Education articles from June 2006

Education archives from June 2006

Appraisal of K-12 school physical structures: a model for facilities assessment.
June 22, 2006... Introduction With the increase of school enrollments in numerous K-12 school districts throughout the United States, many of the facilities used for student instruction are inadequate or greatly in need of repair (Castaldi, 1994). Building...

Successful African-American mathematics students in academically unacceptable high schools.
June 22, 2006... The current era of educational accountability has been dubbed a dark period in American education for a significant segment of the minority population (Kohn, 2000). For African-American students attending inner-city schools it has been...

Practitioner to professor: an examination of second career academics' entry into academia.
June 22, 2006... Background and Rationale There is ever increasing pressure for education faculty to bridge the research to practice gap and solve the challenges faced by today's schools (The National Research Council [NRC], 2005). Furthermore, the...

Building a unit assessment system: creating quality evaluation of candidate performance.(National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education)
June 22, 2006... For the last fifteen years there has been a growing interest in performance-based teacher education (PBTE) programs. Growing out of the work of Ralph Tyler (1950) and the competency-based movement of the late 1970's (Spady, 1977; 1978), many of...

Determining the effect of selected variables on teacher retention.
June 22, 2006... Because occupational stress, burnout, and teacher attrition have become concerns in the human service and helping professions (Wisniewski & Gargiulo, 1997), much has been written about retaining teachers. Only recently have researchers...

Students with disabilities meeting the challenge of high-stakes writing assessments.
June 22, 2006... The thought of an eighth grade boy crying over a writing assessment didn't seem possible until Jake. He was a star on the track, wrestling, and football teams, and he had a learning disability. Jake can teach all of us how truly agonizing it is...

Creating a microteaching evaluation form: the needed evaluation criteria.
June 22, 2006... Introduction The use of microteaching within teacher education is seen as an on-campus way of introducing preservice teachers to the complexities of teaching and as a bridge that connects theory to practice (Pringle, Dawson, & Adams,...

Bridging the gap between university supervisors and Hispanic students' interpretation of English language development teaching practices during intern teacher fieldwork supervision in inner-city middle schools of Los Angeles.
June 22, 2006... Introduction One critical issue that has remained largely unaddressed during intern fieldwork supervision is the role of students in the different supervision models. Research studies in fieldwork supervision such as Waite (1994), Kosnik...

Learning by leading: using best practices to develop leadership skills in at-risk and gifted populations.
June 22, 2006... Introduction: Research-based solutions to current problems "Learning by Leading," a multi-faceted, research-based workshop, was developed to expose at-risk and gifted middle school students to an enriched, collaborative learning experience...

Personal and demographic characteristics of retained teachers of special education.
June 22, 2006... INTRODUCTION Each year, the number of identified children requiring special education services increases. However, the number of qualified teachers available to serve the needs of these children is not increasing at the same rate. In...

Gender inequity in science and mathematics education in Africa: the causes, consequences, and solutions.
June 22, 2006... Introduction Science and technology have long been recognized as the cornerstone of development and prosperity of Africa. Economic prosperity of African countries is interlinked with its skillful utilization and management of science and...

Teacher leaders at work: analyzing standardized achievement data to improve instruction.
June 22, 2006... Introduction and Literature Review A half century ago, standardized achievement test scores were primarily used for (a) informing teachers and parents about students' achievement relative to their peers, (b) helping place students in...

ePortfolios: using technology to enhance and assess student learning.
June 22, 2006... A paradigm shift in the past decade has changed the focus in education from a teacher-centered instructional environment to a student-centered one (Brooks, 1997; Terheggen, Prabhu, & Lubinescu, 2000). As a result, universities are held...

Effects of pre-teaching and re-teaching on math achievement and academic self-concept of students with low achievement in math.
June 22, 2006... Literature Review Despite continued concern and effort to meet their needs, low achieving students continue to represent a sizable population in schools (Manning & Baruth, 1996), with the needs of low achievers in math alone tending to...

Using electronic journals to facilitate reflective thinking regarding instructional practices during early field experiences.
June 22, 2006... Introduction Continuing advances in computer technology have impacted the lives of people throughout the United States and around the world. Similar to the impact of technological innovations developed by Thomas Edison over a century ago,...

Shared governance: an analysis of power on the modern university campus from the perspective of an administrator.
June 22, 2006... Definition "Shared governance refers to the shared responsibility between administration and faculty for primary decisions about the general means of advancing the general educational policy determined by the school's charter." (Flynn,...

Quality of Internet use by teachers in the United Arab Emirates.
June 22, 2006... Introduction The Internet is a worldwide of computer networks linked by high speed communication channels. It is considered to be the best medium for highly sophisticated communications. As a medium of highly purposeful and creative...

Let's bring back the teachers college.
June 22, 2006... In 1932 George Counts challenged the membership of the Progressive Education Association (PEA) to cast off its self- and societal-imposed shackles and build a new social order. The challenge, contained in Counts' keynote address to the...

Challenges of teaching an experiential course in racial understanding.
June 22, 2006... An experiential class in race relations entitled, "Human Conflict in Black and White" was taught multiple times in the early 1970's at the University of North Florida, and included a total of approximately 90 undergraduate student participants....