A requirement to support teachers’ professional vision for highperformance classrooms is to clarify criteria for analyze data collected from classroom. Plans of lessons can be a criterion for it because teachers can figure out and compare what are the plans for and what is happening in the lessons. This paper discusses the contribution of modeling plans of lessons based on ontological engineering.

The New National Curriculum in Norway from 2006 recommends that teachers and students acquire a high degree of digital literacy in school education. One way to foster digital literacy is to train teachers to design and critically evaluate digital learning resources (DLRs). However, little research has been done as to which design principles and evaluation criteria are suitable for DLRs. This wo...

For a three-year time period beginning in 2001, North Carolina awarded an annual bonus of $1800 to certified math, science and special education teachers working in public secondary schools with either high-poverty rates or low test scores. Using longitudinal data on teachers, we estimate hazard models that identify the impact of this differential pay by comparing turnover patterns before and a...

pragmatic assessment and consistency in rating are among the subject matters which are still in need of more profound investigations. the importance of the issue is highlighted when remembering that inconsistency in ratings would surely damage the test fairness issue in assessment and lead to much diversity in ratings. our principal concern in this study was observing the criteria that american...

Given the focus on developing highly-qualified teachers to improve education (National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future, 2003), teacher education programs face increasing responsibility to prepare new teachers who can effectively enhance learning in all students. Standards and assessment criteria developed by national organizations in the United States address the qualifications of b...

This article provides an integrated description of the teachings Eastern and Western pedagogical psychologists on economics economic culture, a comprehensive approach to this process in relation philosophical, legal, economic, sociological, psychological aspects. information is required. The components culture are defined as education, activity, criteria for development culture: cognitive, moti...