What Happens in Classrooms?
What Happens in Classrooms?

Author: Robin R. Henke

Publisher:

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780160500718

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This report presents estimates of the proportion of teachers who use a wide range of teaching practices, including those frequently recommended in curriculum and teaching standards and those that have traditionally been part of teachers' practice. The report analyzes data from the 1994-95 Teacher Follow-up Survey, which administered a series of items on instructional practices to a national sample of K-12 teachers in all subject areas. The report examines teachers' practices in four areas: roles that teachers and students play in learning activities; materials and technology used in the classroom; kinds of learning tasks that students complete in the classroom and at home; and how teachers assess and evaluate student learning. The report discusses whether teachers' choices of instructional strategies vary with characteristics of teachers and their students. The report concludes that U.S. teachers use a wide variety of instructional strategies on a weekly basis, including strategies recommended by reformers and traditional techniques. Student grade level and class subject area relate to the strategies for instruction that teachers choose. Teachers' instructional choices are partly responses to characteristics of their students. Teachers who participate in recent faculty development are more likely to use recommended teaching practices than those who do not. Four appendixes present detailed tables, standard error tables, technical notes and methodology, and the Teacher Follow-up Survey (questionnaire for current teachers). (Contains approximately 75 references.) (SM)

SAGE Handbook of Research on Classroom Assessment
SAGE Handbook of Research on Classroom Assessment

Author: James H. McMillan

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 577

ISBN-13: 1412995876

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The Sage Handbook of Research on Classroom Assessment provides scholars, professors, graduate students, and other researchers and policy makers in the organizations, agencies, testing companies, and school districts with a comprehensive source of research on all aspects of K-12 classroom assessment. The handbook emphasizes theory, conceptual frameworks, and all varieties of research (quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods) to provide an in-depth understanding of the knowledge base in each area of classroom assessment and how to conduct inquiry in the area. It presents classroom assessment research to convey, in depth, the state of knowledge and understanding that is represented by the research, with particular emphasis on how classroom assessment practices affect student achieventment and teacher behavior. Editor James H. McMillan and five Associate Editors bring the best thinking and analysis from leading classroom assessment researchers on the nature of the research, making significant contributions to this prominent and hotly debated topic in education.

Monitoring School Quality
Monitoring School Quality

Author: Daniel P. Mayer

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13:

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Explores why some schools may be better than others at helping students learn, reviews 13 characteristics of schools, classrooms, and teachers that are most likely related to school quality and student learning. For each indicator, the report identifies where national data are currently available and reliable. It assesses the current status of our schools by examining and critiquing these national indicator data. The report is designed for policymakers, researchers, and others interested in assessing the strength of our schools.

Bridging the Progressive-Traditional Divide in Education Reform
Bridging the Progressive-Traditional Divide in Education Reform

Author: James Nehring

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-06-04

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 0429755791

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This book brings together a variety of connected voices which consider potential ways forward for school reform. By demonstrating how the ‘subject-centered’ and ‘student-centered’ models of education can, and have been working together in various contexts, the text sets out a compelling case for an emerging movement that unites ideologies and pedagogical traditions which have traditionally been considered to be at odds with one another. In drawing from historical sources, the full range of contemporary research, and a series of investigations led by the authors, this book documents the deep back-story of school reform, and explains the powerful and largely unacknowledged consensus on what constitutes excellence in teaching and learning. This book will be of great interest to researchers, academics, and postgraduate students in the fields of school reform and educational leadership. It will also appeal to graduate students, researchers and postgraduates in the fields of history of education, educational leadership, teaching and learning, and curriculum studies.

In the Middle
In the Middle

Author: Martha Naomi Alt

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

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Prompted by widely held concerns about middle schools' academic rigor and the effectiveness of activities designed to help early adolescents develop in non-academic realms, many middle school educators have renewed efforts to develop curricula and instructional strategies that challenge students academically and expand their intellectual interests, to ensure that teachers receive appropriate training to meet student needs, and to create more nurturing and supportive environments. This report uses data from the Schools and Staffing Survey and the accompanying Teacher Follow-Up Survey to describe various aspects of middle schools, examine how they have changed over time, and compare middle schools with elementary and secondary schools. Following an introduction exploring policy issues related to middle schools, the report examines data in the areas of: (1) organization of schooling, including locations, size and other characteristics, and classroom organization and class size; (2) programs and services, including health-related services; (3) decision making and management, including site-based decision making and principals' and teachers' perceptions of their influence; (4) staffing, including qualifications, teacher workload, and staff turnover; and (5) school climate, including teacher satisfaction, and teachers' and administrators' ratings of problems at their schools. The concluding section of the report explores areas for future research. Tables and notes are appended. (Contains 66 references.) (HTH)