This article contributes to our understanding of teacher education by presenting the results of a large pilot study of quality assessments of teacher education programs at three Norwegian universities. We present an assessment instrument that corresponds to the California Standards for Teaching Professions and the practice domains developed by Darling-Hammond. The research question is: To what ...

A reinforcement learning approach is used to train a neural controller to perform a robotic reaching task. Unlike supervised learning techniques, where the teacher must provide the correct sequence of motor actions, only an evaluation of the robot's performance is provided. From this limited information, the robot must discover the appropriate motor programs that best satisfy the teacher's eval...

Applying a modified-Delphi technique, this research study sought consensus from business education mentor teachers regarding the top three areas in which business education student teachers were prepared as well as underprepared for their roles as teachers. Further, the mentor teachers provided recommendations for business education teacher preparation programs to implement to better prepare th...

The paper presents the results from a thematic analysis of the process diaries of teachers involved in teacher training in social and emotional learning (SEL) in Sweden. Twentynine out of the 122 diaries available were analyzed until saturation was reached. The following themes and sub-themes were extracted: development (professional and personal, and classroom climate), and concomitants of dev...

-The purpose of this study focused on the learning behavior and performance of asynchronous distance learning with face recognition system among in-service teachers. Web set up the "distance learning – Excel practical course" for K-12 school teachers enrollment in-service education at the Nationwide Teacher In-service Education Information Web. There are 48 Participants. In this study, teacher'...

Faculty members are often busy with various research work and thus have little time to prepare lectures. Advances in technology offer a solution to this problem. That is, they can record the lectures and reuse them over semesters. It is common for these lecture videos to include an inset frame of the instructor giving the lecture. However, little research has been done to investigate the effect...

Change is something that both pre-service and practising teachers face regularly throughout their professional lives. Curriculum change and consequential implementation is a case in point. This paper investigates the perspectives of a number of schoolbased stakeholders in regard to the implementation of the C2C materials in Queensland schools and how this has potential consequences for teacher ...

In response to concerns over youth suicide, there has been an increase in school-based suicide prevention programs. However, we know little about teacher perspectives on school-based suicide prevention and mental health programs. This study examined teacher roles in the implementation of a district-wide suicide prevention program through focus groups and interviews with middle school teachers, ...