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Assessing individual lessons using a generic teacher observation instrument: how useful is the International System for Teacher Observation and Feedback (ISTOF)?
(2018)
Teacher effectiveness, which impacts student attainment even when controlling for student characteristics, is of key importance as a factor in educational effectiveness and improvement. Improving the quality of teaching ...
Exploring formative assessment in primary school classrooms: Developing a framework of actions and strategies
(2014)
The importance of formative assessment in facilitating student learning has been well established in the literature. However, defining and implementing formative assessment in classroom settings is a rather complicated ...
School self-evaluation for school improvement: Examining the measuring properties of the LEAD surveys
(2016)
Research evidence suggests school self-evaluation with the participation of school stakeholders could improve teaching and learning. Identification and use of appropriate self-evaluation frameworks, however, is not an easy ...
Teacher behaviour and student outcomes: Suggestions for research on teacher training and professional development
(2009)
The study reported here examines whether teaching skills included in the dynamic model of educational effectiveness can be grouped into types of teacher behaviour and whether these types are related with different student ...
Searching for stages of teacher's skills in assessment
(2014)
This study investigates teachers' skills in using various techniques of assessment in mathematics by taking into account the four phases of assessment and the five measurement dimensions of the dynamic model of educational ...
Gender differences in mathematics achievement: An investigation of gender differences by item difficulty interactions
(2009)
This paper presents findings from research exploring gender by item difficulty interaction on mathematics test scores in Cyprus. Data steamed from 2 longitudinal studies with 4 different age groups of primary school students. ...
A dynamic approach to school improvement: Main features and impact
(2013)
This paper refers to the dynamic approach to school improvement (DASI) which attempts to contribute to the merging of educational effectiveness research and school improvement. The main underlying assumptions and the ...
Studying mathematics instruction through different lenses: setting the ground for understanding instructional quality more comprehensively
(2018)
Researchers from different fields have developed different observational instruments to capture instructional quality with a focus on generic versus content-specific dimensions or a combination of both. As this work is ...
Classroom observation frameworks for studying instructional quality: looking back and looking forward
(2018)
Observation-based frameworks of instructional quality differ largely in the approach and the purposes of their development, their theoretical underpinnings, the instructional aspects covered, their operationalization and ...
Reconsidering the use of video clubs for student-teachers' learning during field placement: Lessons drawn from a longitudinal multiple case study
(2018)
Although video clubs have been used to support (student) teachers' learning through reflection upon practice, less attention has been paid to their potential use for supporting changes in participants' practice over a ...