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How caring informs teaching.
(2006)
This study is a qualitative investigation into the concept of care based on a heuristic research design constructed by Clark Moustakas. The researcher relied on the belief that teachers are knowers through lived experience ...
Staff development process that results in change: A training of trainers cadre.
(1997)
Findings that facilitate the implementation process were: (1) provide time for professional development; (2) ensure district and principal support; (3) establish follow-up and maintenance procedures; (4) designate someone ...
Perceptions of AIDS education issues: A qualitative study of at risk individuals.
(1998)
The research affirmed certain elements of current AIDS education theories and revealed areas which should be added to instructional methods and curriculum content. Significant patterns affecting the participants' behavior ...
A teacher's perspective of the effectiveness of the Shurley Method of Language Arts Instruction.
(1998)
Research methods included observations of the language arts teacher in fifth-grade classrooms, interviews, and stimulated recall interviews. Administrators were also interviewed to assist in determining the context of the ...
Slippage between the ideological and formal domains :
(1983)
According to Goodlad, slippage is likely to occur when an idea from the ideological domain is put into practice. Some of its elements may be modified through the sociopolitical and personal interpretative processes involved.
Learning strategies, cognitive strategies, and process variables used by high school students in social studies classes.
(2003)
This grounded theory study sought to understand how tenth grade public school students in average and advanced classes used strategies for learning material in their high school social studies classes. This study sought ...
An analysis of stage theory related to beginning social studies teachers: Research on professional development.
(1998)
With the consideration of the purpose and goals of this study, a qualitative research paradigm, with emphasis on using constant comparative analysis, was applied in this investigation. Data that were gathered in this ...
Historical development of social studies education in Jordanian secondary schools since 1921.
(2005)
An overall analysis of data reveals that some factors in the Jordanian culture have been considered hindrances to the development of social studies education and the adoption of the new teaching approaches. These include: ...
Are our children reading proficiently and how would we know? An examination of state and national elementary reading assessments.
(2007)
The states were divided into groups by performance levels based on the difference in the proportion of students scoring at proficient levels and above between their state and the NAEP 2005 fourth grade reading assessments ...
Dual-mode faculty's frame of reference and evolving approach to teaching over ITV: A phenomenological study.
(1999)
Distance education used to mean the learner and teacher were separated by time and/or geography. The advent of telecommunications technologies has changed this typology. Now, teachers can teach their traditional students ...