Teacher self-assessment: A mechanism for facilitating professional growth     

John A. Ross  Catherine D. Bruce 《Teaching and Teacher Education》2007

Self-assessment is a powerful technique for improving achievement. In this article we outline a theory of teacher change that links self-assessment by teachers to their professional growth. This theory provides avenues for peers and change agents to influence teacher practice. We apply the theory to change in mathematics teaching and report an explanatory case study in which use of the self-assessment tool, in combination with other elements, contributed to change in the instructional practice of a grade 8 mathematics teacher. Provision of a self-assessment tool contributed to teacher growth by: (1) influencing the teacher's definition of excellence in teaching and increasing his ability to recognize mastery experiences; (2) helping the teacher select improvement goals by providing him with clear standards of teaching, opportunities to find gaps between desired and actual practices, and a menu of options for action; (3) facilitating communication with the teacher's peer; and (4) increasing the influence of external change agents on teacher practice. The study argues that providing a self-assessment tool is a constructive strategy for improving the effectiveness of in-service provided it is bundled with other professional growth strategies: peer coaching, observation by external change agents, and focused input on teaching strategies  相似文献   

Social Background,Identity and Emergent Political Consciousness in the Sixth Form     

John Quicke 《Cambridge Journal of Education》1991,21(1):5-18

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Measurement and assessment in Education‐‐The B.Ed. Psychology Practical     

John Murrell  David Bruce 《Cambridge Journal of Education》1971,1(3):130-136

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II. Method Overview     

Daniel R. Anderson  Aletha C. Huston  Kelly L. Schmitt  Deborah L. Linebarger  & John C. Wright 《Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development》2001,66(1):10-24

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Measuring the attitudes of human service professionals toward deafness     

Cooper A  Rose J  Mason O 《American annals of the deaf》2004,148(5):385-389

The Attitudes to Deafness Scale is a 22-item measure of attitudes toward people who are deaf designed for use with human service professionals. Attitude statements were generated from personal accounts by deaf people in the literature and from a focus group in which deaf people discussed their experience of hearing people's attitudes toward them. A 60-item scale was administered to a group of 121 clinical and forensic psychologists during their training. Item analysis was conducted to select items that effectively distinguished participants with a positive attitude from those with a negative attitude toward deaf people. The scale may be used in any context where a professional group comes into contact with people who are deaf.  相似文献   

A Professional Development System as a Catalyst for Changing Science Teachers   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：1  

Shymansky  James A.  Henriques  Laura  Chidsey  Jennifer L.  Dunkhase  John  Jorgensen  Margaret  Yore  Larry D. 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》1997,8(1):29-42

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Megabits     

Andrew Stein  Con Nikakis  John Bentley  Rob Jovanovic 《TechTrends》2001,45(2):27-27

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The nature of discrimination learning in pigeons     

Pearce JM  Esber GR  George DN  Haselgrove M 《Learning & behavior》2008,36(3):188-199

The results from five experiments are considered in relation to two of Spence's (1937, 1938) proposals concerning discrimination learning. In Experiments 1 and 2, we investigated whether his ideas about the interaction between excitatory and inhibitory generalization gradients can be used to understand how animals solve a complex patterning discrimination. The results supported a development of his proposals as put forward by Pearce (1994), provided a modification was made to Pearce's rulefor determining the shape ofthe generalization gradient. In Experiments 3, 4, and 5, we examined whether animals would pay more attention to stimuli that are relevant, rather than irrelevant, to the solution of a discrimination. The results supported this proposal for stimuli comprising visual patterns, but not for those comprising plain colors. The results also indicated that change of attention was a consequence of preliminary receptor-exposure acts, as envisaged by Spence, and not of more central changes in attention.  相似文献   

Brief Research Report: Bayesian Versus REML Estimations With Noninformative Priors in Multilevel Single-Case Data     

Eunkyeng Baek  S. Natasha Beretvas  Wim Van den Noortgate  John M. Ferron 《Journal of Experimental Education》2020,88(4):698-710

Abstract

Recently, researchers have used multilevel models for estimating intervention effects in single-case experiments that include replications across participants (e.g., multiple baseline designs) or for combining results across multiple single-case studies. Researchers estimating these multilevel models have primarily relied on restricted maximum likelihood (REML) techniques, but Bayesian approaches have also been suggested. The purpose of this Monte Carlo simulation study was to examine the impact of estimation method (REML versus Bayesian with noninformative priors) on the estimation of treatment effects (relative bias, root mean square error) and on the inferences about those effects (interval coverage) for autocorrelated multiple-baseline data. Simulated conditions varied with regard to the number of participants, series length, and distribution of the variance within and across participants. REML and Bayesian estimation led to estimates of the fixed effects that showed little to no bias but that differentially impacted the inferences about the fixed effects and the estimates of the variances. Implications for applied researchers and methodologists are discussed.  相似文献   

AN ASSESSMENT OF THE CONTENT OF MEDICAL PRACTICE IN THE UNITED STATES: PROFILES OF PHYSICIANS IN FIVE SPECIALITIES     

Roger A. Girard  Stephen E. Radecki  Robert C. Mendenhall  Stephen Abrahamson  John S. Lloyd 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》1982,7(3):269-288

The University of Southern California has conducted a series of 24 surveys of the professional activities of physicians and surgeons in the United States. The surveys encompass more than 10,000 respondents representing 65.8% of all practising physicians in the United States and its territories. Using a specially‐developed “log‐diary” recording instrument, these physicians reported data on the care they provided during hundreds of thousands of encounters with their patients. This article provides an exposition of the study's unique methodology, presents illustratative data for 5 of the 24 specialities surveyed (cardiology, family practice, general internal medicine, orthopaedic surgery and psychiatry), and discusses the study's relevance and implications for medical education.  相似文献