Research indicates that when interactive whiteboards are used well they can increase student engagement and learning (Glover, Miller, Averis & Door, 2007; Schuck & Kearney, 2007, 2008). This means it is important to educate future teachers in how to use interactive whiteboards and how to incorporate them successfully into their teaching. Current research indicates that a teacher’s pedagogy or ‘...

As a secondary analysis of the SITES 2006 data, the present paper focused on the exploration of the factors associated with the impact of ICT-use on students’ 21st-century skills as perceived by teachers, in which students’ 21st-century skills included information-handling skills, problem-solving skills, self-directed learning skills, collaborative skills, communication skills, ICT skills, and ...

BACKGROUND Student evaluations can help clinical teachers to reflect on their teaching skills and find ways to improve their teaching. Studies have shown that the mere presentation of student evaluations is not a sufficient incentive for teachers to critically reflect on their teaching. AIM We evaluated and compared the effectiveness of two feedback facilitation strategies that were identical...

Non-cognitive skills contribute to both academic and labor market success. In the classroom, teachers often rely on their assessments of students’ non-cognitive abilities when evaluating overall student performance and when recommending students for advanced or remedial class placement. Given the potential impact on long-term student outcomes, it is important to identify any biases in these per...

Good teachers know their students, and exploit this knowledge to adapt or optimise their instruction. Traditional teachers know their students because they interact with them face-to-face in classroom or one-to-one tutoring sessions. In these settings, they can build student models, i.e., by exploiting the multi-faceted nature of human-human communication. In distance-learning contexts, teacher...

The use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education is one important competence that student teacher should develop in their academic studies. To be capable of using ICT in education, students should study both pedagogical and technical issues. In order to affect student teachers’ willingness to use ICT in education, more attention should be paid to their learning experiences...

Research efforts focused on developing "active reports" are currently underway. Active reports are designed to foster communication among teachers, students, and parents by listening to all stakeholders, using assessment information to guide teaching and learning, and to reconcile potential conflicts. Open student models can handle different views of the student. These views support different k...

The reported study focuses on pre-service teachers’ professional development during the teaching practice. The cohort studied comprised participants in their final year in the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science with Graduate Certificate in Education programmes of a university in Fiji. Analysis of the data obtained using a survey questionnaire indicates that overall, the pre-service teache...

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between behavioral and emotional engagement of Iranian EFL learners and their attachment to their teachers. Both teachers’ and students’ perceptions of their relationships and students’ engagement have been taken into account. Questionnaire data provided by 311 EFL students and 70 EFL  teachers was used to investigate the relation betwee...

Should Value-Added Models Control for Student Absences?* Whether or not value-added models should control for contemporaneous student absences is theoretically ambiguous, as such absences are only partly outside of teachers’ control. Teachers often feel strongly that value-added models should account for student attendance, and many districts’ value-added models condition on lagged student abse...