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

Over the past decade the United Kingdom (UK) Government has invested substantially in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in all sectors of education. Investment has been in infrastructure, staff development and educational software. At the same time there has been concern about the achievements in mathematics of school leavers and about the decline in numbers of students choosing to study mathematics in Higher Education. Through its Widening Participation initiative, (UK) Government intends to increase the number of students entering Higher Education. An account is given of a project to make appropriate use of computer-based projection materials in the delivery of …

Moving Beyond Strict Scrutiny: The Need For A More Nuanced Standard Of Protection Analysis For K Through 12 Integration Programs, Deborah N. Archer

Articles & Chapters

In Comfort v. Lynn School Committee, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit evaluated a race-conscious student assignment program using the affirmative action strict scrutiny framework of Grutter v. Bollinger. Comfort is part of a trend of applying strict scrutiny to race-conscious integration programs that has gained new momentum following the decision in Grutter. Invited by the Supreme Court's seemingly unequivocal language in Adarand Constructors v. Pena, that "all racial classifications, imposed by whatever federal, state, or local governmental actor, must be analyzed by a reviewing court under strict scrutiny," federal district and appellate courts confronted with …

Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/01 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Hugging the middle : teaching in an era of testing and accountability, 1980, Äì2005 / Larry Cuban.

One Problem, Two Contexts, Danielle L. Gigger

Theses and Dissertations

In this study, a group of students were presented with two mathematically isomorphic problems but in radically different contexts. Analysis of their thinking and reasoning as they worked to solve and explain each problem demonstrates that the thinking and reasoning that emerged in each problem responded to clear purposes that the problems elicited in these students. The first problem was posed in a context that relied on experience and intuition rather than a formal mathematical description. The second problem was posed in a formal, set-theoretic context. While the analysis offered here reveals similarities in the students' final reasoning in the …

The Role Of Early Childhood Care And Education: An Anti-Poverty Perspective, Noirin Hayes

Reports

No abstract provided.

Achievement Within An Accelerated Christian Education School, Susan E. Verhaalen

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

The purpose of this study is to provide achievement data regarding children who study the ACE curriculum at a West Virginia Christian School and compare it to data of children attending public school in Wood County West Virginia. Findings show that no differences emerged among years or grades within the WVCS. Compared to the Wood County Public Schools achievement criteria, WVCS grade levels met or exceeded that criterion 17.9% of the time. Conversely, 82.1% of the time, WVCS failed to meet the Wood County Public School achievement criteria.

The Inadequacy Of Adequacy Guarantees: A Historical Commentary On State Constitutional Provisions That Are The Basis For School Finance Litigation, Joseph P. Viteritti

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.

A Study Of The Relationship Between The Utilization Of Nwea Map Testing And Student Achievement, Susan E. Delong

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This research determined if a relationship existed between the Northwest Evaluation Association's computer-adaptive test known as Measures of Academic Progress and ISTEP+ scores. The first goal was to determine if significant differences existed between the ISTEP+ scores of the two groups: schools utilizing NWEA MAP and the schools not utilizing NWEA MAP. The second goal was to further understand the relationship by determining if the degree of implementation of the NWEA MAP test had a significant impact on ISTEP+ scores. The population for this study was established two ways. NWEA MAP schools were established by review of public information made …

Incorporating Art Into Education : The Importance Of Teaching Creatively In A Standards Based Classroom, Monica Petersen

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Art education is an important aspect of overall learning and schools are failing to provide adequate art education programs for students. Eighty-nine percent of Americans believe that art education is important enough to be taught in schools, and still, art education is being allowed to slip out the backdoor without anyone asking why (National Arts Education, 2007). If teachers could incorporate art into the current curriculum, students would benefit and art could be used as a valuable teaching tool. An art resource packet was created for teachers in response to the interviews conducted. The resource packet contains information on how …

A Review Of Literature On The Migrant Education Program And Its Involvement On The Education System, Omar Sabbah

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

This literature review will inform the readers about the importance of the migrant education program into the educational system. As well it will show their involvement in the success of migrant students around the state of California. Giving the reader a better understanding about the program and informing about the services provided by the program. The literature review would also focus on the struggles and living conditions migrant students have to endure. In prospective it will explain as well the role of the MEP, as to better the living conditions of migrant students. A high percentage of migrant students end …

Using The Dynamic Indicators For Basic Early Literacy Skills To Predict Success On Statewide Achievement Tests, Heidi J. Kotva

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The present study examined a variety of issues related to the process of children learning to read and theEducational community's response to children having difficulties learning to read. Two of the issues examined were high-stakes testing and reaction to intervention (RTI). The reading evaluation measure, the Dynamic Indicators for Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) is one measure that works within the RTI model. The purpose of the current study was to examine the predictive value of the DIBELS evaluation measures with scores on high-stakes achievement tests to examine if the DIBELS can assist in predicting early in a child'sEducation which …

Inclusive Education In India, Kumar Sanjeev Ph.D., Khagendra Kumar Ph.D.

Electronic Journal for Inclusive Education

India is one of the few countries world over where the education of children with special needs doesn’t fall within the purview of human resource development ministry. It is generally the burden of the omnibus ministry of social justice and empowerment, the prime focus of which is rehabilitation, not education. In fact, till today it does not have education as part of its agenda and the issue of education of children with disabilities remains imperceptible, hidden from the public domain, a private problem for families and NGOs to deal with. It’s time that governmental agencies as well as mainstream institutions …

How International Teaching Assistants Conceptualize Teaching Higher Order Thinking: A Grounded Theory Approach, Mathew Joseph Choorapanthiyil

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In this 21 st century, leaders inEducation, business, and government are concerned about improving the quality of teaching and student thinking. Studies that explore the international teaching assistants' (ITAs) conceptualization of thinking and its teaching are very limited. Generally, such studies focus on the ITAs' communication skills, language proficiency, interaction skills, and classroom management. The present research study explores how eight ITAs conceptualized teaching higher-order thinking (HOT). The purpose of the study was to explore how ITAs' conceptualized HOT and transferred their concepts into teaching. The objective was to explain the underlying process of the development of schemata and the …

A Model Dual Immersion High School Curriculum, Alma Leticia Campana

Theses Digitization Project

The main goal of this project is to develop a dual immersion program at the high school level. This project proposes a general curriculum design of the high school immersion program, including criteria for a successful program.

Recruitment And Retention: The Role Of The Public Image Of Engineering, Eddie Conlon

Conference papers

This paper presents findings of three surveys conducted with first year students in the Faculty of Engineering in the Dublin Institute of Technology. It focuses on their motivation for studying engineering and the people who influenced the decision to do engineering. It shows there are gaps in the students’ knowledge of their programmes and also between their expectations and their experience of their course. Some proposed areas of action are identified to increase both recruitment and retention. It is argued that projecting an image of engineering as a creative activity would help in addressing recruitment and retention issues.

Enabling P2p Cooperative Wms Proxy Caching And Prefetching In An Educational Environment, Jeffrey A. Bergamini, Michael Haungs

Computer Science and Software Engineering

Given the great demand and promise for educational use of GIS, real time access to massive remote geospatial datasets for pedagogical purposes would be immensely useful to educators and students. However, such access has remained elusive. In other work, we have demonstrated that a P2P distributed system of client-side proxies can address the challenges posed by the interactive, multiplicative, and exploratory nature of classroom GIS, and we described this system at a high level. In this paper, we present the details of several novel techniques that enable P2P cooperative caching and prefetching of OGC WMS data in an educational lab …

Teaching Time Savers: Is Homework Grading On Your Nerves?, Lisette G. De Pillis, Michael E. Orrison Jr.

All HMC Faculty Publications and Research

You have probably heard it said that we learn mathematics best when we do mathematics, or that mathematics is not a spectator sport. For most of our students, this means that their mathematics courses will involve a fair amount of homework. This homework is often used to evaluate individual student progress, but it can also be used, for example, as a catalyst for discussion, to emphasize a point made in class, and to identify common misunderstandings throughout the class as a whole. There is, however, the matter of grading homework.

Changes In Preservice Teachers' Observations Of Middle Georgia Schools And Teacher Practice In The Inclusion Of Students With Disabilities From 1998 To 2006, Karen K. Brooks Ph.D.

Electronic Journal for Inclusive Education

This mixed method study found that teachers’ attitudes toward inclusion practices in the middle Georgia area in the past six years have become more inclusive. The study also showed that teachers’ attitudes about inclusion varied from elementary, middle and high schools; and those teachers’ attitudes do affect the implementation of inclusion. The participants were preservice teachers in elementary, middle, high school and special education classrooms. They completed a questionnaire to evaluate their field placements by rating their experiences and noting their observations of inclusive education in local schools where they were required to volunteer 20 hours weekly for about six …

Radar Performance Analysis System: A Software Package Of Learning Simulations For Electronic Laboratories, Ru-Ying Roger Lee, Asad Yousuf

Journal of Applied Science & Engineering Technology

The purpose of this paper is to present design/development and implementation of the automated end-to-end functional radar simulation software package: Radar Performance Analysis System (RPAS). This study demonstrates its usefulness as an educational tool. The review of literature supports the use of technology in a variety of learning environments. In addition, this study suggests that RPAS can be extended to solve problems of dynamic systems.

Lesson Plans Got You Stumped? Gov. Docs. Can Help!, Augustana College - Sioux Falls

Education/Employment

Bibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from Augustana College, South Dakota.

Interdisciplinary Middle School Teaming, Donna J. Cronin

Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine how the substance of interdisciplinary team meetings reflects team members' beliefs regarding the middle school concept and the school practices and cultural characteristics as delineated by the National Middle School Association (NMSA, 2005), which create successful middle schools for young adolescents.

The teachers of three interdisciplinary teams in an evolving middle school in the Northeast were participants in this bounded case study where the team was the unit of analysis.

Individual team member data were collected through individual audio taped interviews and validated by questionnaire responses from each participant. Team meeting discourse …

Understanding Abstract Algebra Concepts, Anna S. Titova

Doctoral Dissertations

This study discusses various theoretical perspectives on abstract concept formation. Students' reasoning about abstract objects is described based on theoretical proposition that abstraction is a shift from abstract to concrete. Existing literature suggested a theoretical framework for the study. The framework describes process of abstraction through its elements: assembling, theoretical generalization into abstract entity, and articulation. The elements of the theoretical framework are identified from students' interpretations of and manipulations with elementary abstract algebra concepts including the concepts of binary operation, identity and inverse element, group, subgroup, cyclic group. To accomplish this, students participating in the abstract algebra class were …

Urban Middle School Teachers' Efficacy Change Resulting From Project Adventure's Year -Long Respect Curricular Intervention: A Quasi -Experimental Design With Corroborating Data, M Brooke Moran

Doctoral Dissertations

Over 30 years of research highlight the effect teachers' beliefs about their teaching abilities (i.e., teacher efficacy) have on their professional actions (i.e., teachers' effectiveness). Yet the literature addressing this connection lacks extensive insight into how to raise teachers' efficacy. The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of Project Adventure's RESPECT Program in raising middle school teachers' efficacy in four northeastern urban public schools.

This pretest-posttest quasi-experimental study tracked 68 teachers' efficacy change over the course of one school year. Teacher Efficacy (TE) change was measured using the Teachers' Sense of Efficacy Scale's (TSES) following subscales: Student …

Role Of Reflection In Facilitating Teachers For Gender Sensitive Political Literacy Instruction, Sadaf Furqan

Institute for Educational Development, Karachi

This paper is written around the study that was initiated to analyze the challenges that students especially girls face in being developed as leaders in the political sphere. It was carried out to understand how a teacher educator could facilitate gender sensitive political literacy instruction in schools through action research. Reflection is embedded at every stage in Action Research. Reflection helps teachers in shifting the focus from what they teach to what students learn. The research process involved exploring, understanding and reflecting on teachers’ current perceptions and practices of gender sensitive political literacy instruction. Later, teachers were facilitated to teach …