BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Physical activity (PA) is important for children's health and development, yet preschoolers are not meeting PA recommendations. The objective of this study was to examine different PA opportunities at child care and how variation in indoor versus outdoor and free versus teacher-led opportunities relate to children's PA. METHODS An observational study of 98 children (...

In Croatian classrooms it is possible to observe teaching scenarios that follow the features of constructivist and traditional teaching theories and many variants and combinations of teaching didactics that are student centered and those that are teacher centered. Teachers struggle to find their way in the selection and design of a media environment that fulfils the developmental needs and ways...

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We report on first results of a study with mathematics teachers from Germany and Switzerland who took part in a video-based in-service teacher education program. We wanted to find out whether the interpretation of videotaped classroom situations was influenced by the teachers’ professional knowledge and instruction-related beliefs. The findings indicate that cognitive constructivist or direct-t...

From a personal perspective, the author reflects upon the notion that many research findings appear falsely to possess the quality of being “obvious”. Specific attention is given to the topic of teacher effectiveness. The feeling that findings are obvious can be related to the following: the false consensus effect, self-serving cognition, hindsight bias, base-rate neglect, illusory correlations...