This study examined the effects of classroom assessment practices on students’ achievement goals. The study included 1,636 ninth grade students and 83 science teachers from Muscat public schools in Oman. Results from hierarchical linear modeling techniques showed that class contextual features and teachers’ teaching experiences and assessment practices interacted significantly with students’ ch...

This study examines how the beliefs of Chinese in-service teachers regarding knowledge and knowledge acquisition influence their instructional classroom practices in junior secondary schools directly or indirectly through their conceptions of teaching and learning. The results indicate that the factor of learning effort/process is highly valued by Chinese in-service teachers in their epistemolo...

PURPOSE Teachers' perspectives on eye health can be limited, particularly in developing countries. The aim of this study was to assess teachers' knowledge and practices associated with eye health of primary students in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. METHODS This was a cross-sectional survey of primary school teachers. Simple random sampling technique was used to select 443 participants from 34 private...

The study describes changes occurring in instructional practices of teachers in technology-enriched classrooms and their relationships to students’ and teachers’ views concerning the meaning and role of information and communication technologies (ICT), and to students' views on learning in a technology-rich environment. The study was performed in the context of a 3-year longitudinal project in ...

A year-long researcher-teacher professional development group with a next-year followup was conducted with seven general education teachers from two elementary schools in a large urban school district in the southeastern United States. The two schools had recently restructured their special education program to include students with LD in the general education class full-time. Teachers were tau...

We extend the literature on in-service teacher education by describing and evaluating a coaching model focused on classroom management skills and instructional practices across grade levels and subject areas. We present results from a block randomized trial examining the effect of MATCH Teacher Coaching on teachers’ instructional practices after completing four individualized week-long coaching...

To teach undergraduate students the medieval English literature for many teachers is a great challenge. Teachers perhaps need to revise many of their traditional approaches to a literature which has seemed to many students difficult to comprehend. Better preparation of texts and broader use of recordings are needed to deal with this problem in the classroom practices.

Data-driven decision-making (DDDM) is a system of teaching and management practices that gets better information about students into the hands of classroom teachers. Many teachers reject the idea of DDDM because of its association with the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). This is unfortunate, because a multitude of schools and districts across the country are seeing substantial improvem...