Sentences with phrase «teaching effectiveness studies»

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Humor That Works at Work Depends on the Type of Humor You Use A study led by Adam Miklosi found that, yet again, dogs can teach us a little something about the effectiveness of humor as a stress - buster.

Her detailed study highlights the importance of an engaged laity and shows the importance of strong episcopal leadership, and, although she resists the conclusion, she demonstrates the effectiveness of memorizing a catechism in teaching basic principles.

W. H. Rockenstein, «Children and Religious Television: An Experimental Study of the Reactions of Children in the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Grades in Monogalia County, West Virginia to Children's Religious Television Programming,» Ph.D. dissertation, Northwestern University, 1966, pp. 161 - 75; Frank Klos, «A Study of the Origin, Utilization, and Impact of the «Davey and Goliath» Series 1959 - 77 and Its Present Effectiveness in Teaching Religious Values to Children,» Ed.D. dissertation, Temple University, 1979, pp. 177 - 82.

Brooke Blevins, Ph.D., assistant professor of curriculum and instruction and Karon LeCompte, Ph.D., assistant professor of curriculum and instruction in Baylor's School of Education studied the effectiveness of iCivics, a free online website founded by retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor that teaches civics concepts using 19 educational games.

The current study also demonstrates the effectiveness of a teaching method that's scientifically based for use with children identified with intellectual disability or low IQ, said Allor.

A few studies that tried to correlate teacher factors (both intelligence and personality) with effectiveness found teaching too complex to be influenced by any one or two factors.

A composite measure on teacher effectiveness drawing on all three of those measures, and tested through a random - assignment experiment, closely predicted how much a high - performing group of teachers would successfully boost their students» standardized - test scores, concludes the series of new papers, part of the massive Measures of Effective Teaching study launched more than three years ago.

Our study gathered no information about the teacher education programs themselves, but did examine carefully the classroom effectiveness of graduates who taught within Florida.

The study — conducted by William L. Sanders, the statistician who pioneered the concept of «value - added» analysis of teaching effectiveness — found that there was basically no difference in the achievement levels of students whose teachers earned the prestigious NBPTS credential, those who tried but failed to earn it, those who never tried to get the certification, or those who earned it after the student...

This result is not surprising given that teachers who received layoff notices included many first - and second - year teachers, and numerous studies show that, on average, effectiveness improves substantially over a teacher's first few years of teaching.

Three newly published studies cast doubt on the effectiveness of whole language as a method for teaching reading and suggest that direct instruction in phonics can be effective.

The second study's authors, Donald Boyd, Pamela Grossman, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, and James Wyckoff, also find few significant differences in effectiveness between traditionally certified New York City teachers and teachers entering through alternative pathways, such as Teach For America or the New York City Teaching Fellows program.

The main findings of this study suggest otherwise — learning to teach in difficult - to - staff field placement schools is associated with lower teacher effectiveness and retention.

A Pilot Study to Assess the Effects of Humor in Relationship to Teaching Effectiveness.

In addition, since the effectiveness of technology integration can influence future teaching decisions, we gathered social validity data regarding the participants» perceptions of the iPad implementation process during the study.

In contrast to statistically nonsignificant differences for the teachers within levels of school effectiveness, these statistically significant differences among teachers across schools suggest that a teacher's preferred style of interacting with students is a teaching dimension which is less well influenced by the practice of others at the school level than other dimensions of teaching being investigated in our study (e.g., time spent by students in independent reading, or degree of home communication).

A majority of grade 1 and 2 teachers across levels of school effectiveness were frequently observed teaching phonics in isolation, including working with words on a whiteboard, chart, or worksheet; working with word cards dealing with word study or word families; making words; writing words; and reading words with a particular phonic element.

As examples, studies that use student test performance to measure teachers» effectiveness — adjusted for prior achievement and background characteristics — demonstrate that, on average, teachers add more to their students» learning during their second year of teaching than they do in their first year, and more in their third year than in their second.

A pioneering study of how internet controls impact student learning and teaching effectiveness.

The BSCS Center for Research and Evaluation designs and conducts studies that contribute to curriculum reform and provide evidence of the effectiveness of instructional materials, science teaching, and professional development programs.

Novice teachers» use of student thinking and learning as evidence of teaching effectiveness: A longitudinal study of video - enhanced teacher preparation.

Finally, studies focused on the development of measures of teacher competence have documented that teachers» ability to analyze student thinking as portrayed in brief video clips of classroom lessons is predictive of their teaching effectiveness (Kersting, Givvin, Thompson, Santagata, & Stigler, 2012).

This study focused on an underexamined aspect of teacher competence — the ability to draw on evidence of student thinking and learning directly linked to lesson learning goals to assess the effectiveness of teaching.

In addition, the study survey questions required transfer of those practices to a task neither LLMT or MMC teachers had engaged in before; that is, the comparison between the effectiveness of two lessons they had taught.

Campbell and Mechling (2009) studied the effectiveness of teaching phonics with SMART Board technology with three students with learning disabilities.

A composite measure on teacher effectiveness drawing on all three of those measures, and tested through a random - assignment experiment, predicted fairly accurately how much high - performing teachers would successfully boost their students» standardized - test scores, concludes the series of new papers, part of the massive Measures of Effective Teaching study launched three years ago.

The study used a single case design to examine the effectiveness of a video prompting and a constant time delay procedure to teach three primary school students with moderate intellectual disabilities how to search the Internet for a history...

This report presents an in - depth discussion of the technical methods, findings, and implications of the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project's random assignment study of teaching effectiveness mTeaching (MET) project's random assignment study of teaching effectiveness mteaching effectiveness measures.

Nine Keys to Student Achievement and Cost - Effectiveness The first large - scale national study to identify and prioritize the factors that make some technology implementations perform dramatically better than others, demonstrate that schools employing a 1:1 student computer ratio and the key implementation factors outperform other schools, and reveal significant opportunities for improving education return on investment (ROI) by transforming teaching and learning.

From the results of the studies mentioned above, we might at first conclude that value - added on one test is a poor measure of a teacher's effectiveness at teaching the content and skill measured by other tests.

On this note, and «[i] n sum, recent research on value added tells us that, by using data from student perceptions, classroom observations, and test score growth, we can obtain credible evidence [albeit weakly related evidence, referring to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's MET studies] of the relative effectiveness of a set of teachers who teach similar kids [emphasis added] under similar conditions [emphasis added]... [Although] if a district administrator uses data like that collected in MET, we can anticipate that an attempt to classify teachers for personnel decisions will be characterized by intolerably high error rates [emphasis added].

We study the effectiveness of teachers certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) in Washington State, which has one of the largest populations of National Board

These vary in terms of whether they are mathematics - specific or not; whether their purpose is to identify the effectiveness or quality of teaching, or primarily for professional development; and the extent to which there have been studies into their reliability and validity.

Improving Leader Assessment Assessing Learning - Centered Leadership: Connections to Research, Professional Standards, and Current Practices, Learning Sciences Institute, Vanderbilt University, 2007 Assessing the Effectiveness of School Leaders: New Directions and New Processes, A Wallace Perspective, 2009 Leveraging Leadership Development through Principal Evaluation, National Association of State Boards of Education, 2008 Purposes, Uses, and Practices of Leadership Assessment in Education, Center for the Study of Teaching Policy, University of Washington, 2006 VAL - ED, Discovery Education Assessment (www.discoveryeducation.com /)

Graphic organizers are powerful teaching tools, and their effectiveness is backed by dozens of research studies.

One of the largest studies ever conducted to try to understand what makes good teaching, the Methods of Effective Teaching Study led by Harvard University researcher Thomas Kane, analyzed 7,500 lessons taught by 1,300 teachers from six school districts around the country and had experts score their effectteaching, the Methods of Effective Teaching Study led by Harvard University researcher Thomas Kane, analyzed 7,500 lessons taught by 1,300 teachers from six school districts around the country and had experts score their effectTeaching Study led by Harvard University researcher Thomas Kane, analyzed 7,500 lessons taught by 1,300 teachers from six school districts around the country and had experts score their effectiveness.

My paper in the American Journal of Education, The Stability of Observational and Student Survey Measures of Teaching Effectiveness, uses data from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Measures of Effective Teaching study to investigate this issue, looking at the year - to - year stability of several well known and widely - used observational and student survey measures (the Framework for Teaching, the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, the Protocol for Language Arts Teaching Observations, the Mathematical Quality of Instruction instrument, and the Tripod student survey).

For example, a study published in College teaching shows the effectiveness of the instruction of Sam Houston University instructor Randy Garner, PhD.

• Increased number of students enrolled for library services from 500 to 1233 in 3 months, following exceptional mental empowering activities • Collaborated with teaching specialists to design and implement a system that assesses students» learning and instructional effectiveness • Conducted 92 library study groups in 3 years, enjoying 100 % success with each in the academic arena

Reed et al12 studied the effectiveness of varying - intensity home - based and Lovaas — based programs that offered primarily 1 - to - 1 teaching.

For a more comprehensive review of the effectiveness of preschool and early childhood education programs, see reviews from W. Steven Barnett and Robert Pianta, the founding director of the Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a behavioral approach for teaching children personal safety in a classroom setting.

In a study from the University of British Columbia, researchers from across multiple disciplines — a neuroscientist, developmental pediatrician, developmental psychologists, and education experts — examined the effectiveness of the program MindUP ™, which teaches a number of mindfulness practices, including breathing, tasting and movement exercises.