This study examined the perceptions of elementary school beginning teachers (N= 136) across a Rocky Mountain state in the US regarding the mentoring support they received during their first year teaching. Beginning teachers were asked to report the types of mentoring support they received and to rate the helpfulness of this support on the Mentoring Support Survey. Individual item scores and sca...

This survey research, assessed whether novice secondary school teachers knew and understood the effectiveness of empirically-supported learning strategies, namely spaced practice, retrieval interleaved using multimodal representations, elaborative interrogation worked-out examples. These ‘proven’ strategies can be contrasted with frequently used that have been found to less effective, such as r...

The purpose of this pilot study is to validate the effectiveness of embedding teaching standards in reflection prompts. Does this approach improve the quantity and depth of reflection commentary for novice pre-service teachers? What must be in place to ensure that novice teachers are effectively internalizing the teaching standards? These questions are paramount in the design of a webbased, ele...

In this paper we review the literature relating to the psychological/educational study of programming. We identify general trends comparing novice and expert programmers, programming knowledge and strategies, program generation and comprehension, and objectoriented versus procedural programming. (We do not cover research relating specifically to other programming styles.) The main focus of the ...

How can the Internet be used to provide authentic professional development for newly appointed teachers? This paper reports on work-in-progress of an industry partnership research study between Edith Cowan University education staff and students, and the Education Department of Western Australia teachers and curriculum advisers. The study involves developing a web site to assist novice teachers...

a community of practice may shape and reshape the identity of members of the community through providing them with situated learning or learning environment. this study, therefore, is to clarify the salient learning-based features of the language teaching community of practice that might formulate the identity of language teachers. to this end, the study examined how learning situations in two ...