This study discusses a new attempt of introducing different Web 2.0 environments for our final year student teachers for them to experience with different features and to interact with different groups of participants. Three different learning communities were formed so that students could extend learning outside of classrooms. The within class learning communities enabled student teachers to e...

This study investigates the implementation of an Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) professional development program on instructional practices of elementary teachers. The research assesses to what extent teachers implement IWB-related strategies (e.g., technology-pedagogy correspondence, interactivity types, teaching-learning mode, differentiated learning, student-centered learning, multimedia princ...

Nevada Facts & Statistics • In the 2012-13 academic year, students of color comprised 63 percent of the statewide student population, while teachers of color represented only 19 percent of the corps. • Within the Clark County School District (CCSD), whites represented only 26.2 percent of the student body in academic year 2015-16, but 72.9 percent of the teachers. • Nevada’s diversity index is ...

Research suggests climate change beliefs among science teachers mirror those of the general public, raising questions of whether teachers may be perpetuating polarization of public opinion through their classrooms. We began answering these questions with a survey of middle school science teachers (n = 24) and their students (n = 369) in North Carolina, USA. Similar to previous studies, we found...

This brief is a follow-up to our previous brief on how the Effective Teachers Initiative (ETI) has changed the composition of teacher exits from HISD. The companion brief shows that the ETI has increased the exit rate of ineffective teachers relative to other teachers. This brief documents how much the compositional effect on exiting teachers improves student achievement. While we estimate a po...

BACKGROUND Research into teacher expectations has shown that these have an effect on student achievement. Some researchers have explored the impact of various student characteristics on teachers' expectations. One attribute of interest is ethnicity. AIMS This study aimed to explore differences in teachers' expectations and judgments of student reading performance for Maori, Pacific Island, As...

This study examines 2 aspects of cognitive processing in person perception—attention and decision making—in classroom-relevant contexts. Teachers completed 2 implicit, performance-based tasks that characterized attention to and utilization of 4 student characteristics of interest: ethnicity, facial affect, body size, and attractiveness. Stimuli were 24 full-body photos of girls that varied alon...

Although learning with Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) has been well studied, little research has investigated what role teachers can play, if empowered with data. Many ITSs provide student performance reports, but they may not be designed to serve teachers’ needs well, which is important for a well-designed dashboard. We investigated what student data is most helpful to teachers and how the...

If professional competencies were of any importance in any educational environment, they would be clearly and emphatically covered in teacher training and in-service training programs in that environment, leading to a common perception among both working teachers and student-teachers. To explore this situation here in Kordestan, a group of 16 student-teachers and 15 working teachers were interv...