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Cultivating And Sustaining A Faculty Culture Of Data-Driven Teaching And Learning: A Systems Approach, Marsha Lovett, Chad Hershock
Cultivating And Sustaining A Faculty Culture Of Data-Driven Teaching And Learning: A Systems Approach, Marsha Lovett, Chad Hershock
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
A prominent goal of colleges and universities today is to enact data-driven teaching and learning. Faculty clearly play a key role, and yet they tend to have limited time, a lack of training in assessment or education research, and few incentives for engaging in this work. We describe a framework designed to address the practical and cultural aspects of these challenges via a cycle of educational development and support: motivate, educate, facilitate, disseminate. We illustrate this systems approach with concrete examples and conclude with lessons learned from our experiences that should translate to a variety of institutional contexts.
Indonesian Teachers Beliefs On The Gap Between Educational Research And Practice, Yoppy Wahyu Purnomo, Puri Pramudiani, Tian Abdul Aziz, Amrita Kaur, Siti Noor Ismail, Ishaq Nuriadin
Indonesian Teachers Beliefs On The Gap Between Educational Research And Practice, Yoppy Wahyu Purnomo, Puri Pramudiani, Tian Abdul Aziz, Amrita Kaur, Siti Noor Ismail, Ishaq Nuriadin
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
Teachers' beliefs towards educational research has become one significant factor in explaining the gap between research and practice. The present study aimed at reviewing the scale to measure teachers' beliefs about the causes and problems related to research-based practices, describing beliefs that teachers appear to hold, and examining its relation to their demographic characteristics. The study involved 466 in-service teachers in Jakarta Province. The study employed the 24-item scale developed by Broekkamp and van Hout-Wolters (2007). The study indicated that 20 out of 24 items of the scale were valid and reliable to measure the teachers’ beliefs. The scale consisted …