Executive Summary Education policymakers at both the state and federal level are struggling to identify ways to improve the academic achievement of public school students. Faced with the substandard academic performance of some student groups and the persistence of achievement discrepancies between certain racial, ethnic and socioeconomic groups of students, policymakers' need for information t...

This study investigated student teachers’ perceptions about the impact of internet usage on their learning and future jobs. The sample consisted of 448 student teachers from the Early Childhood and Primary Education Departments at the National University of Athens, in Greece. Student teachers’ perceptions regarding the impact of internet usage on their learning and future jobs were, in general,...

Learning analytics (LA) are summaries, visualizations, and analyses of student data that could improve learning in multiple ways, for example by supporting teachers. However, not much research is available yet concerning how LA may support teachers to diagnose student progress and to intervene during student learning activities. There is evidence for two mechanisms, namely that LA tools can 1) ...

submitted to 2010 AAEA meeting in Denver This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. http://repository.upenn.edu/gansu_papers/27 For more information, please contact [email protected]. Why Are Teachers “Overpaid” in Developing Countries? --The Role of the Nature of Educational Production in Teachers’ Labor Markets Disciplines Education Comments Abstract submitted to 2010 AAEA meeting in ...

The aim of this study is to combine the practice of reflective teaching and technology. With the help of a group created on Facebook which was accessible only to the group members taking part in the reflective teaching process, an interactive discussion environment was created and the student teachers commented on each others’ performances based on the diaries prepared after each practice. Afte...

How do we create better learning environments in the classroom? Some researchers advocate restructuring the classroom through student design-based inquiry. This paper reports a year-long classroom study that used student design-based inquiry to reform the classroom toward more constructivist teaching and learning practices. Two teachers in a rural school and their 125 seventh graders attempted ...

The literature reviews aims to investigate the effects that extracurricular activity engagement by teachers has on the teacher-student educational relationship. The review concludes that there are positives and negatives for the teacherstudent educational relationship when teachers and students engage in extracurricular activity. It cautions about some of the commitments required for teachers t...

Despite the fact that there are a wide range of strategies used to foster interactions in EFL conversation classrooms, many novice teachers are not aware of them. In view of this problem, the current study aimed to identify such strategies commonly used by EFL teachers in conversation classrooms. To this end, fifty sessions of college level conversation classrooms were observed andtheir teacher...