Technology enhanced feedback tools as a knowledge management mechanism for supporting professional growth and school reform     

Alan Bain  Gerry Swan 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》2011,59(5):673-685

Attempts at school reform and improvement have experienced difficulty creating and implementing feedback systems that energize and sustain change efforts. If the call for reform at all levels of education is to be met, attention must be given to establishing effective feedback mechanisms in educational institutions as they embark on improvement efforts. The purpose of this article is to describe application of an educational design metaphor to create a Knowledge Management System that provides teachers with timely and constructive feedback about their professional practice. This system includes the way in which a corpus of professional knowledge about differentiated content and instruction, classroom grouping, evidence-based practice and classroom management can be embedded in a set of tools that provides multiple stakeholders (teachers, students, administrators) the opportunity to generate feedback about instructional practice. Use of the approach is discussed within the broader context of Knowledge Management as a vehicle to extend the role of feedback in school reform and improvement within a long term pilot application in one school.  相似文献   

Analysis of self-regulated learning processing using statistical models for count data     

Jeffrey Alan Greene  Lara-Jeane Costa  Kristin Dellinger 《Metacognition and Learning》2011,6(3):275-301

Researchers often use measures of the frequency of self-regulated learning (SRL; Zimmerman, American Educational Research Journal, 45(1), 166–183, 2000) processing as a predictor of learning gains. These frequency data, which are really counts of SRL processing events, are often non-normally distributed, and the accurate analysis of these data requires the use of specialized statistical models. In this study, we demonstrate how to implement and interpret count statistical models in path and latent profile analyses to investigate the role of SRL as a mediator of the relation between pretest and posttest conceptual understanding. Our findings from a sample of 170 college students using a computer to learn about the circulatory system show that SRL does mediate the aforementioned relation, and that count models are a more accurate representation of SRL processing data than standard analysis models based on ordinary least squares estimation. The results of our path analyses revealed which specific SRL processes were related to learning, above and beyond the effect of prior knowledge. Our latent profile analysis revealed two groups of participants, indicative of Brophy’s (2004) model of schematic and aschematic learners. We conclude with implications and future directions for basic and applied SRL research.  相似文献   

Resampling with R     

Alan T. Arnholt 《Teaching Statistics》2007,29(1):21-26

  相似文献   

Identifying key issues for university practitioners of garden-based learning in Spain     

Marcia Eugenio-Gozalbo  Raquel Pérez-López  Juan-Carlos Tójar-Hurtado 《The Journal of environmental education》2020,51(3):246-255

ABSTRACT

The presence of learning gardens in Spain is growing, and the current scenario is highly diverse in relation to issues such as participatory models or purposes, among others. In the context of the 1^st National Meeting on organic learning gardens, we convened eight expert practitioners in a focus group. Their discourse was analyzed through content analysis, after which four categories were selected for co-occurrence analyses. The most important questions for university garden-based practitioners in the country are presented, related to actors involved, functions that gardens fulfill, strengths of these educational resources, and requirements for their consolidation.  相似文献   

银戒指     

高素菊 《海外英语》2007,(1):38-39

丽兹一直小心保存着戒指,但她却不愿打开它. 丽兹站在父亲的床边,他患癌症已有多年了."不要哭,丽兹,"父亲对她说,"死神来临的时候,我不能再陪在你身边了,我要你答应我不会难过."他还说,她会得到很好的照顾."我有件礼物给你,亲爱的丽兹.这是我们家的传家之宝,它蕴涵着三个愿望."  相似文献   

Preparing Students for Professional Roles by Simulating Work Settings in Counselor Education Courses     

Alan M. Schwitzer  Teresa Gonzalez  Jim Curl 《Counselor Education & Supervision》2001,40(4):308-319

The authors describe a method for preparing novice counselors for professional environments by using classroom meetings of semester‐long courses to simulate college student affairs divisions, community agencies, school counseling offices, and other work settings.  相似文献   

ROLF—an open learning delivery system     

John Twining  Claire Botcherby  Christine Ward 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》1989,20(2):129-134

The Resourced Open Learning Facility (ROLF) has been developed by the UK Skills Training Agency (STA) as a means of delivering off-the-job skill training in the national network of 60 skillcentres. STA introduced ROLF as a pilot scheme in six skillcentres at a time when the government was introducing a new programme for the long-term unemployed (Employment Training). The authors evaluated the pilot scheme and concluded that ROLF was working well for low achieving adults. ROLF is also important because it is a systematic approach to open learning delivery in a chain of centres under the same management. Most educational technology literature about open learning features materials, rather than delivery.  相似文献   

Communication and Contact by Videoconferencing in the Divided Society of Northern Ireland     

Alan Robinson 《Learning, Media and Technology》1993,19(3):127-137

The use of videoconferencing enabled teachers, enrolled for in‐service training on three different sites in Northern Ireland, to work together. This not only facilitated educational co‐operation, but also community co‐operation. There are some technical and educational drawbacks, which are discussed.  相似文献   

ERASMUS: THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY'S HIGHER EDUCATION ACTION PROGRAMME IN ITS FIRST YEAR     

Alan Smith  Fritz Dalichow 《Higher Education in Europe》1988,13(3):39-47

On 14 May 1987, the Education Ministers of the Twelve reached agreement on the European Community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students (ERASMUS). With a total of 85 million ECU** ** One ECU is worth approximately $ 0.8131 United States dollars. View all notes earmarked for its initial phase (1 July 1987 to 30 June 1990), the programme will aim at encouraging increased student and staff mobility throughout the European Community by means of the creation of a European University Network, the award of grants to individual students, arrangements for the mutual recognition of qualifications and courses or parts of courses, and a range of additional supporting measures. In the following article, the authors will examine, in some detail, the Actions provided for in the Programme, which was formally adopted by the Council on 15 June 1987.

  相似文献   

Superman and Pandora's Box: Some considerations on the Professional Tutor and the School     

Alan Sigsworth  Norman Wordsworth 《Cambridge Journal of Education》1974,4(2):72-79

  相似文献